Moving

Maybe I'll post here sometimes, but
I've decided to create the new blog name URL:
some silken moment

Ciao Tim

Tim left my workplace yesterday for good. He's moving into whatever the unknown future holds...
Tim is such an interesting, fun, people-person and will be missed.
But... change is good and I'm sure he will find something better.

Spring Haiku's I just wrote

Spring Haiku’s

The sky starts to sing
Drifting like petals that fall
Ear and heart listen

Cherry blossoms burst
Honeysuckle fills the air
Taste sweetness of spring

Nat'l. Poetry Month Begins

(From Google Images)

Poetry Month begins - I share some quotes from 'Practicing Writing':

"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."--Mary Oliver (b. 1935)

"I write poetry in order to live more fully."--Judith Rodriguez (b. 1936)

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."--Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."--Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Tattoo Art

Today I redeemed my Christmas gift.
The Artist is Karina at One Shot Tattoo.

I'm very happy with it,

but the pain is.. well a lot... this is my last one!

Tortilla Art

I just made "Tortilla Art". The Great Tortilla Conspiracy is a show Rene & Rio Yanez curate. Opening at Somarts Cultural Center. For more info: http://www.somarts.org/

Luncheon at the Boating Party

I went to see Susan Vreeland at Stacey's Bookstore today. She is well known for other novels, particularly "Girl in Hyacinth Blue". This is a novel of historical fiction about Auguste Renoir's significant painting, "Luncheon at the Boating Party" which I find intriguing being a fan of Impressionist's and of France. Plus it's a different genre for me to read.

This is from her inside front page:
"Instantly recognizable, Auguste Renoir's masterpiece portrays fourteen lively, diverse, and elegant Parisians enjoying a summer Sunday along the Seine. An art collector, an Italian journalist, a war hero, a wealthy painter, a celebrated actress, and Renoir's future wife are among those sharing this joyous moment of la vie moderne. But who were they really and what were their lives truly like? Narrated by Renoir and seven of the models, and using settings in Paris and along the Seine, Susan Vreeland's vibrant novel recreates their lives, loves, losses, and triumphs to illuminate the gusto, hedonism, and art of the era."

From what she read and shared with us, it sounds like a lovely written and compelling story. For example, in the very beginning this scene is of Renoir with his right arm in a cast making his way to the river in a three-wheel cycle, when he lost balance and tipped over and crashed. "How different the colors from this low angle, the contrast between tips of ripples and valleys between them more pronounced now - a deeper forest green for the furrows, with shifting patches of yellow-green and ocher on the humps, and the silver highlights more transparent than he'd ever seen them. My God! To show that to the world!"

This is what she signed in my book:

"There's no remaining still, in art or in life."