{"id":692,"date":"2005-08-24T18:31:39","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T02:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=692"},"modified":"2005-08-24T18:31:39","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T02:31:39","slug":"re-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/24\/re-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"re-creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"377\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/20050824_quickies.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nTwo of the quickie collages I made this afternoon, in my neverending quest to let go and get messy. &#8220;Don&#8217;t think!&#8221; I kept reminding myself. &#8220;Just glue!&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swirlygirl.com\">My friend Christine<\/a> came over today and, after having a lovely breakfast at one of my favorite neighborhood spots, we made a glorious mess in the afternoon sun. It was so much fun.<\/p>\n<p>I forget how important it is to do that&#151;not just to make art and make a mess, but to do it side by side with another colorful soul. Sometimes, there&#8217;s chatter between creating (&#8220;Can I borrow a stamp pad?&#8221; and &#8220;Here, have some glitter tape.&#8221;), but there can also be complete and utter silence. Both are so nice. Both make the experience.<\/p>\n<p>I broke in a new sketchbook, and it was kind of exhilarating. I&#8217;ve always loved the promise of a blank page, but now I&#8217;m also learning to appreciate the beauty of one filled with scribbles, blotches and brilliant, messy color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the quickie collages I made this afternoon, in my neverending quest to let go and get messy. &#8220;Don&#8217;t think!&#8221; I kept reminding myself. &#8220;Just glue!&#8221; My friend Christine came over today and, after having a lovely breakfast at one of my favorite neighborhood spots, we made a glorious mess in the afternoon sun. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}