I now had a character, that’s me. I had a premise, the search for happiness. And I had a character arc, unhappy to happy (or lets call a sense of well being). In short, I had my film. And I was off — with the enthusiasm of a kid.

If you caught my first posting about my inspiration for this project, you’ll see from the pictures that I made some changes along the way.

I’ve been gathering my thoughts for a new project. The ideas started coming together after I started playing with what I call collage samplers…

If  you can remember–I sorta do–I used to love taking photos.  Why did I stop?  For one, my camera is sooo ollllld and infirm that it’s no longer fun.  And I guess my creative wherewithal …

Regardless of the causes, I am dealing with an enormous loss, and the agony of watching him erase himself. It is the antithesis of creating. It is chaos as well as inertia.

The walls of human understanding have various purposes, textures, designs. But their intent is often to keep something…safe from challenge and on-going discovery of the truth of inherent polarity.

MidLifeBloggers is more of a boutique, a salon of sorts, offering well-written, thoughtful, provocative posts (be they prose, poetry, or visual arts) on each and every issue–big and small, real and imagined–that any one of us is experiencing as we are wending our way through this period in our lives.

Some days it is all I can do to get through the news and the talk shows, even those with positive, grit-your-teeth, coupon-clip, saving-not-spending stories. But I’m trying to follow all the advice…

My blog is a collection of memories and stories about my relationship with my wonderful and eccentric aunt and the summers I spent with her. My aunt, a major influence in my life, inspired my love of jewelry. This blog is my tribute to her.

This photo essay is the first of what we hope will be a regular posting on MidLifeBloggers: contributions from MidLifeBloggers who are visual artists.