Another Reason

"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll talks about un-birthday gifts, and this is a thing I enjoy about painting rocks and leaving them all over the place.  It costs me nothing and if a person likes it, then I have given them a gift.  It is so small that I don’t have to worry about losing money if nobody likes it.  Nobody has to return it to the store to get their money back.  If a person doesn’t like it, they either keep walking or they toss it, and in doing so, they were given the gift of a choice.   Once I have put it out there as my ‘un-birthday’ gift to whomever may enjoy it, it is done. I have given a gift and have no more stock in it than that.

One Reason

One Reason: Henry Mattisse said it, and I hear it: “Creativity takes Courage”.

 I love that each particular design on a rock didn’t exist before I created it. And it especially didn’t exist in the particular place that I set it. And the act of picking out a rock, putting my own brand of pretty on it is not as simple as it seems. I am Anxious picking it up, I’m anxious putting it down, bravery moves my feet.

Why is Cray rocking Ellensburg?

Thank you for your interest in this.

I was born in the old hospital at the top of third street, the youngest of the five Ray children, thanks to Edward Lee and Adele Ray. I spent a most adventurous childhood at 206 N. Sprague in the safe and loving arms of a neighborhood. Through life’s pulling and pushing, I spent half my life in Western Washington raising a family, much of it teaching secondary English Language Arts, and most of that time trying to get back to Ellensburg. When, in 2016, I arrived at last, I was met by an early snow, followed by more snow and a relentlessly frigid winter. It was time to get a hobby.

And that’s when I began rocking back and forth, and I have never stopped.

Here are a few of the rocks, which I will never claim are amazing, but they are mine! PINTREST: https://pin.it/43WXerx