Friday morning

Thinking about things:

Gerard Michel

Siron

I was talking to a friend the other day about how much I love to borrow drawings of beautiful buildings for studying and writing about. Here is what I said to her:

It is time for sitting still and letting my mind do its work. Or rather, letting my mind do what it wants to do. It is a time for finding out what it is I am thinking. For sure, the buildings I choose are sturdy and elegant and good natured. And, too, they must suggest to me a kind of safety within a gentle ordering of things. And of course, the buildings are almost always rendered with lovely muted colors. And these same words I have just written here come up most times.

The buildings I write about provide for me a place to attach my thoughts.

I was telling my friend about all of this because I do worry people might not understand why it is I do this kind of studying and writing.

My friend said I should just keep writing about what it is I want to write about. I am figuring out things, she said: I am building a home for myself. Pretty shrinky.