So, I’m no Crystal Kluge, but I’ve been loving my new calligraphy class. It’s incredibly rewarding to make “a” after “a” after “a” and finally feel like I’m getting it. It requires a lot of patience and a ton of practice, but I have really enjoyed how methodical it is.
Frankly, one of the primary reasons I took ancient Greek classes in college was because I wanted to be able to write the decorative letters! It was so fun just to write sentences and see how they looked. In calligraphy, we’ve learned the entire lowercase Foundational Hand alphabet, so we’re on to putting complete words and phrases together and working on spacing.
Seeing as how my new job is full time and the schedule is feeling frighteningly rigid, I’ll have to stop taking calligraphy. This definitely goes on the “con” list for evaluating the new job, because I don’t even know how to make capital letters yet!
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Spring has arrived in Michigan and we couldn’t be happier about that.
Violet chionodoxa have waved through and the yellow daffodils are up and shining. On my time away from the blog - particularly during my “positive energy” week - we visited a local nature reserve that provided a renewed burst of energy (much needed). Seeing the brilliant blues and yellows and greens pushing up from under the dead brown covers was surprisingly powerful. I also couldn’t get this out of my head; so mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
I’m so pleased to see that WordPress has decided to allow me to insert my pictures. That makes for a good welcome back to blogging. For we have news to report (for whatever it’s worth) about a new job which may or may not last longer than a week. The weekend will be comprised of many “pro” and “con” lists to sort out whether it’s worth having a job for having-a-job-sake, or whether it may be worth just a little further consideration, a little more investigation into the possibilities of really pushing to find work that I am passionate about, work that I really enjoy, pursuing something I want to put my time and energy into, rather than walking into someone else’s dream and fitting into someone else’s box. Right? Because, if not now… when?
