Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Monday, January 17, 2011

Floating





Floating. It's how I've been feeling lately.

What is floating? Well, it's when I feel light and like everything has flow. Basically it's when I'm just happy to be. I've had a couple instances this past week to remind me of the feeling of float.

Examples include:

Taking a paddle board tour out, having a great time with it and wishing I could do that more often. One week later getting a call asking me to lead up a new paddle board tour being offered. They're concerned with making sure I make enough money on it, I don't care cause I just want to be out there on a board.

While working at the restaurant I got an opportunity to discuss soldering and glass cutting techniques with the resident artist/designer who works on-site. He learned how to do it from old ladies on YouTube and is starting to build a cool glass door for the wine cooler with beautiful samples he found on Ebay. Lightning strikes when I realize that the restaurant is also an art studio which is quite possibly the best restaurant job I could have ever picked.

Meeting a complete stranger at the Parrot and having a great conversation about about books, history, writers and the possibility of learning how to play backgammon. Got to ask him about the origins of backgammon and use one of my most favorite words. There's not too many times I get to work "Mesopotamia" into a sentence but those days are sweet.

Riding around the compass on white street pier while getting rid of my stash of old bread. While circling and feeding the birds it started to feel like I was part of the flock. Smiled when I realized this is the feeling of what it would be like to fly. Pretty cool and even cooler when I noticed another guy enjoying it on his bike too.

Being in the grocery store grateful to pick out good food to eat. Realizing that even though I didn't want to cook that night, I no longer crave over-processed easy meals. Simple good stuff works and I like the way I feel taking care of myself. I do still like doughnuts and Oreos though. That will never change.

Being struck by beautiful things, taking pictures and figuring out why. The house up top is one I enjoy all the time. I was thinking to myself today about why this house always draws me in and wondering why. It's pretty plain but so beautiful and I like looking at it at different times of the day. Just as I was snapping away, the owner came out and asked if I wanted to buy it. I immediately said "I'd love to cause it has the best shadows." He laughed and I got my answer.

Having brainstorm sessions on my bike. Most of my creative thinking happens while riding on that blue cruiser. Below this post is an idea from today's office ride.

Don't know - Just got the feeling that all that re-wiring I had to do is working. Starting to plug in, feel the flow again and it feels good.






Wednesday, March 10, 2010

New Studio Space!







Was on the hunt for a new studio space and this week hit the motherload on Love Lane. I've never had a separate studio space and spent last weekend actively asking for it.

Usually it's been crammed into my living area somewhere on the floor, generally in a corner by my bed. This is an entire spot devoted to it and it's amazing to have it. I feel really lucky.

Finally getting to work on a project I've been talking about for two years and learnin' some Photoshop in the process.

Monday, May 11, 2009

The Week in Review









I'm beat, but in a good way. It was a fun little week of occurrences. Some of the highlights included:

Finding the exact thing I needed for a new art project at the local church thrift shop. It started with a seeing a guy in a fluorescent pink shirt that said "Boys are Icky" and ended in getting 6 items for $3.00.

Learning how to swim like a fish with my fins and while doing so, had a bunch of fish come up to me. This week I was one with the fish.

After talking with a passenger on the snorkel cruise, I am now convinced that the trip to Egypt I've always wanted is going to happen. Here's to snorkeling the Red Sea; viewing the carpets of coral he described; and kickin' it Cleopatra style.

Finding a camouflaged conch on the sandbar we stopped at during today's kayak tour. It's shell was so amazingly beautiful and he even popped out to say hi.

Hearing the funniest Mother's day gift on Saturday night. At the restaurant, a cute little boy with glasses took his time ordering dinner. When I went back to check on the nice family, the mother was utterly surprised that he loved his dish including the swiss chard.

She explained that he picked it out on his own and that this was his mother's day gift to her. Loving the whole thing, I said back to her "His gift to you was to make his own decision? That's really cool."

"Yup." She said with a smile watching him go to town on the chard.













Friday, February 27, 2009

Little Things

Little things make me happy. like...



Greeting the morning with a cup of coffee and budding blossoms arranged in my favorite vase - a Kikkoman soy sauce bottle.



A road sign looking unnatural in it's natural setting.



Watching the sun bounce off tin roofs.



Seeing the annoyingly slow Conch Train in a place that it belongs.



Witnessing irrational beauty on every Key West corner.