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A letter to the local paper - Fall 1996
Why is "do not litter" such a redundant phrase? We’ve been reminded since the 70's “give a hoot, don’t pollute” yet strewn along the roads are the disposable drink cups and chip bags people tossed carelessly away.
Food outlets can help by selling packaging made out of natural unbleached material that decomposes quickly in backyard compost. |
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Moon eclipse - November 1996
I feel weird. I’m trying to write down what goes through my head. I feel (blank) for missing the moon eclipse. I was dozing when it started, on my way to bed, I suddenly remembered about it and caught the last dark morsel disappearing. Shouldn’t I have been concentrating, stirring up energy? If only Great Goddess could come and encourage me. Others would see it as pushing or bossing. I need to do magic but I’m alone. |
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And all my son seems to do is make me angry. He does destructive motions in his play. He is not artistic. He’s loud. He fights and argues with his imaginary friends. He has more fun throwing play dough and crayons than drawing or making. He doesn’t seem to like constructing as much as he likes to destroy. TV just worsens that stereotype behavior. He always wants more toys and doesn’t play with the ones he has. He forgets to enjoy what he has in the moment. He whines about something else for tomorrow. He repeats the same thing over and over. He’s really annoying. He bugs the hell out of me. He’s just like me. |
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Proposition for visual arts grant - Fall 1996
The goal: to be employed using my artistic skills and ideas. Jobs that require a high level of artistic skill: illustrator, graphic design, movie special effects Self employment: custom airbrushing I need assistance to procure a studio Another goal: to construct a community art studio where members pay a monthly or yearly, depending on their media and/or income. I’m trying to find an ultimate career goal and want to try many different projects in various mediums. Airbrush shirts, murals, vans and motorcycles. Tattoos, eventually. Illustrations. One of a kind customized airbrush clothing: $20 to $80 for custom freehand from your own photo. I need a color catalogue of all my stencils to show variation of color choices - I have to airbrush each and every stencil on sample shirts. I need lots of identical shirts. Or square cloths. |
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a book called Northern Magic came to my attention - November 1996
The path of Odin is to seek to understand the deepest cosmic mysteries into a communicable form to be expressed in the world at large. Thank You, Great Spirit, for reinforcing what I’ve always known to be my path. I get stronger with each reminders. |
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the wind whispers power as the Eagle flies remember the hour it’s time to be wise wind is Spirit |
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I have a “world’s tiniest tarot deck” with four cards missing: my son picked these: Knight of swords That’s what happens when you don’t “play with a full deck”. |
Here’s a reading with a full sized deck with all the cards. Including the blank one! My son picked these: ten pentacles That reading is softer than the first one, which is sharp. |
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Rant about what is wrong with our world - December 1996
I try to write, no, think of stuff to write and it sounds so whiny. Why am I upset? A boss that personifies everything I hate in suiciety that makes it so I have no time for going to my studio to work on chrismas stuff.
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Dream - December 1996
I saw three vultures flying overhead and they were calling to each other. Their cries sounded like a cross between raven, goose and hawk. That’s probably my mind making up its version of what it thinks a vulture sounds like. If it even makes any sounds. Make friendship sculptures. Two halves that also look good separate, one may buy a set to give a half to someone special. They reminded me of a perfume bottle I used to have with two little white birds on the stopper. |
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transform yourself burn away the alchemy of the soul changing patterns to find the maze draw the maze then move through it. |
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Art is for describing the indescribable
There’s the need to describe or share the knowledge of the mystics which is what I think is true art. Then there’s the need to construct and improve one’s physical surroundings which are what I think is true craft. |
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religion rant
If God created all that lives on the Earth, then why did He make the Tree of Knowledge bearing “forbidden fruit”? |
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I want to be real but I also want financial success, there are some material things we need.
I feel like committing myself to a loony bin. It’d be kind of nice to be in a room and have nothing to do but paint and draw. And write. |
| Bombastic - elastic - fantastic - drastic - plastic - monastic - spastic - enthusiastic - orgiastic |
| 1) what you think you are 2) what another thinks you are 3) what you think the other thinks you are “I want to know what you think I am” |
There are too many distractions and, therefore, interruptions. It’s like I want (need?) to be put in a little room with nothing on the walls or windows. Just a bed and writing and art materials. I want to “yang”all over a canvas but as soon as daily activity comes in, I have to draw back in and get all “yin”. The needed frame of mind is so elusive . . . I really, really love to draw my thoughts. I love to express (ex: out - press: pressure) so to e x p r e s s yourself is to push your thoughts out. Push your thoughts out. Kind of like puking, giving birth or pooping. “I stand under the tree of knowledge” said the sage of old when asked what ‘understanding’ means. |
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“Hell is the others” “L’enfer, c’est les autres” to want is to suffer to suffer is to feel |
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Maybe what kept me from going completely crazy was I knew that there were others that knew/know what I was going through. I met and hung out with other “misfits” such as me, but they didn’t seem screwed up in the same way as me. What screws you up is like a fingerprint, I guess. Or a snowflake. Here’s a “personality analysis” - which snowflake would you rather be? | ||
| small intricate crystal | Small hard conglomerate | Big white fluff |
| big fancy flake | Big wet heavy flakes | Big hard hail |
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After feeling alienated all these years, I’m coming across the kind of books I’ve heard about from philosophy majors and the like. Those books show me that I’m not alone and never have been. I’ve always thought existentialist kind of things but probably did not voice them in every one’s else’s language so I never got the acknowledgment I used to crave. And I blamed it on the “suit n’ tie man” because I was a “silly little girl”. I wanted to make my own judgement about “reality” before I read too many well known philosophical books; I wanted to invent my own version, maybe a part of my ego wanted to come up with something new that no one else invented but, to my ego’s dismay and my soul’s joy, I’ve thought exactly what others were thinking. I found out today that Sartre was about being true to yourself, not denying responsibility by depending on God to forgive you for assorted horrible sins.
I might have gotten along with him quite well but then again, I might have gotten disgusted with him too and called him a pompous over-enlightened man like some blinded ones I’ve met in this present day and age. Then again Sartre was a university professor and wrote many books instead of being a flacky freak on welfare. |
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