Encore, Encore!

A pile of coffee grounds lay on paper ready for its journey into the compost bin. It had seeped through the paper giving it an aged look. I dumped the grounds into the bin, and the paper tore a bit. I rubbed the stuck on grounds around the jagged edges.

The piece reminded me of a mountain. My hand-sewn book lay nearby. Then, I chanced on an old watercolor pan. It revived memories of my now grown children. Memories, green as the trees I was about to paint ushered in childhood long gone.

The daily grind in the coffee highlighted this personal truth. The ordinary, the forgotten, the mundane are values I choose to give to neutral objects. The same grounds meant for tossing made it all exciting, vibrant, and colorful…again!

I do enjoy dabbling around. Anything goes with art, and in art anything goes. So it is with life.