Create A Life Of Purpose

Recently I was chatting with my friend Yan about the animal sanctuaries we've created,
theirs with farm animals, ours with rabbits (and with some other creatures along the way as well).
We chatted about how support for our animals families can often times feel very thin
and how it's next to impossible to travel because that external support can be very hard to find.
But Yan put it like this "We've created a life with purpose and what's better than that",
no trip around the world can ever replace this life we've sculpted for ourselves &
our animal friends and family to have beautiful safe sanctuary in constant love and peace.

For me, my life of purpose also includes learning, almost on a daily basis to deal and contend
with all the pain I have to live with & to maybe inspire other sufferers along the way.
To carve out time to create happy images that may just add some charm to this big bad world
on top of creating this loving cozy kind vegan safe home and sanctuary for my love of 25 years &
all of our wayward misfit buns.
I am loving my life...this life of purpose...there's very very little I would change about it.
Are you loving yours? & if not what are you waiting for??

This Is My Life

This is my life...one of the biggest and most important parts of it anyhow...

My arms & heart & soul and body were made for holding & caring for there precious furry hearts.

Honey & Home Honor

Owning a house is exhausting...there is always soooo much to do...

none of it feels easy lately, especially with both of us having lots of head pain & with my back pain.

 

 

but as I lay back after a busy day inside and outside of the house under a tree turning golden...

 

as I watch the autumn sun sets from the comfort of a warm blanket in my beloved hammock...

 

as we wait for the last leaves to fall so we can get our one final rake & city compost run done...

 

 

I can't complain about any of it because to do it all, every bit, alongside this guy of mine is an honor.

A Perfect Pouring Day

Some of my favorite days this Spring, Summer & Fall were the simplest of ones...

the coziest of ones...
the ones where we hung out together on the back deck in the pouring rain...

 



The ones where we watched the squirrel steal toilet paper from inside the house...

Where we did nothing but snuggle the rabbits...

Evenings with dessert and cocoa outside amongst the twinkle lights and stars.  Ahhhh.

Bittersweet Beauty

Things aren't over quite yet but we've actually had to turn our heat on already!
so I am naturally thinking back on the season as I do every year about this time.
Summer started off slowly with my injured knee early on in the season
& we resisted the yard for a tiny bit cause we just didn't want to be there without our Frenwyck...
but my oh my it's been such a good and wonderful Spring, summer and Fall...

 

I am looking forward to winter and diving into my studio time a lot more,

there's always way less distractions in the winter hibernation time!...

But I admit I am feeling slightly melancholy about wrapping another season up!

I don't know if Jaks will be with us next summer...I think that's making it all more bittersweet...

but we sure did enjoy our time outside this year and we took full advantage of it all

and that's what is most important at the end of it all isn't it!

A Grateful Maker

These days are mostly filled with bunnies...

some stress circles but luckily mostly sweetness surrounds us.

Some sadness floats about still...
like seeing Jaks have bad days or having to move on to enjoy summer days without Frenwyck.
 

 

But mostly we steep sweetly in happiness, espeacially when we get to watch

Emmett & Korra-Soleil bounce around the yard together for their first summer as besties,
or as we see soul-buddies Teela and Yuuji chum around like they are tied at the hip (like their folks).

 

 

Where we were slow to get outside, now we seem to spend more time outside than in.

These days seem to be embracing slow delicious (currently bug free!) evenings spent outside as well.

We've now gotten everything out there set up and it's proving to be insanely heavenly.

 

 

In between normal stuff like getting groceries, running errands, paying bills, picking up rabbit meds...

there's still plenty of time to sit and enjoy and take in delicious beautiful food and snacks together.

 

 

I am feeling so grateful for the routine of my life right now...

because even artists with the most wildly successful art careers often crave nothing more

than days in their studio where they can create just whatever they want,

where they are not having to bend to the demands of clients and commissions...

 

 

and right now, during these days, I am blissfully able to create exactly

what I am called to create (when pain doesn't derail my creativity that is).

I have well over 20 images coming up that I am just buzzing about...

 

 

it's an amazing feeling to want to jump out of bed in the mornings and get straight to your studio.

The pull to my studios is very strong right now

but I have to say that I am happy to have all this other abundant beauty balancing me out.

Ahhhh.

 

What are you loving about your routine/days right now?