On this day

 World Freedom Day

Embrace it

Adjusting

Adjusting to the shorter days means dealing with longer nights. 

How would I feel if it is dark at 4 PM? 

Not good, clear answer.

A neat website, thesenioradvisor.com, has a few nice tips to help folks to adjust to the days of less light.

The November challenge will be posted weekly instead of daily. 

In the meantime, I need a break, quiet time, prayer.

Regular posting will return the end of next week

I changed my mind. I feel better today.

Break over!

Red sky at night
November 2026

Day 310 Week 45 November 2026

How are you on this good November day?

Are you into Christmas decorations yet? 

Planning for Thanksgiving?

Over the years the beauty of gathering in friendship was disrupted in favor of truth history aka there is no Santa mentality.  

The pilgrims and natives didn’t have such a feast, and don’t have that friendly neighbors history to share. Today it is all about stolen land. 

The truth is that Thanksgiving, based on accuracy or not, is a holiday to celebrate peace and gathering in friendship. Today. That belongs to Today, our hearts today. 

There has to be a time when myths are revealed as story telling, that what has evolved over the negativity, be honored.

Thanksgiving is a day of thankfulness that should be celebrated as such by all.

Have a peacefull weekend

Make acorn squash soup

Count the mirrors on your walls

Read about acorns

Decorate old dungarees

Plan a January snow party

Call a friend

Make holiday cards

Sing to a chair

Has Earth shifted?

The answer is yes. According to scientific studies, Earth’s axis has shifted by 31.5 degrees due to human extraction of ground water. 

https://climatecosmos.com/c

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a71495673/why-has-earth-tilted-science/

The ambient temperatures this week are what I expect in early October, that second summer.  Methinks people need the warmer weather as they did for the stunning foliage colors this fall. 

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Thinking about the direction of blog subjects to post about, I realize that I don’t read as many interior design blogs as I use to. When I question myself why, the answer is ads and Instagram. Many lovely blogs monetized to the point the intrusion of ads in your face made reading the blog very uncomfortable. 

Ads need to be tasteful and placed with respect for the audience. Not all design blogs are ad messy. 

A blog that moves their activity to another platform doesn’t always carry readers along that journey. 

Blogging is about what and where. What style of blog you want to be and where is the website best for your goals. By far, Blogger aka Blogspot is the easier and most user friendly blog host that I’ve seen, and used as well. 

Now that I’m painting again with the goal of selling my art, the idea of my own website is on the story board. 

Or. I can stay here and list my art online elsewhere, Etsy, Ebay, without a website. That is the easiest, most practical and cheapest way to go. 

This photo is my next paint
from using acrylics. 

Here’s the thing

Going back to painting takes practice.

Watercolors. If I don’t use them a lot, then I lose my palette edge. If I clean my palette, then I lose a lot of color mixing. 

Painting creates relationships with the materials. Changes give reasons to know them all over again. Painting is not as easy as riding a bike. 

Using acrylics isn’t like that. Once dry, adding water will not bring back the color. 

The November challenge is bringing me back to painting with watercolors. 

Take these watercolor sketches for example. 

Just the colors

Added ink detail

It doesn’t matter what I do, the tall tree will always look out of place scale wise.

In this color sketch, the hue of the mountains is correct.
The gray mauve of the distant forest is correct.

All three color sketches are messy. That’s the way they should be. If I take the sketches to a canvas, then mixing the right shades will be easier for me.  

Detail added