I love writing notes to friends. Especially thank you notes.
These are the notes I'm sending as postcards for my most recent birthday...
"Tank you very much!!"
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Birthday thank you notes...
I love making my own cards.
I love writing notes to friends. Especially thank you notes.
These are the notes I'm sending as postcards for my most recent birthday...
I love writing notes to friends. Especially thank you notes.
These are the notes I'm sending as postcards for my most recent birthday...
Monday, May 28, 2007
The luxury of the long weekend.
Time is one of those crazy concepts that I will never understand.
It flies when you're having fun. It stands still or it is running out.
It's on your hands. You'll do something in the nick of it. It heals all wounds. You can time out. You can have time trials. You can keep time. Time can be up. Whew.
Cyndi Lauper and Hootie and his Blowfish sang about it. (Separately, but that would make a seriously strange muscial collaboration.)
It's about 4:25pm here.
Regardless of how crazy time makes me...it certainly went fast on this long, wonderful, holiday weekend.
Time in.
It flies when you're having fun. It stands still or it is running out.
It's on your hands. You'll do something in the nick of it. It heals all wounds. You can time out. You can have time trials. You can keep time. Time can be up. Whew.
Cyndi Lauper and Hootie and his Blowfish sang about it. (Separately, but that would make a seriously strange muscial collaboration.)
It's about 4:25pm here.
Regardless of how crazy time makes me...it certainly went fast on this long, wonderful, holiday weekend.
Time in.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Long time no post.
Yesterday was the big birthday. Not technically a "big" birthday...like 30 or something...but it was the date of my birth. In honor of my 24th year I've decided to mark each day with an inspiration. Perhaps it's a picture, a quote, a person, a movement, whatever it is, I need to record it.
Here's the moment of yesterday:
I can't explain how fired up I became after reading it. I think it'll be plastered all over my office from now on. Along with a list from the wish jar.
Here's the moment of yesterday:
I can't explain how fired up I became after reading it. I think it'll be plastered all over my office from now on. Along with a list from the wish jar.
And here's a photo from today:
My couch. Actually my grandparents' couch from WAY back in the day. The couch actually pre-dates me. This couch (Loveseat honestly. The couch that matched was taken to goodwill on a tearful day due to a move. The move went sour and I lost the big couch. It was terribly sad.) was in both of my college apartments and has come with me ever since. The cushions, however beautiful the pattern may seem in this photo, have nearly sunk to the floor, but I still sit in it nightly, curling to fit on it's smallness and struggling to find that comfortable oldness that it brings. I love the couch, but I think it's nearing it's final hours. Regardless of how worn it might be, it's timeless. (According to me, and perhaps no one else.)
Monday, May 21, 2007
What color are you?!
| YELLOW |
You are very perceptive and smart. You are clear and to the point and have a great sense of humor. You are always learning and searching for understanding.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
More than ambition.
Today I had a review of sorts to talk about my goals. (in life, in work, etc).
"I constantly set higher and higher expectations for myself. No matter how great the outcome, I constantly want to be better."
I suppose you call that "ambition."
Do you ever feel like ambition is too generic and weak of a word? I mean what else would you use?
"I constantly set higher and higher expectations for myself. No matter how great the outcome, I constantly want to be better."
I suppose you call that "ambition."
Do you ever feel like ambition is too generic and weak of a word? I mean what else would you use?
Monday, May 14, 2007
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Jen's graduating!
Wow. My little sister is graduating: college. Congratulations Jennifer! How thrilling!!
And here, in honor of you, the lyrical stylings of Screech Powers (those crazy Bayside kids!)
And here, in honor of you, the lyrical stylings of Screech Powers (those crazy Bayside kids!)
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Online Inspiration...
After a fairly dull evening of postcard making, I came across Jen Stark online.
I had that holy cow breathless thing going as I scrolled through her works.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Edward Hopper. and my minor obsession.
It's such a beautiful day today. WOW. Too bad my office is windowless...actually at times I am thankful for it; if i saw what it was like outside I might not get any work done!
Ever since Aviya, my non-fiction writing teacher in college who to this day is one of the biggest influences I've had in my life even if it was only two short semesters, had us read Mark Strand's book on Edward Hopper's paintings, I've been hooked.
That short, light, clean book changed the way I looked at art, the way I experienced it and, most importantly for that particular class, the way I wrote honestly and passionately about art (and everything else for that matter).
I wasn't even sure I liked Hopper prior to that book. I mean he's alright, but after reading Strand's account you cannot help but be consumed by the vacant characters on the canvas and the saturated but weary colors. In short, I devoured it. Consuming each painting, each page with the enthusiam I've only when reading dramatic novels. You should read it!
