Getting Mooned

This was the view of the moon Friday night as we drove from Missoula to Billings. It was the night before the "supermoon" but I still thought it was pretty darn super, highlighting the snow on the mountain peaks.  Oooo, and see the lights from that homestead on the hill on the right? Those people are lucky ducks to live with those views, aren't they!?

Creative Inspiration - Part Deux

Here's another piece of art I typeset earlier this year and have on the door to my office. I LOVE this. And it's so true. It's just hard to remember when you're in the midst of middle age and all those pesky "should've" thoughts keep slipping between the cracks in your brain.

Did you know that Norman Maclean started writing "A River Runs Through It" when he was 71 years old!? The book, his first work of fiction, was published in 1976, when he was 74 years old, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Letters. It even went on to become a sweet movie, starring Brad Pitt, who really is quite a fine specimen . . . (whoops, I'm starting to go astray . . . now I'm thinking about how he was Tristan in "Legends of the Fall," and there's that one scene . . . oh my, sorry) My point is . . .

See? It's really NEVER too late.

So GO!

Hurry!

Start right now . . .

~ Feel free to print this for your wall too - it looks especially lovely printed on a piece of colored paper (and framed to match your decor!) ~

Creative Inspiration

I first saw this list on Pinterest. I got super excited about it and I wanted to print a copy to put on my wall - but the versions I came across were small, with terrible resolution. A search for the original source/author of this fine list just fizzled out. Boy, things sure can get infinitely lost out there in the black hole of cyberspace. So I've re-typeset it and created a larger jpeg file. I now have it displayed on my office wall where it serves as a daily reminder of all the things I could be doing to get my creativity on.  Some I've been doing forever like #s 1, 2, 11, 30. And then some are SO hard (#s 6, 16, 18, 23, 29). And then there's that dang #24, which just typesetting it this way bothers me. I keep fighting an urge to fix it.

Feel free to download this pdf and print yourself a copy (click on the image to open the larger file). Maybe it will get your creative juices flowing just in time for the weekend.