INCINTA

Enceinte.

  I was listening to Jeremy Dutcher  (if you haven't listened to him you MUST) and looking through some old doodles and this French word came into my brain. 

Enceinte. It means Pregnant.

What? Why would this word pop into my mind? I am pregnant with ideas? Certainly not with child!!

Perhaps it was this doodle.

Looks kind of like a pregnant profile. Non?

So I looked up the word.  It turns out it is also an Achaic  noun that means: an enclosure or the enclosing wall of a fortified place. As an adjective it means pregnant.  It comes from the latin  INCINTA which means to “gird in”.

Makes sense that it would describe a condition of being with child.  We bearers of children gird them within our fortified belly for nearly 10 months. And then they demand freedom.

What other fortifications do we have around ourselves?

We all have them I am sure.  I have lovely walls to keep people (and therefore Drama) at bay. As I get older I seem to be able to leave my drawbridge down more often but when old fears reappear it slams shut.

I just got back from Europe (which I promise I will tell you about next time) and due to the jet lag and the stress of being open to new experiences for 2 weeks I have a raised drawbridge.  I am cranking it open but it is a process.  It is important to stay open to allow creative flow.

It may seem that I am my normal self to everyone else but I have gone inside.  Often this state is followed by a flurry of creativity.  I am pretty sure this time is leading there too. 

What fortifications are you using to protect yourself? How to you break through them?

I have attended the Northumberland Rug Hooking guild’s hook in and taken a class on Tangle art.  I was a bit cranky and tired so I didn’t get as much as I should have out of it but I did produce this interesting tree.

 Not the chair just the tree. Which looks better from afar.

Now I am prepping to hook a rug of one of my pictures from Scotland as well as getting stuff together for a course from Alice Vander Vennan   in November.

I’ll be back on October 16^th to tell you about my 16 days in Europe!

In the meantime you can find me on Instagram and facebook.