![]() And I’m not on Front Street when I say I bought a 37 Chevy a 59 panhead & my own shop to tinker around on it all through selling Art. Sometimes it gets me down other times I’m stoked on it & increasingly I just don’t care. My work in fiction, poetry & painting has been mostly ignored by the establishment. I am still a lowly civil servant when it comes down to it creeping up on 20 years of City service. Hours & hours go by in minutes & I got the tunes going, books open & I’m MOVING, getting surprised & baffled & turning corners … I don’t post everything I make & I don’t want to front like all the galleries are beating down my door or front like the paintings are sold before the paint is dry. ![]() It never stops challenging me - working the drawings & pushing the surfaces experimenting with materials. Man I am so lucky & so grateful I found this Artist life. When they asked him why it had to be that way, well, he answered, just because What else shall we discuss here -the biography of Samuel Steward? My new yoga shorts? The bonding process of Holland Lops? Transcendental Meditation? Haaaaa, as my man Bob said:Īlways on the outside of whatever side there was I hear the snide comments & I wanna tell you all, I appreciate it so much. Going on a social media app in my 40’s talking about yoga & bunnies & typing my poems out. Tell somebody on a construction site you’re working on a new book of poetry or a new painting & let me know how it goes. Even in my lifetime cops & firefighters & athletes used to look down on tattoos. To not be accepted to not be “cool.” Everything is cool now. If I’m totally honest there’s part of me, a large part, that likes this. (I applied for an entry level janitor position, twice.) My writing was & continues to be widely turned down. I graduated San Diego State with a degree in journalism & couldn’t even get a job as a god damn janitor at the Union Tribune. The poetry thing has never been a good talking point in the circles I run in.Īn old school tatt guy I knew told me the answer to every poem is to suicide or not to suicide. Not an opportunist or a social climber … Easy & difficult to get a hold of. ![]() I want some how to earn being valuable, trustworthy, earnest & both close to the streets & way up in the cosmos. I don’t want to be “cool” or trendy or popular. ![]() Yoga every day coming up on 2 years … I yearn to change my attitude to be a good example, making difficult decisions when they count most - hanging tough when things get dicey. I say hello to dogs & to strangers & I am beginning to see the look on my face change & I’m dead ass sober as a judge 7 months in a row & it is very emotional. I’ve shifted so much of my negative self talk to prayers for truth & mercy & awareness … breathing exercises - all the Gods all the spirits every single one of the saints both living & deceased, I apologize quickly. It doesn’t happen very often when I’m working off a drawing I did same day, & am so thrilled to get in the studio & work it out. ![]()
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