A Conversation with https://merkatart.substack.com/
Merkat: …I sit typing, milking the last drops of serotonin from my brain in order to stay afloat. Are you in the same boat? Let’s ward off scurvy together. A lime for your January thoughts.
Mia: I used to embrace my inner brown bear and crave winter hibernation. That bear is a cumbersome creature, no? But I have been working a long time now on what you offer in the second stanza of your poem, Dark Channels; climbing into that unsafe boat. Now, boatless, I am in the ocean trying to stay atop the waves of like and dislike, can do and can’t do. Sound Buddhist? It is.
I must add that the adamantine sun of winter still helps, as does giving that old bear a hug now and then (and yeah, the blog schedule gets gappy!) And while I might struggle to follow my own prescription, I believe more in-person contact is good medicine. Less Zoom, more coffee shop. Great Lakes people are winter people! Let’s get outside!
Art by Fan and Dusty, 2013