The paint by number is growing, slowly, but surely. I'm still really enjoying this and really like how it is looking. I am trying to intentionally meditate while working on this and it's been a very calming experience. I also spent some time outside last night as well as time with Delilah, who was especially needy last night. She and I played with her new favorite toy, which happens to be one of my shoes. She is obsessed with this shoe and it cracks me up. I finally got s

Yesterday was a total solar eclipse over parts of Europe. In my area, we had a partial, but it was storming for a good chunk of the day, so I couldn't go out and see what the eclipse looked like through the leaves like I did during the last partial solar eclipse in the area in 2017. The photo below does not belong to me, and if you want to check out the gallery that it came from, here is the link. Instead, I lit a small candle at my desk around the time of the eclipse in Ic

The paint by number of Brighid is coming right along. I worked on it some last night while listening to the thunder outside. Before bed, I lit a small candle and watched it until it burned out. Today is the new moon, and a solar eclipse on top of it. I didn't want to do any kind of major ritual around this event, so I thought that a simple candle meditation last night would suffice. As I watched the candle flame dance, I could see the shadows moving around it. This remind