From Ashes to Art Shows

When you start planning a journey, there’s a lot of ADDITION to your life. There’s choosing a destination, learning about it, selecting the course of action. Then there’s that small pause between the planning and the doing where the SUBTRACTION lives. You start to delegate projects at work, maybe drop off the kids at the grandparents, or the pets at the sitter. There’s are moments of letting go, of little griefs that free you up to move on, while allowing the important parts of your life to continue without you. That really started to hit home today, as we enter...

I am a notorious To-Doer. They start off well-meaning and they sure feel like getting organized, but invariably they start to grow beyond doability. That’s partly because I don’t want to forget anything, and mostly because my life is a series of iceberg tips. It could be a simple one-line entry, like “April Art Show” and “London Trip” …  each of with have about 30 things that need to-doing. And let’s not forget that everything takes longer than expected. “Clean bathroom” really means fixing that leaking toilet before mopping the floor … and “walk the dogs” translates to “sniff every...

If you’ve ever been in design, you know all about “Final”, “Final-Final”, “Final v3”and “No-Seriously-This-Is-The-Final-Final”. Nothing’s ever really final until it’s over. So, with that in mind, I swapped out two of the pieces going to London. “Why?” you ask? Because when I laid them out in front of the framer yesterday, some mistakes were glaring. It reminded me of my youth, when the lights came up in the club and you realized that many people need dim lighting. Reality is shocking. First off, the newer pieces that were made with a different pen, had interacted with the spray that’s...

I could complain so much that you’d think… I have a miserable life… But what would be the point? It wouldn’t change anything. And besides… I don’t. So, I won’t. You know what would change everything? Counting my blessings. Because I’ve got a ton of those! So much that you might think.. I have an incredible life. And I do. But I don’t. I have a life. So many people told me to “get a life”! So, I went out and got one. There’s just so many things going RIGHT for me right now. I really feel blessed and full...

This London trip is a dream come true. I mean that madly, truly, deeply … but it’s not the destination. It’s a beautiful layover in this wonderful journey known as Life. You see, in order to not come home to an empty slate, I’ve had to continue applying to, and booking, additional shows. Some of these can take months, and tonight I just applied to a show in September. More about that one later. The Life After London already has five shows booked. Many of them recurring ones, so that makes it easier each time. Others must be applied to...