A Beginning

Lyman's Mountain - The mountain that has my back. Photographed 1/18/10

I call this "Pen and Ink" because I am a writer and an artist, and pen & ink are things with which I work. Pen & ink drawings, using technical pens with tiny points; using a hefty fountain pen to putting words on paper.

"Pen and Ink" is also how much of the world around me looks for much of the year, with wooded hills and mountains etched against the sky like a meticulous drawing.

This is what I do: I draw, I write, I paint. I take care of my aged parents the best I can. I work at my humdrum job. In the summer, I garden. I always observe, and always ruminate.

This blog will be about these things, observations about my world - the natural world, the people around me, the things I do to keep my feet under me. I will write about food - growing, preparing, eating. I'll write about baseball, as the Red Sox seem to be part of my extended family. This is what I do, and this is who I am.

My friend Tony has a saying: "Be as a shark - never stop moving." If a shark stops moving, so I have heard, it will drown. If one stops moving forward - intellectually, artistically - one can just sink and drown from being in the same place for too long. Let me swim through the sea of ideas, and some of them will keep me alive.