Serendipity...a word that came to me this morning.
It's a fun word, kind of bouncy and happy.
I've been working on organizing, making some things more accessible and putting other things away.
There is more time for play if the materials are easy to find and there is a clear space to work.
(I am a horrible stack maker of things...this is a kind of making.)
One of the books I am reading very slowly (how I tend to read the books I like the most) is Mary Ruefle's book Madness, Rack and Honey. A thought from one of the essay's that has stuck in my mind is about how we organize our books.
"One of the ways you can tell there's more to people than you might think is to go to their houses. If they have a lot of books, well, that means something. But don't just look at the books, look at the way the books are organized on the shelves, for there are many different ways to do this."
This is where I keep the books I am wandering in out of for various reasons at any given time. There is also a stack beside it (the ones I am reading the most). I love keeping books in an old dynamite box that says "Highly explosive, Dangerous."
Ka-boom!
I also have a box full of books about pigments, one of cookbooks that I am most interested in at the moment, a book shelf for books about nature (mostly guidebooks but this label strays a little bit), a shelf for most cherished books, an old metal revolving book/magazine holder for beautiful books and then the rest is a free-for-all.
I suppose this says something about me...
In Austin Kleon's newsletter this morning (the serendipity), a link was included to a post titled "The art of finding what you didn't know you were looking for," and the benefits about not organizing things too much.
A good reminder for me as I approach a rainy weekend that will mostly be about inside projects.
Don't worry about the books. Don't organize the stashes too much...be open to finding what I might not be looking for.
Also...here is the pansy ink dry. The darkest dot was a more concentrated dot of ink that took about 24 hours to dry. I see just a hint of blue in the gray dot...an underneath layer of color.