Susie McGrath
@susiemcgrath.bsky.social
Nature and art lover 🌿 🌅 Gardener and painter🪴Value this space for observation and reflection 🤔
Feeling a bit tattered and frayed around the edges? Best to start another painting I suspect. My moth man… perhaps animus, not sure… Either way it looks quiet, still, aware. I’m finishing some paintings from now on #moth #painting #oilpainting #oilonboard #Jung #unconscious #thoughts #feelings #here
October 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Feeling a bit tattered and frayed around the edges? Best to start another painting I suspect. My moth man… perhaps animus, not sure… Either way it looks quiet, still, aware. I’m finishing some paintings from now on #moth #painting #oilpainting #oilonboard #Jung #unconscious #thoughts #feelings #here
Skills cards for kids: decisions. Ha ha, I’m loving the apparent simplicity! Card 41 might then explore some points about how your choices may affect others and 42 might outline tips on living with these decisions forever after ;) #purpose #choices #tips #empathy #easy #moralcompass #ethics #reason
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Reading, walking, quiet painting - just started (subject moth)… I might be turning into a moth? “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.” Oscar Wilde
October 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reading, walking, quiet painting - just started (subject moth)… I might be turning into a moth? “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.” Oscar Wilde
Oil on board. Not finished, dust storm that could almost be forgotten as it's so green and lush now. Still, wasn't so long ago #art #dust #painting #memory #road #prospicience #perception #perspective #senses #existence
October 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Oil on board. Not finished, dust storm that could almost be forgotten as it's so green and lush now. Still, wasn't so long ago #art #dust #painting #memory #road #prospicience #perception #perspective #senses #existence
Weeds everywhere, mowing forever and a day… but I will forgive you Spring. Just an excuse really, to be out with you for a while #pink #green #sunlit #diaphanous #gorgeous #appleblossom #thingswithwings #weeds
October 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Weeds everywhere, mowing forever and a day… but I will forgive you Spring. Just an excuse really, to be out with you for a while #pink #green #sunlit #diaphanous #gorgeous #appleblossom #thingswithwings #weeds
Start of my Spring visage… clouds forming, before I work on the foliage and blossom. Maybe could work on warming things up and not being such an ice cold bitch 🌿 #oilpainting #luminescent #light #oilonboard #soft #painting #layers #billowing #blue #yellow #green #lush #soft #verdant #breezy #chalky
October 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Start of my Spring visage… clouds forming, before I work on the foliage and blossom. Maybe could work on warming things up and not being such an ice cold bitch 🌿 #oilpainting #luminescent #light #oilonboard #soft #painting #layers #billowing #blue #yellow #green #lush #soft #verdant #breezy #chalky
poets.org/poem/somewhe... #poemoftheday e.e cummings, beautiful soul - this one feels right for the dewy, Spring morning.
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
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October 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
poets.org/poem/somewhe... #poemoftheday e.e cummings, beautiful soul - this one feels right for the dewy, Spring morning.
youtu.be/i3_dOWYHS7I?... #songoftheday for the last holiday day and rain today. Time for my sublunary soul to return to rightful, useful duties. Maybe time to come back to Earth #everythingiseverything #okay #raincoat #lucky #beautiful #rest
September 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
youtu.be/i3_dOWYHS7I?... #songoftheday for the last holiday day and rain today. Time for my sublunary soul to return to rightful, useful duties. Maybe time to come back to Earth #everythingiseverything #okay #raincoat #lucky #beautiful #rest
It’s a valuable commodity & seems like the open are eaten up & spat out again at the moment. Still, I’ve stumbled over some gems & I’ll take care of them. “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas” Dostoevsky
September 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
It’s a valuable commodity & seems like the open are eaten up & spat out again at the moment. Still, I’ve stumbled over some gems & I’ll take care of them. “It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas” Dostoevsky
“My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate those who steal my solitude without, in exchange offering me true company" Friedrich Nietzsche. Debate on this as hearsay, but AI thinks he said it, so let’s say not sure? Anyway life goals to have and be both.
September 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate those who steal my solitude without, in exchange offering me true company" Friedrich Nietzsche. Debate on this as hearsay, but AI thinks he said it, so let’s say not sure? Anyway life goals to have and be both.
Hoi An, it’s 25 years and you still have soul. So far, so good and not easy. People together, everywhere. Busy, not busy, conscientious, fun... not too nice - real. Still assertive, but working in together seamlessly. Lovely to see the #lanterns #ripeness #fruitful #homegrown #attached #made #round
September 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Just a bit of poly pipe, timber, string and you’ve got yourself a mango fish. Set free of course, as apparently pretty fish don’t get eaten. Lovely to watch people deftly do things with their hands, and also listen to the lapping water #learning #time #yellow #photographyratherthanfishing #quiet
September 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Just a bit of poly pipe, timber, string and you’ve got yourself a mango fish. Set free of course, as apparently pretty fish don’t get eaten. Lovely to watch people deftly do things with their hands, and also listen to the lapping water #learning #time #yellow #photographyratherthanfishing #quiet
youtu.be/Yc5jwR9KUvg?... eclectic mix of movie soundtracks and things loosely termed jazz - on a plane 🌎 whilst reading a 📷 manual. Sort of made it to the other side of the proverbial storm 🫠 and Nina, you powerhouse, force… whatever it brings it feels like a new living day #songoftheday
Nina Simone - Feeling Good (Lyric Video)
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September 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
youtu.be/Yc5jwR9KUvg?... eclectic mix of movie soundtracks and things loosely termed jazz - on a plane 🌎 whilst reading a 📷 manual. Sort of made it to the other side of the proverbial storm 🫠 and Nina, you powerhouse, force… whatever it brings it feels like a new living day #songoftheday
Ehr…. seems like there’s no way around it, even AI thinks I need to read the motberfucking manual. Let’s go then MF.
September 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Ehr…. seems like there’s no way around it, even AI thinks I need to read the motberfucking manual. Let’s go then MF.
Last bits, horses… a fire. No more bailing twine to tie together and hold things #nightsky #fires #waterhorses #Springtime #bare #branches #blossoms
September 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Last bits, horses… a fire. No more bailing twine to tie together and hold things #nightsky #fires #waterhorses #Springtime #bare #branches #blossoms
September 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... Nice morning ramble…
A Guide to Thesis Writing and a Guide to Life
Writing and research manuals like Umberto Eco’s “How to Write a Thesis” offer a vision of our best selves, Hua Hsu wrote, in 2015.
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August 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
www.newyorker.com/books/page-t... Nice morning ramble…
A few hours between drop off, pick up duties & time to add to this laneway home. Driven it a million times & maybe will that many more? Always small shifts, transitions to notice. So familiar, yet everything’s changed when you stand back. Tree & mist to come #oilpainting #landscape #roads #memory
August 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A few hours between drop off, pick up duties & time to add to this laneway home. Driven it a million times & maybe will that many more? Always small shifts, transitions to notice. So familiar, yet everything’s changed when you stand back. Tree & mist to come #oilpainting #landscape #roads #memory
Something lost, something gained… next layer moving forward #landscape #roadside #morning #learning #nature
August 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Something lost, something gained… next layer moving forward #landscape #roadside #morning #learning #nature
Had a late night notion to begin a painting… a roadside, again. Old canvas, painted over with something beautiful, blue, new. Will see how it goes #roadside #landscape #vastness #oilpainting #beginnings #fragility #care
August 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Had a late night notion to begin a painting… a roadside, again. Old canvas, painted over with something beautiful, blue, new. Will see how it goes #roadside #landscape #vastness #oilpainting #beginnings #fragility #care