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November 18 I"m Here"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own and you know what you know. You are the guy who"ll decide where to go." -Dr. Seuss
Yes, I'm still here. I've become addicted to Facebook! It is fast and allows one to comment to many folks without having to find them and then get to "comments." It is so immediate! But I do enjoy this venue also and I'm always trying to get to it.
I've been traveling and will continue on that track for the remainder of the year. I must go back to Nevada to hang a show at the Valley of Fire at the end of this month. When that show is finished we hang another show at Lost City Museum. We are becoming regulars at Lost City Museum. Revenues are down in this economy, but folks are still traveling and still buying our paintings, only not in the volume they have in years past.
At the beginning of December I'm off to Louisiana with friends. We will meet in New Orleans then drive to Grand Coteau, just north of Lafayette, to attend one of Father Tom's retreats. After the four day retreat we will drive to Natchez because one of our friends is a Civil War buff (he favors the Union) because while he has visited many sites on the Union side, he has not visited any sites on the Confederate side. I'm not a Civil War afficianado - all the sites I've visited have made me very, very sad. We will go back to New Orleans for two days romping in the Vieux Carre. One of our group has never been to New Orleans (can you imagine?) I'm the "tour director" on this trip and I've left not a whit of time unscheduled.
Thanksgiving is fast approaching and so far we have gathered several friends to share the day with us. I calculate twelve for dinner and who knows how many for dessert. Shay and Frank love the big gatherings that we so often assemble for holidays. Christy and I do also! Of course, there will be a BIG Christmas Party again this year. We combine the Christmas Party with my sobriety anniversary (26 years) so we lose track of who we have invited and have come to treat it as an Open House.
I'm so happy to have all this activity in my life. I still miss Dean - perhaps moreso today than I did the first year he was gone. I've decided that I'll probably never adjust to his absence and that there will always be a hole in my life. What I concentrate on, though, is how joyous I am that I had him for so many years and that I have been loved and cherished and I treasure the memories.
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