Peeling The Onion

As I read Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clariss Pinkola Estes, I have been having a great deal of ’stuff’ come up.  I haven’t been certain until today exactly where to post some of the ’stuff’.

Since every step is drawing me deeper into myself and making me more aware of what I want and need in my life, I am going to classify it as “Home Work”, so I will be storing it here, along with the rest of the things I lay at Hestia’s Feet.

My search through my self is also my search for my Hearth.

These are some very rudimentary sketches I did before writing the next few pieces I will be posting.

Trying To Capture That Feeling

I spent about an hour, playing with markers and pencils, trying to recreate the one image that for some reason means Home to me…that red tree in the picture there…I had scribbled it mindlessly a couple years ago in a notebook…probably doodling while on the phone or something…..here are the prototypes…some have gone on and become finished pieces that will be displayed…elsewhere…but here is my Dig Tree Progress….and part of my journey towards finding Home….

Looking For A New Nest

One thing that I do every time we look at moving is involve my children.

My son’s involvement this time, thus far, has amounted to giving us permission to look for a house, permission to move into the house, and acknowledgment that he wants his own room still in the new house.  I do believe he said something along the lines of wanting a playroom too.

My daughter always makes a drawing of our new home.

When we left MO for MO a couple years ago, she drew a lovely big house, with a dad and a mom and two kids,  and a baby cradle for her baby sister visible in the upstairs window, and a dog  playing out in the front yard under the apple tree with the tire swing in it.

We haven’t gotten that house yet, but it is still an option for later on.

I asked her to draw out the house we should be looking for this time around.

Here is what she drew:

She seems to have used a combination of techniques here: water colour, pencil, crayon and marker.

I especially love the four dogs in the picture.  All on tie-outs in the front yard because it’s not fenced in.

Her drawing has inspired me to start an art journal of the process here towards finding us the “perfect’ house to turn into a Home.

I will keep you updated as we go along.