saturday, september 12, 2009
this and that
As you can see, I have been busy. I've been working on some paintings, so most of my time has been taken up with that. - and the septic system repair and subsequent landscape issues. I am still working on the cards issue. That's turned out to be a huge hairy deal. I'll let you know what happens.
But I have taken the time to read a few things, most of which I will refrain from mentioning.
I am almost done with "Michelangelo and the Pope's Cieling" by Ross King. Publisher: Walder and Co, NY; 2003. I recommend it highly. It is better than most 'art history' things I have ever read! It's even better than an unauthorized gossip biography of somebody or another.
I have also recently read "Animals Make Us Human; Creating the best life for animals" by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson.Pub: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, New York, 2009.I highly recommend this as well. Some of the things she (It is written from Temple Grandin's perspective.) talks about are hard to contemplate. She covers a lot of ground, and does a good job of it. Check it out - it might help you understand the animals you live with a bit better.
As the old timers used to say where I grew up, "Take care; do good; and write when you get work."
You might understand why they would say that if you can imagine what it was like to send your sons and daughters across the seas to an unknown land in a time when communication was slow - if it existed al all. It would be as if we were sending our children off to Mars....
I don't know why I was thinking of that. Most of my "Old Folks" came here in the middle of the 1800's. All that is pretty far away, now, but somehow I think of them often. Things were very tough for all of them - even the ones that had some money and a marketable skill. But they perservered, sometimes past all reason. And that seems to be what it takes - unreasonable stubborness obout the things that really matter.
So- keep on keeping on....
Later,
C
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