~Morning greeting.~

Coffee at the ready! May love and laughter find you! I truly do wish this for all of you! Love, Peace and happiness!

This morning I have climbed out early, not once but twice! It will be an exciting day! A friend and fellow artist is coming for an overnight. It is to touch base, but also a working visit as we establish a different relationship for the purpose of turning my art into prints. This is a new job adventure for Gina. We are both exited.

I am excited about my studio because I am a last ready to work fully. I can write here at my desk, and the studio is ready creativity! This has been a long time coming. I was just about ready to launch myself when Thomas died. I sold our home and moved three times. Now it’s back in Maine! There is no desire to leave again.

~Thoughts for the day. ~

I find myself savoring moments in time, more all the time as my days zoom by, too fast! I love and embrace where I am at now. It’s been a struggle; I did not recognize the cost. However, life depends on how you look at it! Changing my life up was a great thought to have and then build on.

I think it is what happens at this point of life; you do not hang onto the same kinds of things, thoughts about what you felt was important to you. That importance changes. Older generations felt this way too. A crossroads? Perhaps more fitting is a path one is finally ready for.

I woke up at 4:45 today and found my mind already at work. It has been sometime since I did this. I grabbed pen and paper to write the thoughts down so I could return to sleep. At least I hoped I could. I did for about an hour and a half more.

~ In the studio.~

A Shibui is now on the easel. I have cleaned its surface to freshen it and have already begun work on the foundation again. In addition, I have pulled 10 other drawings and mounted them on foam core so to set them up and study how I will move forward with them. Not all at once of course but the one I choose is ready to study. The foam core acts like a moveable bit of wall, or bulletin board.

There is also the stippling project to finish. It waits for me as well safely in a work draw in the art file.

The next step is to set up for a photo shoot of my artwork to build a media library and a slide show. New images for the blog too!

The first image on left represents my and Thomas relationship. The second image on the right is an unfinished Shibui foundation. The bottom image is a large chalk pastel painting. I feel there are touches to do here. Such as add a soft yellow to the light. Or soft blue. Paintings like poetry need to sit sometimes. Even if they flow. Jelling thought or a painting takes time.

~ Poetry~

The path of the moment, is change.

Moments of thought give way to the simple impulse, ____awareness.

Such moments give way to the predictive mind; a habit, forming.

It says ignore most of these thoughts. They are a waste of time.

This thought is right! Time would be wasted. No firm ground in sight.

Walk the path, find pleasure there! Find peace of mind and soul.

Come from the heart and not the head. Press forward, in slowness, savor.

Feel the silence? No! It is not silence! It is the heartbeat, it is resilience!

It is the basis of being. I feel__ and out of consciousness, I become.

A heart beat merged with everything alive; as one, I am!

I am free! I soar with exuberance! Yet, I am grounded deeply by strong roots,

In my labor I have grown. The pain has come and gone. And I thrive.

Everything is known, pay attention; there are always opposites for all that is.

For love, for hatefulness___ for everything, you can not know one without knowing the other.

The balance is in the knowing of both. There is always balance to be found.

My path? It is a chosen one. It is in-between, it may go to the left or to the right___.

I choose. I learn, I find, I grow, I become. I remember. My heart is open, the higher self free,

The essence of the mornings mindfulness lingers long. The restful night now blooms.

The day is always sunny if you choose to see the sun and not dark heavy clouds.

Always there is brightness. Blow the clouds away with your own wind, not rain.

I am young, or I am old? No, I am both young and “older.” I am not what others think!

As long as I am, I know___. I experience. I am accountable to myself. I am whole!

Even if I am full of holes! I know I will mend. I have earned much from trust and respect.

Loving the self is a life long commitment. Ignore loving the self and you are lost.

Self wisdom comes from within. Power vibrates and resonates in the higher self.

It grows delight in its roots and fills the soul. The freedom of finding one’s self. “I am!”

“You are____.” And so, you become! Find yourself, discover and become.

Choose the path you most desire. Change this same path if it does not move you forward.

Love and tend the journey. Savor with delight. Don’t focus on what feels bad. Change it up.

Pejj Nunes. 5/21/2026

~Creativity.~

Words to a poet are like the paint an artist uses, or the work of the composer. Creativity has its necessities. Its glue is certainty. The creative process is complex because it is what we merge together to create something. Poetry is the use of language to express what one feels. The role of a poet, artist or composer among other creatives is serious undertaking. Artists, writers___ all are facilitators; we say what others feel as well. It is with great thought that when ideas are merged, we express what others also feel. The responsibility is for those others is found in what we do; thoughts, feelings confirmed; found and identified; the ability to express one’s own realities. The viewer, the reader, the one who listens; all of us have commonality. There is a lot of power in creativity.

Best wishes! Pejj