i had one job.
push the button
so the blog will post
just noticed now
13-14 hours later
so here it is
i pushed the button.
—
“you push the button, we’ll do the rest.”
-*george eastman
—
*George Eastman was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company
and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.
(a happy note from WP yesterday)
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com!
You registered on WordPress.com 11 years ago.
Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging.
—
thanks to all who have taken this flight with me
11 years in the blink of an eye
faster than the speed of write.
—
“even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of time.”
-stephen king
with my tiny home
loaded up
with bushels of nuts and piles of books
ready for the coming season
you’ll often find me sitting
in the quiet of the early morning
with a steaming cup of coffee
tapping away at my blog
telling the day’s story
reading others’ stories
smiling by the light of the screen.
—
“i blog because i’m not a good rapper.”
-gerry l’crow
happy happy birthday to resa
https://artgowns.com/author/resamcconaghy/
costumer and designer extraordinaire
you are an amazing talent
telling stories with your styles
making real life connections
between people in the realm of blogs
may you never stop creating art gowns, finding meaningful art in murals,
and being an incredibly creative and inspiring part of our story.
—
hello too from our whimsical blog circle who keep crossing paths:
gigi, dale, and holly –
art, poetry, nature, animals, peace, kindness, love, humor, style, stories –
compassionate creatives all.
—
“creative expression is not just a means of getting attention, although some have approached art that way. think of art as a way of connecting, of sharing your insights with others.”
-nita leland
yes, this is an original created by me.
—
years ago i posted a story
about how i had weirdly crossed paths with
meatloaf the rocker, not meatloaf the food, twice in my life.
as part of the post, for clarification
i added in a boring picture
of the food version of meatloaf
as well as
a picture of the rocker version of meatloaf.
imagine my surprise when all these years later
i got a call from an attorney in california
wanting me to pay him for a picture of his dinner
i thought it was a prank
he insisted it was real
citing the date of my published post
angrily standing his ground
i decided to take down my whole meatloaf post
and end the drama
i am always happy to support artists and their work
i can’t imagine that a slice of meatloaf on his dinner plate
was meant to be art, could be in high demand, or cause such controversy
so as you can see above
i have created my own meatloaf picture
and as a gift to you my loyal readers,
you are all free to use it as often as you would like
at no charge and with no drama.
—
“taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
-haruki murakami
(not me, but if i was a bearded male,
with a cup of espresso, a croissant, and a typewriter instead of a laptop,
this could have been me,
so – very similar to my situation with a few tweaks. )
—
late last night (probably around 9 or so)
soon to fall asleep
at the comforting lake house of my friends
about to write and post my blog for the morning
a couple of friends
saw that i was still slightly awake
so why not sit down
have great chat for a couple of hours
when i finally closed my eyes while talking
we decided to call it a night
so just a few more minutes typing away
to tuck tomorrow’s post in for the night
and when i woke up it was morning and my fingers had fallen off of my laptop and my laptop had fallen on the floor and a fellow blogger reached out to ask if i was okay as there was no post so i quickly set up the post i had meant to finish the night before and balance was restored.
—
“if you want to talk about someone falling asleep,
whether in their bed, in a car, at a desk, while reading a blog post about french grammar,
you would use s’endormir.”
-frenchtogether.com
(not me, but we could easily pass as sisters)
—
for some reason
after almost 8 years of blogging
and never questioning it
I only recently discovered
what the word ‘blog’ actually means.
—
Blog is another word for weblog.
A weblog is a website that is like a diary or journal. …
Bloggers often write about their opinions and thoughts.
A blog containing video material is called a video blog or video log,
usually shortened to vlog.
—
“Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.” For most of human history, all published writing had been carefully inspected, edited, and approved. In the last decade, blogging has turned the publishing world on its head. A blog allows you to write and publish anything, from anywhere, and have it be immediately available to billions of people all around the world.” -Andrew Sullivan, the Atlantic
. I, for one, am happy to embrace the chaos and vitality.
for those of you who’ve followed, read, or commented on my posts over the years
I’ve finally put my finger on my ‘writing style’
it’s collage
and no surprise to anyone who knows me outside of the blogging world
it goes along with the creative outlets I’ve always enjoyed
making cards, books, and art
using pieces of things I’ve found, read, and collected in the world
it’s simply a matter of combining
images, thoughts, prose, quotes, poetry, music, and ideas
that generally don’t begin together
but once gathered
looked at in new ways
rearranged mixed and shuffled
like a puzzle with no absolute solution
suddenly seeming to belong together
to bring new meaning
when combined into a whole
my blog is the same
but the difference is
rather than being made of anything concrete
it’s abstract
it’s a mix of electronic media
it can vanish into the ethernet at any time.
like all of life
it’s about making connections.
and having lived a while
I suppose I am a bit of a collage myself.
—
“every art I do is a collage.”
-santigold
seven
years ago today
I published my first blog post
thank you to all
who have made the time
to stop by for a visit
and sit for a moment.
—
“all human actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”
-aristotle
—
painting by: bruce nutting – seven birds of blue
what began as post #1 in may of 2012
has led to post #2001 today.
thank you to all who
view, read, comment, chat, post, and share.
i appreciate each and every one of you
even in those far away countries
where i may have only 1 loyal reader
you have all offered me
great support
much food for thought
inspiration
and most of all
wonderful human connections.
here’s to the next 2001.
—
“i think statistics go in one ear and out the other.
all of us respond to stories more than numbers.”
-koren zailckas
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image credit: metro goldwyn mayer, media.com
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