Jenny Mendes

So fun to see the lovely places my artwork lives on after it leaves me.  Somehow it often ends up exactly where it is meant to be :)  Thanks Happy Family Janice & Joakim plus 2!!  

Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness Every year we have been witness to it: how the world descends into a rich mash, in order that it may resume. And therefore who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing, as we must, how the vivacity of  what was  is married to the vitality of  what will  be? I don’t say it’s easy, but what else will do if the love one claims to have for the world be true? So let us go on though the sun be swinging east, and the ponds be cold and black, and the sweets of the year be doomed. —  MARY OLIVER, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author, most recently, of "Swan: Poems and Prose Poems"

My intuition told me something was wrong with my neighbor.  She was bipolar and had had a rough year.  Our houses are far apart, and yet she was the one person I would see coming and going, the one person whose habits I was familiar with.  I don't know why, but I felt it the first day I noticed  delivered newspapers that she hadn't picked up in her driveway, her house was dark and by Friday night the feeling could not be ignored, and I  finally called the police to have them check in on her.  Trust your intuition, Caroline my friend always tells me, and I did.  In my artwork, I never question it, I go with it, no matter where it takes me, but in life, it is a more difficult place to trust, and yet, isn't it the same?  More and more I am consciously practicing to trust my inner voice more and act on it, and so, after an internal struggle I made the call.  I'd never called the Police in my life like that ..... They found her, outside, ...

Jenny Mendes annual  Online Holiday Sale View this email in your browser Jenny Mendes Customer Appreciation Holiday Online Sale  Thursday December 7, 2017  Starting at 12 Noon E.S.T.  Through Monday December 11, 2017 Ending at 12 Midnight E.S.T. Everything on my Etsy shop will be on Sale Click  Here     Sale starts Thursday Thank you one and all for your support Online Store Our Vintage Shop is on sale also!   Blog Instagram   Facebook Copyright © 2017 JennyMendes  All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: mendes1224@gmail.com  Want to change how you receive these emails? You can  update your preferences  or  unsubscribe from this list   http://mailchi.mp/06b08266f701/jenny-mendes-holiday-sale

Everything in my ETSY SHOP will be on SALE from  NOON DEC 7 EST UNTIL MONDAY 11 DECEMBER AT MIDNIGHT!!!!!   Discounts will be reflected in the prices during that time period!  This is a thank you to all of my lovely customers, old and new!  Happy Holidays!!!