Zia painted this watercolor for Mimi’s birthday. It’s a pink dinosaur with a large dark pink eye and dark pink legs. Actually, she drew a blob that I thought looked like a dinosaur, so she added the eye and legs. She also gave it some green grass to eat and a couple of green tree [...]
Honeybloom at Home has a post here that I think speaks volumes. She quotes Bertrand Russell (British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner) as saying:
“A certain amount of boredom is…essential to a happy life.“
Another quote she gives by Russell:
“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow [...]
When I was small, my mother made me a little apron. It was a present – for what, I don’t remember (birthday? christmas?) but I do remember it was red with little blue roses all over it, and the lining was light green (bearing a strange resemblance to one of our worn pillowcases:) Most of all, I [...]
Hi there! I'm Mia, the mountain girl!
This blog is about the life I'm etching out on this earth: a wild and free life filled with all kinds of fun stuff. Art, sewing, making a garden, creating healthy (and often strange!) things to eat...
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