Here are two brief videos of Christmas cheer in lieu of a long entry. (I think the past three days’ worth of lectures is enough of that, you know?) I heard this song on the radio. The first video is just the song with some attempt at visual humor, but it’s the “original” audio track. [...]
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To show my pedigree a little bit, I have edited the Holidailies writing prompt for today a la Bourdieu. (Bill if you’re reading this, I’m giving a little Gallic shrug as I type.) (Keep reading below the cut. There’s free beer!) Pierre Bourdieu wrote about meconnaisance, which translates as mis-remembering. This literary and philosophical construct [...]
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I listened to an interesting sermon in church last Sunday (it’s not online yet), entitled “The Irrational Season.” The minister’s message was that this is indeed a season filled with “irrational” thoughts, or at least ones that defy logic — it is a celebratation of the birth of a child from a woman who is [...]
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(This entry was chosen as a “Best of Holidailies.” Thanks!) Wrapping gifts is a lost art. I learned it during one weekend of working the gift wrap desk at a major department store when I was in high school. I didn’t get paid, but my mother worked there, and one day I was hanging out [...]
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Deke asked me, indirectly, if I read fiction while I am writing it. I have to say that my reading habits have been very slovenly since I had my son. I used to read a lot and then he learned to grasp thing like books I’m reading, and I discovered that Law & Order came [...]
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It’s cold and possibly icy here in Dallas, and I’m sleep-deprived. So tonight’s offering will be brief. A lesson in persistence. “Make a way out of ‘no way.’” Come up with a creative solution. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Even if you are a beagle. I wonder how many attempts it [...]
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I find myself derailed by the slightest thing these days… apparently, it’s part of grief. Of “complicated grief,” that is. No, I can’t just have the garden variety “wear black for mourning then get on with life” grief. I have to get the complicated form… which is a lot like driving a car with a [...]
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Here is the first piece that opened me up to piercing canvas and adding thread/fiber elements, discovered by me a couple of weeks ago in conversation with a knitting comadre on Ravelry. I had been thinking of adhesives, but Kirsty’s innovation and provacative piece “Cursive” literally PUNCHED HOLES in my way of thinking. I love [...]
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I have a bunch of great friends. We share a lot of cool links and tidbits from the ‘net. Because they are looking at vastly different things online than I am, I get wonderful FRESH ideas from them. Here is today’s, from T: from http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11665672 I’ve been thinking lately about doing paintings that are somehow [...]
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The Holidailies start tomorrow. This is a yearly blog writing project, totally voluntary, and loads of fun. I pledge to post every day for 31 days from Dec. 5 to Jan. 6. While I plan to stick pretty close to my theme of creativity, art, and the process of opening up to it, you can [...]
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