tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4561684186702741202024-03-13T09:54:17.480-05:00Mayfaire's (not-so-daily) Maily ....being the occasional postings of a creative soul left alone too long with her thoughts....delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.comBlogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-75162878537798639182020-09-23T15:55:00.000-05:002020-09-23T15:59:22.144-05:00Maybe This is It....<p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve
posted very little in this horrible year of 2020. My blog's been completely inactive, probably because the world right now defies description, and I have been (and continue to be) unable to put on a smileyface mask and write words of hope and encouragement.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">So today I went online to delete it. And then I noticed some unfinished posts.... Rereading them reminded me that back at the sort-of beginning of this horrible year I was almost hopeful. And this amuses me. Because I am not hopeful now.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My last published post was at the beginning of the Pandemic lockdown
here in my state. On March 20th I wrote:</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I noticed yesterday that there were no idling diesel trucks or muffler-problematic
vehicles revving up and roaring down the street outside my window
between 5 and 6:30 a.m.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
And the constant drone and twice-daily Rush Hour roar of nearby Hwy 10 couldn't be heard from my house.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
An actual bird woke me! And it wasn't my screaming cockatiels or my little roo 'Dash'....<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
Today was the same.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
And I woke and was immediately grateful for it."</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">I remember entering that state lockdown period feeling anxious and apprehensive, but also ready to pitch in and do my part. Here was my chance to prove that I could be a team player like folks of the Greatest Generation, with my mask and my victory garden and my yeastless bread recipes! And I'd be online every day with something positive and hopeful to share so that others would be inspired to hang in there, too, and stay the course! And I'd blog about the quarantine so that my grandkids and their grandkids can someday read a firsthand account of these Interesting Times!</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That was my plan. My big plan.<br /></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Five days
later, on March 25<sup>th</sup>, I began a post that I never published, and I'm not sure why, unless I crashed and burned shortly after typing it.... I wrote:</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"I dreamed
last night that the Darkness tasted us and was repelled by the intensity of our
colors, our creativity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">It reached out its tendrils and
tasted us all but couldn't compete with our dance, our musicmaking, our
storytelling, our laughter. It shrank from our voices raised in song. It cringed away from our colorful creations.<br />
<br />
The Earth needs an infusion of our creative energies right now, so let's do it
ALL, use our voices, tell our stories, move our bodies, wear our colors, make
our art.<br />
<br />
I dreamed last night that color will get us through this."</span></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I still believe that Creative People will get us through this -- not just the Pandemic, but also the current political climate and all the hurtful stuff it's caused.</span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But less than a week after writing that post, I wrote another that went on to languish in my Drafts folder (until today). On March 30<sup>th</sup>, I wrote:<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"My community is either stupid or in
denial. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I checked a moment ago online and
there are comments upon comments on a neighborhood message board asking folks
in the area to please not congregate in big groups, to which others responded
that we should quit panicking and over-reacting, to get off our ‘high horse’
and stop taking this whole thing so seriously. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Some info there tells me that there
are at least ten cases in the area, and the local hospital is already asking
for handmade facemasks to help add to their already short supply. (Even the
local newspaper had an article about it….) Way to help lessen the curve, Anoka
– keep dismissing the quarantine while the ER steadily fills…. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And what am I doing? I should be on top of that
sewing, shouldn’t I? I should be making facemasks. <br />
<br />
I should be drawing cheery chalk pics on my driveway and painting cheery spring
art on my front window so people out for a walk can walk away with a
smile…. <br />
<br />
I should be livestreaming myself making art so others can join me. <br />
<br />
I should be sending thank you messages to everyone out there on the ‘front
lines’ keeping business going as normally as possible. <br />
<br />
I should be keeping a quarantine diary for future generations. <br />
<br />
I should be joining an online art community, making a painting a day during
this isolation period. <br />
<br />
I should be doing a lot of things. But I’m not. <br />
<br />
Because I’m tired. Exhausted, really. I’ve got nuthin’. I can’t even <i>draw</i>…."</span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, WOW. That happened fast.... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">It'd been what? DAYS? And already my own neighbors were resisting science and making those of us diligently doing our part to keep our community safe feel like assholes. It was so hard to believe!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">But what was even harder to believe (to the point of heartbreak and grief) was that among their ranks were fellow graduates, friends I've known and loved since childhood, even members of my own family. What was happening? I thought I knew these people....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Two months later, on May 20th, I wrote this:<br /></span></p><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Don't laugh...<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
But I think I may be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
I know that sounds dramatic, but I don't know what else to call it. I've
experienced something similar before and it was frippin' traumatic, but it was at a
turbulent time in my life and I didn't get a lot of positive support then. Even
now, Family refers to that period as The Time I Got So Sick. (The first time
that was used in a conversation, I had no idea what anyone was talking about.
And then when I did, I felt awful that the people I love felt like they could
only talk about it by dipping it in layers of euphemism.)<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
Because of that Time I Got So Sick I think I can recognize it when it happens
again. But this time it came out of nowhere. I'm doing All The Things: eating
right, drinking lots of water, taking my meds, getting sunshine and fresh air
and exercise and LOTS of sleep. I'm even managing not to pickle myself with
alcohol (one of my coping mechanisms) because I know being inebriated FEELS
like it's helping (there is nothing better than reaching that point where the
noise is silenced and the imagination feels like it can just let go and float
away....), but it's not.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
Unlike last time, I now have a pretty good support team. And I've been noticing
occasional periods of cheerfulness that make me feel as though I've got this
licked. The only thing missing is a therapist, and I can't even think about
trying to navigate the healthcare system and try to set something up that's
virtual right now because my whole world is weird. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">This feels
almost like a PTSD experience, a reaction to Global Trauma or something. And because I am cocooned from everything right now -- seeing no one, not even creating -- I feel like I am in freefall...." </span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, that was a lifetime ago. Correction: four months ago, LOL, but it sure <i>feels </i>like a lifetime ago.... And everything's just gotten worse. WORSE. I cannot even begin to describe it! And it's not just the Pandemic, it's EVERYTHING. And blanketing it all is a divided America hell bent on destroying itself while the president and his evil administration <i>eggs it on</i>.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what am I doing during this unbelievably awful time? I could've been and could still be someone uplifting, a light in all of this despair and darkness. I could be creating little joyful Leaflings and sending them out into the world to spread good energy. I could be making art and giving it away just to make a fellow human -- perhaps one who is as despondent and despairing as I am -- <i>smile </i>right now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">But I am not.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">It feels like the end of the world. Like the end of human kindness. Like the end of human <i>sanity</i>.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's not. And I know this. But it certainly FEELS like the end....</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">... </span><br /></p><p></p>
delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-45147025722453475872020-03-20T09:46:00.001-05:002020-03-20T09:46:26.345-05:00Today It's the Little Things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I noticed yesterday...<br />
<br />
...that there were no idling diesel trucks or muffler-problematic vehicles revving up and roaring down the street outside my window between 5 and 6:30 a.m.<br />
<br />
And the constant drone and twice-daily Rush Hour roar of nearby Hwy 10 couldn't be heard from my house.<br />
<br />
An actual bird woke me! And it wasn't my screaming cockatiels or my little roo 'Dash'....<br />
<br />
Today was the same.<br />
<br />
And I woke and was immediately grateful for it.<br />
<br />
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I'm not on top of things today....<br />
<br />
I wasn't yesterday either.<br />
<br />
My plan was to paste a smile on my face and try to help get myself and the rest of us through this with pictures of puppies and quotes about 'hanging in there.' And two days into it all I kind of crashed....<br />
<br />
It doesn't help that my brain cells have been hyper-preoccupied right now, trying to see the Big Picture and get a perspective on it. (Bottom line? They are over-feckin-whelmed....)<br />
<br />
A friend explained that I'm in shock and experiencing grief for the demise of the old Normal. It made sense. I'm flailing around, trying to develop a new routine and make sense of it.<br />
<br />
