January 21, 2008

After reading last Sunday's New York Times front page article on Cell Phone novels I learned that this is not blog land but the blogosphere. Where have I been for the past seven years? Twiddling my fingers on an iMac rather than writing and sending text messages from my cell phone. Who knew that junior high school girls were tapping out novels on their Nokias, uploading to a web site and winning the chance to be published in hard cover. While all that time I learned to use Apple works on a '99 iMac writing my first novel, "Millennium Blue Test", sending chapters to online amateur writing rooms and to friends who lived at least 3000 miles away. So far I have not published my novel which still needs to be edited. A daunting task not unlike bookkeeping and taxes. I better clean my paint brushes.

You would imagine that a painter would most likely be posting new images but right now convalescing with this broken femur I can't concentrate on painting but finding recovery through tapping on macally keyboard. Hoping that a potential art buyer or two
might want to buy some prints or paintings so I can get a new mac power book. A 15" would be adequate and if a few more paintings sold the 17" model is even better. It's as though none of my other immediate household bills didn't matter. Go be an artist you'll see where your priorities are.

If I knew anyone was interested in reading a few excerpts from the novel I would put it on the blog. In the meantime I am still trying to figure out if anyone actually is interested in reading blogs. One friend of mine said he used his blog as a web site. This is free and really easy to edit.

I will have my new schedule for classes that I will teach at the New York Botanical Gardens and for Squirrel's Nest Art Studio on this blog by the end of this week. No plans to over commit myself this year.

As I usually start off my new year with new goals ( I teach this in my Professional Business Practices and Marketing for Artists course at NYBG and SNAS).

Short Term Priority

3 months

1. Heal broken leg - physical therapy /swimming?
2. Meditate- as often as possible
3. Continue watching scary new global-trashy blood movies like Hostel & Touristas - it will definitely make me be grateful for not being morally and socially unconscious
4. Send out brochures of my art classes and exhibits - snail mail, e-mail & blog

6 months

1. Fix decks and roof
2. Spend time on the garden this spring and summer - plant more bulbs, clean up fix Japanese Garden enclosure - consider a hot-tub/jacuzzi and fix door screens
   
3. Teach
4. Paint

9 months

1. Keep painting
2. Don't forget to take a vacation with the plane ticket I didn't use for Florida.
3. Don't have a solo exhibit this year - paint
4. Paint like my life depended upon it.
   

12 months

1. Take one day at a time
2. Be grateful for the simple things that come and go
   
3. Don't let the little fish get me down - I can swim upstream, in the ponds, lakes, oceans, in a small pool or a jacuzzi.
   
4. Smile even when it hurts