8/14/03 It's almost midnight, and new blogger that I am, I'll probably stumble-foot around for a bit, banging into a few virtual chairs,toppling over a virtual table or two, or startling napping cyberspace cats. Yesterday (yesterday? only yesterday?) I found brochspot in a circuitous way, while googling for info re: "Ashland", and came across a June blogpost. In a subsequent e-mail, Broch mentioned Bloomington, I immediately assumed "IN" and started waxing poetic about it, while he meant "IL". But even with that sideways start, we proceeded along nicely. And, gracious cyber-fellow that he is, somehow he found himself volunteering to let me participate in this blog-spot! So now I will do my best to "appear", since Broch has already done the hard work of setting up the underpinnings......
Just came from an art event where an etherally slender 6 foot young woman gave a slide show and live demonstration of how she builds her unusual pottery shapes. She's been doing ceramics for 10 years..and she's....22,maybe????? Commitment at such a young age.....As a teen I drew and drew and drew....in classrooms, would draw people's hands, profiles, in art class I'd skip French class so I could stay in the art class for three periods in a row...One day the Vice Principal called me into her office -- I told her I just had to make art. She let me go, and I continued to skip French class.....I'd love to say that I kept up that commitment to art, but instead could not shut my ears to the familiar drill that many of us grew up with... "oh, art's a lovely hobby, but you must do something for a living.
Speaking of "making a living", I'm in transition (yet again) so scrambling to find freelance work in the interim. If I had "followed my dreams" years ago, and committed to an art form (then, it was drawing and painting) how would life had unfolded? Would I have an art-filled life, rather than a life that has art in the nooks and crannies? And a cabinet full of beautiful nature photographs, that few have seen? And will I one day choose to live up to the potential of a song I wrote, that goes...."I choose to be.....devoted to me.....I choose to live....a life that's whole and free". Ah, it's midnight now, Or close enough. Time to post this before I do any more of the maudlin "if only I could of done xyz" kind of speculating. TIme to see "what happens next"...in blog world....me, the blog newbie a bit unsure of the terrain but wanting to take a jaunt anyway.
Let the orchestra of unknown possibilities start tuning!
Well, to me, it looks like you are off to a great start. As for "banging into a few virtual chairs...", wait till you get hit by a virtual bus. Now that is painful. :)
Posted by: tony on August 15, 2003 09:10 AMIpressive! I think that you have it down! I think that if each of us looks back in retrospect, there are certain dreams that each of us would like to have grasped onto. No doors are closed for any of us though, so keep the dreams alive, and grab onto them a little at a time.
Posted by: Broch on August 15, 2003 10:14 AMImpressive, as it were. I digress....
Posted by: Broch on August 15, 2003 10:15 AMTis true...
Posted by: Tony on August 15, 2003 10:16 AMHi Jacqueline! :-)
I play the "If only" game all the time, and I have to keep talking myself out of it so I don't get depressed. Might as well make the change/move now so you don't still say "If only" 5 years from now.
Posted by: April on August 16, 2003 08:12 AM