November

Its November and the darkening sky speaks to me of weight. No more basking in the sun, it is the dark time. Moods are affected by this time of transition, for it is only a period between the dark and the coming light. We who live in the northern latitudes are subject to it, regardless. Regardless of anything....Nature is a force.

I start my day slowly for a change. The past few months have been full of large painting. Two sets for the stage are produced, ready for entertaining, teaching us about ourselves, reiterating well-loved stories to those who will listen willingly. I relish my part in it, I take the vision of another and manifest it with as much gusto as I can manage, it keeps bread on my table. 

All that industry and joy of production are done now and I am left feeling empty...until opening night where the manifestation is then complete. 

It's not about recognition, I know how good or bad a job I have done, where I could have worked better faster cleaner sharper brighter smoother...but in the end, it is what it is and no more, then, equally magically, it is gone, poof!