A very few things I'd do if I had money to work with...

For myself, a few coming up. 

The mums btw were saved, if you read about Kings problem with the mums last year. 

A couple bought out Kings mums, so I will begin ordering plants soon after all, this year.
I really missed doing them
Last year. I was learning so much more each year. Surely I have it down now^^!

I could use a greenhouse but have made do.
Here we don't get the sun and warmth to dry the ground to force feed the plants the phosphrous they need for blooms. However, due to the coolness, the blooms last much longer.
Everything's a trade off.
Nothing wrong with making do.
I put my Kiku under the back porch to protect them from damage on the delicate petals because the rain disturbs the bloom.
You learn other ways of accomplishing things, as you do with glazes and throwing pots or designing tiles or sculpting, as the process goes along.

I'd hoped Paul Allen would get involved and save the day for Kings mums. I was sure a man like him  interested. I couldn't think of anyone else in the area who would care one way or the other. I had a hunch, but things worked out. But the nursery has been moved to Oklahoma.

I was hoping he would hear of their plight and get involved, but he is a busy man,

 a fellow Intp plus born a day after me. Amazing man I think. 

I'll be receiving new suzani's this week. 

This isn't one. The palak is not in my budget.
But it's beautiful isn't it. 

My museum will need a few palaks..
I will be posting suzani's as they arrive and after I have them cleaned and pressed...
My daughter gave me one for Christmas!

Below: A silkscreen I got for Christmas, "Finefish", koi, in the shop being framed. 

Remind me of Japan and how much I love that country and admire the esthetic 

And how I'd love to go this spring to view the cherry blossoms. 

I miss my friends in Japan and especially miss Nagaoka in the fall. I'd love to have my own Japanese 16th century style home complete with garden and koi pond. Mums and peonies.

This pillow top arrives Tuesday. 

I got some money for Christmas and temporarily forgot I need a new computer I'm saving for, among other things, and I bought Suzani's  and stuff. Stay tuned. 

Had a nice trip searching for snow over Christmas and New Years I did find some colorful snowy places. The earth is a miracle of beauty and amazement. 

I've had friends, ( men I dated) tell me they'd give me half their lottery winnings just to see what I'd do with the money. 

I have to laugh. 

I do believe most of them meant it. Darn they didn't win! 

As a strong conceptualist, I have an inventive mind. 

 I download ideas like people download facebook. 

It can be frustrating but usually another interesting idea comes along, so I'm always entertained and happy within myself. 

But I do have great ideas arrive that would serve community. Many of them have already.

My strength is in conception. And I see answers to problems. 

Not necessarily in incorporating things which would take a lot of energy with institutions etc like banks, to accomplish them. I've had businesses before and they were successful but I always have to move on to the next idea. 

Still...my library ideas are so unconventional. I wish I wish someone would lend an ear. One library was started when I introduced the idea at a public forum years ago but I moved away and didn't get to oversee it. The wrong person in charge. Changes everything. 

My traveling yurt museum of art. 

Drooling over this incredible proposition. 

Making a difference begins with children, and art. Art anyway isn't what is made. It's a way of thinking. The thought is first. 

BTW Hello Fairbanks Alaska!

Thee Venerable checks out the suzani

Everything has to pass his inspection

Some visitors know that I'm

A collector, and, well, a solitaire, (Alan Watts terminology)

among other things; ( inventor, conceptualist, artist, philosopher, and that I'm

Very interested in such things as libraries, and community, combined with arts. 

... a childrens picture book library

I moved so wasn't there to detail it out so it floundered and never became what was envisioned. 

But I'd still like to do it, and of course I have great ideas for central Asian art to be a part of that. 

But I'm only one part. Without a strong collaborator, someone interested in broad community ideas, I can do nothing really. I need another visionary to help me and to back it. 

So if it happens fine. If not. I'll do something else since I always have many irons in the fire. 

Meanwhile, I was measuring this suzani when The Puddha adopted it. Made in Uzbekistan, on the Silk Road. All silk hand embroidery. 

Oh yes, thinking about fall at Shuksan too. 

I'm going to try to get some Chain Lakes backpacking in

Before snow falls there. Last I hiked in I was rained out.

Here's my fuzzy friend ...

Hihihihi, "I'm just touching it", must be the caption.

Wondering where??? Hm, An arts community in This area of the PNW...

Any idea people reading this?

There's a need for an artists community, and I'd like it to be very reasonable, and be here in my area.
You know artists are amazing community builders, so much so that others like to follow them where they go, and in time they actually destroy the arts community, but they love the freedom of being around artists. I am not talking about people who call themselves artists, and have to write by laws, etc. We all know artists are lawless people.. They're also smart and more in tune and sensate, and they  support each other when they are together is an endeavor, and this is how artists really take off.

 So, we need this community, it could be built of tiny houses, and or wooden yurts.

 It should have gardens, and a community building with community kitchen for various things such as canning food, to use, give, or sell.

 It would need places like community arts spaces, kilns, etc.

 If any One reads this, and is interested, and has more experience than I do with building, etc. I would really like to hear from you!

I offer a photos on your behalf..
...and I have this hope you will read this, a certain person;
 ......born the day after me, who is also an INTP...
............... who is very widely known and had immense experience and can do anything!

Harlequin Ducks on The Elwha River some years ago, found while backpacking..

                                                      Please have a heart.....call me?

These are some of my tiles...

Each tile is 1"x1 1/4"

In relief

Terracotta clay with terrasig. Fired in primitive fire after extensive burnishing by hand. 

Each one is handmade. 

I loved designing tiles.
I realized in that time it was what I most liked to do in clay, above sculpture.
That if conceptualizing and inventing were prohibited, I'd like to have commissions to put these on walls of  museums and  places where they could be enjoyed. Even made by others so they could be part of the process of creation.  They're quite labor intensive.
Therefore expensive.

Then life did it's famous turn around and it was reality therapy time.

I couldn't make art again.
It drifted into years. And maybe someday there will be a comeback.

But you can't always go back to the art you created before.
My designs were stolen from a storage unit, along with family photos etc

No rhyme or reason. Just that what is, is.

But I'm happy to post these terracotta tiles here. Apparently made for a brief showing.
The ones made on porcelain at least made their way into an important collection.

That's nice. And I prefer those over these.

Nothing lasts, is the lesson.

This year there will be no mums cultivated, unless Paul Allen reads my plea to assist Kings Mums in Oregon. It's the only grower in the US.
And I've grown these 4 years only.
Now I don't know. Theirs died due to a new pesticide.
These Kiku, works of art won't grow in my pots this year :-(
Unless Paul Allen or someone else sees the value in helping out.

That's how life is.
Fleeting.
Just like this.
And no one escapes this fact.

The very best anyone can do is trust the heart and be kind.
Having empathy is the greatest gift.
Staying soft.
And not lying to oneself.
Becoming crazed from that.

Grace doesn't encourage thievery.
There are ways love is not loving.
Much has been taken away here.
But much has been given.

What any of us are, is not what we think. Some limited
Thing that needs to grasp and steal and project.
What we are has value intrinsic to itself.

Be Mindful, think before speaking, before acting, before rationalizing, or reacting..

We will wait and see.
What will rise from the ashes of this Phoenix?

These tiles were aptly named.
Burnt Offerings. 

Paul Allen : Attn

Dear Paul

I'm an Intp

I need your help

I think you would be interested ! 

I gave apple the illuminated keyboard!!!

Please contact me !!!

I can design libraries in a way I think you'd be interested in hearing about. 

I need help to save the mums!!!

I really really want to talk with you ! 

Please HELP !

Btw! 

Good work with the hawks !!!