Day 247

This morning there was a link to a site on one of my email subscriptions for the World Clock. http://www.peterrussell.dreamhosters.com/Odds/WorldClock.php Among other things I found out that it was day 247. That may not mean much to most but for me it was startling. It means that this year is over 2/3's of the way to the end. It also means that I am running out of time to do all of the things I had planned. You may find this to be a reoccurring theme.

Yesterday I went to the college where I spent the last 4 years. I think I would have gone to school forever if I had been able. This was a place of relative safely where I could experiment, learn and grow as an artist and a person. I had created a comfort zone in the Fine Arts building; a place where I was able to work with the students. It was a place where I could teach and be taught. I walked through the building and visited the new addition. The Metals and Jewelry lab is wonderful. After watching the "work in progress" for a year and a half it was a little sad that I am not there to use the space or the new equipment. The ceramic lab and kiln yard are wonderful. For the first time ever there will be enough space to store supplies in all of the new rooms. The drawing room has real drawing benches . There are adjustable stools in the painting lab. The whole area is clean and new. And the bathrooms.....they are beautiful.

On another level, my choir director at the college, Ruby Moultrie, sang the National Anthem at the US Tennis Open last week. I wish I had known. I would have actually watched some of it. I have been looking on the Internet for a clip of it but haven't found anything so far. She has an amazing voice.