I have been rather productive. After much fickle-pouting, I have managed to change my discipline and let go of parts of my old routine. I accept less excuses from myself regarding appropriate work times, widened my foresight on scheduling time to work, and each week reduce by small amounts the pieces or experiences my life doesn’t require. It is gratifying.

I have found, with great contrast, that simple and effective meditation, even in small, concentrated doses of five minutes, make a huge and significant impact on my day-to-day life when compared to skipping the practice.

I have a sudden obsession with pink symbolic items: doors, rollers, squares. Pink is popping up throughout my life unexpectedly but with grand welcome. However, I am not working with the color pink.

New images are on the way, the ability to comment will just magically appear at some unforeseen moment, and now, at the end of this short post, an art quote:

“I’m amazed and excited and fascinated about the way things are thrust at us, the way this invisible screen that’s a couple of feet in front of our mind and our senses is attacked by radio and television and visual communications, through things larger than life, the impact of things thrown at us, at such speed and with such force that painting and the attitudes toward painting and communication through doing painting now seem very old fashioned…” - James Rosenquist, from the book American Artists On Art: From 1940 To 1980 edited by Ellen H. Johnson, excerpted from G. R. Swenson “‘What is Pop Art?’ Answers from 8 Painters,” Part 1, Art News (November 1963)