So I was asked for a bio for BONK! Revelation...
I always took pictures promoting others talents!
Well my children's talents, but it branched out to others, being on the yearbook committee
at Fine Arts. I got to know the talents school wide...and understandably something that is necessary if you are in competition such as music.
...same for sports. I was more of a Music Mom instead of a Soccer Mom...
There were years of being a Softball Mom (NOT Baseball!) as I was corrected repeatedly!!!
...and when my older daughter actually was on Varsity Golf she would not let me come watch!
It was HER thing with friends SHE picked...she didn't need Hover Mom.
My younger one was a fidget-bucket. We tried violin but she wanted to be a social butterfly.
The school I picked was probably not the best match but she had already fallen in love with her 1st
grade teacher and the musical the teachers collaborated on was right up our alley.
I lost my place after that...
My older one preferred to be on her own and the younger one was in a sea of academically charged students and parents where we were struggling to get reading scores up to snuff.
....and they rejected my yearbook committee volunteer offer...another mom had cemented her claim and declined to share.
...to be continued!
Friday, April 21, 2017
Sunday, April 9, 2017
All I want is time... (my old friend)
Time to rehash old thoughts...
Time to revalate in why I do what I do with my time...
I realized a couple weeks ago.
All that I do is an offshoot of where we left off...
(my old friend)
being a water keeper...
taking more interest in special interest groups...
art groups, artists including poets, taking pictures of artists.
volunteering for organizations where my exposure is increased
in the circles that seem they are likely to intersect...
with yours...and implode again.
(my old friend)
Even the business of daily life is what I need to keep from
Falling back to thinking that I should care to know...
Anymore...
(my old friend)
And even then...my whirlwind and yours may collide
and implode again. It's redundant. but I like that line.
Time to revalate in why I do what I do with my time...
I realized a couple weeks ago.
All that I do is an offshoot of where we left off...
(my old friend)
being a water keeper...
taking more interest in special interest groups...
art groups, artists including poets, taking pictures of artists.
volunteering for organizations where my exposure is increased
in the circles that seem they are likely to intersect...
with yours...and implode again.
(my old friend)
Even the business of daily life is what I need to keep from
Falling back to thinking that I should care to know...
Anymore...
(my old friend)
And even then...my whirlwind and yours may collide
and implode again. It's redundant. but I like that line.
Friday, February 10, 2017
Book Progress
Here is where I am today...trying to figure out how to retire but my life so far has been based on being a workaholic...how does a workaholic retire?
Thirty years hospital nursing...the past ten years in classroom private duty nursing. Before those forty years was fast food, waitress and a little car hop experience, garden business help and vegetable stand attendant...also coat checking and babysitting. Two years as a girl Friday and bookkeeper and then nurses aid at a nursing home that lead into nursing career. Included in the forty years was many times a second job...Visiting nurse and a variety of nursing home positions even supervision.
How to retire? Not sure.
The goal was going to be less hours for book progress but so far life has gotten in the way!
Thirty years hospital nursing...the past ten years in classroom private duty nursing. Before those forty years was fast food, waitress and a little car hop experience, garden business help and vegetable stand attendant...also coat checking and babysitting. Two years as a girl Friday and bookkeeper and then nurses aid at a nursing home that lead into nursing career. Included in the forty years was many times a second job...Visiting nurse and a variety of nursing home positions even supervision.
How to retire? Not sure.
The goal was going to be less hours for book progress but so far life has gotten in the way!
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Beginning History
I was thinking that after our meet up group made a point of having us introduce ourselves that it is what I could do here to give a sloppy summary of an intro to those who may follow me or become friends in the future that can find some way to connect to myself or my background.
Keep in mind that like other creatives I am primarily right brained and never thinking much about the current events unless it is about arts.
So here we go...I can explain my beginnings of writing ...oops! Wrong subject already. I want to document my art connections to be on task to consider what my inspirations were and what they may be in the future.
My first memory of art was taking an art class as Wustum Museum in Racine...I didn't understand why the easel was almost upright...the sponge paint ran down the page! I was in elementary parochial school nearby...I knew I might have a little talent because the teacher put my coloring on the wall in the classroom with two others. The three of us later that year had entries in the Wustum Scholastic exhibit.
