Sunday, 17 August 2008 - 8:48 AM EDT

Hi Carole :)

Well got back in one piece;) tell you about it soon  !!!!

One can only hope that we will continue marking our record-breaking year with say perhaps... the second longest Autumn in recorded history?  or how about the second shortest/ warmest winter in recorded history?

There's always the possibility........but realistically you got no chance.

Well I top it off with a record of my own.  This has been my second most scattered, least directional year in recorded history...dunno if I'm coming or going most of the time....ooops, there I go again...

While I could plan to get my shite together once school starts for the boy: want to find a job that I actually want to keep doing till I retire, want to start working out/going to the gym again, want to draw/paint/write more, etc, etc...I've learnt that planning most always goes astray, no matter how you try to stay the path.

Hmm looking to retirement already.........bad sign i'd say.

Want to work out/go the gym........been watching the olympics have we?

Well Carole the first two takes time a way from the last one :(

So....I guess I'll just 'wing it', seems I’m pretty good at that these days ;)

Yeh your not the only one , done a bit of winging myself!!!!!!! So wing it......

Take a butcher's at the following:-

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher)

When we refuse to conform and use all our strength, we can express opinions that others will have never been able to conceive and surprise the constipated minds that take everything for granted. (Vittorio Canta)

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. (Leonard Cohen) BONES AN ALL ;)

Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do. (Robert Henri)

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution. (Rollo May)

What I have to do is utilize as best I can the ideas which objects suggest to me, connect, fuse, and color in my way the shadows they cast within me, illumine them from the inside. And since of necessity my vision is quite different from that of the next man, my painting will interpret things in an entirely different manner even though it makes use of the same elements. (Pablo Picasso)

Then you will find, if nature has granted you any imagination at all, that you will eventually acquire a style individual to yourself, and it cannot help being good; because your hand and your mind, being always accustomed to gather flowers, would ill know how to pluck thorns. (Cennino Cennini)

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. (Emily Dickinson)

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm and arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. (Kahlil Gibran)

We need a safe place, a reserve of truth, a place where words kindle ideas and set ideas sparking off in others, a word sanctuary. Poetry is this gathering place of words. (Alison Mackie)

Just thought these quotes were so interesting concerning art and poetry....................

also this poet i quite like...........

Seven Moons

The first moon is just past full,
and pale, high in the day-blue sky.

The second is a sword-edge
at midnight, Auvergne, slicing
the star-strewn velvet.

The third is haloed,
presaging snow.

The fourth moon is a round of butter
in a hot harvest night, stifled by desire.

The fifth moon, earth-eclipsed,
is a muddy red, omened with prophecies.

The sixth is shuttered repeatedly
by flailing clouds.

The seventh moon is the one
which must not be named.

Who am i?

Well let you get on hon with your bits and pieces ;)

Take Care

John

swalk

Sunday, 17 August 2008 - 11:41 AM EDT

Thanks John, that was good reading :)

And I didn't say that I was looking forward to retirement, simply that the next job I get, I would like it to be in a stable enough environment to last me UNTIL retirement.

Bits and Pieces?  Oh I guess from being scattered eh?  Well in my own defense I believe I had good reason to be.  I've left a rather 'eventful' year behind me.

Sunday, 17 August 2008 - 1:05 PM EDT

Hey hon:)

Thanks John, that was good reading :)

Glad you liked it ...............

And I didn't say that I was looking forward to retirement, simply that the next job I get, I would like it to be in a stable enough environment to last me UNTIL retirement.

Honey things don't last like that, every day has a different challenge, the secret is to

roll with the punches, because there are plenty of punches out there.I worked for a

firm for 25 years and guess what yep that's right i was made redundant on a thursday,i

believe,so what did i do ????????? started work with a new company on the friday.

There is NO LOYALTY these days ,sadly we are just to be used :(

But the best is to to use the user, know what i mean?????? Never let the b***stards get you

down....

Bits and Pieces?  Oh I guess from being scattered eh?  Well in my own defense I Telieve I

had good reason to be.  I've left a rather 'eventful' year behind me.

Naw........bits and pieces means leave you to the things you have to do, uk talk :)

Behind you ???  I dont think so !!! We still have Setember,October,November,December

I believe, oh...unless Canada has a different calender to the rest of us :)

So i will check out now :)

Catch ya Monday??

We'll See,

John,

swalk