Life after (self) medication ~ Christina Hankins
My sister is really good at giving her artwork tounge-in-cheek titles like: "the secret lives of suburban housewives", "Life after (self) medication", "All I need is cheap wine & sunshine", and "smoke and mirrors". She's amazingly productive for being the mother of four small children, working a part-time job, and also working the grueling hours at weekend art fairs. I always wonder when she finds the time to create. We're working together right now to update her website. Be sure to take a visit to her blog if you can, she'd really love some feedback on some of the new artwork she's just posted there. It's hard to live in the sticks of Minnesota, believe me, and if you don't she'll tell you!
They had a panel of four on CNN this morning talking about the best and worst of 2004. The funniest bit was the girl on the panel who worked for VH1, who noted how celebrities were having babies in the limelight this year as if they were chiwawa lap dogs and naming them odd things like Apple Blythe, Phinnaeus Walter, and Coco. (She also had a thing or two to say about Paris Hilton...but let's not even go there.) Also in the mix was a story about Martha Stewart losing a "decorating contest" in jail. Of course the scope then turned to how we don't like people when we think they are too perfect, and now that she's seen as someone who makes mistakes, and gracefully does her time...she'll rise like a Phoenix. I agree.
Last year I listened to my extended year forecast for 2004 at Rob Brezsny's. He kept going on about how 2004 was going to be "the year of the gift", to be ready to "receive" and "give". He wasn't kidding. I had the strongest compulsion this year to send things to people I know, new friends, and online aquaintences for multiples of reasons. I just read a snippet of 2005's forecast which quotes philosopher William James, saying: "I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillaries." After days of watching the horrific aftermath of the tsunami's, this quote speaks volumes. 2005 will be the year of the humanitarian.
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posted by Liquid Sky Arts at 2:58 PM
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