stream of consciousness word blocks

November was a lot, here's but a little.

I feel a little braindead. A little vacant, a little loose. Not footloose, screw-loose.¹

Oh No, Earthquakes.

Time is passing quickly — the holidays, the end of the year, the short days, the desire to just kick up and watch shows and read and sleep. But I feel restless too — like there’s something else I should be doing with my hands.

With tactile projects in mind I took the four estate-sale sewing machines acquired over the year to the shop to see which, if any, are worth the tune & clean. One I jettisoned (an old Singer that was prettier outside than in) but the rest are having their nethers oiled and timing aligned. Three weeks-ish and then I’ll be unstoppable! Right. I know better than to think having all the tools will unstop the artist’s block… but here we are, Cyber Monday, capstone to our bigge$t holiday weekend. I blame the culture.

My day went like this: I’d planned to go to the jewelry studio but realized I’m out of tarot booklets with a holiday market coming up on Thursday and readings at Cargo every weekend (find me there most Sundays and some Fridays until Christmas!). So I set up to print more but I’m out of cyan ink… so I walk to Office Depot because the sun’s out and I can take care of it today but they only sell multi-packs and I have plenty of the other colors… so I walk back home and have a couple of phone calls and by the time I’m on Amazon it too is only offering multi-packs for overnight delivery. I curse, I buy a feckin multipack. The day is gone.

Another Rice Bowl

I’m in the middle of the second autumn session of Lettie Jane’s Deeper Drawing Saturday class (which I prefer to think of, and describe as, “Art Club” rather than a class but maybe that’s part of my problem come to think? maybe I should actually be trying to learn something?) and since the first one (September 28th, there at the top) all I’ve been doing during are these text drawings/visual prose poems/stream of consciousness word blocks/cadence colorings and 2+ months later … I think I’m stuck in a rut. Which is right there in the second drawing, right? When I find a way that works I work it for awhile. Variations on a theme.

But how’d the date go?