Where the Heck Have I Been?!

No, seriously.

Where've I been?

1) At the movies, eating four large, refillable popcorns and drinking four large, refillable sodas.

2) At the basketball game, screaming like an idiot and getting stared at, which makes me feel silly but I can't help myself.

3) Reading. Everything.

4) To the desert to see my brother, who lives in the desert in a house with air conditioning, in the desert.

5) Watching documentaries about the space program, the human body, and 1000 Journals.

6) Looking at my studio, then leaving the room and coloring in front of the television.

7) Starting my visual journal.

8) Learning to doodle.

9) Using Luminarte products for the first time.

10) Visiting someone who has lots of art books and who lets me borrow them.

11) Harvesting tomatoes off our one tomato plant, which has exploded with fruit and screams at me constantly.

12) Buying this: from Seth.

13) Getting enough sleep.


Where have I NOT been?

1) Taking pictures of my doodles and my journal pages.

2) Writing.

3) Blurfing.

4) Spending lots of money.

5) Obsessing about things.


So far, this has been a peaceful summer. And it's nice, because my word for this year is Peace. Not in the global sense, but in the sense of my being less self-judgmental and less focused on 'keeping up'. And I'm liking that I'm finally cracking into the journal I constructed several months ago. I used to journal constantly. Writing writing writing, in manufactured journals which already contained design and imagery put there by other people. There's nothing at all 'wrong' with that, but I'm loving laying down marks, designs, and images onto surfaces I've created, and then writing all over them, and even obscuring them, if I want to. This is new for me.

Anyway, enough about me. Thank YOU, kind friends, for visiting. I am off to visit you and to lust after so many beautiful things that proliferate from your minds and hands faster than the tomatoes on my burgeoning tomato plant. I always look forward to seeing it all.