Tammy Vitale, Artomatic 9th floor SW quad 5A (and A5 for Body Politics)

Off to DC to wander and take pictures and do my 5 – 10 pm volunteer schedule then I guess hop the train to the 9:30 club (or maybe hitch a ride with some kind person) to meet husband and ride home with him.  Back down tomorrow – same shift, early enough to do some more browsing, accompanied by Dhyana Mackenzie who notes she may sit in for me a bit on my shift so that I can wander some more (great friend!  great artist!  and singly responsible for getting Gracie pugdog to the vets fast enough to save her eye).

Heather Bartlett, collaborator on Body Politics, is a great PR person.  Here’s her article for today on Body Politics, and two  more articles attributed to her expertise:

Southern Maryland On-line

Maryland Independent (Charles County local paper as reported on the Charles County Cafe on-line, monitored by Heather).

Happy Mother’s Day to all!  Read the real reason Mother’s Day was created here.

thought for the day:  But if the fortune of the girl is in the newness, in being the bud, and the fortune of the crone is in the freedom, the lack of attachment or clinging, where does that leave a youngish middle-aged American woman like me?  Maybe it leaves me needing to consider how wealthy I am in the knowledge that the girl of my past is still in t me while a marvelous deadlocked crone is in the future – and that I hold both of these females inside…that night, I realized that I want what the crones have:  time for all those long deep breaths, time to watch more closely, time to learn to enjoy what I’ve always been afraid of – the sag and the invisibility, the ease of understanding that life is not about doing.  The crones understand this, and it gives them all kinds of time – time to get much less done, time for all these holy moments.  Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies