Dashing off this note from Terra Cafe at the Montclair Public Library...love this place. I get to feel like part of a community; order a farm-fresh panini with local cheese and veggies; shop for accessories [golden cubist earrings, $20] made by women worldwide who are working to improve their lives; and write an article while sipping full-bodied Equal Exchange Chai tea with milk. Also, Grace bakes here regularly; the scent of orange pound cake and slender, saucer-size oatmeal cookies wafts through the place. I try to plan strategically.....right now, my bread is piled with turkey, avocado, mushroom, tomato....and I've got perfectly ripe, sweet melon chunks on the side.
Classes started this week for Figgy's second semester at Parsons The New School for Design in NYC! She said she's excited about her painting class; I'm excited for her. It's kind of like back-to-school when each semester starts, because Fig needs to lay in her art supplies. I'm thinking, too, of my friend Kim's daughter, who's at art school in Chicago, and my cousin, Lin, who studied art in Philadelphia.
Now I'm not involved with that school supply run. I just send the money by Chase QuickPay into Fig's account and she goes shopping. It's not the way it was when she was a rumpled little redhead, getting crayons and colored pencils every September at CVS or Staples. Now she is a stylish aquamarine [her hair colored in waves of blue and green]. My neighbor said yesterday that she looks like a mermaid.
Paint on, Figgy girl. Paint on. Hopes and prayers and hugs and laughter. Triumphs. Insights. Peace.
Classes started this week for Figgy's second semester at Parsons The New School for Design in NYC! She said she's excited about her painting class; I'm excited for her. It's kind of like back-to-school when each semester starts, because Fig needs to lay in her art supplies. I'm thinking, too, of my friend Kim's daughter, who's at art school in Chicago, and my cousin, Lin, who studied art in Philadelphia.
Now I'm not involved with that school supply run. I just send the money by Chase QuickPay into Fig's account and she goes shopping. It's not the way it was when she was a rumpled little redhead, getting crayons and colored pencils every September at CVS or Staples. Now she is a stylish aquamarine [her hair colored in waves of blue and green]. My neighbor said yesterday that she looks like a mermaid.
Paint on, Figgy girl. Paint on. Hopes and prayers and hugs and laughter. Triumphs. Insights. Peace.
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Paint on, indeed! Best of luck to both our art girls!
ReplyDeleteHi Kim. Yes, yes! btw, you've got me thinking about movies I'd better hurry up and see! xo alice
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