Small delights blog
‘Small Delights’ began as a lockdown project. I was looking every day for something in my surroundings or during our hour’s exercise (remember that?) to break the monotony and bring delight – or even awe – and then to draw it. I soon started to share the drawings with a few comments on this blog for friends to enjoy.
I’ve continued with the project – although no longer daily. I’m inspired to continue with it by reading writer and theologian Richard Rohr’s comments “Your task is to find the good, the true, and the beautiful in everything”.
I love drawing and always find something new in my subject, no matter how familiar I thought it was. Mary Oliver writes “Attention is the beginning of devotion” and drawing certainly makes us pay attention. This is a search to find “that which connects all things and speaks to our souls if only we will stop and look.”(Richard Rohr).
A magical visitor
On the windowsill this morning, indoors, was a beautiful damselfly. I’ve never been as close to one before, or seen one as still. She posed beautifully for me without moving at all. The body was a gorgeous turquoise, and the wings as delicate as if made from the...