Today

After checking today’s SilverSneakers reblog about “carry” exercise, I have some fun morning chores laid out today — get a new belt for my now saggy pants (see the new My Yesterday in Pictures post) at one of Sheila’s many store-favs, Kohl’s 😊; then onto Michaels across the road to see if I can find a 1/4 inch mop brush I like. The one’s I have right now are way too big for my current needs, lol!

After that, home for a concentrated day of art related activity – set up my new projector, see ‘bout hooking up my iPhone to it, and trying out how clear the projected images show up; plus, have to prep an 80’s abstract for delivery to my 1st art venue with Creative Arts Society since about 2010 when we moved to Galveston, then Vermont, after Sheila & I both retired (and then went on to Paris for a bit).

This abstract is unfortunately on paper, and was framed a long time ago, lol! I need to take the red metal frame apart and clean both the glass and the mat of dust etc. In the “old” days I had a full framing table set up, but not anymore! But I’ll get it done. Delivery for hanging through the end of the year is Monday morning. I’ll be sure & do pictures and a post on that after 😊

It’s supposed to be a gorgeous sunny day in the 70s!

Gonna hold the weatherman to it! 😊

Yesterday

Listening to Stevie Nicks (circa ‘81) – Edge of Seventeen (live & recorded versions), Rhiannon, Stop Dragging My Heart Around (w/Tom Petty), Leather and Lace (w/Don Henley – Eagles) ; Mel Carter (Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me – ‘65) ; Those Magic Changes (Grease – ‘78)

Yesterday was a brutally satisfying day of chores, early rising, the grandson, exercising, grocery stores, weather, and art material deliveries via Amazon. But I want to carry on a tiny bit more about music, carrying forward from yesterday’s My Day Ahead post (with memories of listening to Bruce Springsteen ❤️ )

Music, evidently, links areas of the brain not normally lighting up together, has parallels to cursive writing, and may by-pass parts of the brain to help folks dealing with Parkinson’s Disease!

And of course, music crosses cultures and languages across vast ages.

I believe most if not all the arts do something similar.
Speak to all people – touch us deeply.

Whether the art is visual or audible or tactile, or combinations of any of our senses and imaginations, it touches us somehow.

A visual work of art sends light waves to our eyes that touch sensors that suggest through associations within us, feelings and memories, hopes and dreams, ideas and plans.

Each art form touches us distinctly and immediately.

It is our gift. It is our treasure.

It is us…. 💕

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• The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.18.2January 22, 2021
  “The room around them returned slowly. People approached. Congratulating them. On the show, on their togetherness. ‘Your show looks fabulous,’ Rosetta said to Arturo, ‘Macario came through.'”
• January 21, 2021 – Inauguration Day, The Day After – An Energy’s Been Unleashed!January 21, 2021
  “I couldn’t decide what I’d write today!…And there can only be one reason – other than we’re one day closer to Valentines Day, my wife’s fav ❤️ — A new day has risen for America! For all of us who want it.”
• The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.18.1January 21, 2021
  “Arturo caught sight of Rosetta and immediately felt his heart expand. Her legs split the fold in her dress as she stepped….”
• January 20, 2021 – Inauguration Day, A Promise of a PromiseJanuary 20, 2021
  I’ve seen Inauguration Days since I was a kid, beginning with John F. Kennedy’s. (video – https://youtu.be/PEC1C4p0k3E) I still remember how thrilled I was, and then, how shocked, when he said we should ask not what our country can do for us, but what we could do for our country, lol! What! Me? I was barely ten!
• The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.17.5January 20, 2021
  “A brief gust shook the large panes ever so slightly, barely a tremor of vibration. ‘I think it’s her….'”
• January 19, 2021 – My Latest Images (Paintings, Digital, Photos) on Fine Art AmericaJanuary 19, 2021
  “The funny thing is, this was to be a simple formatting job, getting the images I wanted into this post, lol! But at least I have a quick way to show ya’ll my most recent pics, from paintings to photos to digital work. And, when the facing image for one of my collections changes, I’ll update the pic below.”
• The Old American Artist Twitter Excerpt Series, Number III.17.4January 19, 2021
  “‘I thought food was being served…’ Me too, smiled Arturo….”

Thanks so much everyone! 😊

Adan

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