I can't believe it's only 11:35, this record will no doubt hold for the rest of the semester for the earliest time I've been home after painting and ceramics
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I want a house like that someday...fleur_deliciousJanuary 30 2006, 07:39:59 UTC
"My tea cups are elegant and the saucers are each nicely burnished and complimentary." - you are SO my hero, natalie! Congrats! I can't wait to see these someday! (remember, I'm going to collect on that promise of wheel lessons)
"I was thinking about this the other day, if I had grown up without much means, would I have still chosen to become an artist? ... Would money have determined nothing?..."
I think we all make this choice no matter where we come from. I think it's less to do with means and more to do with knowing what you need from life. I struggle with my boss about this almost daily. He can't fathom someone who'd rather have time than money.
I'd be VERY interested in seeing what you come up with for your worship talk, Missy. I know we've talked about this before, and I'm right there with you on #2. Absolutely. I was thinking about this today, and how I can't value anything I do if it's not the product of blood, sweat, and tears. What the heck IS that?
Re: I want a house like that someday...theninthmonthJanuary 30 2006, 12:56:27 UTC
I feel like "choosing the hard route" has been in a piece of everything I do, even down to who I date. I remember times as a kid and I would ask my dad, "why"? and he would say "because it's the right thing to do". And I so wanted to be right. Unfortunately what I had to do was usually very difficult. ugh. I'd love to talk with you more about this some time.
You've got artistic gifts (I love how she said you're 'classical') and the means to follow them. Isn't that something great?
I was thinking about this on the bus ride last night back from Venice. Surprise surprise, I was reading Byron, and it kept hitting me how with certain people, wealth, talent, and the proper circumstances all come together (dude discovered coal under his backwoods family land just when he was looking to sell). Your (our) circumstances aren't quite so extreme, and I hate to get all flight-to-egypty, but maybe the trick is just learning how to give our gifts away.
how very buddhist of you ;) I too have felt this way, and felt it extremely so while in india. I thought to myself "what good is a painting, when these people need food", but maybe it just transcends all of that? "flight-to-egypty" ha!
no kidding. my goal in life is to be a secret buddhist.
by the way I was just sitting here at school (in Italy yo) talking about growing up, with Chris Young! He went to CHS, a year younger. This is going to get really goofy, but who is that girl I had a crush on in middle school who ended up dating Phairdoh for a couple of years? Maybe this is email material.
Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci
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January 31 2006, 01:25:30 UTC
Leo wasn't a farmer, he was the bastard son of a Florentine notary who was sent to Florence to become an artistic apprentice because he could not carry on the work or title of his father, and he was an artistic and mechanical genius. He took full advantage of his innate talents and used them to influence the world around him, as should you; however, his true artistic and engineering dreams were earth bound by monentary constraints, as are yours.
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"I was thinking about this the other day, if I had grown up without much means, would I have still chosen to become an artist? ... Would money have determined nothing?..."
I think we all make this choice no matter where we come from. I think it's less to do with means and more to do with knowing what you need from life. I struggle with my boss about this almost daily. He can't fathom someone who'd rather have time than money.
I'd be VERY interested in seeing what you come up with for your worship talk, Missy. I know we've talked about this before, and I'm right there with you on #2. Absolutely. I was thinking about this today, and how I can't value anything I do if it's not the product of blood, sweat, and tears. What the heck IS that?
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I was thinking about this on the bus ride last night back from Venice. Surprise surprise, I was reading Byron, and it kept hitting me how with certain people, wealth, talent, and the proper circumstances all come together (dude discovered coal under his backwoods family land just when he was looking to sell). Your (our) circumstances aren't quite so extreme, and I hate to get all flight-to-egypty, but maybe the trick is just learning how to give our gifts away.
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"flight-to-egypty" ha!
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by the way I was just sitting here at school (in Italy yo) talking about growing up, with Chris Young! He went to CHS, a year younger. This is going to get really goofy, but who is that girl I had a crush on in middle school who ended up dating Phairdoh for a couple of years? Maybe this is email material.
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