Something About Nothing

I've had big plans in my head to do some major cleaning in the studio at the end of this month. My husband was going to a conference for a week and I figured I could pull everything out of the studio while he was gone and then only put back the stuff I wanted to hang on to. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately for me, his conference went virtual. He encouraged me to go ahead, but I wanted to put everything in the bedroom and I knew it would need to be there at least overnight making it difficult to sleep. I decided I could clean out one small cupboard in my bedroom. This cupboard has been making me crazy for a number of years. A lot of stuff has just been shoved in there to get it out of the way.   Before I pulled it all out. There were a couple of surprises in there. The biggest surprise was this box filled with funeral cards. On the top of all the memories of my dead relatives was this business card: Cindy Kwiek: School of Dance.  I took everything Cindy offered! I was t...

We have spent a lot of time through the years in this room. It's the children's room at our local library. We are just barely outgrowing this room and when the new library opens we will have totally outgrown it. I'm sure it will be a number of years until I have grandchildren to take to the new children's room. I hope - no need to rush things after all. This is the area of the library we have graduated to.  When the new library opens this row of teen books will have become an entire room. That is something to look forward to. This isn't much of an area for teens to hang out and enjoy reading. I loaned out my camera recently but was fortunate enough to have my cell phone camera with me to document the end of our old library. I tried to be discreet taking pictures. I didn't want to appear as if I were being too sentimental, even though I was feeling very sentimental. But how can I not feel this way about the end of an era. I'm sure th...