Winter's On Its Way

Golden Root and Bramble Earrings with Faceted Tourmaline in pink and sage green.

Golden Early Winter Branch Earrings

Layering Magic Necklace with Fiery Coober Pedy Opal. Sage and Feather.

RESERVED

It's been so long since I've written here at length.

I feel like the active living is what's been on the books these days, not so much the documenting.

I blink and a month is gone,

lost in a fever of creating and communicating and loving.

I keep thinking I will burn out and then I realize that everything is balanced:

there is the raising of the boy

tempered with the creating of the beauty (well, he's beauty too, but that's just understood)

and the loving of the people I love

and the lifting of the heaviest weights I can

and then there's the eating and sleeping and details.

Sometimes a sad day is just a detail,

where three years ago I would have reached out to community and requested fond thoughts

or suffered for the sadness.

These days suffering is a luxury I don't want to spend my time on.

So when my heart gets heavy with whatever I get into the studio

and it pours out in work.

Winter has historically been so hard on my emotions

and almost like putting up canned food, I am stocking my art

to nourish both myself and the woman who will wear it.

I am painting bare branches in sterling before the branches here get bare.

I am paving my path in light before I lose myself to the darker days.

This is O's first winter with complicated linguistics, with appreciation and questions about the sun and the moon and the early evening sky…

it makes me feel brave, telling him of winter's beauty, as though I've loved it myself.

And then I find myself loving these inward-nature changes as I explain them to him.

His face aglow with wonder, I cannot help but smile.

His questions tip the scale to beauty, every time.

While I miss this space very much, miss the space I made to write down 

life

I am bowled over by the life I am living.

I'm following the order of things

with interest and wonder

.

The Early Winter Earrings will be in the Metal Shop

later today.

xoxo,

Sunny