I DO very well realize that this blog post is iffy for many readers, in the TMI zone for sure…but, the process of removing a cast and recasting an injured leg is interesting in its own way…(and, well, it’s my blog and my leg….so delete now if you need to…). The long awaited day came […]
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Tuesday…
The convalescent day moves at a slow pace…maybe the pace of healing itself. It isn’t unpleasant really…just…slow. Stately. But I’m beginning to enjoy convalescence because it brings you so many things…like delicious luncheons brought by friends (THANK YOU Nancy and Ellen…) who stay and tell you stories of the bustle of the world outside in […]
OUT!
Yesterday I got the “get out of jail” card…so we took off It was one of those weird days in Oregon where it sun shines and then rains, repeat…and we were doing a lot of unglamorous errands like recycling styrofoam and old telephones and stuff…returning an unused grab bar to Ace Hardware…you know the kind […]
George and Manuel…
The final final FINAL manuscript proof went to the printer this afternoon for R’s book on Manuel Izquierdo. It will look like this (only R’s name will be on the front cover too): and yesterday George and Phyllis came down to look at the first two parts of the show, which are already up…see here…R […]
Week Two Ahead….
Today marks a week since ankle surgery wherein I have cut my meds in half, RE- learned how to spin around the house in a wheel chair, read a mystery (Archer Mayer…”Tag Man”…a good read and thanks Ellen!) and slept a lot. The first few days I was in bed a lot and have a […]
Day 6…
Today is going to be bath day…but first I had to pop up and roll around the house in the dark…first things first, turn on the COFFEE!!! now to peek out the front door…the church across the street has its lights on early this morning ((oops…it’s Sunday…I’ve lost track) it’s dark in here… Bath time…wrap […]
Aventura….
New adventure…a few clues like…1963 and 2012…. building preparation… …tools trip…hallucination…?? mood elevation…!!! Home to heal!
Manuel Izquierdo at the Hallie Ford Museum, Part 1
Part one of the Manuel Izquierdo show is up at the Hallie Ford Museum of art in the study gallery and the print study room upstairs. It will be up until mid-February, so you’ll have plenty of time to see the work. On January 18th the big main floor galleries will open with a retrospective […]
Living the Creative Life: Leonard Ruder
Portland painter Leonard Ruder died a few years ago after a long and productive life as a painter. He was born in 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, and studied art at The Cranbrook Academy there. He came west in the 1950’s with his artist friend Hank Kowert to study more, to paint, and to begin his […]
Celebrating Roger Hull
Born in Tennessee, spending his first year in Brooklyn, growing up in Salamanca, NY, and then Wallace, ID…Roger was on the move early. The oldest of six children, he had at least a couple of years on his own before the others arrived… Maybe that’s enough of the story except to say he is a […]
On The Way 