We’ve began a three month family plan: a checklist for hitting the road in a travel camper come spring, a bunch of paintings and enough CDs to sprinkle around for gas money and electric hookup. No, not really. I’m afraid the plan is going to be a little more boring. Like putting together our taxes, [...] Continue Reading »
finding happiness in work: advice to the younger me
2all a flutter in here. and what about this rain?
2Because of the truck incident (see Wake Up Call) we didn’t get to go to the Hamilton family reunion this year. Levon worked that day and I felt rather mopey so I called Grandmother on the hill to hear about what food she was bringing. My Aunt Gail answered and we talked about the karaoke [...] Continue Reading »
going broody
2Often pregnant animals feel a “nesting” instinct which causes them to prepare for the arrival of their newborns. I’m a typical pregnant lady in that this has been my experience, though the expression of this instinctual urge seems a tad severe. I was not content with a fresh coat of nursery paint and scrubbing the [...] Continue Reading »
artist statement: opening tonight 7-9 at Lox in the Old City
0[ from a. addair who is listening to Adam Whipple (Old Skin Horse) ] This work is a way for me to understand the world around me, to internalize abstract experiences, and to relax into what is already there. It’s a thinking process that is teaching me to hang my bits of paper and [...] Continue Reading »
i must have got hit by a car this morning, or bit by a rabid dog last week
0I waited until I heard the birds to get up. This is the part where I write out everything wrestling in my mind and then either hit publish or delete. On the file cabinet across the room is a completed packet to give DHS and sign up for Tenn Care. We’ve already met and are [...] Continue Reading »
schedules and to do lists
9I’m about to go off script. Up to this point, I’ve managed my seasons and hours by periodically getting quiet to evaluate my values and priorities. I made outlines of how my days would look. Early on, it was detailed to the point of half hour intervals; more recently it has evolved toward general designated [...] Continue Reading »
the story you get and the story you have
6(by Levon who is still listening to Tyler James, “It took the fire”) With renewed vigor I’ve come home to Knoxville determined to do something. I still don’t have the what exactly, but I’ve got the where. Kentucky and Virginia are forever our family homes, but this is the place that we’ve come, left, returned [...] Continue Reading »
hooray for two years
4Around two years have passed since this blog began, or really the tangents of Facebook notes which would lead your humble narrator to believe that a blog might be worthwhile, if only to himself. Ashley and I were, in those days, feeling the indescribable itch to make it all stop. And so, in such a [...] Continue Reading »
imaginative conflict
0[ from a. addair who is listening to Flight of the Conchords (Flight of the Conchords) ] “To a large extent , culture is a set of expectations. How will we behave toward one another? What can we expect from our fellow citizens? What does the community expect of us? What are the unspoken rules [...] Continue Reading »
student artists around here
0Last night we stopped by for the opening East TN Regional Student Art Exhibition at the Knoxville Museum of Art. 329 works of 6-12 graders were jury selected to be honored and awarded in the museum. We choose our favorite three to share. It was a three way tie for us, but the camera died [...] Continue Reading »