I got a note from my bookmaking friend, Sharon, the other day, saying she was laid up with a broken ankle. She’s going to use this as an opportunity to “start on a small book I’ve been thinking about forever. Quotidian. Drawings/watercolors of the every day things in my life.” Then I saw a post about the work of Melanie Bilenker. She makes jewelry featuring tableaux of everyday ordinary life. “I do not reproduce events,” she says, “but quiet minutes, the mundane, the domestic, the ordinary moments.” They are jewelry mostly made of gold, ebony, resin, pigment, and hair. I was just going to send the link off to Sharon, but I’ve stopped my haiku writing habit this year, and thought posting it here would inspire me to start again. Check out all of Melanie’s lovely drawings here.