Spent yesterday as a writing day with my good friend, Lannae, who imbues me with a writing spirit. We started out on mundane outings: visit to the Broad Ripple post office to mail a box to Jake and Liz. Am sending Jake a bottle of Jack Daniels Honey Whiskey for his 26th birthday. Love that boy! Wonderful old post office with high ceilings and a musty old letter/paper smell.
Lannae carts me around in her convertible mini cooper! What fun. I have been on "house arrest" since my car is being worked on for the past week. Quite painful...no wheels. So, we coop off to Zest a lovely restaurant in a section of Broad Ripple called Monon Shops. Lannae - a vegetarian - ordered the mushroom sandwich and I ordered a lovely green apple, pecan, current, assorted greens salad with olive oil. Restful lunch. Then because Lannae brings out the larger than life part of me we stop at The Food Emporium and choose cookies to take back to her home for coffee and cookies.
We walk out into the sun room preceding to each take an end of the long, white leather couch and write. As I read through the Marie Goth: Painter of Portraits I begin to visualize the book that follows her life and note parallels with my own. We both lived fully in Nashville, IN. Here's a few parallels: havens, cabins, personality, passions, self-analysis...the list will continue as I envision the book.
I like this quote from Goth: "Art is a jealous master and will not permit you to do anything else." Sort of shows me how her art was pivotal to her lifestyle and anchoring in Brown Co. Nicest time in Brown Co for me was the winter when none of the "tourists" clogged the narrow streets and lingered in the eateries or shops. Selfish - yes.
I do not want to pause, halt, stop this project. AS Sharon Slazburg states in From LovingKindness, "...And when you know what you're supposed to be doing, it's somebody else's job to kill you [not you kill yourself and stop doing or creating]."
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