An overwhelm of emotions today, of ups and downs, of wrestling great news and confronting old fears and anticipating too much. The past and the present came face to face today. I am here but still too much there.

Expand and contract.

Expand and contract.

“Slow down,” said my daughter.

I took a deep breath and returned to my mantra of 5 minutes-at-a-time living and made a 5 minute sketch. The image became the infamous pose in Martha Graham’s Lamentation.

“But the dark pines under water
are not easily forgotten.
A child once found their branches
and believed they were real trees.”

– Dark Pines Under Water, Gwendolyn MacEwen