Listening to: NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday...damn it! I missed Joss Wheden on Fresh Air...looks like I'll be listening to it at 6...Anyway, they're talking about the teaching creationism (now politically correctly known as 'intelligent design') vs. teaching evolution (now stupidly known as 'just a theory.') My god, people ~ it's called education. Teach the damn kids about both theories and let them make up their own minds.

Isn't that the point of an education??

Still reading:   The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon ~ Tom Spanbauer.

Quote of the day: "Iraq has had 17 chances to disarm...and this time, we mean it!" ~ President Bush, in a sound byte on NPR this morning.

AAAaaaahhhhh....sometimes the greatest feeling in the world is not love but rather that lovely feeling you get from having freshly shaved legs...:::happy sigh:::

I'm doing this entry a bit early and I'm starting to get a bit excited. I have to critique a vocal performance for my voice class and I'm going to see the Circle Players' version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I really hope that it'll be good ~ I wonder if the audience gets to act too? That'll be so great! (I can't wait to sing along: "Janet...damn it..." hehehehe) However, since it's being performed in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC), I rather doubt that there will be any toast or five gallon buckets of water.

You know, I really wasn't happy about going to this thing until I had lined up something else, just in case I couldn't get in to RHPS. There is a free performance of a musical called The Fantastiks on the Lipscomb campus tonight and tomorrow. With that said, I am a bit leery of this one, since Lipscomb is a christian campus and there is a very vague description of the thing in the Nashville Scene and no description at all on the theater department's information line. It is a viable option, though ~ if it really sucks, I may just give new meaning to the word 'critique.' I just want to be entertained, not preached at.

You know, since I did the entry on the fifth, things have gotten interesting, joyful ~ and 'fertile'. (Hey! they just announced on WPLN that Lisa's husband Anton is having a show at the new gallery in Nashville! Maybe I should go see them when it opens...I haven't seen them in forever...) My drawing class has taken an interesting turn ~ our latest project was to take a quote, poem, sentence or word and make a drawing from it. We were not to illustrate it ~ simply work with it and see what comes up from it. I used a quote from Don Juan (I'm paraphrasing slightly here): "For me, there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart and the only challenge is to travese the path fully. There I travel, looking, looking, breathlessly." I swear, I don't think I've been in charge since this project was announced. I instantly knew what quote to use but didn't know how to go about the drawing...until I got home. I set up my easel and suddenly I knew that this was going to be an abstract drawing ~ only, up until that point, I didn't do abstracts and it had been a bit of a joke with my instructors about how I just couldn't get the hang of the concept in past semesters. I knew that the quote would be written on the paper and most of the words obliterated as I worked. Turns out, all of them are gone except 'heart', 'traveling', 'challenge', 'look', 'breathe' (the l, and -ssly obliterated to create the new word) and 'travel'. As I worked on it in class yesterday, it suddenly occurred to me that this drawing reminded me of the Nasca lines in South America and that it needed a line drawing of a bird in there, done Nasca style. All that it needs now is to be darkened with compressed charcoal in places, since I've used vine and willow charcoal up to now. All I know is that I know that I am standing in front of an easel when I work on it but it is quite like I am only a vessel and the drawing is doing itself.

I like it. I want to do more like this!

I have to remember to take my camera with me and get a picture of that drawing when I go tomorrow ~ I want to get some progress on the latest painting we're doing. For reason, it is as if I have forgotten everything I have learned in that class. This particular painting is turning out to be absolutely horrid...but it's fun. Despite my not being able to paint it at the moment, I think I love depicting fabric, especially now, after we saw the John Singer Sargent exhibition at the Frist. That man knew how to paint!

Other little things are going on as well ~ I'll be walking along and a single leaf will catch my eye. Yesterday, a small maple leaf did it with its mottled yellow and red face. I have never seen a leaf colored in quite that way before, so of course, I picked it up and kept it. There was also a jewelry sale on campus yesterday and today ~ I found a choker that I had been wanted for a while now for my septagram. It is a simple metal band, that suggests something of a torque to me, except that it's backward (wow ~ a torque would be great to have, if I could find the right design...)

Yep ~ I like this, the world being filled with joy, mystery and wonder. I don't think I'll be denying Kokopelli and his flute any more...if he's the reason for all this, it's way too much fun.