Deanne Fitzpatrick » Entries tagged with "friendship"
children sorta knit you new friendships
Dear Diary, Sometimes your kids can lead you places. One thing I have learned for sure is that your kids bring friends into your life. Sometimes you simply become friends with their friends but often you become friends with their friend’s parents because you share things. Some things you share are simple like driving. Some times you share worries. Sometimes you share stories. You are drawn together by community. You are mothers first. Without your kids you’d … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diary, Small Town Life
portrait of a landscape
Dear Diary, Years ago, I have no idea how many, but maybe nine or ten, maybe even more, a slight, pale pretty red headed girl knocked meekly on my studio door when it was still in the back room of my house. She came in and asked if maybe I had a job that she could have in the summer. It never occurred to me that I had a job for her, but after she … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diary, Guest Writers
don’t let me bore you, let alone myself
Dear Diary, sometimes you would like to say to someone…”its not all about you.”. There you go…and you thought I was sweet. Sometimes you just feel like telling someone that very thing… you wanna wave-your  hands in the air and say it clearly but you don’t. Thing is sometimes I need to tell myself that …”it’s not all about you Deanne.” and I do tell myself it. I have a lot of focus. I love it … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Diary
lily again
Dear Diary, Maybe it is that she comes and takes over my good chair, my only good chair in the studio, like it is her own. Maybe it’s because she threw her body across it like my cat does, in sudden ownership. Maybe it is that she never says “Deanne I think you are brilliant” but instead says, “Deanne, you think you’re something dontcha?” Maybe it is that she has a masters degree in english but still says “dontcha”. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diary
art day all day
Dear Diary, So today a friend came and we had an all day art day. A gab fest, but focused on art, creativity and business. The thing is it was exhausting and fulfilling at the same time. We wore each other out, tore each other up a bit ( just challenged each other a bit really). After lunch she said, “This is really tiring.” I said, “I am tired too”. So we ate different types of … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity
heartwarmingly honest letters
Dear Diary, I asked if I could post her (names don’t matter) letter on the blog when she sent it to me during the red bloodstones contest and she said of course. Some how though I couldn’t post it. I decided instead to tell you about it. When I read her letter I felt, in a way, that it was a letter I might have written myself to some one else. She said, that she had … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diary, Favourites
I think I love my printer
Dear Diary, A few weeks ago I was talking to Harry the printer on the phone, and when I went to say good bye, I said, “Okay love you”, thinking I was talking to my kids I guess. So then I said, “whoops sorry I was thinking I was talking to Robert or the kids”, so then I said, “Well I do love you too!” Â Now I don’t throw around “love you’s” so we had … Read entire article »
ghita levin
Dear Diary, One of my favorite artists is the potter Ghita Levin. I quote her in one of my books, because when I asked her about her growing up, what she did, she said, “Mostly I hung out at the mall.” I loved her honesty. It is honesty that I see in her work too. Just a raw relationship with natural elements that I find to be exquisite. She often hand sculpts creatures and attaches them … Read entire article »
Filed under: Creativity, Diary, Small Town Life
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