It is showtime tonight and the student exhibit is up, ready to be viewed by the public. We have cleaned the school, hung the paintings, drawings and photographs with care and pride and have cleaned our respective studios. These will be open to the public as well so, like those before me, I have arranged some paintings and hung some of my better drawings on the wall in a display. My paints are out so that others may see the limited pallet that has provided so much color for the past three months. It is a very pretty show and reflects hard work on all of our parts during what was, at least for me, a very difficult and trying session. The mid-session stroke that left my photography teacher partially paralyzed threw a real monkey wrench into my thinking, but I pulled through as did others. We have learned in proportion to how we have participated and that will always be true no matter how much or how well we age.
There are several alumni here this week which makes for fun times. One is a young woman who I had a particularly difficult time with last spring. She believed I had fallen in love with her when a simple gift of farewell and good luck was misinterpreted as something more. I have decided that being friendly and supportive is a better path than being withdrawn and sullen. This is a very Greek cycle. It has been year since the incident occurred so I suppose it is time to the let the water go from under the bridge, over the damn and back out to sea.
Speaking of paths…Another alum is here and next week see begins her journey along the Camino de Santiago, walking the 790 km French route from Pied-de-Port, France to Castello de Santiago, Spain. I have left the hyper-link for a reason. Follow it and find out what it is if you do not already know. I have made it a goal to walk this route in the fall of 2013. Yes, more than a year away, but I have goals to achieve before that in my photography. I’ll talk about that later…
More to come.
JDCM
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