slowed down

Well having broken my left wrist in a fall down a flight of stairs, I am slowed down from my usual pace. Being a left handed artist, it is extremely unsettling not to be able to DO..... realizing how much we take our abilities for granted....now i am limited to thinking and dreaming and re thinking my next moves, considering how best to handle this latest pickle in which i find myself.... if nothing else I can draw on the lesson of patience that I have learned over these last years living in Italy.

All Souls Day

Here in Italia this is an important day to remember our ancestors and those who have gone before. I think of my dear grandparents. Marie Roselyn Kelly who came from Ireland as a brave young lady of thirteen , to make a new life in Canada. She married Gordon Baker Smith, a big barrel of a man who worked his whole life at the Goodyear Tire plant in Toronto, and my grandfather Bernhard Carl Axelson, who worked so hard all his life to provide for his dear sweet daughter, my mother and his wife Ada May. Their love and efforts are not forgotten in these days of my opportunities and gifts; as I weave my way through a life of adventure, travel and discovery. I thank them on this day of all souls, for all they have given and their care and love that I continue to feel in my own time here on this planet. Grazie.