Day Two. I'll need a nap today!

Well, here I am!
No, not in this picture. That was a happier time when the computer was far away and left home to fend for itself.
It's DAY TWO of my adventure into blog world and I survived! I was up until 4 AM, which I'm finding out is normal hours for many bloggers, especially those with little kids. The Night is the art bloggers friend!!!
I noticed NoodleandLou.etsy.com working after midnight. How do you people do this!?
Flor Larios Art!
Now YOU are the best thing since sliced bread. My first official Follower! I am flabbergasted by your ability to find me and awestruck by your beautiful art. You are the success story we all strive for.
Well, it's back to the salt mines of wingnut- self taught-blog building. You other blogger artistes are beatin' me with a stick and I hate looking like a slacker! Perhaps I'll post some more of my art today or share some lovely Christmas ideas if I can figure it out.
Have a happy day,
Ronnie
aka Joe's stove operator living in a small town in Georgia

Shock and Awe!

Chicks Night Out! Won a yellow ribbon!

I entered this 30 something" x 48" acrylic on canvas
at Arts Clayton Gallery and it won!
It was a huge and wonderful surprise.

I did. So can you!

First Post! First Blog!

I don't know what I'm doing! It's 1:36 AM ET and I finally have THIS!
Woopedy Doo!
Sometimes I get good ideas in my sleep. See you tomorrow. I mean today...later...
gator.

Elder Wisdom

What is man

without the animals?

If all the beasts

were gone, man would die

from a great

loneliness of spirit.

For whatever happens

to the beasts,

soon happens to man.

-Chief Seattle

I have always been drawn to the wisdom of the elders of the past, especially those who have a strong connection to the earth. I recently found these pictures that I had done years ago, and thought they would illustrate Chief Seattle's wise words quite well.

His warning is even more meaningful today, as we hear almost daily of another species of plant or animal becoming threatened, endangered or extinct.

Public self/Private self

Among other things, this is a blog of self-discovery for me. Currently I'm trying to reconcile the old corporate-me, the ongoing mommy-me, and the newly emerging me. (I have no title for this new me yet.)

The new me is trying to find balance between ongoing responsibilities and interests and important new interests such as environmental issues, art and self-expression (both visually and in writing), the need to begin to travel again and document it for the first time, and whatever burning interest I may discover tomorrow.

Today I am pondering the following quote:

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion;

It is easy in solitude to live after our own;

But the great (wo)man is (s)he who

in the midst of the crowd

keeps with perfect sweetness

the independence of solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson