Posting to a blog is work! As a retired person, work is not what I want to do so a year has passed by with nothing written because I was lazy. That's my story.
August 2018 is here with a new energy to be creative. I have started a project that is combining some art and some poetry. The project involves taking a page from an old worn paperback book and drawing, painting, coloring or otherwise decorating the page but also circling some words along the page that will make a poem or just random thoughts.
The book I have chosen for this is Wild Women of the Old West edited by Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain from 2003. It is a book I picked up somewhere in Colorado (probably at a local museum in a small town) just for something to read. I read the book and it has sat on the bookshelf for 15 years and just recently this book along with others was in a stack that was going to be throw out or donated to the junk store. Then this creative idea was brought to my attention so I said "what the heck, I can do that with one of these books." I decided to use this book because I am going to keep the wild women theme in the poems. Words about strong women who make their own way and do what they have to do to make a life. This work will make me use some watercolors, markers and colored pencils and some other things that have been sitting in the box since last summer.
Now the blog will become a daily posting. I will post a page a day and the only words written will be the poem. Maybe my artistic ability will improve and maybe the words will resonate with others. It will be a learning experience which is always good.
August 1
Wild Women
Freedom to try different roads
Monuments to feminine ideals.
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