| me on Blogtalkradio |
[Apr. 16th, 2009|11:22 am] |
my second radio show where I talk about creativity with Pamela Moss - I think it went pretty well, have a listen!
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| from Photofunia.com |
[Apr. 15th, 2009|08:03 am] |
lots of templates to put your own photos into - this is so much fun!
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| we wrote this letter to the White House and. . . . . |
[Mar. 30th, 2009|10:46 am] |
First Puppy
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington D.C. 20500
Dear First Puppy:
I want to welcome you to the White House and say how proud I am to be part of this great country where mutts like me are welcome and even celebrated. My name is Simba, which means King of the Lions in Swahili, and I heard your Master mention that his family would be looking for a dog from a shelter if possible.
I am just that kind of puppy! A short month ago, I had no home, and with my 5 sisters and brothers I was lucky enough to end up at SAVE in Princeton, New Jersey, a shelter where dogs and cats are adopted and a nice family named the Townsends took me home.
I wanted to give you some advice as you get used to living with your new family.
1. You will pee and poop on lots of rugs and chew lots of furniture. This sometimes bothers the humans, so try to do it when they are not looking.
2. When someone throws a ball, chase it and bring it back. For some reason this can entertain them for hours. They can throw it like forty times and not get tired of it – really strange.
3. If they put a leash on you, expect good things, like a walk outside. If they take you to a grassy area, watch out because if you do your business they might save it for later in a little plastic bag – crazy savers, these humans are.
4. They will give you dry pellets to eat, but don’t get confused, the real food is on their table and when they are not looking, you can jump up and sample. I got lucky and found the Halloween bag of candy unguarded and even the wrappers tasted pretty good, although the pooping for a few days was not too comfortable.
5. The smaller humans are mostly likely to give you food from the table, the large man human will be the easiest to fool (although yours seems pretty sharp), but the large female human - watch out for her, she knows all the rules and tries to make the others follow them.
6. You will be loved and petted and praised and kissed a whole bunch, and guess what – it is really great, especially if you get to sleep with them in their beds at night.
7. Oh and watch the biting – that’s the best way to end up in the dog house, literally.
Best of luck at the White House, and if you ever need a puppy play date, I would love to romp around the lawn with you, and I will even bring one of my humans, Kelsey, who is 13 and is very excited about this new change in our country. Yes We Can. And we will!
-Simba Townsend
and we got back this cool letter from Michelle Obama:
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| strange mysteries |
[Mar. 14th, 2009|06:39 am] |
synchronicities - coincidences, these things just are too obviously planned or orchestrated or imagined by some other reality to just be chance.
I am learning to know the mysteries of the intuition are very real and accessible.
I am learning to live in trust that things happen for a reason.
Here is one strange one -- two years ago, I had the lucky chance to accompany my husband on a business trip to San Fransisco. I used the rental car to wander down the coast and visit an on-line buddy in Pacific Grove, on the coast.
She showed me this beautiful beach spot where we chatted, and I was moved to call my Mom - the date was January 31 - which I know because here is how our conversation went:
"Hey Mom - you will never guess where I am right now! On the beach in Pacific Grove, California!"
stunned silence.
"Mom - Mom - did you hear me?"
She was speechless and here is why - exactly 50 years ago to that day, yes to that day, my Dad had proposed to her on that very beach.
They are divorced, so it was not totally comfortable for her to be remembering this, but there I was, sitting on that beach 50 years later, 3000 miles away from where she now lives in Maryland.
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| 3 goods and 3 bads |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|04:46 am] |
1. prune juice and magnesium every morning - thank you digestion!
2. cute puppy who likes to cuddle
3. abundant time in my studio
1. can't sleep
2. clouds blocked the full moon tonight and I wanted to go out and howl at it
3. credit card debt - UGH |
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| new painting - Order out of Chaos |
[Mar. 5th, 2009|11:14 am] |
This large (4' x 5') mixed media painting is ready to hang on your wall! I worked on this for over 2 years, adding layer after layer as the painting spoke to me - the colors are rich purples, golds, and pastels, and very multi-faceted, and if you look carefully you can see Mayan hieroglyphs, antique sewing patterns, naturalistic watercolor collages, and many more nuances added over the evolution of this piece. I plan on taking this to NYC to the gallery where I have shown my work, (Broome St Gallery) but if anyone here is interested, I would be happy to send you high resolution images, and even deliver the painting and help you hang it if you would like.
Price would be around $1200, negotiable.
See much more of my art, and more about me, here at my website:
http://www.etstudio.net/indexB.html
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| got this from someone's TODO list: |
[Mar. 4th, 2009|08:51 am] |
"Be a buyer for a store that sells amazing, beautiful, strange wonders"
yes - that is just right, I would not want to own the store, just be the buyer - why not narrow the dreams to fit just right?
I want to remember this. |
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| wonderful talk on creativity an artistry in life -- Elizabeth Gilbert, TED talk |
[Mar. 2nd, 2009|02:00 pm] |
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love gives a talk on creative genius, and the fact that we are to do our work, and let the Muse take care of the rest.
She says if you are called to do dance, then your job is to just show up and dance, every day.
If the Spirit Energy of the Universe takes your work and allows the rest of humanity to understand and see the wonderment of your process, then OLE - this is awesome and wonderful, but your job is just to show up, do the work, and know you are giving a huge gift by your sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up to do creative work in a not-always-so-supportive world.
JUST DO YOUR JOB, show up for your piece of it, and let the rest go.
Watch this and be very very inspired:
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| inspiration |
[Feb. 26th, 2009|10:20 am] |
know that phrase, Get lemons? Make lemonade!
well this takes that idea to a whole new level - this NZ woman lost her legs, so she had a prosthetic mermaid suit made and now she is a mermaid - check it out:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4858855a11.html |
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