keep art alive; art by kris lewis
(from my work-in-progress something)
the first time i went to the beach i screamed, and not in an excited to be home sort of way, but more in the blood-curdling psycho killer has come to take my life sort of way, at least that is how my mother always told it. she said that in the car ride there we made up songs about our destination, rhyming silly things that a four year old tends to cling to, with exaggerated pronunciations and familiar language. we had our coke bottle that we shared between us, a treat that went on for years whenever we took a trip that required more than fifteen minutes on the road. that is the part i play at remembering, that glass bottle with the syrup-sugar liquid, and the way my mother's hand felt when she would pass it back to me; it felt like for once i belonged in her world. but really, it could have been any day and any trip, memory is a trickster that way.
lucy.
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I'm sure you can pretend... I pretend I'm young and stupid all the time.... yeah, pretend...
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i suppose you can. it is a line from the song, a favorite line of mine which has always resonated with me. although i think i enjoy being not so stupid, most of the time; i think i'm more naive with things then stupid...or maybe i'm just fooling myself.
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I've been looking forward to some more from the "she sends her regards" work for some time. Good to see it's still coming along. How goes NaNoWriMo?
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hey lucy. i love that painting. love love love it. perfectly matches with the song as well. Though this may sound arrogant, I am coming to realize that I am neither young nor stupid. Even tho I do stupid things often. Yes- I don't take it personally any more. I don't call them mistakes, they are lessons, and part of existence. Right now, more than anything, I just hope I make educated discussions to live on the wild side....... :)
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i used to love when i was young the way things smelled and looked how i perceived things now i'm stupid for wanting to put them behind me asap
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dale: i am not going to make the end of november goal, but it is coming along and i'm happy with it (so far). i thought i'd start sharing bits of it with music that it associates/connects with here, hopefully no one minds.
indiepixie: isn't it an amazing piece? kris lewis has some incredible paintings and illustrations. i would love to have that one on my wall at home.
and i think that is the best attitude...mistakes are lessons, and as i tell my kids, it isn't the mistake, but what you do with it, that makes you who you are
life would be terribly boring if we never messed up.
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keith: why do you want to put them behind you?
i think we grow, and our perceptions definitely evolve - but i think we can still hold on to the things we felt, yeah?
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let me clarify i was/have always put little silly things behind me the things i really considered to be meaningless actually are seemingly more important when i think about it lol i sometimes have a hard time with my CLARITY
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clarity is fleeting, comes and goes, and sometimes we forget when to grab hold of it. but, i think you are on to something here - sometimes what we think of as meaningless are full of depth, definition and destiny...hee...three d's, or something.
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Aw, I'm sorry to hear that you won't make the goal, but progress is a good thing nonetheless. Please do share. :)
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i think i was heading for the goal with a lot of promise, but i hit a snag last week when some personal stuff came up. i'm not disappointed though because i'm happy with what is coming out of it all.
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thank you :)
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As well you should; I'm very proud of the work you've done. :)
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Haaaaa ...Lucy, you're the greatest synchronicity medium I met since Christopher P... only tonight I watched an online documentary about Coca Cola that LadyC had linked to, and I swore I'd not give my son any coke again before he's a teenager... then I posted an old anecdote about how I snorted the other coke when I was _young and stupid_ (on contra's post)... I think a weird little meta-dimensional tunnel is leading right through the earth, shuttling fragments of thoughts and feelings between us ;)
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yeah, i did that, too - when i was young and stupid.
i'm quite fond of our meta-dimensional tunnel, and we do seem to be synched lately.
love to you.
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:)))
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Better than old and stupid. Lessons might still be learned.
Nice vignette, lucy. And a familiarity to it that resonates with me.
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thank you, mike. and i agree, i sort of enjoy being older and wiser (yet still naive and a bit immature in some things...or perhaps just refuse to grow up completely).