Spirit cards:  Empath and Unbeliever.  Tammy Vitale, Tam’s Originals

I worked in the yard at the cottage with Husband all day yesterday but did not take camera so have no pictures of the tiles.  The room to be tiled is in fruit basket upset again, so pictures wouldn’t do much to convey the concept.  Or maybe they would.  At any rate, they are not yet done.

I am a bit on overwhelm with all the work waiting to be finished (and yet more to be made) in the studio, as well as several phone calls on new spaces and possible one load in this week.  I am happy about all this, but on overwhelm.  And I have to put together an outline for a talk at UMBC Women’s Center on the theme of the Divine Feminine in my work for next Monday when I go up there to pick up my extended show.  I think perhaps instead of a lecture, I will make it a dialogue – ask those who come what they are attracted to in the work.  Take it from there.  That’s based on the way I facilitated groups while doing community-based organizing.  I tend to like to spread out the focus and get everyone involved.  It makes it easier on me!

I heard back from Sandy Bay in Hatteras who has decided she really has enough fish and doesn’t want mine, but is really interested in my postcard figure (I’m assuming torso, Lilith.  There is also a totem.  The totem has been sold and the torso spoken for but I can run a new one by her and see if she’s interested).  See, though, there’s a problem.  I want places in North Carolina where I can mail work.  While I love the excuse of tearing off to the Outer Banks to deliver ware, it will ge a bit pricey.  Unless of course the torsos take off and I have to run down and keep delivering them.  Ok, I’ll stop complaining and take this as an excellent sign!  There’s something else I need to do:  check in with Pea Island Gallery.  If Sandy Bay has recieved their package, so has Pea Island.

Today’s title? Well, at this point, by most measures, I am being a success at art.  And while I love it, and would much rather do this than anything else in the world, some days it is still:  get up, check your list, start moving through it.  O know it’s all mood, and maybe I’m tired from all that yard work yesterday, but my enthusiasm is kinda flat today. 

I hope you don’t mind too much, I didn’t want to stay away too long, so I’m just going to post a thought for the day and let it go at that.

thought for the day: To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives:  it is the only way we can leave the future open.    Lillian Smith