Still Life With Groceries and a Runaway Wheelchair

Dear Sarah - Day 72 of our daily drawing exchange...

Hi Nikki,
March 13, 2025

So great to see you today, as we inch forward on All She Wrote AKA The Thriller. Today was an unintentionally busy day. I had one appointment at noon and had to take a return to LLBean. My plan had been to come home and do some work, but the sun was shining and a friend wanted to go for a walk. By the time we met, it was cold and windy, but we walked along the Songhees Walkway anyway. As we were walking back to our cars, a couple stopped us, asked if we were locals, and then asked where they could go nearby for a cup of tea. They were Sheila and Sandy, from Calgary, on a winter break in Victoria.

We walked to a coffee shop on the water and had tea with them: he was from the UK, she from Montreal; they moved to Calgary for his work with Royal LePage as a real estate assessor. He used to own a Catalina sailboat, which he kept in Comox for many years, so we chatted about that and about their architect daughter who studied in Delft (before Brexit) and stayed (now in Rotterdam). So random and yet so much fun. We may meet again next week.

Then I picked up some groceries and went to the library. I got home at 5:30, piled some of the groceries on my table and used charcoal and then drew them with pen and ink. Hungry now!

Hope your day was not too insane. Ha!

XO Sarah

Hi Sarah -

I do like All She Wrote as a title… rather appropriate, don’t you think? I enjoyed our session earlier and will be getting to the missing day in the virtual writing retreat just as soon as I can carve out a small chunk of writing time. I have some ideas of how to tie all that together (and ramp up some inner angst for our deeply troubled character, Cass), so should be able to make some forward progress over the weekend.

I hope you are delighted with your Still Life With Groceries. Loving the way you are applying what you have learned about working with charcoal into a drawing of random items!

As for me… well, I’m noodling around with ideas for something visual to accompany an essay about the wheelchair phase of our Camino journey… So today’s scribble is more like quick playtime with a thought rather than a bona fide drawing. I find it fascinating how differently the storytelling mind works when doing a drawing versus writing a paragraph.

Until tomorrow -
Nikki