Birds on a Bear – Cut Paper Art
5 x 7 inch paper cutting. Sold.
Music: Jerry Jeff Walker – Little Bird
Love me some early Jerry Jeff Walker. Spent my Saturday (and am spending my Sunday too) in local record stores building up my collection… Today’s score: this live JJW record from 1973 for $2.99. Oh, and Isao Tomita’s synthesized version of Gustav Holst’s Planets for 50 cents.. It’s so sci-fi and so good.
Kitty – Cut Paper Art
Meow. 5 x 7 inch paper cutting. Sold.
Pine Cone
Pine cone at the Alluvial Fan, Rocky Mountain National Park, 2012.
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau
Morning Call – Cut Paper Art
5 x 7 inch paper cutting. Sold.
Textures
Textures by William Stafford
1.
The dwell of a sound for a while
will sometimes diminish all else
and a whole forest lie down at night
for hearing the moon, where the first
tick and its tock are still waiting
for what time it is.
2.
Morning color opens its eyes
where it slept in the mountains.
Oh, it’s afraid! This might be
the day when white comes all the way
back from the sky where it went
when color first came.
3.
And fur—of all presence it is
the most, a million touches
at once, to assure, reassure,
instruct our lives, like this:—
Be here so well that even
one time is enough.
Music: Mariee Sioux – Swimming Through Stone
An Offering – Cut Paper Art
5 x 7 inch paper cutting. Sold.
Today, presently..
I started my day with tea on my deck with my neighborhood cat, Fritz. I spent the rest of the day printing and packing up orders that came in while I was in Colorado. Now, I’m sitting on my couch listening to an orchestra of crickets and night critters out my windows and trying to stay cool while I flip through some new books (6 to be exact, and 2 by Thomas Merton) that I ordered.. I only have like 100+ other books on my shelves that I still need to read. I can’t help myself..
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.” -Thomas Merton
Til next time..
Final Friday Art Walk in Wichita, KS
I’ll be sending a bunch of original paper cuttings and prints & cards midweek to Bella Luz in Wichita, KS, for this weekend’s Final Friday Art Walk. The work will be displayed through the month of August. I won’t be able to make it down Friday for the event, but I’ll surely drop in at some point. Bella Luz is located at 300 North Mead Street #105.