Take a Moment Here

Is perfection worth seeking? I'm sitting on the deck in my backyard, working. The morning birds are chirping, and in our little birdhouse, the newly born wrens are begging loudly for their breakfast. The air is light and cool, with the softest breeze moving through. The sun is still low enough that the deck is dappled in light coming through the trees. There's no wanting for anything else. Just complete calm and ease. This is perfect, I think. And then, almost immediately: ug

Folk Style Fairytale Art - Trying New Things by Vicky Winkler There's a story a lot of us carry without even realizing it. A quiet, firm little sentence we decided was true somewhere along the way. Mine was: I can't draw. I said it so many times it stopped feeling like an opinion and started feeling like fact. As a child, that story might have been a kind of protection, a way to step back before anyone else could judge me or laugh. But somewhere between childhood and now, I f