What All The Fuss Is About...

From A Caring Frend

things are ok with us. I completely understand your reticence to take another dog into your lives. I think a period of mourning and adjustment is necessary, but sometimes the animals find you rather than the otger way around. She's come to a lovely home.
 
And, how sad for you to be leaving the house you like so much and for such sad reasons. I hope it's a happier place in your new location. If you need any help moving, let me know.  have lots of time.

AS ONE DOOR CLOSES ...

Cat + Knitting

GM asleep, moments ago on my knitting bags. I'm afraid I'm keeping him up, so he's making rather a point.

In Memoriam...

...of two lovely dogs that should not have died. 

Never explain, never apologise. Your friends don't care and the rest don't matter

I feel like I'm looking like Milliande in my cotton sweatband. Maybe now it is time to have the wacky hair colour. Suggestions on a postcard please ...

Cut-up More

I'm a great believer in telling people who your influences are, not pretending that everything is divine inspiration and unique, and your own personal prophecies... you're just part of an ongoing formula that's all integrated, it's a tapestry, it's woven together into this fantastic fabric. So I think anyone who makes sure that the importance of their proselytizing of cut-up, of random chance, the whole depth of the third mind, but most of all the cut-up, the idea that linear thinking and linear time and linear explanations and linear existence are both a fraud and pointless way of envisioning our experience of being alive. Anything that keeps their message alive or expands on it is a good thing.

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
The Wire 2006
Alan Licht interviewing Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

That sums it up well ...

My first entry on Traci Bunkers' Get Your Art On Challenge.

In Traci's own words:

I hope you’ll join me in taking a pledge to make some art every day for 30 days. Decide what you want your rules to be in order for this to be a fun and positive experience for you. Be sure they are realistic and doable so that you aren’t setting yourself up for failure, and then beating yourself up when you break the rules.

My rules for myself are:

• One and only one new piece of art every day in October. 
• In addition, I will take one and only one new photograph for a minimum of 15 days in October. This can be the piece of art for the day, if I haven't created anything else.
• In addition, I will work on completing other projects that I've already started. 
• Random distractions and monkey brain chatter, will be dumped, as promptly and succinctly as possible, into one of my existing journaling / mapping / capturing tools. 
• I commit to posting at least 4 blog posts during the month.  They will directly relate to GYAO and will include anything else I think is relevant at the time.

The photograph above is my entry for today, because the warning expresses very succinctly, what I was experiencing at that time: anger and frustration because I couldn't do all the things I want to all at once and because I couldn't have my own way in that moment.  Tell me, how to you get that damn Mastership? We all need to know,  don't we?

I am working with the Freya architype. In the past I may have said, the goddess Freya. Now, I want to keep my spiritual views more private, because in that way, I now know, I will avoid rubbing my own views in the face of those of different views.  My delicate enfolding spiritual core will have a chance to harden before I expose it to be gnawed at.  Whatever - I always like to tune it to those feelings, those aspects of myself that I recognise as Freya.