The Weekend Writing Prompt on Sammi’s blog is OPPOSITE. Yesterday I decided to give LETHARGY the boot and compose a response. Then I went even further to banish the blahs: I got out my paints, sitting in a closet for a year now, and tried my hand at IMPRESSIONISM. But today WordPress OPPOSED me when I tried to WRITE. It treated me as a stranger! Just a visitor. Guess I’ve been away too long? Anyway, it took a bit of doing to get the WRITE button to appear so I could post this. (And now it won’t give me an EDIT button.) 😦
ADRIFT
Waves of lethargy engulf me! I paddle furiously but they’re sweeping in opposite directions from my dreams: those sewing, writing, painting projects calling from the shores of productivity. Oh, these relaxing waves! So easy to float along – but for those jagged rocks of scruple.
And here’s my attempt at an impressionist landscape. (Tans and yellows look overly bright in this pic.)
Christine's Collection 
I’m pleased you gave lethargy the boot, I for one have missed you! Great words, fab painting!
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Thank you! I wasn’t getting anything else done for all the time I wasn’t blogging. Just down time — observing nature.
Not sure if “fab” is the best word; the artist always sees the flaws and all that. I want to try it again, toned down a bit.
Looking through my sketches the other day I came across the one I made of your photo of the yacht in the channel with a tower behind. I should at least ink that and post it so you can see my interpretation.
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Thank you Christine for this piece of writing and the beautiful painting. Congratulations for having opened that cupboard where your dreams were hibernating.
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Glad you enjoyed it.
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I think your painting is wonderful. I cannot produce anything like that!
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Thank you. I have much to learn, but want to keep trying. the trouble is, I want to do so many things, I get tossed on the waves of “what first” and my head spins! Is that OCD? Or ADHD? 🙂
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Well, it you really want a diagnosis, probably ADD. But I wouldn’t worry about it too much 🙂
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Worrying doesn’t help, that’s for sure. ADD could also stand for “Auto-Discipline Deficiency” but we won’t go there. 😉
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Thank you for your backstory. A lovely piece dressed up with wonderful art. Well done all round, Christine. 🙂
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Thanks for visiting. Glad you found my masterpiece wonderful. 🙂
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Incredible! I find it extremely difficult to overcome the urge to “not write”, and work on my laziness.
Glad to see you write and be able to read your posts.
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It definitely is difficult at times — and the longer I wait the harder it is. Thanks for dropping by and reading my post.
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