A 30-day blog project: Something Found, Something Written, and Something Made.
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Day #11
Something FOUND.
Coney Island Seattle
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Something WRITTEN.
We live in downtown Seattle and our “porch” is Occidental Square, a no-grass city park just across the street and around the building. It’s sunny today so I decided to go there to try and write this post.
I had just sat down when “Michael” asked if I wanted to play chess.
I’m pretty horrible at chess (I can beat my grandsons sometimes), and I’ve never played a stranger in a park, but I said “yes” before I could stop myself and proceeded to almost get checkmated in the first three moves.
“You want to protect the middle,” he told me good-naturedly. “No one in the history of tournaments has ever made that move [the one I had made to start the game].”
He checkmated in about 8-10 more moves… schooled! But somehow he didn’t make me feel stupid. Thank you, Michael.
Then he asked if I would like to play again.
I didn’t — getting pounded once per day is about my limit. But I just MIGHT try again another time, as the pounding was a surprisingly pleasant experience.
I might ask him to handicap himself, though. Such as letting him start with only his king and the pawns.
Oh. Never mind.
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Something MADE.
Someone shared a link on FB a few months ago about an artist who made her own paintbrushes with items from nature, and she inspired me to try it today. (So sorry, I couldn’t find that artist, but I did find THIS POST with some cool handmade brushes! The artist is Lorna Crane! Thanks, Laura.)
Have a wonderful day!
I am so enjoying your “found-written-made” posts. Today’s ‘written’ made me chuckle out loud here at my computer, 9:22 pm in Kitsap County. Thanks for your humor and candidness.
Thanks, Barbara! (11:51pm Seattle WA)
Wow this one is so interesting! I going out to get me a twig and try it. 🙂
The artist could’ve been Traci Bautista! Really enjoying your new style/content for Post a Day! I can visualize a mini class with this format. Cheers-
It was a video about Lorna Crane who makes brushes from her nature walks. I reposted it in 365 In Our Own Time group. I can’t remember who posted it and couldn’t find it in searches, but I was upset that I didn’t save it a week after it was posted! I spent my morning cuppa exploring things that I found about the artist and seeing her lovely handmade brushes. Mark maker extraordinaire!
You are a brave woman, Carla! Nice post.
The Lorna Crane video is so inspiring. Each brush has such a unique personality that shows up on the page. Thank you, Carla! I’m going to give brush-making a try!!!