Another steaming hot July weekend comes to a close. Spent some quality time in my studio working on a cat portrait. The garden needs water about every day, and it’s a nice time to listen to nature’s song. The warm breeze, birds having their final words, and the jingle of neighbors walking their dogs.

I recently had a visitor from the woods while watering. A beautiful moth who sat itself down on my Land’s End summer dress and stayed for about a half hour. Strange little “bug-eyed” creature who seemed content to hang out on my blue cotton.

I looked up this mysterious moth and its latin name is
Haploa clymene (Clymene Moth) And the description is “a moth that carries a cross on its back.”

Trying to tie this in to my mission of taking life’s adventures and turning them into something positive gave me this thought: Sometimes the cross you have to bear is not your own, but someone else’s.

Art Prescription: Now is the time for utmost patience. To bear witness to someone else’s suffering is to be human. Allow the day to pass with grace and the knowledge that those who love you most are willing to bear your cross when you need them to. Stretch, eat, rest…tomorrow the sun will rise anew.