I was painfully shy and my heart raced when the nuns called on me for answers. I took piano from my second grade teacher in the nuns house and remembered I froze during the piano recital. Probably stick to art...
My favorite class was Art in Junior High. I won a place in a Christmas card contest with a linoleum print. I was presented with $50 and a box of cards with my design and the other winners. I was pretty happy until I went to school to empty my art drawer for the semester and it was empty. The teacher said she told us she would toss what was left after a certain date and out it went! She was a sub...probably not even an art teacher...a true art teacher would not have tossed away someone's art.
After a wild year in Arizona where our family uprooted to with the dreams of my dad playing golf year round...we returned 'home' to better wages and extended family.
I could still feel the warmth of the southwest and is easy to recall even now...those were the tie-dye years....and then macreme!
Keep in mind that like other creatives I am primarily right brained and never thinking much about the current events unless it is about arts.
So here we go...I can explain my beginnings of writing ...oops! Wrong subject already. I want to document my art connections to be on task to consider what my inspirations were and what they may be in the future.
My first memory of art was taking an art class as Wustum Museum in Racine...I didn't understand why the easel was almost upright...the sponge paint ran down the page! I was in elementary parochial school nearby...I knew I might have a little talent because the teacher put my coloring on the wall in the classroom with two others. The three of us later that year had entries in the Wustum Scholastic exhibit.
I was painfully shy and my heart raced when the nuns called on me for answers. I took piano from my second grade teacher in the nuns house and remembered I froze during the piano recital. Probably stick to art...
My favorite class was Art in Junior High. I won a place in a Christmas card contest with a linoleum print. I was presented with $50 and a box of cards with my design and the other winners. I was pretty happy until I went to school to empty my art drawer for the semester and it was empty. The teacher said she told us she would toss what was left after a certain date and out it went! She was a sub...probably not even an art teacher...a true art teacher would not have tossed away someone's art.
After a wild year in Arizona where our family uprooted to with the dreams of my dad playing golf year round...we returned 'home' to better wages and extended family.
I could still feel the warmth of the southwest and is easy to recall even now...those were the tie-dye years....and then macreme!
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Coffee & Zines Part 2
Took my forever friend for lunch on the recommendation of a carpeted restaurant in town..
He was delighted with his fried chicken and fries
...and I with Pecan Pancakes
We decided to drive by the lake to take in the aqua blue colors
and found the decorated tree we heard about still decorated!
I forgot to add the view from Marina Shore...just a cell pic but
maybe a theme to explore another time...
Then my passenger requested a drive to locate the origin of a large farm fire he heard about overnight.
Probably my favorite barn to watch how the sun changed the angles of the shadows...and how it looked with the cabbage just before harvest.
Coffe(e) & Zines
Goal for today...get to Zine making event at Left of the Lake Gallery in Kenosha...
Moving too slow...had our own version of Cafe On the Couch.
The ice was amazing...it was taken during my cell phone and Camera+ App days...
But when I tried to print a 5 by 7 for my Zine entry..which is actually 5 1/2 by 8 1/2
the color was different..too much red.
In a hurry to get myself and post-surgical SO
ready by noon I used my cell phone to capture a copy of the print I like and air printed
from phone. By shear luck it produced a 4 by 6 print and I didn't have to become a
frustrated freak!
The best part is doodling the letters..it's relaxing but you have to know when to stop when it's always too late to start over.
Moving too slow...had our own version of Cafe On the Couch.
So from home I was able to work on the theme COOL which became COLD.
When I looked at a picture that I took when I was very cold! on the lakefront about
two years ago.
But when I tried to print a 5 by 7 for my Zine entry..which is actually 5 1/2 by 8 1/2
the color was different..too much red.
In a hurry to get myself and post-surgical SO
ready by noon I used my cell phone to capture a copy of the print I like and air printed
from phone. By shear luck it produced a 4 by 6 print and I didn't have to become a
frustrated freak!
January 3rd Rule of Thirds #Dogwoodweek1
Make Me Feel Like Paradise...
I don't know why the Rule Of Thirds but for sky, middle-earth and fore-ground.
It's my best guess.
No one told me I had to.
Pictures like this seem that I may know something but...
I'm quite oblivious.
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