When I took painting class with my friend Martina in college, she showed me a cool trick where you paint the sky after you get the tree or whatever else you have going on, and when you do that the blue really pops. After that, I did it in every painting, and I just love it. Every time I see the sky through a web of tree branches, I just think it looks so cool and I heart the sky. I’ve started sketching (just yesterday), and am going to try to do a daily little sketch and try a little bit of poetry (this is all inspired by Maira Kalman). I have a long way to go to get back to where I used to be, but whatever (this word is forbidden in my sister-in-law’s house, which is understandable since she has a preteen daughter, but here, I can say it freely). Whatever, whatever, WHAT-EVER. Ha ha.