lord, lord, lord

[scotchegg]

i hate saying good bye to people sometimes. i am telling my freelance clients that i am ending our relationships to start the new job in June and its hard to do.
even if you only see/talk to people once or twice a week, you get attached. i have one more to tell - phew.
i feel like a flake on one hand - i wanted to keep freelancing but this job will give us much needed stability, insurance, etc. and my freelance work just wont do that right now.
Better your own truth,
however weak,
than the truth of another,
however noble.
-- Shakyamuni Buddha

one truth is that i have piles of work to do before june 1st though.

Comments

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

OMG, the first thing I see on my first visit to your LJ is a quote from Ellison!

:-0

I met him in the mid-70s ... "Crystal Goblin" (short story) blew me away, and I regularly recommend "A Boy Loves his Dog".

greets!

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

i truly adore Ellison. have you seen this:
http://chazarmaveth.blogspot.com/2005/05/tough-questions-for-tough-jews-harlan.html

we just watched a boy loves his dog not long ago!(again, for the umpteenth time). i hear there is a sequel - it was a comic. have you heard of it - Vic and Blood
you have to be quality if you like Ellison and Buddhism!
:)

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

A /sequel/?! OMG, the cosmos is just tooooo generous!

" you have to be quality if you like Ellison and Buddhism!"
As good as any criteria I can think of huh huh.
Gawd, if Harlan would get serious my gawd ... can you imagine "Ellison does Ken Wilbur"?!

BTW: is your "me" icon your own painting? I'm a total impressionism junky.

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

not mine -from a piece my husband did!

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Pass him my compliments would you?

What's the original's size?

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

its a detail on a piece that is about 8x10. thank you very much !

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Nice ... does he do bigger pieces?
greets

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

for fun - he is writer primarily - this was a gift for me

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

congrats ... and good on ya!

When I was into photography I cut my teeth on the equivalent of "still life with typical bowl of fruit" ... and found myself totally enthralled by textures. Using a macro lens I felt like I was Anselm Adams exploring the complex geometries of wicker huh huh.
Then I got into landscapes bigtime.

Ohhh my, to paint an impressionistic sunset or vista ... *sigh*

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

i know the feeling. i painted for years and just havent done it in a while. a landscape would be great! and you are in a place where they are amazing, right?

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Me?
Well ... I spent 20 years in NS, nearly 8 of those in Cape Breton, and that place is an amazing area in an amazing province.
Now, back in Alberta ... dunno ... took a long bus-ride to and back from my home town (family gathering for my mom's funeral) ... what can I say ... the vaste-land of the northern prairies. Gawd I'm soooooo glad to be home.

Now what will /totally/ trip me out is when I get to Jasper!
*does pretty fair Tigger impersonation*

BTW

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

In the early stages of our "back to the land" adventure my X could not purchase canvases. I, per force, had a nifty dandy screamingly powerful chainsaw and developed a trick of sawing hardwood trunks on a bias which created thing plates (less than 1/2") oval shaped. I'd then spend gawd knows how long sanding them smooth ... and she would paint landscapes on these. Those rather small scenes made her name.

Do you like that Japanese style? I've always found their economy totally breath-taking ... haiku paintings.

Re: BTW

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

i DO likesimplicity and find it elegant.
we have a tiny painting(about 5 inches square of a pebble that was done on a square of sanded wood. its one of our favorites truly.

Re: BTW

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

Sweet.

I must have been Japanese in a previous life. (I'm not being glib; even though I'm Karma Kagyu I'm not big on reincarnation. But for quite a few reasons this keeps coming up.) I can just /see/ some of those brush paintings ... gawwwwd the flow, the balance, the dynamic ... awesome ... spooky.

I did clisonee for a while ... the minute and detailed has always fascinated. But what has remained a fascination is laquer-ware, like orioki bowls. Did you know insect shells is the main ingredient? And the pieces (cured in moist heat) actually grow /stronger/ with age?

Laquer-ware and tempeh huh huh huh ... and I had the good fortune of doing kyu-do with a 20th generations samurai; Shibata Sensei is bow-maker to the emperor. Really. (And the guy loves to clown around ... quite hilarious.)

Oooops ... running my mouth!
:-)

[hfx-ben.livejournal.com]

"ELLISON: (interrupts) “I’m sick and tired of the world, and fuck the lot of ya.”"
Yaa, that's the fellow I remember. (Not that I knew him at all well, but ...)

Sometimes I get into that zone ...
... even though I don't lose myself in it, I've never found anything worth bringing back.

[skellykitten.livejournal.com]

I used to love his rants on the sci-fi channel. I wish I could remember what show it was.

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

was it KPFK - Mike Hodels Hour 25?
(god i AM a geek)

[skellykitten.livejournal.com]

Someting keeps telling me it was called the Sci-Fi show, or Sunday Sci-Fi.

[skellykitten.livejournal.com]

Also back on topic- I recently stopped taking orders on another business I had going which involved kids and their families. Try telling a kid you can't make a dress for their competition this year when you've been the only seamstress they've ever gone too. Not fun.

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

ohhhhh, that is so awful... didnt you just want to teleport about 2 weeks ahead?

[skellykitten.livejournal.com]

It sucked. I wanted to cave and say "Okay, just this one last time", but the thingis, then all these other parents would be calling me back saying" Well you made one for so and so"
It was something I started as a way to make save money while my kids were Irish Dancing. I made a couple for friends kids, and Whamm-0. All the sudden I had orders from all acros the country, as well as the UK and Australia. I couldn't keep up.
Then my kids quit dancing, and my heart just wasn't into it anymore. I had already started toying around with SFT and GLUNK, which for the first time in a very long time was something I started for myself and no one else...and I just couldn't go back to the other dressmaking. It was too mcuh pressure when I was doing that (and real estate at the same time)
There was always tis deadline looming over your head, and they are really difficult to make because they are really structured, as well as all the applique and embroidery. Then having the pressure of some kid being in the regional championships, as well as world championships, having to have it ready by that date and your down to the last minute- then your own kid breaks her arm and you have to stop everyhting and spend forever in the emergency room ( that happened onece)
Forget it- I'm gettign a knot in my stomach as I write. I can't stand dissapointing kids- any age of kids.

[scotchegg.livejournal.com]

that is so stressful -i am so sorry. i know some girls who used to do Claddagh and it is a BIG deal!

[skellykitten.livejournal.com]

I know a few kids and parents from Claddagh too. My kids were in a different school.