by Rain Trueax   Well, a weird thing happened right before Thanksgiving. We had one of those prepared dinners, didn't check carefully ...

Maybe a new direction emerging where I will put Paint down on canvas, study it until I see a subject and then pull the image to make it visi...

  by Rain Trueax   'Tis the season for holidays. A good time of the year, if you can forget about politics and just concentrate on your ...

In my new larger studio there is space to spread and print onto paper and canvas off of a Formica surface. I allowed a happy accident with t...

 by Rain Trueax What a week. We thought or rather hoped that the upset would begin to disappear after the election. The blame game has just ...

 Fisherman Hubby past away a month ago.   So when I  feel sad the feeling pasts quickly. I have been busy.  I just have to look around at th...

 by Rain Trueax   With an election that seems to have stretched as long as the campaign, this has not been a fun week for much of anybody. Y...

  Oddly I find I did not need an art escape when I was making creative choices like moving furniture, rolling up a carpet and arranging my b...

  by Rain Trueax     As  so many have said about 2020, I am saying the same thing about October. which ends today with Halloween. I've w...

Experimenting to find out how little I need to change to dramatically improve the useage of my home now that it is just for me. I considered...

  by Rain Trueax   I am in a nostalgic mood and hence thought I'd share here some music from way back in my life-- as in when I was born...

Monday, October 19, 2020 My most prominent emotion is Relief : On day 12 of being a widow, I am mostly exercising my freedom in converting t...

  by Rain Trueax This was not an easy week. I don't have anything to share here beyond what I wrote last week as to our feeling of loss....

  by Diane Up Date #1 for my transition to Widowhood   I am consumed sending out invitations for Fisherman Hubby's  zoom remembrance and...

 by Rain Trueax Oregon Coast at Yachats There are things that a person just does not know how to write. Losses are among the hardest of thos...

FIRST COMFORT FEAST Can a spirit ride on a song bird's wing? Looking through the glass as we dine. Then flying towards the dry bird bat...

 I love our home especially now.  With Fisherman Hubby's neuromuscular decline, a two story house with stairs would be awful. Our rooms ...

  by Rain Trueax   September was a tough month for me with the disastrous fires in my home state. Some of my favorite Cascade Mountain areas...

Friday, October 2 My infection is hardly noticeable but must continue taking the anti-biotic.  I have more pep than I expected. I am feeling...

A selfie taken by one granddaughter of us and her sister Monday, September 28 I thought surely I could do Yom Kippur fast and a virtual serv...