Are you kidding me?

I've had a migraine for 4 days...its unbelievable.

Just a thought

or two.

One. I've had it with the DMV and their ridiculous bullshit. It is not fair to charge me arbitrarily for years after a ticket with no reason other than you feel like it. I need that 125 dollars and I'll need it next year to. You, DMV, do NOT need it. I am sure of that.

Two. Why is it that no one is Maryland is capable of operating a vehicle? Did they even have to take a test to get their license? Are they aware of the purpose of the YIELD sign? or the MERGE RIGHT sign? Apparently not. I have nearly died at least 15 times in the last two weeks due to the failure of other drivers to follow these signs correctly.

Three. That's all, except I sure do wish adobe would hurry up and work already.



grouch grump grouse

I Just lost 6 hours

to Photoshop!

but here is some of what I've learned:

Lesbians are to folk music as...

ducks are to water.

It's just true and I was reminded of it all over again last night as a lovely woman leaned over to me laughing and said into my ear " oh you know, it wouldn't be one of "those" parties if we didn't get out the guitar. And then there was a round of singing.

Actually tho, the host sang very beautifully and the lovely woman sat down and sang harmony and for a moment it was so different from anything I had ever really been to. Everyone was sitting around, listening and giving each other laughing smiles and some were singing along. The songs were harmonic versions of men's songs...so it was strange to hear these words sung by two women and then a crowd of women start hollaring out the chorus.

I met many, many women last night and had a long moment with one in the form of across the room stares. She was truly lovely and unusual and of course I said and did nothing except nervously clutch my Red Stripe and chat with my roomi J. and of course everyone thought we were a couple because roomi J said things like " well we are looking to move into a house that is in Edgewater, we really like that neighborhood" or "oh an event in DC...Keziah you can skip work right? Just give her the flyer we'll go!" My entire night was in the form of WE and to me it was entirely funny that she was so unaware of the rampant assumptions going on around her.

As I Was Walking One Day

My roomi J and I went on a great adventure today!

We went into the woods and got lost and made some art and laughed and talked and assured each other the path would show back up and vowed that there was no one else we'd be rather lost with and in the end returned to our car sweaty and worn out and much closer.

I think that since I realized that I have been unhappy because I haven't been making art and decided to do something about it I've actually been so very happy and had such lovely things happen. I've produced more in the last week and a half than I have in months. I've started on a learning curve that is terrifyingly steep and instead of being dismayed, I am thrilled. I feel the way I used to when a roller coaster was clicking its way up to the first peek, anticipation ringing through me.

Today I made this:





We came upon a pile of bricks, it looked as tho a house had simply fallen down one day in the middle of the woods and been left there to become a part of the natural decay. Of course, I immediately asked my roomi J to lay down on the bricks...and to my surprise she did. She is a lovely model and unusual, so I feel as tho the images I can make with her are a whole new breed of work.

Who says muses aren't still about?

Quiet Waters

Sometimes when hiking in the woods you happen upon a summit that is so surprising and beautiful you just don't know what to do.





I love this place.