Skin Deep

Big Night at Ruth Eckerd Hall this past Thursday.  Buddy Guy and BB King.  We had a car service so driving at 1 AM would not be a problem.  Actually, that made a real difference in making this thing happen.  so we are deposited at the theater, take our drinks to our fabulous seats, and just watch everything unfold.  There were 2 sets of roadies, 2 back up bands (Excellent!) and other than that, no set background.  Just amazing music.  I can't say that I am a true blues fan like my husband, Chris, but I can say that those were the most rocking 3 1/2 hours I have spent in years.  And Buddy was singing and winking right at me and we are going to be married.  Chris says he will give me away....he took this pic of BB.  I just love it.  Buddy's latest CD is Skin Deep.  He sang the title song at the concert, about how we are all the same under the skin.  Very few dry eyes after that.  What a Guy!

The art plan for this week involves working on a mural with Spring Hill Art League peeps. It is a diverse group and I know it will be a project of the heart.  My own plans will include printing out some stuff for an upcoming show at Spirit of the Hand and preparing for the Mermaid calendar stuff.

This season has left me wiped out.  It is probably a combination of dogs and pollens...I sneeze all the time and my eyes and throat itch.  I never believed much in allergies til I had 'em!

Lots of reflection this birthday week.  Cory and Lyn helped a pet shelter in my name.  I love that!  My Thursday buddies waved us on to our date with BB, standing in the cold driveway as the limo pulled away.  They really knew what the night meant to me.  My buddy Lynne is like a little sis to me.  Such a gift in herself! And presents!  I skyped with Sky, Laura, and CJ.  How I love this tech stuff!  my heart would break otherwise.  and darling Chris got me this turntable thing so I could transfer vinyl to Itunes.  The first thing I recorded was music from Me, Natalie, by Rod Mckuen.  Yeah, Rod Mckuen.  I said my taste in music was eclectic.

Should Jack really trust Tony?  Is Daniel Faraday the son of Desmond and Penny?  Was it really a good idea for Admiral Adama to shoot Gaeta and Tom? hmmm.  at least Phillip will be back on GL.

and speaking of eclectic, an amazing video of a duet between Luciano Pavarotti and James Brown!

Life Is Good!

Dreamland

okay, so Ponce's story is going to take a while. lotsa stuff going on in my head.  I am getting tired of all these voices!

idea for art-Sky and Laura as storybook characters.  Maybe as superheroes.  hmmm.  Just got an email from a mersister, V, ( I am an honorary Mermaid) with pictures to use for the calendar/children's book I am working on.  Marla, another mersister, gave me some great pix of her horse costumes.  She is incredibly talented with a great eye for detail.  Anyway, my world is so full of real make believe that I am hard pressed to distinguish the differences....

Taking a break from la-la land, I am really missing the guys and dolls overseas and in California.  But seeing them on the webcam is so wonderful and current.  As long as they are having adventures and moving on. That's what counts.  When I was just a tadpole (yes, carrying on with the mermaid thing) I flung myself at life.  It may have been playing the odds a bit, like running across a rickety rope bridge over a bottomless pit, but I like to think that we make some of our best memories that way.  Live Juicy!

Dreaming along, my Artist in Rez status is great, but I don't know how I can effect real change or add to the k-12 curriculum of art in the schools here. Almost 23,000 students!   Maybe if Weeki Wachee opens up to the idea of an art center with Moi as the Artist in you know where, maybe then we can do some fun stuff year round and hold hands with the community and all the resources available for nature exploration and hands on creativity.  I can see it now.  Little trailblazers learning all about the spring, guest artists doing workshops, retreats, festivals, lectures, gallery, conservation, involving all of Hernando County and benefitting everyone. I hope.

Why are there craters on the moon?  because I have no more room in my back yard for the dogs to dig.  They are down to the sprinkler pipes and any minute now I expect the underground  to tunnel out to freedom.  

On the street, it's Super Bad Brad

  

And now, it's time for "Ponce Upon A Time"

Ponce loved the smell of orange blossoms and leather...  And smoke.  He had spent many nights by a fire, trying to keep small orange  saplings warm so the frost would not take them.  There he learned the languages lost to us now--Calusa, Timucuan, Mandan, the old ways gone with the people whose lives he sold for immortality...

 

Why Dogs Rule

A family portrait of the Happy Wanderers and their  wolfy children...I think the dogs chose well.  Three dogs chose Sky (the handsome Dog Man in the pic) and his brother Chris at the shelter in Brandon, FL  15 or so years ago.  We had to get special permission from Mrs. Snow, the superintendent there at the time, because the normal limit was 2 pets adopted at a time.  The boys wrote a plea bargain ( something to do with walking, feeding, and cleaning as well as loving like crazy) and in the end everybody was happy.  Long great lives for 3 great dogs.  This generation  will carry that tradition... and a plastic bag....So why do dogs rule?  Because we let them.