Old love
If your reading this on February the 14th ….Happy Valentines Day! Even if your not happy day to you as well. I have been working on making some greeting cards lately, a few delays but it’s ok…I move at a perfectly slow pace nowadays. I will send out a message when I’m all set to offer them. More currently I read a quote that resonated and thought I would share it with you on this “celebrated” day of L O V E.
“New love comes and goes, old love remains. Things which have been loved for a long time are more
valuable than things that have just been fallen in love with.”
Is it true? It made a spark in my heart as I have been thinking of my encaustic endeavors lately….or the lack there of. It had been soooooo long since I got my warmers fired up and attempted to create with this medium I started years ago. Do I still like it, I asked myself…do I still know how? When I decided to finally go at it to see if there was still a “love connection” the first day was frustrating. What a mess, I thought….and it can be compared to the watercolors I have been doing. But once I got my rhythm it was like meeting up with an old friend you haven’t spoke to in forever and all the reasons I did do encaustic came flooding back. As I was adding layer upon layer of this delicious beeswax it felt like I was also peeling back some of my own layers of emotions. Like what happened to draw me away and is it something I want to keep or let go of now…is it still my vibe? Right now I’m not sure. I do love it…and I’m happy I decided to get off my bum and try it again. I’m starting with a beachy scene and working on the sky and water hoping to add some cliffs or beach below. But as I have been remembering sometimes with Encaustic you start out on one path and slowly end up on another. Another reason I love it…it’s can be a very mysterious journey. Old love is valuable I think, it’s precious like a memory of someone or finding something you thought was lost even if that something lives inside you. Do we have to get rid of something just because we don’t do it often? Or is it just taking up space that could allow something fresh in? You know…out with the old in with the new…yada, yada? Maybe one can still love something and just keep it a memory? Maybe we drift away unconsciously and need to re-engage to keep the fire burning? These are the things I’m pondering as I work through this piece. Participating I believe will help me make this decision much better or rekindle an old love.
Wishing you peace and love today and more tomorrow ~
Sandi
