Bardie loves paper.
Playing soccer with wadded-up balls of paper, burrowing into packing paper in boxes. Even patting my sketchbook paper as I draw.
But then he stopped eating. Even his favorite, a canned seafood blend from Earthborn. Apparently, he had eaten strips he had torn from the brown packing paper in the latest order from Chewy.com that is now messing with his intestines.
Now under a vet's care, he'll be fine --- I'm replacing his paper toys with ping pong balls!
This is also the final page of my beloved sketchbook handbound by Cathy 'Kate' Johnson. Below are the miscellaneous scribblings from the inside covers. Verses, quotes, playing with palette choices . . . even deciding on Bardie's name.
I hope Bardie feels better soon. I love your pages and the quotes, too. I can't read them entirely in the photo, but I really like what I can read of them-- very thought-provoking. Your sketchbook pages are inspiring!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Melissa! I noticed after posting this that some of the bits aren't very clear. If there's any you would like clarified, let me know it's location on the page and I'll post it here.
DeleteThe tiny scribbled note near the upper right of the 2-sided back page is just a notation on a second cat's name (in Russian) that we considered adopting along with Bardie.
Thanks, Vicky! I'd be interested in the C.S. Lewis quote and also the one at the bottom of the right hand page. C.S. Lewis is my favorite author and I can't quite make out his quote, and I can't read the other one well either.
DeleteI posted them as a general comment by mistake, just below this conversation thread)
DeleteI am glad Bardie will be o.k. I love the two pages you posted and the quotes. How special it is to have a journal someone personally made for you. I have a friend who made me one as well and I love working in it. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
DeleteHave a blessed Thanksgiving yourself, Annie! Your posts on your blog and Facebook have encouraged me and I'm thankful for you!
Delete"We may come to love knowledge -- _our_ knowing -- more than the thing known: to delight not in the exercise of our talents but in the fact that they are ours, or even in the reputation they bring us."
ReplyDelete- C. S. Lewis
(He was truly a great thinker, wasn't he?)
"Real knowledge doesn't come from looking over the shoulders of pioneers to read their diaries. Real knowledge comes from hitting the trail so that our own diaries overflow with discoveries."
- Samuel C. Williamson,
'Hearing God in Conversation'
Thank you very much, Vicky. Great quotes and well worth pondering.
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