I’m here! I have things to share! A cat. $1.99 Trader Joe’s bags. A super cool video. A poem. More visual journal pages. Raise your hand if you have a good source for wood panels to paint & collage on top of. Besides the commercial art stores, I mean. 2 thumbs up if you are okay with ending my sentences with prepositions.
The rose is from a small pack of vintage collage papers I picked up in Lisbon. It’s an old decal sticker that you have to soak in water to release. I just glued the entire thing onto my page.
You who love peaches, eat this poem:
From Blossoms
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward
signs painted Peaches.
From laden boughs, from hands
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.
O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into
the round jubilance of peach.
There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.
by Li-Young Lee
Go for a walk in the mountains of Basque country with Julie & Sebastian. You will DIG this video. No kidding allowed on Sundays. Go on press play.
I just ordered an adaptor to connect my laptop to my LCD projector so I can show cool things to the baby werewolves. I can’t wait to get it! After I show THIS to them, we’re going to cut paper, and stick stuff to other stuff and it’s going to be fun! YAAAA YAAAA!!!
V. nice movie.
always love coming here for a taste of what counts amid all this insanity.
chris
thanks for the poem. a perfect complement to wcw’s plums…
and for the trip to portugal…
just took a whirlwind tour through the last month. joy on every page. delight. exuberance. love.
Such beauty and the artists that focus our eyes on it…yours and Julie and Sebastian!
x..x
How big should the panels be? Would masonite be OK? I might know a source for some smallish masonite panels – I think they were about 8×10″ cut for a job they didn’t work out for…I could ask my freind if she still has them.
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Two thumbs up from me. You can phrase you sentences anyway you like. I always enjoy reading your blog. This post was lovely.
I’m thankful for the links you share…Europe, aw, the style…I’d move there in a heartbeat.
Love the Trader Joe’s bags also…I have to remind myself every time I shop there that I have 20 perfectly servicable canvas bags! One of these days, maybe I’ll embellish themm to make them prettier.
Love that poem! I could never understand Eve, giving it up for an apple. Now, a peach….that’s another matter.
Oh Mary Ann, my heart did a little flip when I saw the TJ bags. I was in San Fran last week and I bought that same bag and fairly skipped out of the store with it. The poem is breathtaking, the last verse describes exactly how I felt on Friday sitting for an hour on a bench in the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, lost in the reverie of that place, and the video goes along with that same joy. Thanks for always putting the perfect words to what I am feeling. Great pages as usual, love that decal, reminds me of my Grans kitchen cannisters, they were celadon and she added rose decals.
Oh my God! I have a book of his poetry – I believe the title is The Rose. I adore him. I bought a copy for my father maybe almost 20 years ago. He did not say much about it – never knew if it somehow made him self conscious or he just wasn’t crazy about it. My father was a Keats kind of man.
I very much regret that I did not eat enough peaches this summer.
Yes! Artist and Craftsman! I just bought my first wood panel from them. Good prices.
I remember decals with great affection. My grandmother would add them in subtle little places on the furniture she built. The style of the time was usually two coats of a warm white enamel, wiped off and finished with even warmer toned shellac; then decals or folk painted embellishments. That rose is bigger and fancier than any of hers. Nice to bring that memory to front.
I don’t think I would call Artist and Craftsman Supply “commercial”… excellent wood panels..made in Canada. CHEAP.
xo
I went for a walk and I read the poem and I put them in my heart and I am near to tears…tears filled with appreciation and overwhelming admiration for such creativity.