My SISTERS and I

Last November, I was featured in this gorgeous magazine as an artist and illustrator. By April, I was writing for them!...

Posted by Azra Momin on Tuesday, June 23, 2015

I'm back!

It's been almost a month that I last wrote. A few things happened that just stilled my heart for the longest time, and I felt frozen. I really did. Frozen at my very core. The Mumbai attacks (read Arundhati Roy's telling article), and news reports of cruelty resulting in the death of two little girls, one in the US, one in Canada, apparently by their own mothers, were among other stories of horror and hopelessness.

How do we find it in us to inflict fellow humans, let alone children with such violence that we kill them?

Such reports numb me beyond words. And I react by withdrawing into a shell. Not a good strategy - it doesn't really help me, and it certainly doesn't help anybody else. I know what I should do is find means to fight this injustice that so enrages me, but I feel too paralyzed to do anything, and that makes me feel even more pathetic. Some day, I hope I have the courage and the composure to lend my voice to the cause of kindness and justice.

Until then, I take solace in the the thought that if the world is still surviving, then surely there is more good happening here than evil, more benevolent people walking among us than those who wish to do harm. Something, somewhere is redeeming us.

I have a bunch of post titles saved up for in between, because although I could not write I did make things now and then. Mostly I spent time with my family, finding comfort in their presence, and reminding myself how much I have to be thankful for.

So I'll be filling in the gaps soon. If you are reading this, please share how your year is ending, what you learned, and what you hope for.

Addicted2Decorating guest post

Kristi Linauer, who featured my wall treatment on Addicted2Decorating, invited me to contribute as a blogger there. I was so honored! I submitted my first post yesterday, a short note on wallcoverings.

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Whoa! Where did Friday go?

I logged on to write another post thinking I'm doing good lately - a post a day. Got a shock when I realized we have transitioned to October 25. Where the heck did October 24 go???

I'm in so much shock I don't even remember what I was going to write about!

Now I have to go hide my head under a pillow.

BRB.

No, not really :)

Getting out there

This blog is beginning to look all mish-mashy. I'll really have to clean it up soon. There's more links coming though! Here's what I did recently:

Joined Indiepublic yesterday.

Added a couple more details to my Facebook account (generously set up for me by DaddyBoy coz I'm still so wary of Facebook and I've always avoided joining it and when I did try it looked a lot more complicated than I thought, but now I have a Page AND a Profile!)

Signed up with The Hand Made Product Directory to be included in their listings.

Created an account with Project Wonderful, and got an ad ready there if ever I start bidding.

And I joined LinkdIn.

Did I paint at all? Nope!

I don't know how people post things everywhere, and blog and reply to blogs and in general keep track of what they are doing where on line. I want to put all this in place and then concentrate on making art. But I have a feeling joining groups and websites is not going to be enough. I'll have to be out there actively participating, when really I just want to be perfecting my craft.

I hope I'll learn how to juggle it all, but right now I just want to grab a brush and get all messy with paint!