The fish barrette, the happy couple and Luigi

Whoa. Call it a funk. Not the bring me higher sounds of Earth, Wind and Fire, but the low down, shit this sucks kind of funk. Maybe all I really needed was to get orange and turquoise out of my system.

2019 ~Not going to happen since the pantone color of the year is coral and I just bought some amazing sleeping beauty turquoise heishi’s. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ’™ lol ๐Ÿ˜‚ ๐Ÿงก. I pick this up months after Luigi has flown home to Katie and the funk though still exists is sometimes rocked to the real with actual funk ๐ŸŽถ ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŽธ๐ŸŽน๐ŸŽต.

#inspirationmovemebrightly

Things to keep me moved.

January is always a challenge for us in the interior, it takes a special kind of human to maintain optimism through extreme cold and endless darkness. There’s a man in town, he lives outside. – 37 below zero and his shoes are made of cardboard, duct tape and hopefully some kind of insulation. He drags his belongings on a cardboard sled, builds shelter from the same. Pretty sure this man isn’t worried about perfection because he lives his life suffering for what he thinks are the sins of others. Hardship doesn’t seem challenging as he goes from one end of town to the other. And every day, he lives as a symbol most are too blind to see.

I need only to live up to my own expectations, in control of myself, I’m clearly unable to assign blame to anyone or anything, for my actions and reactions. Though on a lighter note, I often like to lay blame for small beading errors on weed strains ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿ’š.

As an artist in 2018, I found myself walking up uninspired. Sometimes life and society make you want to bead a billboard, other time, hiding in your studio staring blankly at a rainbow of beads , feeling insufferable sadness and guilt for not being enlightened by such magic. Then I think of a wall, or a dead child, or any other civil right violation our government/society committed on a daily basis. Bead a flower, make something beautiful…I’ll try ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜‰โ˜ฎ๏ธ๐ŸŒŽ

In regards to the fish barrette. Don’t steal. Especially don’t steal from me. It doesn’t help keep me inspired and you’re thieving existence is a harm to society. They were not a happy couple.