Underwater

Margaret on her backyard bench in Atlanta


Tree in the background

Margaret is my friend from high school -- Margie Knowles, for readers who knew her then. She now has triplets. They live on the edges of the hurricane. This is what the edges look like, with 8 inches of rain a day.

In an eerie resonance, I had woken up this morning from a nightmare involving flooding. I wonder if torrential water is in the collective unconsciousness. Or maybe only in those parts of the world turning toward rain. In Australia it's heating up, heading toward the hot summer day of Christmas.

I read once a quiltmaker saying that all artists tend to work in the colors of the Nature around them. Australian art is in browns, rusts, reds, oranges. Pacific Northwest art is greens, browns, blues. Scandinavian art uses blues, greys, and whites.