Everyday Beauty

This is one of my happy places.

It's probably a bad idea to admit washing dishes is not too bad as far as chores go. I rather like the challenge of getting them all stacked just right - clearing the counter into a mountain of productivity in one fell swoop. It's important to have the right tools: a double sink, a sturdy dish drainer, placed next to a supporting wall, on a towel for overflow and looking out a window. I love seeing the fields change thru the seasons, and spying on the handsome farmer with his big tractor and bigger dreams. (The "handsome" only applies to MY farmer, but the big dreams are every farmer I see.)

See the tiny decor in the right corner? It was a present from a piano student years ago - "May the road always lead you to where you need to be." Not always where you WANT to be. And certainly not always to where you want to be at the moment it leads you there. But to lead you to the GOOD place, the right place, whatever that looks like for the person you were created to be.

Fortunately for me, I've always wanted to be here, looking out a window like this, with the squeak of clean in my ears and fingers wrinkled from the work of refreshing. This work of art is a place of peace and predictability. Dirty, smelly, used becomes clean, fresh, and usable again in the suds. It's creating more opportunities to fellowship around a table, more chances to give sustenance away in the form of fresh baked bread, more times of love and laughter.

Art is communication and expression. What's your life-art?