Suellen Shapero has been following the blog for some time. I met her with her husband, Ed, at Hand Artes Gallery last season, and I guess one time before that in Anna and my gallery when we were in a previous location. At the same time I was introduced to their very good friends Susan and Bob (Susan has been following the blog for awhile now too). Anyway, Suellen reached me some time ago to say they were all four going to be in New Mexico again and were hoping to come by the gallery. Absolutely! Anna and I were there with bells on.
Until that afternoon, I had no idea how richly interesting these people really are. You just can’t know anything about a person in a 20 minute introduction. But on this day, we sat in the gallery and talked about everything under the sun—deep, meaningful, connecting conversations—the kind that change how you see the other—one of those magical afternoons you simply can’t plan, they just happen when everything is in alignment.
And it turns out that Suellen writes her own blog—a wonderful blog in fact. I knew you all would want to check it out. I’m now a subscriber: http://artistoftheeveryday.wordpress.com/.
Just the other day Bob sent me this photo. I wanted to post it because days like these are meant to be shared.
Suellen and Ed are staying in New Mexico for a month, so I genuinely look forward to another visit and hope more of you will decide to come to call.
Love to you all,
Jeane
I have signed up for Suellen’s blog:) Nice to have her here at least for a while longer!! Until she heads to N.M. that is:)
It’s really a nice blog, isn’t it? They are wonderful people. I know you would enjoy them (and their 2 dear dogs). Yes, an interesting pull between the NW and the SW. I think there is something very similar, and yet very different, about the energy of the 2 places.
What a lovely post! It was a magical day. That’s what comes from spending enough time to get below the surface. And we all certainly did! Thanks for the “blog visit”. It brings it all back!
Hope this works this time. I’ve been having a hard time posting my comments.
Love the “blog nod” to what was a magical day…the kind that reveals what is below the surface if you spend the time to look . Thanks again to you and Anna for that great day!
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It truly was a magical day. I’m glad Bob sent this photo so I was able to pay “homage” to it on the blog.
Thanks for the kind words about my blog and including our visit on your blog. I thoroughly enjoyed our time at the gallery and getting to know you better, and I loved meeting Anna. I knew the first time I met you that I wanted to get to know you better. I’m sorry we never got back up to see you again while we were in NM – the month flew by. We spent time looking at real estate and are actually putting an offer in on a house. We both fell in love with it, so although we won’t be there permanently until April of next year, we decided to go for it – it just felt right! I’ll keep you posted. If this isn’t “the one” I trust that the universe will be guiding us – it brought us to Santa Fe after all. I love hearing about your time on Vashon. We’re going to head over there again this summer some time and hopefully it won’t be raining as it has on all our previous visits. But I will say we enjoyed ourselves nonetheless and met some interesting artists. Thank you once again for the great day we had with you and Anna. I hope to reciprocating once we’re settled into our new life in NM.
Love,
SE
That is so exciting about your house! You’ll be neighbors! I completely understand about time racing by and not getting a chance to get back up here. I like to think the day we spent together was so perfect that the universe just wanted to hold it in a special place. Send me some pics when you go to Vashon. It is truly a beautiful place. Love, Jeane