shootingstar

How many residents have you known, had cancer? I know..it's more common than we'd like to know.

What I have noticed, not in this forum but another forum, is other folks who want to appear smart or clever, say the least amount. Then later you learn, they aren't particularily well-read or espouse a very strong extreme opinion. But they appear brilliant initially, because they say a couple of words but don't back up their words with an example or explanation. They refuse to link to sources of info. espousing same strong opinion or evidence...especially on something they never even personally experienced at all. One needs to be careful of such folks on serious topics ie. health, politics, finances, etc. It's pretty terrible to see. A guy who has never been a father of babies and young children started verbally, but politely hammering away on a father of 2 young children, why he couldn't organize his toddler children properly according to time schedule often. Yea, sure. What a clueless. Must be kid who never pees accidentally on their pants at wrong time, never screams, never lost something (ie. a shoe/mitten) or didn't pay attention to daddy.

Pasta. Canned tomato sauce. Bottle of light cooking oil (can use for salad if olive oil), canned soup.

I forgot.

Perfect pic...moment in time since all 4 babies grow big at a fast rate. Or 4 kids will grow fast.

Spotted on Vancouver Island trip. Look forward to your hummingbird photos.

My other 5 siblings majored in a STEM discipline at uni. I fought to major in English lit...my father with good intentions wanted me to get a job by pushing STEM at me. But parents knew deep down, that wasn't me. He settled for my decision, since I have an older cousin who did major in English lit, then got her teaching degree and became an elementary school teacher. Of course, parents were happy I chose my 2nd degree/Master's in library info. science. In the business world, I found writing became very utilitarian and somewhat dull, but always plain language. However I did learn in order to work with clients well and handle change management scenarios is to learn how to tell a useful, preferably arresting business story. Or how to help client articulate their common stories/problems with examples. Then they realize ...more cascading problems. WHich is the whole point of improving things later. Then when I was 50, I learned my father played a Chinese instrument in his teens at boarding school. But he never told us. Then last year we learned and was shown original manuscript of love story (novel) my father wrote in Chinese. He took that secret to his grave. So my artsy leanings inherited a bit.... from father, the guy who didn't want me to major in arts and humanities. Mother is clearly technical: enjoys and does math calculations in her head, drafting sewing patterns from scratch. Last yr. she told me, if she had further education, she would have been an accountant. It's pretty wierd to learn this when she was 89 yrs.

Not sure how other people are like, but here is my tendency: *True zoning out for me, is literally becoming so absorbed in executing colours/shapes properly that I have actually spelled a word wrong, while doing hand calligraphy because I fell in love with letter shapes. If that makes any sense. OR my paintbrush with couple flicks of paint strokes, I've executed the perfect shadow-light combination in a corner of a painting. It's thrilling when latter happens. *For blogging, usually a vague idea or a couple words floats around back of brain for wks. or months. Or I get inspired after looking at a few photos I've taken and will write after some brain incubation. Then I start to write lst few sentences OR I start off with a draft blog title. Usually title gets modified near end. But it's to get some word concepts pulled out and shaped like a weaver's yarn for spinning the entire post. Sometimes I jockey between selecting photos and writing the post. Or I have all my selected photos ready..and then write. It depends which river flow direction I choose. 1 post may be edited 10 or 25 times for wordsmithing. Wordpress software tracks the version. (though doesn't keep version 2 out of ie. 15). As a teen I did write poetry..and won some teen contests. I don't crash. I just finish eventually and satisfied or if done really well, happy the piece is done. I suspect I will struggle a bit with painting because am awfully rusty now.

I hope u find a way to gear down so it’s not a hard landing. I do get into a short mental high zone for a few hrs. Mentally which can be great high. Not always. Sometimes I just do it.

That’s why I take art courses sometimes. Plus learn more skills. I need the rigour of instruction and assignments, plus critiquing by instructor to progress.

So to do faces 3D for a painting, is layering light vs. shade colours, which is not that simple. Especially for finer details of a face, even if it isn't super fine detail. It's not like painting a rock cliff face.

Wouldn't there be a 2nd cut on selection process after lst cut?

Funny. Of course not. This is a class of 25 people in studio with glaring room light. True, classic art class....the hard way, and walking around, seeing how your own colleagues are progressing. There may be a group critique of one's works near end. I have gone through this sort of thing several times in some other courses. But not much of it yet. Just getting the instructor's critique is good enough for me.

What were they good at?

But that doesn't help for some of us who have natural gifts..it develops parts of our brain or otherwise.....we are mentally affected. Or at least it feels like a lower grade of living. I know for myself if I suppress my Muse for several yrs., I do know then, I feel I'm "lacking" brain nourishment. This is why I feel sorry for those, who don't even know they had a natural talent and instead that potential translates in something quite negative and damaging to themselves.