Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents them being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished – Wilson Mizner
I have felt terribly impatient to be getting on with my life this week. I really can’t say what has prompted it. But perhaps it is that a few of the doors that had opened with such promise earlier on… have now revealed themselves to have only more brick walls behind them. So I guess the next lesson must be… open the door by all means… but be mindful that there may be “little of substance” on the other side. That’s life. But perhaps the bigger lesson here is that there may be a greater purpose to the sum of all the many smaller experiences strung haphazardly together across a lifetime. Knowing this doesn’t help… but it does remind me that I must be patient!
Anyhow in the spirit of the past year… I have bobbed up yet again this week [like the proverbial cork on the ocean]… and yesterday knocked out my second art clip just for the fun of it. It was a good thing that I did this yesterday because today it is raining… and more and more as the wet season approaches we shall have fewer sunny days like this one.
It was however windy as anything… with a 25 knot sou’easterly blustering in and putting paid to any ideas I might have had about setting up to paint! I am still learning heaps in iPhoto and haven’t quite figured out how to speed sections up (which would have been good for the bit where the wind picked up my board and I had to chase it down the sand dune!) I had hoped to film a watercolour work in progress… but in the end it was all I could do to keep things nailed down long enough to get a couple of photographs! Consequently most of the pics are of me… and lately I reckon it would take more than a gale force Category 5 to sweep me off my feet! (((chuckles)))
It was a lot of fun running up and down the sand dunes… jumping waves… and being silly all over the place. But it was extra good though because despite the hot fine weather… there was virtually no one else on the beach and I was free to do whatever I liked. It doesn’t get better than that!
There were a couple of people way off in the distance further off down the beach… just enough company to make me feel quite safe at least. But no-one at all to get in the way… or [thankfully] ask what I was doing! I did however garner a good humoured wolf whistle from a car speeding by [which I stylishly ignored]… but was secretly grateful for in the grand scheme of things! [insert riotous laugher here]
Anyway… take a look here… and let me know what you think in the [Comments] below. Feedback is essential to the creative process… so don’t be shy… speak up… even if it’s just to say hello. And I reckon if I can do what I’m doing… YOU can do absolutely anything you like. But I do want to hear about it okay!?
Summer Again – Funny videos are here
I would also like to acknowledge with grateful thanks the fabulous music of The Beach Boys. The single Do It Again was released way back in 1968 and continues to DO IT AGAIN… over and over again! You can purchase Do It Again on iTunes or at your local music store. That’s what I did. [I know I should probably have better permission than that... so I guess it will be here until someone asks me to take it down] I do think however that sometimes it’s a good idea for older music to get a good modern day airing. The record companies may not however agree… but I reckon good music… like good art should be out there circulating for everyone to enjoy.
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Hi Jean,
Your vid is especially timely and welcome here right now as we head into one of our L.A. rainy periods. (I’ve long said that a TV weather person in L.A. only needs to say “Tomorrow more of the same,” and will only be wrong a handful of times during the year.) The dogs balk at going out and I’m fighting a nasty cold, so it was nice to be reminded of the summery beach, even with the wind blowing. Thanks for that.
You’re welcome John. It’s 3 in the morning here and I couldn’t sleep so decided to get up… go with the flow… and get this post up without further ado. So sorry you are not well. I have one word for you (well 2 actually) VITAMIN C – and plenty of it. Six level teaspoons a day in a glass of water some cod liver oil caps and you will be better in no time flat. Signing off over and out from Dr. J over here on the beach in sunny Queensland Australia! (Seriously though… rest up and get well okay?) Life is too good to be sick…
Hi Jean,
Received my alert to your new posting today. First of all – great art clip and excellent choice of music. I really like your work. I don’t know whether you realise it – but your lifestyle and tropical living environment would be the envy of so many people around the world. While none of us is without life challenges – and each one of us occasionally strikes a brick wall behind promising-looking doors – I think you’re a lucky girl in many regards. Good looking, talented, fun, articulate and you have amazing friends. I wish you luck with getting your life into a gear/speed you’d like – and in the direction you’d like to go! Looking forward to seeing you along your journey, Ty
Hello Ty… so lovely to see you here and thanks so much for commenting
I guess this Blog is the place where I put my best foot forward. It’s the place where I put on the brave face… roll up my sleeves and just get on with it. I have found throughout my life that no-one really wants to hear otherwise. [Grin]
Like most things in life though… the simpler things look… the more difficult they were to accomplish. I try. It occasionally pays off in positive feedback… and that is why I so very much appreciate the lovely support I receive here and beautiful comments like yours.
Thanks again.
BTW, Jean, the calendar has not yet arrived, but I got another really sweet e-mail from the company, apologizing for the delay. (I’m not being sarcastic, I love their e-mails, very civil. If only everyone on the world were like them it’d be a better place.) They said it should be here by the 15th.
Hi John. Aussies are a pretty friendly bunch and terribly misunderstood. Grin. And Red Bubble is such a good website to deal with. I will contact them tomorrow and see what progress has been made on your calendar. Thanks for hangin’ in there
Great photos! I have been getting nice e-mails from red bubble but no calendar yet. MY jazz calendar has been getting a fair response. I haven’t been making much art lately although I have requests. One is to do a wc of a couple I met in their Morgan sports car. The other is for images of my retired racing greyhound Butch to be auctioned off by the group that placed him with me. Also placed with me is a young man from Provence who is doing his senior year at Bath high school. He is quite an athlete and plays on the bath soccer and basketball teams.
Thanks Roger
Yes they tell me there has been a holdup with US customs. Heavens knows why there would be a problem… but I guess you never know these days what represents a threat to national security! Will pull out all stops after the 15th if it hasn’t come by then.
Wow… a Morgan! Haven’t seen one of those in a while. I used to have an Austin Healey Sprite Mk1 Bugeye (actually I had two – one for racing and one for driving fast to work) They were great little cars. So much fun. But I was always getting wet. Finally traded them both on an MG midget with (wait for it) wind up windows and a radio! It also had a pull up soft top which – have got to admit – was rather convenient when it rained. Would love to see this commission when you get it done. And the one of Butch of course. Will keep you posted on the calendar Roger. Hope to get it to you before Christmas.