Author Archives: Alyson Indrunas
Water. Paint. Ratio.
The language of watercolor is poetry. The naming of colors is a history I’ve never learned. Colors help us classify animals, minerals, and plants. A language of colors is classification. A science of color. The definition of color reminds me … Continue reading
The Heft of Grief
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. ~Elisabeth Kübler Ross One of the words you frequently when you read about grief, is the adjective heavy. It’s made me think quite … Continue reading
Thoughts on Ambiguous Loss(es)
“Scientific discoveries happen not through method or magic, but from being open to discovery by listening to one’s emotions and responding to intuition. Like a poet, the researcher, as well as the therapist, needs the ability to imagine what the … Continue reading
Wintering & Handiwork
“There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open and you fall through them into somewhere else. Somewhere Else runs at a different pace to the here and now, where everyone else carries on.” ~Katherine … Continue reading
Place & Shape
“Words will follow your path through the garden, on the walkways, benches, and walls. Yet unlike a book, the way in which you read the poem is multidirectional.” ~Maya Lin I made a small intention that I would blog twice … Continue reading
Slush Pile
Dear Editor,* It’s highly likely this piece will end up lost in your slush pile. What to say to an editor of an anthology about traveling during a year when international borders were closed? How to differentiate my story from … Continue reading
Nesting Through Grief
Grief, like an apple tree, grows crooked not straight. ~Robert Macfarlane One month ago, the love of my life and I said good-bye to our dog. Our best friend of fifteen years. He was having more bad days than good, … Continue reading
Turn And Face The Strange
This week, the Feminist Survival Project podcast is going to end, and they asked their listeners share what they learned, and so I thought I’d get bloggy with it as a way to express my gratitude for their podcast and … Continue reading
Quick Sketch
I promised myself I’d try to blog at least once a month this year, so here it is. I don’t really have anything in the bloggy draft that I’m ready to click publish with, and I just realized that September … Continue reading
Somewhere Between The Time
“But I’d finally reached a point where the prospect of not writing a book was more awful than the one of writing a book that sucked.” ~Cheryl Strayed Of the three things I’ve learned since I’ve started watercolor painting, what … Continue reading