Current Photo Friday theme: Looking Back at 2020
This challenge will run for two weeks. This week, I decided to show you some of what I’ve done in 2020 since being laid off and quarantining at home due to the COVID pandemic.
(If you click here, you can see a larger version of this photo with more of the details.)
I have used dolls (represented by two Monster High dolls eating pizza here, my rock and roll dude and his baseball-loving girlfriend, and Summer, my Top Model) as muses, inspiration, and entertainment. Along with the small guitars, they evoke characters in my novels.
I finished a novel and began another. I finished three–maybe four?–pieces of art and sent them out. I have colored in coloring books.
I’ve eaten lots of popcorn and drunk Starbucks (but not as much as I used to).
I’ve continued to fill a Moleskine with little bits of memorabilia I find, and started another Moleskine for the same kinds of things from years dating back to 2008 (during my organize and purge efforts, which are ongoing).
I’ve blogged, Instagrammed, and even ventured back to Twitter a bit to find new authors, new thinkers, new voices for social justice, new animal advocates, and new people to make me laugh.
In the background, you see the laptop where I’ve written and the shelves that contain some of my most important tools: aromatherapy, stones, and soft candlelight.
This room and the space it has given me to think and create has been my sanctuary since March.
Next week, I’ll offer a different perspective of this year. Thank you for reading, commenting, and sticking with me. You are part of my journey whether you read silently or comment.
Is that the desk where you write your novels? I was expecting a huge leather-topped desk – the sort of thing Churchill probably sat behind.
Something to be said for this year, it’s clearly been a very creative one for you, for which I am glad.
Oh, a leather-topped desk would be fabulous. After all, I might start looking like Churchill soon. Here is my real desk:
I’ll be talking about this on this week’s Photo Friday post, but because Tom began working from home in April, we decided to give each other a work space free of distractions (he’s used to an office of his own, and I’m used to an office with no one else in the house). As you may note from the photo below, the dogs are not similarly inclined to give him space:
They believe they’re an indispensable part of his work team.