There’s no denying it; spring is here! Charlotte and I just dropped off an order of springy albums, journals, and cards to Lion in the Sun in Park Slope yesterday, and in between working on books and someone doing an awfully good job of learning to use her vocal cords, we’ve been getting out and enjoying all the spring blooms…and then drawing them!
Here’s a peek at a drawing that may or may not make it in to a 2011 calendar or some cards or an invite design, plus a couple of shots of inspiration from around the neighborhood.
And here’s a passage that is quoted at the beginning of one of my recent reads, How the Irish Saved Civilization. I’m neither religious nor quite this realistic in practice, but it’s a beautiful statement:
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuos, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love.”
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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