Maybe it would help if a Caribou barista hooked me up with enough Earl Grey Lemon Tea Lattes for the remainder of this thing.<br />
<br />
And if Morgan Freeman FaceTime'd with me daily so that I can be reassured by his calming voice....<br />
<br />
I need to know that all my people are OK and will continue to be OK.<br />
<br />
I need to clone enough versions of myself that I can be sitting with a cat on my lap, dreaming the days away, and lolling submerged up to my chin in a hot bath, all simultaneously.<br />
<br />
I need all chocolate to be healthy and calorie free until further notice.<br />
<br />
I need to win the lottery so I can share it with my family and friends who are out of work and worried sick right now. <br />
<br />
I need to know that the important things aren't being FUBAR'd by Those In Charge.<br />
<br />
I need my bills to take care of themselves.<br />
<br />
And I need everyone to vote their asses off come November....<br />
<br />
My original plan to maintain a positive online facade during this shutdown was silly of me. In real life I'm about as positive as Eeyore's mother, and these
unusual times have kicked my anxiety levels to new heights. But I swear my heart was in the right place! And seriously?, there are SCORES of folks out there with online businesses and blogs and capabilities, all offering to do just what I'd hoped to do: cheerfully try to help us through this. One less isn't going to make any difference, is it?<br />
<br />
I'm so grateful for them all.<br />
<br />
Know what else I'm grateful for? The thought that there is someone somewhere at the other end of this post right now.<br />
<br />
Stay well for me, please, ok? And hang in there. I'm thinking about you.<br />
...me.<br />
...<br />
<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-33788906642579871262020-03-17T12:14:00.000-05:002020-03-17T12:22:17.769-05:00Day the Twoth (Tooth?)... (Tuesday, 3/17)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy St. Patrick's Day. Let's just get started, and I'll keep my rambling thoughts until the end of this post, 'k?<br />
<br />
Here we go:<br />
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THREE THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT:<br />
1.) A bright red geranium blooming in a sunny, lace-curtain-covered window.<br />
2.) Rainbows on the ceiling courtesy of a crystal suncatcher.<br />
3.) The song of a spring robin as it sings from a nearby tree.<br />
<br />
QUOTE OF THE DAY:<br />
"Every hand that we don't shake must become a phone call that we place. Every embrace that we avoid must become a verbal expression of warmth and concern. Every inch and every foot that we physically place between ourselves and another, must become a thought as to how we might be of help to that other, should the need arise... Let's stay safe. And let's draw one another closer in a way that we've never done before." ~Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky<br />
<br />
A LITTLE SOMETHING:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best mind the dust and cobwebs up there...</td></tr>
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Your kiddos who are home from school during these Interesting Times might enjoy keeping tabs on the <a href="http://www.irelandseye.com/leprechaun/lwatchnj.htm" target="_blank">Leprechaun Watch site</a>. Leprechaun Watch is a webcam hidden in a location in Ireland that straddles the border of a 'fairy ring' that is linked to an oak and a fairy tree on the Coogan family's ancestral farm. According to the site (and, I'm guessing, as quoted from a Coogan family member),<br />
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"The fairy tree is the last link the Fair Folk have to the larger range they once enjoyed when they ruled the land - their anger at this loss is understandable. We are monitoring the area in front of the oak because of leprechaun activity there in recent weeks and months."</blockquote>
Hmmm. Angry leprechauns? Do we want to be monitoring them?<br />
<br />
You may have to refresh the screen occasionally. And there are even directions for how to capture an image if you think you've spotted an elusive leprechaun. Fun!<br />
<br />
Another fun activity? Have them make a homemade leprechaun trap. Creative ideas are all OVER the internet, of course, and a trap can be made from anything from shoeboxes to LEGOs, sky's the limit.<br />
<br />
Also, I just watched a gorgeous and charming animated film called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgbXWt8kM5Q" target="_blank">"Song of the Sea."</a> You can stream it and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw2_HZTuQBE" target="_blank">"The Secret of Kells"</a> (another animated favorite) right now for under ten bucks. The visuals are <i>stunning</i>, as are the soundtracks. (The links will bring you to the trailers only, so you can see if they're something you're interested in before making the purchase....)<br />
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LET'S CELEBRATE:<br />
Of course, it's St. Paddy's Day. And <a href="http://daysoftheyear.com/">DaysoftheYear.com</a> has this to say about it:<br />
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"[St. Patrick's Day] celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink and attending parades, which have a particularly long history in the United States and in Canada."</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">THIS. Absolutely amazing! I cannot recommend it enough.</td></tr>
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So you know what to do!<br />
<br />
Here at Tumbledown I've yet to begin any festivities. Both James and I are online and things are moving SLOW there, so I've not begun streaming any jigs or reels. (My stereo is ancient and the speaker connections are shot, so all my wonder-filled CDs are pouting right now, tapping their little feet in the wings....).<br />
<br />
Past celebrations have included facepainting and green wearing and hair dyeing, but I'm not sure if I'll go that far today. I do have a corned beef, though. And my beloved cabbage and potatoes (or as chef Rory O'Connell calls them, "bidet-toes"). And there's a list online on IMDB called <a href="https://www.imdb.com/list/ls068943298/?ref_=rls_2" target="_blank">"Shamrock and Ginger"</a> that includes, I swear, a <i>bagillion </i>Irish movies that I've never heard of before. Here on Coronavirus lockdown, I think St. Paddy's Day will become St. Paddy's MONTH as I make my movie list and hunker down.<br />
<br />
LIFE HERE AT TUMBLEDOWN:<br />
I was preoccupied yesterday with creating social media posts and keeping my spirits up, and it's only taken less than 24 hours for me to backslide a bit....<br />
<br />
The TV was off all day until evening when the state Governor pre-empted the scheduled National News. And for some reason, hearing his voice just made me realize how 'more-serious-than-I-ever-imagined' this whole thing is. It stunned me at a time when I was all proud of myself for being on top of my anxiety.<br />
<br />
And today began oddly anyway, as I'm still finding my feet having James here working from home. But I checked on my adult daughters and their families and found one happily enjoying audiobooks and mountainbiking and the other outdoors hunting for treasure with metal detectors. (IS THAT NOT COOL??) So that was soothing.... Granted, it's still early days, but my hope is that familial bonds everywhere will be strengthened right now.<br />
<br />
Because everything's in a big old state of change. I pray every day that we come out of this (because we will) stronger and better and kinder and wiser as human beings.<br />
<br />
Magick is afoot. And today I'll celebrate it. Slainte.<br />
<br />
Love you,<br />
...me.<br />
...delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-39336630888859389212020-03-16T11:49:00.002-05:002020-03-16T11:49:50.497-05:00Day the Oneth (Musings for Monday 3/16)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cheers! </span></span></td></tr>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wow,
huh? </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here we are…. Social distancing due to the Coronavirus outbreak....</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With any luck, we’ll come out of this thing wondering what
we were all so concerned about. And <i>that’s</i> how we’ll know that this social-distancing thing really worked.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anyway, I've been trying to figure out how I can help somehow in my capacity as a penniless artist and a friend. So here's one thing I can do, I can share with you a bit of the email I send out daily to a number of followers. (Things don't format correctly if I copy and paste it all in its entirety here, so this is the best I can do.)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Here we go:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">THREE THINGS TO BE HAPPY ABOUT:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">1. YOU are in my life.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. We don't have to 'socially distance' ourselves here on social media.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">3. We're all in this together.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">SOMETHING FUNNY:</span></span></span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Someone on Facebook shared a drink recipe
called ‘The Quarantini’ which is an adult beverage made from gin mixed with a packet
of Emergen-C™. I’m thinking this is a joke, but I kinda want to try it! </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">LIFE HERE:</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We live in interesting times. Last weekend was
spent wrapping my head around the fact that my country is hunkering down right
now. It was the weekend of the RumRiver Art-a-thon <a href="https://mayfaireart.blogspot.com/2019/04/i-survived-art-thon.html" target="_blank">(remember last year?),</a> but that was quickly canceled. Schools here in Minnesota have now
closed. Local businesses are shuttered, many employees are working from home. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Of course, art shows and other public events are being canceled by the handful. Spring
faires and festivals on the Renaissance circuit are shutting down and so many
of my friends are understandably worried. Since <a href="http://www.renaissancefest.com/" target="_blank">my own RenFest</a> is still some
months out, I’m hopeful that it will go on as planned, especially since we’ve
all been told that this is the last season it will open on its current site. Feathers
crossed!</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-45446273471244121692020-03-16T11:29:00.001-05:002020-03-16T11:29:08.505-05:00Testing... 1, 2...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey, everyone.<br />
<br />
Interesting Times are upon us, what with the Coronavirus outbreak. And I need to <i>help </i>somehow, <i>do</i> something.<br />
<br />
So starting today I'm scattering my energies in all directions, hoping that I'll
connect with someone out there who needs to know that they're not alone, whether it be by email, blog post, Facebook, snail mail, whatever.<br />
<br />
I get that I've been radio silent here on the Maily.
Apologies.... But I'd like to post here -- hopefully daily -- during this period of social distancing here in
the States.<br />
<br />
Perhaps you'll join me?<br />
<br />
...delayne.<br />
... <br />
<br /><br />
delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-65345081812755004972020-01-06T15:48:00.001-06:002020-01-06T15:48:43.475-06:00#saveaustralia, #pleaseYesterday I had a moment of self-awareness that shocked me.<br />
<br />
I was in the grocery store, choosing fruit and veg for some healthy eating in the New Year. Thinking about the future, my goals, the hope of getting my life together and my body back in shape. The sun shone outside; icicles dripped. I felt a moment of joy! And then -- boom! -- I was aware once more that everything is in upheaval.<br />
<br />
Everything.<br />
<br />
The world and its inhabitants are screaming and I can hear their cries, feel them in my bones. From the 'roos in Australia to the children at the border and everything else in between, pain and anguish and crippling anxiety are EVERYwhere. And I looked at the basket in my hands with its net bag of clementines and its selection of Greek yogurts and wondered just what the heck it is I think I'm doing, anyway, going about my life's business, choosing next week's healthy foods? 'Staying calm and carrying on?' Just trying to push away the existential dread a moment longer?<br />
<br />
The artist Amanda Palmer shared some words today on Facebook from Australia where she and Neil Gaimen and their son are staying currently:<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"...walking down the streets here feels surreal...look to the left and
people are wearing masks, look to the right and people are in
restaurants, ordering cocktails and pasta. it’s all just so weird."</blockquote>
I knew exactly how she felt in that moment. As the lyrics go, "how can we sleep while our beds are burning?"<br />
<br />
It feels sinful to rejoice in the melting of icicles when such incredible pain and fear and freaking <i>destruction </i>is occurring everywhere. And even though thoughtful friends continue to admonish me to step away from the news and get off social media, I can't help but feel that to look away -- even for a moment of self-preservation -- is the height of privilege. Those koalas clinging to burning trees, those human beings forced by the fires to flee to the sea -- THEY can't look away.<br />
<br />
And here in the States all is focused on politics, the upcoming election, Tweets and under-the-radar actions by our president that I swear are going to bring us to war. The Big Distraction, when we could be helping somehow....<br />
<br />
I found an article earlier today written by a wildlife refuge center that included links to knitting/crochet/sewing patterns for things like 'joey pouches' and 'bat wraps,' items that are needed by rescue agencies and veterinarians during this crisis in Australia. (<a href="https://theusefulkitchen.com/arccg-patterns-files/?fbclid=IwAR1WviAZPBMGXMzzQxv2Qs-TM2hlsW0DFzu2z_kGpVJbDHz4FOYpFFNZLdg" target="_blank">If you're interested, here's a link to it.</a>) And I think it says a lot that there are small, invisible, deeply-caring people like myself going crazy right now making tiny mittens for tiny bears. We want to DO something!<br />
<br />
And the people who have the power and money and pull to REALLY make a difference? They are off filling their bladders for more pissing contests....<br />
<br />
God/dess help us all.<br />
...delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-5115682891649024172020-01-02T15:34:00.000-06:002020-01-02T15:34:07.833-06:00BOOM! -- 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<![endif]-->Today I feel a LOT like this little chickadee I witnessed on New Years Eve, so dazed and bewildered after accidentally crashing into my mother's patio door that it had all it could do to sit upright again without my assistance. And I blame it all on what I call the promise of my 'hibernation season' and the ultimate reality of it....<br />
<br />
What was I thinking, anyway? On the heels of Fest came birthdays and my much-anticipated Halloween, followed by ramping up production again for my final art show of the year, then said art show occurring on the same weekend as Thanksgiving.... But I'd no sooner returned home again from the art show than I hopped a plane for Arkansas to spend as much time as possible with my Eldest and her family. It was a wonderful whirlwind! And during my absence James planned a Christmas vacation for the two of us to our favorite destination, hoping that by 'running away' for the holidays we could finally recuperate by avoiding all the usual Christmas stress.<br />
<br />
So no sooner was I home again from Arkansas than James and I flew away. We'd purposely made zero plans for the holiday, hoping that our respective families would carry on without us. But if we thought we were making things easier for anyone, we were mistaken....<br />
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Christmas was just waiting for us when we got back. Family obligations were so immediate that I didn't even unpack (still haven't, really), just grabbed my suitcase and headed north until New Years Eve. Snow buried us. New Years Eve blew past us. And New Years Day found me finally home again and toasting the new year with the champagne James had bought for the night before. And suddenly I felt like I had been picked up and thrown into 2020. So much so that today I am that bird in the photo, blinking confusedly and wondering what the hell happened.</div>
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I slept until noon today, my first day alone at Tumbledown. And I'm tip-toeing and whispering in my shadowy house. There's no TV, no music, no lights. No sound save the click of my fingers on the computer keyboard. Even my Zoo is being especially gentle with me. It's like my normally exuberant Petz can sense that my nerve endings have been sanded raw and my brains are still addled. All around me Tumbledown looks like it did back in October after the end of Fest. As if I haven't had a moment since to deal with the after-season chaos....</div>
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When I think of my year, when I imagine it in my head -- all the months stretching out like a Year-at-a-Glance calendar -- October and November and December are empty. Blank. Like a hibernation period in my imagination. Full of rest and recuperation, and days when I can happily create, bake, decorate, dream, listen to carols and make handmade gifts while the snow falls outside, enveloping me in my cozy cocoon. I don't know why I still see it that way because it's never <i>been </i>that way, yet every year after Fest I still look forward to the fantasy of it with delightful anticipation. </div>
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All the additional unnecessary stress I caused for myself in the final weeks of 2019 did one thing
positive, though: it shook every one of my cells by the hair until their eyes
rattled. It spun me around until I had no idea which way I was facing. And I don’t think I’ve ever approached a New Year from this
perspective before. 2019 ended seismically and chaotically and without any seasonal traditions to hang on to, and now 2020 feels like I'm still buried deep under the mess of it all even
as the dust continues to fall and settle.<br />
<br />
So here's to the dust settling already! And to the promise of a new year and a fresh sheet of paper. I am interested to see what
transpires from here, both personally and artistically, and I look forward to
sharing it with you.<br />
<br />
Happy new year, my friend! Thank you for being in my life.<br />
<br />
...me. <br />
...<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I haven’t written since Fest,
have I? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">My excuse is always that so much happens there that I get overwhelmed when I try to tell you
about it; I just don’t know where to start. (If you're wondering? It was a good season
for me. And I learned a lot about myself, as always.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Perhaps I should hunt down my notebook, the one in which I jot down EVERYTHING that happens there so I don't forget, and then take the time to pen an entry for each day of the show, highlighting all the incredible magic that occurs there at Mayfaire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Because then perhaps I can describe for once just how incredibly overwhelming (and overstimulating) a season there can be. And it starts like a storm First Weekend, and there’s no time to recover
until the whole dang crazy tempest is over for the season. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">And then by the time I’m ‘myself’
again, my glorious October is almost over. Halloween is just seconds away and
I’m unprepared! And then trick-or-treating comes, goes, and is gone for the
year and I’m too tired to stay awake until midnight to savor the last little
pumpkin spice (and pomegranate) bits, and the next day it’s like ‘anything Halloween’ is poison
to me. Like anything Christmas-y is the day after Christmas…. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">But I love the grays
and browns and introspection of November just as much as I love the fiery
colors of October. And as long as the snow stays away until December I’ll at
least have a few weeks of Dark Autumn to enjoy. </span></div>
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delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-47352788196112861932019-09-17T11:39:00.001-05:002019-09-17T11:39:53.383-05:00A Few Thoughts About Fest Before the Season Ends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The 5th Fest Weekend has ended. I've yet to write a word about it, but isn't that how it usually goes?<br />
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I find that when I'm knee-deep in its season I have just too much to tell you and no words perfect enough to describe it all.<br />
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And now we're two weekends away from The End.<br />
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Before I know it I'll be bidding farewell to faraway friends too busy now packing up their tents and yurts and campers before heading on to the next Faire to do more than hug me and say goodbye.<br />
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Where does the time go??....<br />
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I'm learning a lot this season.<br />
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Like I couldn't continue to do what I do without repeat customers who like my work enough to annually add to their collections. (This never ceases to amaze me. I am so GRATEFUL for them all.)<br />
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And I learned to throw some of my pre-conceived ideas out the window. That the unlikeliest of customers may just be a kindred spirit in disguise, just waiting for me to initiate a conversation and turn them into a friend. That exhausted or drunk or cranky person may just need to see someone smile. And -- holy CRAP -- hugs really are MAGICK.<br />
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As always, I'm reminded that people are fascinating. And it doesn't take much to draw them out and discover just how interesting they are. It helps that after I tell them how I'm currently doing business I can just shut up and stop trying to sell them something. I love that part. And I've found that sometimes after a good conversation together that person will just grab something and buy it. Why, I wonder? Is it a souvenir of our interaction? Was it really that meaningful?? And then it dawns on me just how invisible some people feel and how grateful they are to be seen. But then I'm saddened a little to think that just really SEEING another fellow human being is monumental enough to be a superpower.<br />
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And the children.... When I was first introduced to Fest I was a young adult and the event was so monumental to me then that I promised myself I'd be a part of it someday and now I have been, for almost 35 years. But what must it look like to a young and open and impressionable mind that still believes in Magick?? I've met countless kiddos this season who have asked me the most brilliant of questions, mostly about my butterflies, of course. But thus begins some amazing conversations! And after a day of experiencing the Festival, many return before leaving for home and I kid you not, I get HUGS and THANKYOUS and fervent promises that if I ever need someone to pretend to be a dragon and stand outside my shop and tell people to 'come inside and see the best art in the WORLD!', they're my champion.<br />
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The hell?? How did I get to be so lucky!?<br />
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So many beautiful things, and odd things, and extraordinary things, and head-scratching things, and mindblowing things happen to me during my Fest days that I've taken to writing as many of them down as I have time for. Maybe I should turn them into a book someday.... <br />
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And I'm sure I learn the same things every season, but they're always big revelations to me. And I wouldn't have those revelations, I don't think, without Fest in my life.<br />
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Two more weekends left and then I'll have to find places again for all my Fest flotsam. And then I'll have to wait a year to relearn the same lessons. And that's OK.... And I'm so grateful that late in my Fest life I struck upon a business model that works so well for me that I can let it go off and inspire people while I just listen to them and find out how fascinating they are.<br />
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It seems to be THE magickal combination that's Just Right.<br />
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-75631664426530700512019-07-30T15:19:00.000-05:002019-08-01T14:29:11.344-05:00An Opening Follow-Up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Art Center has my apologies for being the 'artist' it assumed would be a good gallery draw. I have failed it.<br />
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<a href="http://mayfaireart.blogspot.com/2019/07/gallery-opening.html" target="_blank">My gallery opening</a> was so bad that I jokingly asked the handful of attendees that trickled in that afternoon to please sign my guestbook at least twice just to make me feel like less of a failure.<br />
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It wasn't for lack of trying. I'd hyped the whole thing on Social Media. I'd sent MULTIPLE invites out to family, friends, and fans online. Larry organized an incredible event with printed programs and platters of fruits and cheeses and crackers, and even a vase of fresh flowers! And he even commented ahead of time that we should wait to unlock the gallery doors at the last moment to drum up anticipation. "Make 'em wait in the hall to be surprised!," he said. So I knew he was expecting Great Things. It made me wonder if his expectations could possibly be justified! I was already anxious. I hadn't slept for days, going over in my head the presentation I would give when it was my turn to introduce myself and say a few words about my work.<br />
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But I needn't have worried. The event was so ill-attended that it was laughable. And afterwards I took Larry aside and thanked him for putting together the reception in my honor. And I apologized for being such a disappointment to him and the Art Center. It was all I could do not to cry....<br />
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I went over it all in my head. I reminded myself that it WAS summer after all. And even though the day was rainy, it shouldn't have surprised me that few would care to spend it -- a <i>Saturday </i>in <i>July </i>in <i>Minnesota -- </i>indoors at a gallery opening. And again I berated myself for having the balls to think mine was an event worthy of anyone's attention. Take THAT, Ego!<br />
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But ignore all of the above for a moment.<br />
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Bottom line: I regarded this gallery thing as my introduction (finally!) to my fellow artists at the Art Center, who all think of me as the Leaf Lady who draws kooky faces on leaves. In October I will have been at the Center for three years (if I remember correctly) and yet I still feel like a Newbie there. Like the dorky kid still hoping for a seat at the Cool Table. And I thought this was my opportunity to say to them all, "I may draw on leaves now, but I'm so much more than this, see? Can I be an artist with you guys?"<br />
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The handful of attendees at my opening included a couple strangers and a family that I'm friends with. No one was there that I danced with in my <a href="http://mayfaireart.blogspot.com/2019/04/i-survived-art-thon.html" target="_blank">Eeyore jammies at the Art-a-Thon</a>. No one was there that I've shared space with at the Studio Crawls. No one was there from the other gallery events that I've attended. No one was there from the Art Center at all, except for Larry (the host).<br />
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And Paul.<br />
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<a href="https://www.gallery5004.com/paul-boecher" target="_blank">Paul Boecher is an incredible artist</a> who teaches at the Art Center. His was the gallery opening that originally set the bar for me. (A presentation! a crowd!, a reading! live music!....) And like everyone else, he had no reason to take time out of his summer Saturday to come see my work. But he did. And when he showed up, it put tears in my eyes. He looked at my work and then talked about it with me. There's SO DANG MUCH I don't know about art, and Paul was kind enough to point out things I was doing that I wasn't even aware that I was doing. Things associated with 'design elements' and 'repetitive line' and other stuff I am completely unfamiliar with. Things I like to tell myself I would've learned had I been fortunate enough to go to Art School. He made it sound like I'm fancier than I am, more than just someone who likes to draw. It was a humbling conversation....<br />
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When the afternoon was mercifully over, I made James take me out for a drink. We talked about it for a bit (or he listened while I talked about it for a bit) and then I went home and curled up inside myself. The hubris! What was I thinking?<br />
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The show is open for another few weeks. And I should be there daily to share my work with the occasional Art Center visitor who stumbles upon my display and may want to meet the artist. But I've been unable to return to the gallery. I don't want to look at the art that wasn't worth celebrating, does that make sense?....<br />
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Someone recently shared a quote with me: "Instead of asking yourself, 'why is this happening to me?', try asking, 'what is this trying to teach me?'" And I have been thinking about this. Every day. And one of the things I'm learning is: just because someone is Family, a friend, a fan, a customer, a member of my 'tribe', or someone from the community I've personally called Home almost all my adult life, I cannot assume that I deserve to be a blip on their radar. They have their own priorities, and not everything is about Me.<br />
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And the other things I'm learning: I apparently have to work much harder on my friendship skills. I have to try harder to be more approachable and more likeable. I have to try working with my studio door open, even though I cannot work that way. (I can't; I've tried.)<br />
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And I have to ask myself if I'll ever really be a good Art Center <i>fit</i>....<br />
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A BIG P.S.: If you were one of the few people there, you have my heart in spades. I love you to the moon and back. Thank you.<br />
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-15048964181828680462019-07-17T14:04:00.000-05:002019-07-17T14:04:33.823-05:00Gallery Opening!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This. THIS is the reason there's been no blog activity for the last two months. <br />
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<a href="https://rumriverart.com/" target="_blank">The Rum River Art Center</a> created this sandwich board for my upcoming event this Saturday in the Center's new little gallery. It gave me a shiver when I saw it. <br />
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<a href="https://rumriverart.com/visit/gallery/" target="_blank">"A Creativity of Muses."</a><span> </span><br />
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<span>It will feature 'hand-drawn characters old and new, countenances that have inspired me, taught me, and occasionally frustrated me as I continue to learn, and some that have appeared like magic on my paper to lift me up and make me love drawing all over again.' So sayeth the blurb I wrote up for the Facebook event that I created.... (And I titled it thusly because I have no idea what a gathering of Muses is called, but if it's not a 'creativity', it dang well should be.)</span> <br />
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As I type this, it's the Wednesday before the event, and I'm pretty ready for it, surprisingly. I've been gearing up for this ever since the beginning of the year, when I got brave, stepped out of my comfort zone, and asked director Larry Weinberg to set aside a month for me to share my work.<br />
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I could've had an opening at the Art Center ages ago but I kept chickening out. For one thing, I can't understand why anyone would take time out of their Saturday to attend (especially a summer Saturday in July!). Also, I don't know how an opening works exactly, since I've never had one before. <br />
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Since the new little gallery was christened in January, I've attended a number of openings there and they've all been cookie-cut from the same dough: there's a guestbook, some wine, other light refreshments, maybe some live music, the local press, a speech from the artist about their work, and then some milling and chatting. The end. Not that that's BAD; I've attended other openings at other places in Minneapolis and St. Paul and they're like that, too. But try as I might, in my imagination I cannot insert myself and my work into a scenario like that. If I did, I'd feel like I was playacting at being an Artist-with-a-capital-'A' or something. (Don't anyone thump me upside the head right now, 'k?)<br />
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I procrastinated for the first couple months after agreeing to this, thinking that I could just do what I've always done and chicken out. But then July got closer and I began seeing references to my upcoming show online, and then I had to proof a Press Release, and then I knew there was no running away from this. So in earnest I began framing, creating, agonizing, rehearsing, and experiencing the gamut of crap that plagues me prior to sharing my work with others.<br />
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I once thought that sharing one's work was supposed to be an artist's big goal. You draw, share, and (hopefully) sell and make money so you can continue drawing and sharing, right?<br />
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But I quickly realized that artists create just to CREATE. Because we can't NOT create. And if we didn't share our work and (hopefully) sell it (instead of destroying it or giving it away or something) we'd eventually be buried alive under our mountains of creativity and then our kids would have to deal with it all after the funeral.<br />
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And it's that 'sharing and (hopefully) selling' part that's torture. At least it is for <i>me</i>.... It's why I procrastinate, agonize, knuckle down at the last minute, and force myself to show up for <a href="http://www.renaissancefest.com/" target="_blank">the first weekend of Fest. I love Fest! </a>But that is definitely not the part I love. But it IS the part I have to put up with in order to continue to do what I do.<br />
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I'm blathering, aren't I?<br />
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The act of doing this was like rocket fuel to me. I'd been given a strict set of limitations, and instead of shackling me they inspired me. I was reminded of the creative breakdown I once worked through by limiting myself to gray paper, colored pencils, and only drawing from imagination to create <a href="http://mayfaireart.blogspot.com/2015/03/50-shades-of-gray.html" target="_blank">the 50 Fae</a> that changed my life and my style. Like that time, these results made my socks go up and down!</div>
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In the weeks leading up to this opening I've kept the particulars about my show a secret, sharing bits and 'sneak peeks' about my new stuff online, trying to create anticipation and interest. I've kept it from James as well, and my hope has always been to hang the work myself in private and unveil it The Day Of so that even the folks at the Art Center itself are surprised by what they see and discover. (This veil of secrecy is vital. If I'd been sharing it all willy-nilly, then who'd show up, anyway? They'd already have seen the show....)</div>
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But I realized quickly that I need help getting it all to come together. So last night I shared my new creations with James instead
of making him wait to be ‘surprised’ on Saturday. The big reveal was
anticlimactic. And the result was that afterwards I just ran out of steam. I
listened to music a while, flipped through what frames I’ve currently got,
studied them critically (what made me frame THAT??), gave up on the idea of
having a special new piece I’d hoped to unveil on the Big Day (insert eye-roll
emoji here; pretentious much??), and I just made myself clean up, lock up, turn off the lights, and
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And now this morning I woke and immediately understood that I’m making myself sick about this weekend’s event. I keep
changing my mind, and creating stuff at the last minute, and trying to be
clever, and worrying about running out of time. So today I’ve asked myself to
just STOP already. Take a deep breath. Quit thinking this is important and
start thinking that this is just the first of many future gallery shows where I
can share new work and have it displayed somewhere for a month where I don’t
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Check out <a href="https://rumriverart.com/" target="_blank">the Rum River Art Center (at THIS link)</a> to find out more about this non-profit organization and all the good it does to bring art into the community. And you can <a href="https://rumriverart.com/visit/gallery/" target="_blank">check out its new gallery, too (at THIS link)</a>, to read about upcoming shows. Thank you! <br />
<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-42172550016272235282019-05-03T18:30:00.002-05:002019-05-03T18:30:47.821-05:00I Think the Fairies Danced<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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May Eve came and went and my tired old self didn't observe it, sadly.<br />
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It wasn't that long ago that I would have at least lit a candle in its honor or something....<br />
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So when I left the house on May Day morning to set off for my studio and saw this cheerful gumdrop displayed front and center in my garden, I had to smile.<br />
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The fairies partied, apparently.<br />
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Or maybe it was just a mouseling. Or a squirrel. Dancing and feasting under the starry sky.<br />
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Either way, I wish I'd joined them.<br />
...delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-82018078146522249872019-04-22T13:54:00.001-05:002019-04-22T13:54:16.618-05:00Earth Day 2019<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love working 'small.'<br />
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And when I add words, I never know ahead of time what I will write....<br />
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This one surprised me.<br />
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I like it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I did it! I stayed awake, I was creative, I finished the ART-a-Thon. And then I slept my life away! And now, looking back on it all, I see that I should've done some things differently. But it was an experiment, right? And next year I'll know better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I keep forgetting that I'm not a kid anymore, even though my head still thinks I'm one. And my goal was to stay awake and be productive for all 62 of the ART-a-Thon hours. But what I hadn't counted on was the fact that on the Friday that it began I'd been up all day preparing for the event.... Oops! So already I'd been awake for almost 12 hours and the thing hadn't even started yet....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">But that was OK. I decided I'd pace myself. This couldn't be any worse than the final 3-day weekend of Fest with its crazy crowds and subsequent pack-up/tear-down after the last cannon of the season. Right? I could do this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'd packed clothes and toiletries for the whole weekend. I brought a pillow. I threw together some snacks and oatmeal packets and a book to read if/when things got quiet. I purchased an Eeyore cosplay costume to wear as comfy clothes when I got to the point where fabric was too painful to wear. I thought I was pretty prepared!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And staying awake all that first night was not as hard as I thought it would be. There was lots of camaraderie. People were there drawing, painting, laughing, talking, and listening to music. And I was there with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">An idea was sketched out on a large canvas mural, and by midnight parts of it were already taking shape as artists painted in their takes on historic local scenes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For much of that night I drew in my studio and watched the mural progress. Then at midnight a jigsaw puzzle was brought out and I applied myself to the finishing of it. Fellow artists called it a day and went home to comfy beds, remarking on their way out that we'd never get that puzzle done before morning. But we did!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Before dawn arrived I freshened up and changed into Eeyore. The costume wasn't meant to be jammies but it was as comfortable as jammies, and it wasn't long before I became recognized as Pajama Girl. I'm not sure if Eeyore was a good idea or not.... Coffee arrived just as the sun was coming up, and I stood at one of the windows in the North Studio with a cup of it and watched the sun rise. It's one of my favorite times of the day to be there....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And soon the first full day of the ART-a-Thon began. It was a busy day! But I did manage to get some drawing done. My goal was to create something every hour, but I was too busy for that....<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That evening my local grandbugs Avery and Erik joined me while their parents went
out for dinner. Together we learned how to operate a floor loom, played with
Polymer clay, and made our marks on a community canvas. James joined us later
and the four of us played Pictionary together on the paper-covered art tables. (Avery drew fun portraits of me and James.) It
was just the four of us, and soon we were all roaring with laughter, and the fun didn't stop until nearly midnight when James left to bring them home and tuck them in.</span>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Guess who these two are?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLNvIyKVG-ecSpDQLVkwDbucIi50CIm4BjqIvItLtyZ94oHDs0SwJ6qrKdMtrWYLuP_UhBAz7iENj2gGgH5I6YvWhtUFy52o0ilfyL_nIe88f5vvVpIxI1C5rr-1EHx_VoF8unUkX3Oe6/s1600/IMG_7622.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLNvIyKVG-ecSpDQLVkwDbucIi50CIm4BjqIvItLtyZ94oHDs0SwJ6qrKdMtrWYLuP_UhBAz7iENj2gGgH5I6YvWhtUFy52o0ilfyL_nIe88f5vvVpIxI1C5rr-1EHx_VoF8unUkX3Oe6/s320/IMG_7622.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Avery makes her mark on the community canvas</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">All that laughing and silliness gave me my second wind, but not for long. By
4am on Sunday morning I was seriously down for the count and decided to break my
‘sleepfast’ by crashing on the floor of my studio for a bit. I threw down my
yoga mat, set an alarm on my phone, and tried to sleep, but I think I was just
too overtired. After an hour of fighting with it, I got up, changed into normal
clothes, washed my face, and prepared to continue ART-a-Thoning, but I was at the point then where my body was wide awake but my brain was full of cotton. I laid down again and was out.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">There was quite the crowd!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A
couple of hours later, James was knocking on my studio
door with a gift of breakfast oatmeal from our favorite local diner. The
oatmeal was HEAVEN so my stomach was happy, but the rest of me felt awful. I
think it would’ve been better if I’d foregone the nap and simply forced myself
to stay awake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It
was soon obvious that Sunday would be the busiest day of the whole event, even
though those of us who were trying to be arty for every hour of it were
exhausted. I was no longer playing the part of Pajama Girl (Eeyore
needed laundering….) and was instead now cast as simply one of the
volunteers. There was a steady stream of visitors and a WHOLE LOT OF KIDS.
Instead of working on my own creations, I gave directions, handed out pencils,
cleaned up messes, re-papered a table or two, dumped out dirty paint water,
etc.….</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Erik was a natural on the loom</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Once again my grandbugs joined me. And once again we had the world's best time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We learned how
to make and operate a little tapestry loom out of cardboard, watched James’s
glassworking demo, and learned how to do an acrylic ‘paint pour.’ Avery
attended Larry’s drawing class and drew, outlined, and painted a picture of
Blarney Castle in honor of St. Patrick’s Day and </span><span style="font-size: small;">Erik added huge swaths of rows onto the
community handweaving project. Once again, they were just the burst of energy I needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">When all was finally over and I returned to my
studio to get my gear together, what should I find on my drawing table but an incredible letter
written by Avery and Erik that broke my heart wide open. And suddenly the ART-a-Thon (to me) was more about the time I spent with my grandkiddos than it was about how long I was able to stay awake and be creative.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No surprise: it took me a good part of the following week to recover! But already I look forward to next year when I can do it all over again. And maybe they'll do it with me. And maybe my faraway grandbug Abigail can join us. Because that would be AWESOME.</span></span><br />
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-85075356372191278922019-03-07T15:51:00.000-06:002019-03-07T15:52:03.433-06:00My First Ever ART-a-Thon!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I like to think I was a derring-do-er.<br />
<br />
Like back in the day when I was a single mom, a Festival shop builder, a 'step-out-of-my-comfort-zone-and-rent-a-studio' artist, a 'travel-by-myself-to-England' girl, a 'college-at-age-50' student....<br />
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I don't derring-do much anymore. In fact, these days, the derring-do-iest thing I can think of is to sign up for as many straight hours of art and creativity as I can hopefully manage via <a href="http://www.rumriverart.com/index.html" target="_blank">the RumRiver Art Center's</a> upcoming 62-hour <a href="http://www.rumriverart.com/art-a-thon.html" target="_blank">ART-a-Thon event.</a> <br />
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When I initially heard about it I thought, "How fun does this sound?? SIGN ME THE HECK UP." And only later did I remember that I like to <i>sleep</i>.<br />
<br />
A <i>lot</i>.<br />
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No; I mean A LOT. Like if this was the 62-hour <i>Sleep</i>-a-Thon, I'd frippin' WIN it. <br />
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So what was I thinking?....<br />
<br />
Actually, I was thinking about hanging out with creative people non-stop for an entire Friday-night-to-Monday-morning weekend.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIa3FYPUbwLt7ffvipyhHnMuh3VFfc5NjqW1JunDwBQDTTIXMBFZWJs11_lqGs4gXaZv7aORuBCTAP1JX5XPlb-rXNfK8FMS5PgiTR3-i0zSWcfglTlPXcXYspI1MyuMl-1JlDzkLtnzK/s1600/IMG_2429.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1296" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbIa3FYPUbwLt7ffvipyhHnMuh3VFfc5NjqW1JunDwBQDTTIXMBFZWJs11_lqGs4gXaZv7aORuBCTAP1JX5XPlb-rXNfK8FMS5PgiTR3-i0zSWcfglTlPXcXYspI1MyuMl-1JlDzkLtnzK/s400/IMG_2429.JPG" width="323" /></a><br />
And I was thinking about 'arting' alongside some curious adults and kiddoes who perhaps have never 'arted' before.<br />
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And I was thinking: "Hey -- I'm 62, and there are 62 hours in this -- it just sounds like something I'm <i>meant </i>to do."<br />
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And -- perhaps most importantly -- I was thinking about what it would be like to be that young woman again, the one with crazy hair and bags under her eyes from staying up all weekend drinking pots of coffee and playing with pencils, instead of the grandma she is now that needs her sleep. (I swear that crazy girl is still inside me somewhere.)<br />
<br />
Anyway. I signed up for all 62 hours and am keeping my feathers crossed that I can manage them all without snapping at anyone, locking myself in my studio with a book, or falling asleep headfirst onto my art. Maybe I'll shop for some silly pajamas for the overnight hours. Maybe I'll locate some chocolate-covered coffee beans for extra 'awakeness.' Who knows? But my plan is to do ALL the hours. All the HOURS. All. The. Hours.... (Just typing that made me shiver....)<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIAeBGD0oKsWEMZacEZqLQl1nkE7TEi4m1ZDejNnJWV5ZJlywaO6DqLSKlSDUpNu9F96B-BMxqABPft96yfgHm6YNqCbTaXD9-WJ_6GoVcyHIiGOkbNF8Hg6IrHwwwh3supCS8s-9LM5oS/s1600/IMG_2710.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIAeBGD0oKsWEMZacEZqLQl1nkE7TEi4m1ZDejNnJWV5ZJlywaO6DqLSKlSDUpNu9F96B-BMxqABPft96yfgHm6YNqCbTaXD9-WJ_6GoVcyHIiGOkbNF8Hg6IrHwwwh3supCS8s-9LM5oS/s400/IMG_2710.JPG" width="300" /></a><a href="http://www.rumriverart.com/art-a-thon.html" target="_blank">The ART-a-Thon</a> is open to the public and will be held from 6:00pm Friday, March 15 until 8:00 am Monday, March 18 -- again, that's 62 hours of continuous artmaking! -- and is an event to draw attention to and benefit <a href="http://www.rumriverart.com/index.html" target="_blank">the RumRiver Art Center</a> (a non-profit that is close to my heart).<br />
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As stated in the link above:<br />
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'There will be a variety of art activities to participate in throughout the 62 hours, including wheel throwing pottery, drawing, watercolor painting, acrylic painting, hand-built pottery, polymer clay, mosaic art, stained glass, weaving and more! Everyone who comes to the art center can contribute to our three collaborative community art projects that will be put on display at the art center when finished. The projects will be a stained glass mosaic window, an acrylic painting, and a hand weaving. We will also have a canvas that will be painted continuously for the full 62 hours.' </blockquote>
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And YOU can help in other ways:<br />
<ul>
<li>If you live close and would like to, please visit the RumRiver Art Center during the ART-a-Thon and say hi! Take a tour, check out what the wonder-filled place has to offer, see my personal studio, make some art, help ME make some art! (Go <a href="http://www.rumriverart.com/hours-directions.html" target="_blank">**HERE**</a> to get directions, more info, etc.)</li>
<li>SPONSOR ME or one of our other artists! (Go <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWhs5LwXiwXntJniX9Fr7WQnR2hqRqLPC8jFAKddAM9H9szQ/viewform" target="_blank">**HERE**</a> to sponsor an artist)</li>
<li>Make a donation. Every little bit helps! The Art Center does so much for the local community.</li>
<li><u>Take home a piece of my work. My plan is to create one new art piece every hour I can manage to stay awake and upright! All will be for sale.</u> </li>
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This is the first time I've ever participated in an event like this and I'm looking forward to it! I have no idea what to expect. Care to join me? If you can't be there in person, no worries; I plan to live-stream and Tweet my progress!<br />
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And in the meantime, I welcome ALL suggestions for how to keep this old young girl awake and working!<br />
...<br />
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-21693141408422550122019-03-06T14:47:00.002-06:002019-03-06T14:47:44.901-06:00You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBN2yWBt5-yWUhHNRoSo-ZLoXfs9s_iRxq0ZeUUGJcmvUU9qSc0_B1OarMODct5e9iHuYH9CiT3owXgswst8K3l8-nkXxWVya7wbIMAe4uEjWHcA-BzxiNZtLfjvray1FLlSMzDYj3nuZ/s1600/IMG_6521.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBN2yWBt5-yWUhHNRoSo-ZLoXfs9s_iRxq0ZeUUGJcmvUU9qSc0_B1OarMODct5e9iHuYH9CiT3owXgswst8K3l8-nkXxWVya7wbIMAe4uEjWHcA-BzxiNZtLfjvray1FLlSMzDYj3nuZ/s400/IMG_6521.JPG" width="300" /></a>This post has been a while in the making.<br />
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I was afraid to write it....<br />
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My last rattie, Max, passed away from old age the summer of 2017. I held him gently under my hoodie, next to my heart, as he took his last breath. The hurt never scabbed over....<br />
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I'd planned to wait a bit before adopting another, and that wasn't hard to do since none of the area pet 'warehouses' seemed to carry them any longer.<br />
<br />
But then I ran across a single 'blue' rat pup in a mall store crowded with kittens and puppies for the holidays and my heart stopped. James tried to talk me into him but I was just too afraid to give my heart away again. And by the time I thought I was ready, he was already gone....<br />
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I was crushed! And I've regretted not adopting him ever since.... <br />
<br />
So imagine my delight when I visited that same store this past winter just days before Christmas (and exactly one year later!) and discovered this sweet little one. Just 8 weeks old, silvery blue!, a carbon copy of the one I let get away. The salesgirl there opened the cage and put him on my palm and my heart broke wide open.<br />
<br />
And thanks to my James, he went home with me for Christmas....<br />
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I'm not a noob. I've had ratties almost all my adult life. I made sure to continue with the food he'd started at the pet store. I made sure to use aspen bedding. I let the new baby settle in.<br />
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I wanted to give him an 'M' name, like all my other ratties. And I thought it should be Christmas-related. I began making a list:<br />
<ul><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NMl2GHjJtgKn_CjF_lmlj5kIyHAe8pOJ58DdVVM_ZcfSbs5bzj7yWtXhs_Qkhw1_6fc5DpZDrNgR_t6x4y2_WJT1K2p4uVIwZH1VEzVyjA2VcgKGUYzrhU0-EsIb3exJ_Oj0UWl6gUNS/s1600/IMG_6626+%2528Edited%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NMl2GHjJtgKn_CjF_lmlj5kIyHAe8pOJ58DdVVM_ZcfSbs5bzj7yWtXhs_Qkhw1_6fc5DpZDrNgR_t6x4y2_WJT1K2p4uVIwZH1VEzVyjA2VcgKGUYzrhU0-EsIb3exJ_Oj0UWl6gUNS/s400/IMG_6626+%2528Edited%2529.JPG" width="300" /></a>
<li>Marley</li>
<li>Myrrh</li>
<li>Menorah</li>
<li>Merry</li>
<li>Mistletoe....</li>
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But that night I dreamed that I walked up to his cage, expecting to find him but finding my old Max instead -- alive and well again! -- and I said, "Max, what are YOU doing here??" And Max said to me, "I'm not Max. I am so much more." So when I woke, I named this little one 'Much.'<br />
<br />
The next day was Christmas proper. My local grandbugs visited and longed to hold the new baby, but I kept them apart just to give Much more time to acclimate.<br />
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By that weekend -- just a couple days later -- he began showing vague symptoms: repeatedly digging in his ear, tilting his head....<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPFWBvp2RqvXHIVXXBQUNSgQKzI1cfygOf7wWSwVjvM_-43zSIDxLIT2b9MWz3EWIhS78_D4Sm9YKsULATDpYL5u6odsrYICCrNpUhXDAXA4fvbFYP2Zzyh_FteFKINeND6qDFILSajvw/s1600/IMG_6559.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPFWBvp2RqvXHIVXXBQUNSgQKzI1cfygOf7wWSwVjvM_-43zSIDxLIT2b9MWz3EWIhS78_D4Sm9YKsULATDpYL5u6odsrYICCrNpUhXDAXA4fvbFYP2Zzyh_FteFKINeND6qDFILSajvw/s400/IMG_6559.JPG" width="300" /></a>I've fostered a rat that had gone untreated for an inner ear infection and it wasn't pretty. I like to think that I made the remainder of his life a happy one. Seeing signs that Much could be in the early stages of something similar made me panic. He'd have to see someone immediately.<br />
<br />
It was the holidays. What vet could possibly see him?? James phoned the pet store; it was no help. The person there had no suggestions nor any recommendations of a vet in the area that could see such a small animal. I called the Animal ER and was told we could bring him in, but when we got there I was turned away at the desk. Only cats and dogs, said the person there, and I assured her that whomever I spoke to on the phone said they'd see him. After some behind-the-scenes questioning of the staff, Much was taken backstage and given a once-over....<br />
<br />
The doctor who examined him said she could find nothing wrong, but that didn't mean there wasn't an infection in the inner ear. So she started him on antibiotics and we brought him home again.<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2SqehENaocF_MTS6e8UPE7WMtoMLSKIHJ6owxqz8ZJpnqloS5QUNtT-1R86GLYG21v_gIazQ1dmoYhExE5NrSjBUjdfTE0BRXfgK9nPYCq-yai9gXerwWoOPr7f7rfz1ds8kr-u-czjpC/s1600/IMG_6541.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2SqehENaocF_MTS6e8UPE7WMtoMLSKIHJ6owxqz8ZJpnqloS5QUNtT-1R86GLYG21v_gIazQ1dmoYhExE5NrSjBUjdfTE0BRXfgK9nPYCq-yai9gXerwWoOPr7f7rfz1ds8kr-u-czjpC/s320/IMG_6541.JPG" width="320" /></a>And he was fine.<br />
<br />
He was fine.<br />
<br />
Until he wasn't.<br />
<br />
We watched television together, curled up warm on the couch, and Much was on my shoulder, tucked under my neck, cuddled in my hoodie. I loved on him a bit, then returned him to his terrarium. And when I checked on him that night before bed, he was gone.<br />
<br />
It was the last straw for me.<br />
<br />
The whole day had already been sad and tearful and full of big disappointments, and this just put me into a tailspin.... just as I was preparing to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new.<br />
<br />
I believed then that Much was already ill when I adopted him, and I still believe it. But that does nothing to assuage my grief and disappointment. The only thing that even makes me feel marginally better is knowing that for the short time that he was with me he was loved COMPLETELY and will be incredibly missed....<br />
<br />
Not long after his death Much appeared to me in a dream. He looked just like his little self, only 'different,' and I used his appearance as the basis for a story. And here it is:<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
A STORY</div>
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As usual, the old key budged stubbornly in the lock, and it
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“No, no no…. Don’t let my New Year start on a crabby note,” she
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She swiped the light switch with a mittened hand, illuminating the darkened
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Her moist boots squeaked across the cement floor. One more
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to life. She inhaled deeply the smell of dry paper and dried leaves, her eyes
taking in the chaos of creativity, recalling happily the recent time she
proudly shared the little studio with her dad. After what seemed like a stunned
pause he’d said, “Well…. You sure have a lot of stuff,” and her heart swelled
pleasantly now just thinking about it. She did have a lot of stuff! And
reacquainting herself with it all again after the bustle of the Holidays made
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Immediately: backpack on the chair, jacket on the display
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filling the cup at the water cooler, loading it into the old microwave, and
then setting the carousel atwirl with the press of a button. As the timer
counted down, she leisurely absorbed her surroundings: the color and chaos of
the big room’s furnishings, the smell of paints and brush cleaner, the echoes
of laughter and creativity. What a pleasure to be there again after all the
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The microwave pinged. She carefully removed the steaming cup
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door. Instead of clearing off the drawing table she simply pushed everything
forward to make space before adding a sheet of cardstock and grabbing a pencil.
It was a pencil she’d found on her walk there that morning, stabbed point first
in the snow on the ground near the School of the Arts. A yellow #2 Ticonderoga
that had been nibbled to death in the middle. It made her smile to see this and
recall her own elementary school days a million years ago spent nibbling her
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“Alexa, play some ambient music.”</div>
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The music made her think of mountains. And snow…. Friends on
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By the end of the lengthy selection she was surprised to
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And the word balloon said,</div>
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“I am so much more.”</div>
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I owe you an update on my last post of the Old Year, don't I? And I also owe you an apology for not writing hard and heavy about my Fest Season and the months that followed. So much Magick happened, of course, and I think I get overwhelmed then and just don't know where to start....<br />
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In any event, in that last post of 2018: two weekends of Fest remaineth, I was nervously preparing to be photographed at some point, I'd just Amazon Prime'd myself a costume dress so I could look like a girl in the pic if I wished, and I was learning that the weekend of the shoot would be the first iffy-weather one of the season.<br />
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So I packed layers and costume pieces and choices. I practiced my smile....<br />
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Then Saturday dawned COLD. I'd slept in a sleeping bag on my shop floor the night before and I swear when I woke that my bones were ice. I needed layers, so I opted for shapeless 'boy clothes' -- long-sleeved shirt, jerkin, leather vest, wool coat, leggings, boots, the works. I <i>loved </i>the look and I felt confident! But I'll admit: although black is my favorite color, it probably doesn't allow for a great picture.... (Except for that one above: a selfie put through the Prisma app. I love it.)<br />
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The day got busy and time passed and I forgot about the possibility of being photographed. And when I did remember, I rather hoped that Mr. Edwards had secretly taken his pic from afar so that I was totally unaware....<br />
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Although he insisted that he could make our shoot 'painless', when he did arrive I fell apart inside -- instantly filled with anxiety -- and the brief little session was everything I'd feared. <br />
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Stand here.<br />
Turn this way.<br />
Look at me. <br />
Chin down.<br />
Slight smile.<br />
Give me 'coy.'<br />
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Ugh; I was my own worst enemy!<i> I </i>brought the anxiety,<i> I </i>brought the awkwardness....<br />
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Maybe it's the posing that breaks me? Maybe it's having to look right at the lens? Once finished, he turned the digital camera window to me and said, "See how nice this is?" as he zoomed in on my face. I already had my hands over my eyes. I couldn't look....<br />
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What was I so afraid I'd see, anyway? A panicked person trying to hide from the lens? The little girl who always looked so freaky in school pics?<br />
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I don't like this about myself. I've been this way FOREVER. Photo Day at school was almost as anxiety-inducing as Vaccination Day, and the resulting snaggle-toothed pics that the teacher would show off (with glee, I swear) in front of the class was proof positive that the camera and I were NOT friends....<br />
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Not long ago, my Eldest (who takes amazing pics) took some candid shots of my parents together and made one into a large canvas print for them as a Christmas gift. Because she lives so far away she couldn't be there when they unwrapped it. But I was. Mom took one look at that photo and laughed her lungs out. Laughed so hard she cried! And then when she caught her breath again there were comments along the lines of, "Good gawd, what a sight!" and "Imagine having to look at THAT in the mirror every day, haha!"<br />
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I was CRUSHED.... Because when <i>I</i> saw that photo it brought tears<i> </i>to my eyes. Suddenly I wanted to grab it from Mom, rescue the woman in that pic, shelter her from the laughter, and bring her home where I could look at her with love. Like she deserved.<br />
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Mom couldn't look at her own face in that photo without cringing and laughing with embarrassment. What was so funny, so cringeworthy about that face? Did mom look at herself and see <i>her </i>mother? And was that so bad?.... <br />
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I swear to God at the time I did not see myself in that moment.
