Me & the Jetsons

Roses from my mother

Here's a pic from my mommy....

Lime in the Coconut

I'm so excited for my next art project. I have to take music and make art with it or from it or whatever I want. I'm going to use the Muppets song "Lime in the Coconut". I downloaded it and it's scruptious!

Today I bought humongous white paper, black and green ink, and a coconut and 2 limes. my mom says I've got to smash the coconut with a nail and get all the coconut milk out and then smash it apart. I'm very excited. Art making is so exciting!

I wish I could take pics to put up. grrr... no digital camera though. Perhaps I'll be able to put the song up here.

I'm going to listen to the song and go wild creating. Perhaps I'll have a pic of the final project.

Plants & Things

I've accumulated a bamboo plant and it's all twisty on the top. Pretty much the most successful gardner I've been is with this plant. It sits in a pile of rocks in a glass vase with water and the roots grow around the rocks. It's lovely really, leafy at the top, and creates a beautiful shadow on my purple wall (which someday I'll paint green).

I love the idea of growth, newness and life. It's invigorating walking about in nature, with trees looming and moss squishing, at least here on the west coast.

I must say though I'm not much of a caretaker of nature, more likely I'd let any garden go wild or forget things that are needed to keep it in check. I believe in a way that God is an amazing detailed grower of us, he cleans us up when our leaves fall on the ground, he plants and grows us, waters us, prunes us, cares for us. It must be a very tender relationship to take care of something that is as fragile as a plant. Depending on the type I suppose. It's very strange how resilient they can be too.

In biblestudy tonight we were reading John 15 where Jesus talks about the Vine and the branches. Have you ever been to a vineyard? It's gorgeous. Watch a movie, google it, seriously. I love the rows and rows of green, climbing limbs and yet they don't seem all that elaborate. No growth looks simple and yet how easy it is to stop it and kill a plant. I'm rather good at this, I either parch it until it withers or overflow it with water after it's parched, so it drowns. It's amazing how God knows us soo well. He knows exactly what we need. He is a master at what he does.

I can trust his pruning shears. Because plants are pruned so they can put their juices into making fruit, not big leaves. Who wants big leaves? Not too useful unless you're a palm tree. But if you're supposed to produce grapes or pineapples, great bunches of leaves aren't really your purpose, now are they?

There's so much more that could be said. I just love how in the Message version of John 15 it uses two words that have stuck with me... being in Christ and Him being in us, is organic and intamite.

...yes... that's what we were made for... union with the living God. Mystical, and true.