Make it New : Jill Berry Blog

What an amazing roller coaster my life is right now. The good parts are wonderful, new and exciting, the bad parts are deep-in-the-soul painful. On the side of great things is my new exposure in print, more than four publications already this year, including Somerset Studio. Yesterday Jenny Doh at Somerset asked me to work with the following poem (her favorite, no pressure there!)

As the sun makes it new

Day by day make it new

Yet again make it new

—Confucious

Coincidentally I was drawing these houses that are scattered on the prairie that surround me. They are disappearing, in their numbers and in their bones. The wind blasts them, the sun bakes the stone and timber, the rain falls through their roofs and long broken windows. These prairies houses are sinking into the land that they came from, taking their stories with them. Nature will make a new soil for a new life. Yet again make it new.