Googly Eyes Galore!

UPDATE --

Wanna Go Time Traveling?

But remember . . . there

can be unintended consequences!

In actual fact, all of us can time travel

right now . . . and we do!

Monday Murals -- Party At The Bus Stop!

I'm taking part today in 

Monday Murals hosted by Sami.

Funny, I don't remember it being

THIS much fun to take the bus every day.

But it will be, if you catch

your transit bus HERE!

[Mural by unknown artist

at the corner of 107 Avenue

and 124 Street, Edmonton, Alberta]

[Photo © Debra She Who Seeks, 2026]

Art Quilt Exhibition: "Renewal" -- Part 1

[A link party about art issues hosted by

Nicole of DVArtist, Art, Food and Everyday Things]

During my June road trip,

I stopped in Brandon, Manitoba to see

a juried Art Quilt Exhibition at the

Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba.

Curated by Studio Art Quilt Associates,

this exhibition is touring across Canada.

Thirty-three artists present their uniquely personal

interpretations of the theme "Renewal."

In this two-part SITAR post,

I'm featuring my favourites

from the exhibition --

Leaving the Dark (2018)

by Toni Major

(Ontario)

Urban Renewal (2023)

by Heather A Hager

(Ontario)

Frosty Fronds (2023)

by Margaret Sangster

(British Columbia)

Celebrate! (2024)

Joan Flett Kilpatrick

(British Columbia)

Can't Keep Me Down (2024)

by Steph Kincade

(Nova Scotia)

 Please return next Sunday for Part 2 of this post!

[Photos © Debra She Who Seeks, 2026]

Let's Improve Our Vocabulary!

Friday Face OFF -- WTF?

For today's Friday Face OFF link party

of art featuring faces, hosted by Nicole of

DVArtist, Art, Food and Everyday Things --

I'm not quite sure WTF happened here,

because this is definitely NOT how

this art was supposed to have turned out.

 

[drawn freehand directly in both

permanent and water soluble black ink,

ink wash, and coloured pencils]

And what exactly is

the role of that ambiguous cat?

Is it a therapy cat helping a woman

get through some kind of emo breakdown?

Or is it the feline familiar of a vengeful witch 

casting a powerful curse on whoever did her wrong?

Your guess is as good as mine.

[Art and photo of art © Debra She Who Seeks, 2026]

Adventures in French

When I was a university student, I was fluent in French. Never bilingual, but sufficiently fluent to take some undergrad university courses meant for francophone students. For example, I took a literature class taught in French, read all the assigned novels in French, wrote the essays and took the exams solely in French.

Then I went to law school and the legal profession took over my life. D'oh!

No time anymore for French (or scarcely anything else). Needless to say, my French deteriorated over the next 45 years due to insufficient use. Oh, I could still get by in a conversation if I had to, but opportunities were few. If I'd had any ambition to be appointed to the Bench, I would have kept up my French because bilingualism helps to climb the ladder of the Canadian judiciary. But my only ambition was focused on taking early retirement from lawyering if I could swing it, LOL.

I had vague plans to do something about my second language skills once I retired. French is another area I wanted to reconnect with "just for the fun of it."

And now I've started to do just that. So I'll be posting about my Adventures in French over the next while. 

Spoiler Alert! It's been a real mixed bag so far!