Artwala Road

A couple of days ago the banner from my site totally disappeared without warning. What’s worse there seemed to be no way to restore it. I’m no tech wizard and this is all way over my head. In attempting to fix it I lost the previous site design altogether. My dear friend, Kelly, had helped me get it up in the first place and done some incredible work fine-tuning the design. Of course, being an artist I care about how things look and can get a bit obsessive. At any rate, here we are and as you can see it’s only half done. I haven’t figured out yet how to get the stuff into the sidebars. I just got up this morning and my eyes are bleary red from working on this yesterday. How do web designers do it every day? Phew. Well, patience and it will soon be done. And, at least, the banner is up and people know that this is Artwala Road.

And this morning I received this award from my beautiful friend, Jenni Ballantyne, in Australia. Jenni is a wondrous soul, a single mom of two boys who is in the process of healing herself of cancer. She is an artist too. The way she writes makes you glad to be on the planet with her. She’s so full of life and love and loving kindness. And she’s so truthful, a rare quality—she just tells us where she is at any moment. The truth opens our hearts and connects us. She’s got courage in spades and wisdom too. She feels the pain and lets it go. She moves on. She’s in the present moment. More often than not she thinks of others. I learn a lot from Jenni and I think about her every day and smile. I say to myself how lucky am I to have stumbled on her site through another friend. And she’s just got a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy named Otis. Lucky puppy! And thank you, Jenni!

September 6th, 2008 | Category: Dear Reader | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL