And the next part of today's blog proves the first part of this poster.
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it is pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Today's Episode of the Ongoing Saga, 'Let's Build A House!'
The architect sent us a whole new plan that includes FOUR garages. This is pretty odd since we couldn't use the first plan that had a nice normal 2 car garage that interfered with a slice off the neighbors property, or so we think. To compensate he made all the rooms two feet smaller in all directions as far as I an tell from this teensy pdf. No way. Both of us agree that if we aren't improving our situation, we aren't changing our situation! So we got a call back from the builder who you may remember I mentioned was having shoulder surgery at an inopportune moment for ME. And guess why he called back- he was still numb from surgery this morning. We didn't solve any problems but at least we see we are a priority. Hell, I'll drive him anywhere he wants to go until he's back for us!
And so, the holding pattern continues.
I took Molly in for her 2 month post surgery check and she's doing well, good news, so I took her with me to the studio to neaten up somewhat. I found a couple of dresses from the 80's that I had loved the material and saved, so I tried them on and was appalled enough to cut off all the seams and fold them up as yardage. That took the whole morning, at which time I had to get home for the roofer to visit. I did manage to re-photograph 'The Lost' quilt and use my real camera. Took me just a few minutes and now I have a whole slew of images ready to send along. Good ones this time.
My kids and Mister are coming on Friday- they are currently in Key West celebrating their anniversary and 'progress report' baby. It doesn't seem possible it was 2 years ago already. He was texting from my favorite places today. I think we have to get back down there before it gets too hot again. Loved it there, but was so busy with wedding stuff that we didn't get to all the things we wanted to.
Oddities of the Universe- an undersea worm wearing a khaki jumpsuit. The stuff of nightmares.
Portable Student or At Chair. But why wouldn't a little modification make this a great potable camp toilet? Marketing may be tough...
Got a snappy little happy dog? Get them this duck-billed neoprene muzzle! This is genius, stops the little guy eating the Easter peeps you drop too.
Fun for the Whole Family
Speaking of Key West, the sunsets there are as spectacular as these! The world is filled with sunset pictures – it’s one of those nature created artworks we can’t help but observe and capture with wonder. New York photographer Bing Wright has discovered a new and novel way of photographing these vibrant scenes – reflected in the broken pieces of shattered mirror.
German photographer and journalist Jonas Ginter created a sweet panoramic camera rig using 6 GoPro cameras that he mounted above his bicycle and car. The resulting video makes it appear as though he’s pedaling around a tiny world.
Talking a bit of creativity here, I have all five of these books and have been meaning to stick them up here so you can finish your creativity library too- if I had to pick one, I couldn't, as all are valuable to read and Reread. I had found this list on BrainPickings a few months ago and just didn't get around to doing anything about it other than being surprised and proud I had them all. I went looking for the Twyla Tharp book to revisit it, but I've lent it out an not gotten it back- IS THAT YOU???. Bring her back home!
Shaun McNiff’s Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Goremains a cocoon of creative reassurance that unpacks the artist’s process into small, simple, yet remarkably effective steps that together choreograph a productive and inspired sequence of creativity.
In Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking, working artists David Bayles and Ted Orland explore not only how art gets made, but also how it doesn’t — what stands in the way of the creative process and how to overcome it. Fear, of course, is a cornerstone of those obstacles.
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, which tackles our greatest forms of resistance (“Resistance” with a capital R, that is) to the creative process head-on.
In 1975, six years after the great success of his wildly influential book Love & Will, existential psychologist Rollo May publishedThe Courage to Create — an insightful and compelling case for art and creativity as the centripetal force, not a mere tangent, of human experience, and a foundation to science and logic. May draws on his extensive experience as a therapist to offer a blueprint for breaking out of our patterns of creative stagnation.
There’s hardly a creative bibliophile who hasn’t read, or at least heard of, Twyla Tharp’sThe Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life. It frames creativity as the product of preparation, routine and persistent effort — which may at first seem counterintuitive in the context of theEureka! myth and our notion of the genius suddenly struck by a brilliant idea, but Tharp demonstrates it’s the foundation of how cultural icons and everyday creators alike, from Beethoven to professional athletes to ordinary artists, hone their craft, cultivate their genius and overcome their fears.
It's a squirrel-less day- Pfffffffft!
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