Living life in-between
“He’s a man in his glory a boy in his dreams And he’s living his life in between Tomorrow will answer yesterdays Dreams While today he is living in between” Pathway to Glory, Loggins and Messina […]
Being that certain age
Ran across this and absolutely had to quote it: Woman of a certain age: A woman who, through living a full and interesting life for many years, has decided to not give a shit about […]
I’ll smoke again when I’m 90
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/09/21/leonard-cohen-smoking-again/16006311/ Leonard Cohen decided he’d start smoking again when he turned 80 and that seems to have stirred a bit of discussion. On one side are those that are babbling that It is not a […]
Welcome to This Next Step!
This Next Step is home to several creative works-in-progress that have evolved by slowly taking one step and then taking the next. What began as a casual suggestion by a friend to take a painting class turned into […]
Old
This weekend the reality that my prime work years are behind me and that I should have already transitioned into management has hit hard. At this point I should be grooming younger employees to move […]
About Creating
The art, the writing, the poetry are all process. It, whatever IT is at the moment, does not have to be perfect, or even stamped as “good” by some outside authority. It is a […]
Finding where you can grow
There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open […]
Clarity for the New Year
This holiday break has brought awareness to a new found sense of clarity and calm. Doing nothing has allowed me to take stock of this moment in time and I am very grateful for this […]
About Art
Found this post via Freshly Pressed http://stoneofdestiny.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/the-mirror/ Among other thought provoking things, the author writes, “And that’s the thing about art: sometimes it is ugly and vulgar and even poorly crafted, but those are not the […]
So what do I have to say?
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” F. Scott Fitzgerald There is an art project that has been on my mind for about 2 years […]