i'm doing an experiment. i recently sold my second ever commissioned painting...
which is amusing because it almost makes me sound like an artist,
but not really because of the fact that they were at least 5 years apart,
and it wasn't 5 years because i was spending so long perfecting my craft,
but more because i wasn't painting at all for that stretch.

i took a picture of the painting on my iPhone camera,
and wondered when i'd be able to get a good camera.
my digital just up and quit working on me a while back.
i kept it though, hoping it might be like some of my other faulty electronics.
so i hauled it out and tried it.
lo and behold, it had indeed raised itself from the dead.
my film camera got pulled out of the closet, too.

my friend katy does some amazing stuff that inspired me
(not to mention made me miss florida horribly...this has been happening a lot lately)
and my mom reminded me that because most of my pictures go on facebook she never sees pictures....
so i'm doing a little experiment that i'm sure will fall apart very soon,
but that's why i dubbed it experimental, because experiments are allowed to go differently than anticipated.

picture of the day: pieces of my life through my 1/2 inch lens

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
-tp

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i am much more alright after a really good *ahem* study talk with some great people, some brownie batter pretending to be actual brownies, and another long talk with dear sara.
thank you sara. for giving me the hard things in such a simple way.

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they've got way more to worry about than me, he said, so I'm going to let them & we finished our beer & agreed the world needed more expansive souls like ourselves
-ba

nice.

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