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Pasties or Pastries?
I think I misread you.
If I knew it was going to be that kind of a party…
punch and kick
punch and cake.
Ear to ear grins.
Snake oil being recycled into an alternative fuel source.
A cocktail umbrella laughs at me from just beyond this keyboard.
Hit me with music.
Slaughtered grammar rising like a phoenix.
Waves wash over me,
cleaning the imperfections
but leaving me gasping for air.
Not really, but it sounded good.
I miss the anticipation when
an orchestra is tuning.
If leaf blowers blew hot air
you could use them to
blow dry a giants hair.

chair people

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the weekend was intense and fun, walked away with only a few scrapes.
the work week will be short due to thanksgiving, but there’s quite a but I need to accomplish.
I think I’ve put my ducks in a row, but then again that could’ve been the eggs, in which case my ducks are all in one basket. Not quite the same difference.
Typing is hard in the morning, I have to correct every third word it seems.
I’ve written a couple letters in the past week, its very rewarding and very different than typing. I miss handwriting. The term ‘penmanship’ is so old it probably won’t find a politically correct updated version. Penpersonship? I’ve become a chairperson and every time I think or hear the work I picture an chair with human characteristics. Attack of the chair people.
I have to shave and get on with the day now.

forward, backward

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Yesterday I sliced all the pages out of a sketchbook. At first I only sliced out the pages that had complete drawings on them, full color and worthy of framing. But the remaining pages were sliced out eventually for consistency. I may look into matting them at the end of the week. After that comes the daunting task of acquiring frames for them. I have frames in mind but not the funding – I’m imagining the cost around $500. It looks like I have about 5 frames that would work. I should frame those five and sell them, use that money for frames. Or just complete some time consuming commissioned drawings.

Yesterday I got back to some google pages I registered a long time ago. I was inspired by a photographer friend (Stephanie Krell)who I recently got back in contact with. Not only does the design and layout of her google page look nice, she also utilized links to her flickr site.

Last night around 11pm I went out to my front porch to think about today. Some rustling of leaves and branches about two feet away revealed three of the cutest round raccoons I’ve seen in a long time. One was quite curious and came right up to me. A fear of rabies or some unknown plague stopped me from petting him (or her?) on the head. The other two eventually wanted to see what the first was investigating, and soon all three were waddling up to sniff at me then back away, a bit scared or maybe more shy. I remember feeding raccoons grapes as a child while camping in the desert, so I went to the fridge and pulled out some grapes. I can’t describe how cute raccoons eating grapes are, so I wont try. Eventually they waddled off into the darkness of night.

Today I’ll be busy. Organization, communications, brainstorming, outlining, editing, optimizing, and chugging coffee. After work to an art opening then perhaps working to complete those commissioned drawings.

When it rains it pours.
In many respects, recently.
Uncertain as to where
these energies are
coming from,
my task at hand
is to harness them.