want to, want to...

I really want to paint a poem.
{I've got things to do, music to print. Dangit.}

I really love music by Jars of Clay.
{Two Hands is playing right now. It's on my blog music playlist.}

Scratch the fact that fall is almost here.
{Although some leaves are golden or edged with orange, it was 80 today.}

I finished The Heart Mender.
{I really, really, really liked it.}

I'm working on finishing Love Mercy.
{It's amazing. Stirs up a compassion for humanity. Oh, to be Jesus' hands of Love --not just voice-- to those 'others'.}

In June, we put a paintbrush in her hands... and poured acrylics of different shades on a pallette. :)

It was really cool to see what techniques she seemed to try to remember. Leaning the brush this way and that, different strokes.
It turned out quite abstract, but lovely.
You can see the difference between my paintings and hers on the wall.... hers, much more refined.
She painted with oils (it's been since the late 1980's, I believe), and I paint with acrylics.
Though sometimes I wonder what it would be like to paint with oils.... :) Harder to clean up, that I know. Heheh.

Random note: I made potato-broccoli curry today. It was all eaten within 4 hours, the whole pot of it. I'm decent at cooking. I've worked my way up. ;)