Here is it ladies and gentlemen, Mack Collier’s Z List in a mosaic by Sandy at the Purple Wren.  Many many thanks to both Sandy and Christine at Flooring the Consumer who worked we non-technical me in the background to get this posted.  Christine sent along the html code and Sandy offered the Typepad infor about "edit html" tab that finally got it in (after a try yesterday that only printed the html).  See, this is great stuff.  This is the web of connection, not just the internet web.  This is why I am drawn to blogging – there is such community here!  If you haven’t checked out these blogs yet, do yourself a favor and click over.

Question:  How do you use blogging and the internet?  Journal? Business space? Networking? What?  leave me a comment about that and about what keeps you keeping on in your blogging or internet browsing (if you don’t blog).

Thanks to all who have left their top 5 books in the comments.  I’m using that to compile a list of books to get with my Amazon certificate. I could always use more, so feel free to add your 5 top books if you haven’t (I have a lot of readers who visit here – we’re all having trouble with "only 5.")

Yesterday I didn’t post because between not being able to figure out the html thing above (knowledge is so wonderful – just one click away from where I needed to be and totally stumped.  There’s a metaphor for life in that), and being stood up yet again at the coffee shop, I found myself sort of at odds all day long, stuck in a puddle and unable to know what to do next.  Eventually I wound up tearing up magazines for Soul Cards and finishing my painting, pulling some handouts together for my Saturday clay class (I had 2 – we just whizzed up to 6!), writing some queries to shops, doing some research around shops, not getting into the studio, vague, unfocused stuff (but now that I think of it, other than Tuesday, that’s pretty much where I’ve been).

Here’s the finished hand sculpted and slab built Torso: My Secret Self.  She’s definitely got a lot of secrets!  The shards are of my 2D work on cups that I broke…I’m really happy with that addition!

That’s a chunk of amethyst crystal in her hair but it didn’t photo well.

Today I am off to cash in my christmas spa certificate for a facial and getting my toes done.  True gift.  Can’t wait!

Here’s another website for those of you who haven’t yet discovered Dooce.  This particular post, Suburban Nightlife, will have you rolling on the floor if you have a dog (and I do:  a Pug who thinks she’s a mastiff as long as her people are around).  I find Dooce a consistently good add to start my day off laughing.  Can you think of a better way to start the day? (ok, I have to have my decaf coffee first.)

Thought for the day:  "We are so accustomed to myths (sacred stories) of extinction, that we are not as practical at imaging that greater gap – continuation…Would the earth or our existence on it be in such peril if we did not harbor a profound desire for extinction?  ‘They lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick,’ resonates Isaiah.  The crisis of Western culture is ecological.  The source of that crisis is in Western culture’s own version of reality; the myth of the urge to eradicate:  earth and images of earth, body and song." [Lynda Sexson, Left Bank]…We need new stories, new terms and conditions that are relevant to the love of land, a new narrative that would imagine another way, to learn the infinite mystery and movement at work in the world.  It would mean we, like the corn people of the Maya, give praise and nurture creation.  Linda Hogan, Dwellings:  A Spiritual History of the Living World