Greetings!

So we've been getting snow big time!  And I am also adding things to my etsy shop as of yesterday and for the rest of the week.  Please feel free to stop over there and take a peep...  :)  I'm in the process of adding a couple surprises by the end of the week so stay tuned!

It's really starting to feel like Christmas time!   This morning something very interesting happened, I was exploring the Call Park (our wooded state park) by car while my daughter was asleep in the backseat.  I got out to take a few photos of the trees and snow and out of the horizon came a giant german shepard ducking out from his hiding spot.  He was super playful, at first I didn't really know what was going on.  Then I realized that he was the german shepard I always spied sitting in the driveway across the street from the State Park during the summer time.  Once I was in the car when he kinda kept running circles around it.  I drived forward and he'd follow and I drived back and he'd follow.  I didn't want him to get run over!  So after a bunch of what seemed like back and forth with the dog running next to my car and myself trying to figure out what to do I decided to head over to his house.  No one was home.  I sat in my car and he sat next to the my car still outside but looking very calm.  Suddenly his owner shows up at the end of the driveway and he thanks me for waiting with his dog who accidentally got out on he roS.  I knew his dog was trying to tell me something!!!  It seemed so out of context with the way my day was going, waking up late, setting up an etsy shop for the first time not really knowing what I am doing or if anyone will buy anything annoyed by my tedious worry, dealing with my very energetic Iris and sending Enoch off to school.  Then this dog comes out of nowhere and I am forced to be totally aware of something bigger than myself.  He followed me for two blocks and ran in front of my car at one point...  It was a small thing in a way.  But it reminded me of the time I went up to the Los Angeles National forest with my cousin in the pitch black of night.  Burning sage and listening to old punk songs and feeling like we were looking for a bit of respite.  Then it happened, out of nowhere a female doe appeared right next to our car door, I stopped she stopped I drove and she ran with us for a good while.  It felt like the best sign ever.  I like when things happen by chance and yet they subtly pause to reveal a larger message.  Something like 'you are not alone' maybe.

above photo:  beautiful drawing by Daniela de Sarasqueta.

Anyhow, I also included a photo of an awesome drawing I received yesterday from Argentina.  Daniela and I are doing a drawing share.  I've sent off a couple drawings to her and she'll add to them and I have the honor of adding to her very lovely work.  + sp. note (i'm trying to figure out how to touch her beautiful painting w/ out changing it's loveliness!)  (i will post a photo of the painting i sent to her soon)

So I'll be posting very soon, in the meantime working on the shop getting it ready.  Thanks for looking.

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