I drove all the way to Chicago to see "Nighthawks" at the Art Institute...should have checked first because it was definitely out on loan...but that's serious dedication to the book.
NOW...I'll be in Boston while Hopper is... Not him physically, obviously, but this is going to be there. (Sigh) Finally we shall meet Mr. Hopper. I just wish Mark Strand was there to narrate my visit. When you check out this site, look at the sketchbook feature. It's awesome!
See...just a minor obsession.
(Thanks to the Smithsonian American
Art Museum and their Hopper scrapbook.)
Ever since Aviya, my non-fiction writing teacher in college who to this day is one of the biggest influences I've had in my life even if it was only two short semesters, had us read Mark Strand's book on Edward Hopper's paintings, I've been hooked.
That short, light, clean book changed the way I looked at art, the way I experienced it and, most importantly for that particular class, the way I wrote honestly and passionately about art (and everything else for that matter).
I wasn't even sure I liked Hopper prior to that book. I mean he's alright, but after reading Strand's account you cannot help but be consumed by the vacant characters on the canvas and the saturated but weary colors. In short, I devoured it. Consuming each painting, each page with the enthusiam I've only when reading dramatic novels. You should read it!
I drove all the way to Chicago to see "Nighthawks" at the Art Institute...should have checked first because it was definitely out on loan...but that's serious dedication to the book.
NOW...I'll be in Boston while Hopper is... Not him physically, obviously, but this is going to be there. (Sigh) Finally we shall meet Mr. Hopper. I just wish Mark Strand was there to narrate my visit. When you check out this site, look at the sketchbook feature. It's awesome!
See...just a minor obsession.
(Thanks to the Smithsonian American
Art Museum and their Hopper scrapbook.)
Monday, May 7, 2007
Monday Monday.
Here are ten wonderful things that made my weekend great:
1- Laundry day. Ten loads later you can see my bedroom floor.
2- Illustrated children's encyclopedia from the salvation army.
3- Kate goes to prom.
4- Soul 4 Real on the dance floor
5- Driving through town and loving it.
6- Student employees.
7- Dreamgirls on dvd.
8- Late night, or should I say midnight, pancakes on campus.
9- Pasta a la Jeffrey.
10- Grilling in the rain.
1- Laundry day. Ten loads later you can see my bedroom floor.
2- Illustrated children's encyclopedia from the salvation army.
3- Kate goes to prom.
4- Soul 4 Real on the dance floor
5- Driving through town and loving it.
6- Student employees.
7- Dreamgirls on dvd.
8- Late night, or should I say midnight, pancakes on campus.
9- Pasta a la Jeffrey.
10- Grilling in the rain.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Creative.
Somedays I feel like I'm losing it.
Not "it" but my creativity. It used to circulate with my hemoglobin. I breathed it in with my oxygen. Maybe it was college and the vivid glow of campus life... but lately, although I'm on a campus in a different capacity, I feel void of it. I've recently started creating one of these visual journals I see so many inspirational photos of on my blogs.
I am obsessed with blogs...I read these daily.....
...and find lots of creativity pulsing on the browser.
Fortunately I have taken the first step- identifying the problem.
Check out this article (that I have read often) from Mr. MacLeod at gapingvoid.com:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html
Not "it" but my creativity. It used to circulate with my hemoglobin. I breathed it in with my oxygen. Maybe it was college and the vivid glow of campus life... but lately, although I'm on a campus in a different capacity, I feel void of it. I've recently started creating one of these visual journals I see so many inspirational photos of on my blogs.
I am obsessed with blogs...I read these daily.....
Fortunately I have taken the first step- identifying the problem.
Check out this article (that I have read often) from Mr. MacLeod at gapingvoid.com:
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000932.html
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Happy May Day!
Oh May Day. I remember working during class at Hayes Catholic Elementary school...rolling cones of colored copier paper decorated with crayon drawn flowers and potentially, if we were good first graders, glitter. It's a beautiful May Day here in Iowa. Fresh breezes, bright sun and light air...too bad I'm in the office and not our prancing around the town. If I would have thought further into this brilliant day I could have made my very own baskets for the staff. Maybe next year. Enjoy the spring weather and the first of May.
Delicious thank you from my students...
Delicious thank you from my students...
Originally uploaded by palmer1007.
Last night we had our last meeting for the semester and I was given this huge basket of delicious cookies! As if spending time together wasn't nice enough...they had me a giant bundle of sugary thank yous.
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