Barda School Reconstruction (x-posted to 10percentclub)

Picking a project is often the hardest thing about the 10% vow...there are just so many amazingly necessary and hopeful things going on. But the best thing about it is that I know that I'll be donating again soon so I can choose another project next. I see it as helping to water seeds that heroic people are planting and tending around the world.
So after much deliberation, I've decided that the 10% from the painting I recently sold will go towards Barda School Reconstruction in AZERBAIJAN through Peace Corps Volunteer Project 314-003

( read why )

Replenished at the bay

After stressing all morning (4 am on)to complete and print a proposal for an artist group installation that needed to be submitted today, I finally crossed the finish line. Dropped it off around noon and got myself fresh plums and a salad and went to the magic bay for lunch. OH YEAH, I forgot This is where my Bliss ran off to!!I'd been looking all over, worried sick! *tsk-tsk noise*;)
Sooo relaxing... I felt my body tensions dissolve in the warm air and the lulling sound of lapping wavelets. Deeeeeeep breathssssss....seagull watching.Only a handful of people around mmm Two little boys playing and shouting in the waves...a pair of lovers in the distance, standing entwined, elderly women like drawings walking their dogs.
I stared at pebbles and sand and my skin and slowly came back to my senses, literally.
Lay down on my blanket arms outstretched to embrace the sky...sooo happy. little sparkling glimpses of eternity disguised as light bouncing off wavetops.
Now to wash off this sand in a nice cool shower.