Friday, February 8, 2013

in the middle of the night!

When sensible people should definitely be asleep!
Bats outside my window are flying low.
There's a mozi buzzing around my ears and trying to land...
for the longest time it seemed.

The light goes on.
The lap-top comes out.
Mailbox open!
Oh ... a friend across the waters has sent a note!
Oh and another friend from across an entirely different ocean has sent a lovely message too.
Bloggers,
Artists. 
Different timezones 
but not so different sensibilities!!

To think we've not sat down to share as much as a cup of tea... 
most of us...
and yet...
the space between can be so rich and so wonderfully full of life...
shared conversations over time
conversations that ebb and flow. 
A connection here becomes more familiar, then over there... 
weaving of stories in and out,
little bits
and sometimes a great deal.
Changing panoramas,
changing lives.
If any of you who have visited here (and I have visited you there) happen to read this....
know that in the middle of the night I am remembering the warmth of the exchanges
and relishing the field of connections that has been there for every kind of season and time.

I'm pulled away from the focus I once visited apon the blogosphere. Not wishing that were so... but practicalities intrude and things keep moving whether we want them to or not.

Now a little light rain falls.
Seems the middle of the night contains some small pleasures after all.
Sleep would be nice,
usually it is not at all evasive so I will allow this night of bleary-eyed wakefulness!

The blogosphere is such a vast entity, so large a horizon of engaged sharing. 
It teaches respect... or ... no...
lets say it has the potential to do so.
Maybe its better said that it begs from each of us the effort to know others, to flow with and around and notice and hear and learn and appreciate the nuances and minutiae of each others lives. 

Four years on its fascinating to think of what is known and understood, shared and treasured. 

Its all very well and good to have a creative life mapped out with the doing, the 'out there' stuff, navigating the outer realm that we move in and out of. But to have the space to negotiate the other stuff...to talk with creative beings in a quieter way... about the less 'out there' things ... that is precious.

So this little late night post is a tribute to all who took time to know something of what lives here.... behind the dashboard of Visual Eclectica ... and what lives with you.

That to me is a generous thing and what really does make the world go around. The quality of listening and engaging that some of us are very drawn to. Its through that I'm sure I have settled a little more into the essential ways I like to be... nestling in. 
Perhaps this late night meandering on the keyboard makes little sense. I feel sleep is close now and I will fade away gently into the sweet, rain-washed night!

I whisper good night and thanks my gentle friends!

'Tis a precious gift to be able to appreciate and share the small and tender things! There's strength in that too!

Lastly, from a much loved book:


"The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful."
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being



Thanks W & M!

patternbank:

 We love these paintings by Sophie Munns for there subtlety in colour, texture and pattern.The beauty here, is in natures unevenness in repetition. Her residency at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Artist-in-Residence at Mt Coot-tha focused on global seed heritage and seed conservation. More information at www.sophiemunns.weebly.com
Original Article
from 2011 ... a little study


13 comments:

Anonymous said...

she turns on a light
to quietly write of thankfulness
in the middle of the night
small pleasures fall like rain
and sleep does not escape her

Sophie Munns said...

loved reading through tired bleary old eyes this morning ...
Thank you Nance!

Sweetpea said...

Usually I fret in the middle of the night ...
THIS was a way better activity to be engaged in!

So happy to be able to visit you here, whenever you choose to voice your thoughts, in whatever way.

Gloria Freshley Art and Design said...

Lovely thoughts and words, Sophie. And I love the cerise and chocolate prints in your sketch books! Best. . . Gloria

LAC EMP 2020 said...

Wherever we are and whatever time of day it is, we are all out here with each other Sophie. I think you summed the synergy or friendship or 'call it what you will' of blogging up in a lovely post. Sleep well. Mind those mozzies....

Velma Bolyard said...

i had one of these nights this week. last night, a snowstorm was stirring. today, no school. a snowy day for sure. etherial hug to you.

Valerianna said...

Hope you got sleep! In the meantime, I've enjoyed reading your musings... across oceans and time zones and dreams.

Anonymous said...

i loved what you wrote sohpie, so thoughtful and poetic. milan kundera is also one of my favorite writers (for many moons). thanks for the inspiration. robyn xo

Sophie Munns said...

this sunday morning I fell I could sleep and sleep ... I am so touched but the lovely comments left here.

Alas... I have much to do at the studio... but I will visit each of you as soon as I can...

You are most appreciated,
S xo

ArtPropelled said...

In a nut shell ..... why we love to blog. My life is so much richer since meeting all my creative buddies in the blog world. Sophie I do hope you've managed to catch up on your sleep this weekend.

Caterina Giglio said...

I so agree with Robyn, I felt so isolated before blogging, and I have felt such kinship and connection through blogging... rest up.. xx

le bord doré des nuages said...

hello Sophie, je vais souvent chez ikea Nantes (cote ouest France)lorsque je passe devant les panneaux illustrés je pense à toi, tu devrais prendre contact avec le siège social,je pense que tes illustrations plairaient beaucoup.
Belle semaine!)

Sophie Munns said...

Bonjour mon ami de la France!
C'est une idée intéressante et je vous remercie d'avoir pensé à moi et de laisser ce commentaire.
J'espère que vous allez bien et 2013 est très bon pour vous!
cheerio!
Sophie