But I do now.... Just recalling it as I type brings to the forefront all the feels and confusion and
tangles and knots about my relationship with my face and how I imagine
others see it.<br />
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And what I'm learning could fill another blog post.<br />
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And maybe it will someday....<br />
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Mr. Edwards visited my shop on the final Fest weekend. "Well, you're off the hook," he said. "I didn't like any of the pics." Part of me wanted to say, "I told you so," but I didn't. I was secretly relieved, though.<br />
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He promised to return that final Sunday for another try but didn't make it out to Fest again before the season ended, and that's OK. Because between now and next season, my face and I have some inner work to do.<br />
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-9087362482213944792019-01-07T13:18:00.000-06:002019-01-07T13:18:41.523-06:00Odd Narwhal is my Spirit Animal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Someone had just one job. And unless this is a special licensed cartoon character that I'm unfamiliar with, they failed.<br />
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But Odd Narwhal doesn't care!<br />
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This toy and I ran across each other recently while I was looking for deals in a calendar store at the mall that is busy selling off its stock before pulling up stakes and moving on.<br />
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Is this a character from a cartoon? Was it simply assembled haphazardly in the factory? Is it unaware of its freakydeaky-ness? Is it cheery BECAUSE of it? I wonder....<br />
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And I love that there are little heart sparkles in its eyes, as if it couldn't be more pleased with itself, and its oddness, and Life, and its discounted price tag, and the fact that it's still on the shelf after the Holidays....<br />
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I've decided it will be the metaphor for my New Year. And I've decided that I may just have to return to the calendar store and rescue it (should it still need rescuing).<br />
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Smile on, Odd Narwhal! I applaud you! And I dub thee my spirit animal for 2019.<br />
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And in the New Year may we all proudly display and celebrate our individuality, our unique qualities, our put-together-wrong-ness with big smiles and heart sparkles.<br />
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-90021501148959898522019-01-05T13:07:00.000-06:002019-01-05T13:07:11.881-06:00Yesterday's Commute<div style="text-align: center;">
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I witnessed a little mob of starlings in a treetop and enjoyed their crazy, freeform mutterings.</div>
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I did not slip on any ice! (Hooray!)</div>
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Everyone I passed ignored me completely, even after I said 'hello' (what's up with that??), except for a wizened man (who looked like he was a hundred years old) who stopped me with his toothless smile, pointed at ducks on the river, said, "Aren't they BEAUTIFUL?", grinned and wished me a happy new year, and then shuffled on. (He was a gnome, I'm sure of it.)</div>
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There was a man and his dog in the snow, playing with a frisbee, and the dog was having the time of its life.</div>
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And the sounds of dripping, melting icicles.</div>
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And a studio that hasn't seen me for a bit.</div>
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And some FaceTime with this faraway grandbug. </div>
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Due to a sudden poor connection partway through our computer visit, my face was frozen on her screen, and it remained so until the end of our conversation. </div>
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"Oh, Yaya! I will catch <i>anything </i>you throw at me!" </div>
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-19962270807725976052019-01-04T14:56:00.001-06:002019-01-04T14:56:20.896-06:00First Weekend Eve of the New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Coral-hued clouds. Blue<br />
shadows on snow. Weeping icicles... <br />
Feels like spring.<br />
...delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-18737705439404136072019-01-03T14:59:00.000-06:002019-01-03T14:59:36.735-06:00Happy New Year!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The new year already!? Wasn't I just wishing you a happy <i>2018</i>?<br />
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WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? Wow....<br />
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And that picture? Where I'm smiling and celebrating my laughlines? That is misleading, because it was taken way before I crashed and burned during the holiday.<br />
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Because<i> I</i> know how much I hate to read downer posts, I won't subject you to one. But I will say that I'm resembling that photo more and more as the moments pass, and by tomorrow I hope to be making that face again. (...wings crossed!...)<br />
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So I'll just wind this up by saying that I hope the new year is great for us all. May it be everything we need it to be.<br />
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May those brutal goodbyes be few. And may there be many amazing new hellos!<br />
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And may we all get to be as creative as we desire without having to worry about money or healthcare or how clean our house is.<br />
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CHEERS.<br />
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I love you. <br />
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<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-24879286201594219862018-09-21T14:23:00.003-05:002018-09-21T14:23:44.457-05:00Preparing to be Captured<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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I follow him on social media and I read his posts, but last weekend was the first time I've spoken at length to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceEdwardsPhotography/" target="_blank">Larry Edwards, one of our photographer regulars at Fest</a>.<br />
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He visited primarily to offer his concern for something negative that happened in my shop the previous weekend (I suffered the downside of my Pay What You Wish idea.... it happens....) and had planned to purchase some art, and I suggested we trade: my work for his work.<br />
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And this weekend that might happen.... <br />
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Rarely do I ever take a good photo. I think I'm allergic to camera lenses! I'll admit that it's not so bad now when all folks are pointing at me is a cellphone, but when someone who knows what they're doing points a badass lens at me, I immediately turn into Awkward Woman.<br />
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My Eldest once took pics of me at Fest at the end of a cloudy day, while crowds were sparse and both of us were bored. Maybe I was tired. Maybe my sales were under par. In any event, I couldn't seem to smile much. I didn't care that the lens was staring me down. I didn't even care what I looked like....<br />
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But those PHOTOS! When I saw them afterward they took my breath away! Maybe it was because I trusted her and was comfortable with her? (Could it possibly be because she's female? Hmm....) Anyway, I swear I'd use them now for <i>everything </i>if I wasn't 20 years older than I was then....<br />
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Not so long ago, I participated in a photoshoot with a dear Fest friend who was having pics taken for a future book. I'd never done anything like that before, and the experience was surreal. Someone actually 'styled' me! But it was all fun and games (just acting natural with others in a group setting) until I was singled out and asked to pose.<br />
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I'll admit I have zero interest in The Spotlight. Even coached gently by my friend (who has TONS of experience with this!) I felt awkward and uncomfortable. Maybe vulnerable is a better word? All I know is that I'd rather have been enduring a root canal at that moment, and all I could think of was how I was disappointing my friend....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twig the Fairy -- THIS is that friend!</td></tr>
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I never once asked that photographer to show me what he'd taken. And when the book was published, I anxiously looked for myself in it. There I was, in a group photo, hiding behind my hand. No one would ever know it was me! (*whew!*)<br />
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This week, Mr. Edwards sent me a message: "Wear makeup this weekend if need be; let's shoot."</div>
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And I panicked.<br />
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The first thing I did was order a frippin' overdress in my post-menopausal granny-body size. Then I practiced making myself up to look 'glamorous.' Then I haunted the mailbox until the dress arrived, tried it on, saw that it FIT, breathed a sigh of relief!<br />
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But now today I'm taking a step back....<br />
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The hell am I doing!?<br />
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Mr. Edwards is a professional; his photos are incredible! And I'm a human bean; I look the way I look. And sometimes I even <i>like </i>the way I look.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James took this; it's not about my face maybe...</td></tr>
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What would that future photo look like if I was just <i>me</i>? No makeup? (except eyebrows; I refuse to look like a sugar cookie in photos of myself....) Would I like it? Would it sadden me? Would I have to accept that THAT is the Real Me? Could I learn to be friends with that person? Come to terms with her? Embrace her?<br />
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Who knows if this will even happen. Fest is in its next-to-last weekend, things are brutal and busy now, and I'm the only one in my shop for most of the show day. I'd feel foolish if I glammed myself up and we weren't able to make the shoot happen. So how would it be if I just threw on my boy clothes and didn't care?<br />
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Hmmmm.<br />
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...to be continued...<br />
<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-456168418670274120.post-61205782106893769922018-09-19T11:36:00.001-05:002018-09-19T11:36:18.681-05:00Funko Pop ME Needs to Happen!I have lots of Funko Pop characters around the house and in my studio because they're CUTE and I can't help myself. (James can't either.) And one morning at the studio I drew myself as one as a warm-up exercise:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love that my figurine comes with lots of STUFF!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Of course, the 'extras' would be AMAZING. Not only would I come with all the above bits, but they could be changed out for other stuff!:<br />
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<li>an additional assortment of pets: a starling(!), a pair of lovebirds, a colorful little rooster with a bowtie, a fuzzy 'Lucas'-like spider, a shiny cornsnake, a stickbug, a mantid, a toad, a housemouse, and MORE,</li>
<li>towers of books!,</li>
<li>a musical instrument that can be swapped for the sketchbook and pencils under the arm, </li>
<li>colorful hairchalks for that I-can't-decide-what-color-I-want-to-feel-like-today look!,</li>
<li>black Chuck Taylors to replace the boots,</li>
<li>a cloud of monarch butterflies and/or a herd of monarch caterpillars, </li>
<li>an assortment of necklaces, leather bracelets, and silver rings,</li>
<li>a backpack full of buttons: 'MN Nice,' 'Watch Less, Read More,' 'Sorry, I'm Awkward, Sorry,'</li>
<li>a Hufflepuff house scarf, </li>
<li>and a Cloak of Invisibility!</li>
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Seriously, my Funko Pop self would be expensive as hell to produce but would still be a big old HIT.<br />
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Well, at least to me! <br />
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...<br />
<br />delaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10606786002615861044noreply@blogger.com0