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August Break Day #1
More August Break photos at http://www.jesleephotos.com/blog
It was a long and pleasant night
Ok, maybe not quite that long, bit it was a nice night at home. We cleaned, we went out to eat, discovered everyone who was out in our neighborhood was crazy and quickly went back home, downloaded some new music (Amanda Palmer!!) and just hung out. It was nice!
Ok, really, there were 101 million things more I would have liked to get done, but my mom keeps saying she thinks I’m getting sick, and she could be right, but being as stubborn as I am, I’m determined not to let her be right. So, really, I was too exhausted and head-achey to do much more than that tonight anyway, and I’ll probably lay low next week to make sure I don’t get sick (REALLY don’t have time for that!) but I’ll act like I meant all along for it to be a quiet week. Yeah. www.jesleephotos.comSometimes it doesn’t hit until later
Sometimes it doesn’t hit you until later, much later in the day, when you are biking somewhere, to-do lists swimming in your brain waves, that a comment, kind of a flippant comment, a comment full of sarcasm at the time it was said referencing something funny or ironic
sometimes it hits you much later what those little comments really mean what they really stand for “He said, ‘It sounded like there were mortars going off’ and I laughed to myself, thinking ‘you don’t know what mortars really sound like’, you don’t know what something really sounds like until you can sleep through it.” It makes you want to get your butt back on your bike and peddle home as fast as humanly possible. It makes you grateful and sad and angry and thankful and in love more than you ever thought possible all at once. These are the days that I wish I could make all the wrongs in the world better and I realize that I can’t, that it isn’t humanly possible, but I can try, as hard as I can.Untitled
August will be a crazy, insane month for me.
September will be just as crazy, but we’re taking it one month at a time here.
The other day, this idea came through my Google Reader and Twitter feed. It is a very good idea.
http://www.susannahconway.com/the-august-break-2010/
The August Break: for the month of August, instead of focusing on words in your blog posts, to focus on photos. Posting what you are doing in a picture, and letting that speak for itself. The best part: no rules.
I plan on participating, both on this blog, and on my jesleephotos blog. Somedays I will post the same photos on both blogs, somedays they will be different. We’ll see where this takes me.
August
August is almost here.
I already know it will be a crazy month for me, finishing up work for my show, trying to organize so I am not scrambling at the last minute.
I figured that my blogging would suffer even more neglect than it usually does. One day, I saw this come through my Twitter feed and my Google Reader: The August Break.
The idea: let photos speak for themselves. That is what you will see here. Photos from a variety of cameras, photos of what I'm working on, what is happening in my world, maybe some self portraits. I am excited. At a time when I have to focus so much on finishing photo work, and framing, it will be nice to have somewhere to focus on posting photos. All photos will also be posted in my Flickr Photostream, so if you have an easier time keeping up with Flickr, check for them there.
Until next time!
~Peace~
Turning things around
It started out like most Mondays…
things weren’t working right, my coffee wasn’t kicking in fast enough, all the typical Monday stuff that leave me overwhelmed under a pile of to-do lists.
Somehow I managed to get things organized at home and get myself on my bike to pedal to my studio.
Along the way, instead of letting myself focus on everything I’m worried about with the impending deadline of this project (omg! less than 2 months!!!) I chanted in my head ‘Let it go’, thinking about the poem I linked to in one of my previous posts. Yeah, it sounds a bit cheesy I suppose, but it worked! I ended up having a fairly successful day in my darkroom, and was able to stop working a bit early, after a few difficult photos weren’t working out, and not feel like I was just quitting and giving up. I actually have a good print to work on tomorrow when I go back. Somedays, I guess a little chanting is all it takes.
In other news, I really wish I could get on with re-decorating our condo. Of course, I don’t dare start due to the (omg! less than 2 months!!!) deadline I have coming up, but really, I can dream can’t I? This blog post came through my Google Reader, http://scoutandjem.typepad.com/bookscout/2010/07/news.html and oh my! I would love to have a pretty desk to do something like that to! I would put this quote on it:
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.” — Louise Erdrich
The quote is from a book called ‘The Painted Drum’ by Louise Erdrich. She is a favorite author of mine, and you can see her Goodreads page here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9388.Louise_Erdrich. I keep daydreaming of that desk with that quote on it. Of course, we are painting, not planning on buying new furniture, including desks, but, you never know! :)
More soon :)
~Peace~
Cars
It has been a very long time since I have sat in this car….
Also a very long time since this car has had a floor ;)
Memories
It has been a long time since I’ve sat in this car!
It has also been a long time since this car has had a floor :)