Inevitably, whenever we watch one of our heroes speak of their process, our inclination is to feel as if we have failed on some level and will never achieve even a minimally comparable level of success – either within our work or in the world at large. We realize that we already took the wrong path in life. Our path will never possess a scant…
… And I love the blues. Cause I got the blues just like anyone else got the blues. But this white girl always had this little nagging thing in the back of her head. Not poor enough, not rich enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough, not ugly enough, not thin enough, not fat enough, not weak enough, not strong enough, not talented enough,…
In 3 days, I will be in the road, in my car and heading for New Mexico for my very first artist residency. I’m not sure why I haven’t ever gone to an artist residency before. It seems kind of silly, really, that I haven’t. There are various reasons that I could manage to muster … excuses probably more like it … but if…
Although one doesn’t really understand why, while remembering the colors and sounds of an event that made a huge impression upon you, it’s amazing how the moment can still be felt, feel like it’s still happening right now. While I was trying to figure out to uncover my past, it just got too painful, and I think I would rather just leave the past…
It’s been quiet lately. Not too much activity on the wild best side of things I must say. Overwhelmed maybe? There are a lot of things going on in the world. There’s that ferguson Missouri thing, the Obama takes on the immigration thing, the walmart doesn’t pay enough and makes their workers work on thanksgiving thing, there’s the vladimere Putin thing, but there always…