It's interesting the number of blogs that index other blogs and how recently they've been updated. I'm home alone - in the house again but I think I'll try that going on the porch thing I mentioned last night in my nightly notes - a different blog for a different reason.

So far if today were a piece of art I'd title it . . . Send Money Please.
It would be 10,000 golden envelopes, all with my address as the mailee - and the mailers would be from all over the world and they would have all enclosed $10 bills (US :-).

Actually, the art piece would be 63"x63" full-color photo of the empty golden envelopes with all their glorious postage stampings/markings all stapled to a red lacqured wall similar to the east wall of my studio. -- I think I'll find a mail art show to enter.

I read a book called Megacreativity: 5 Steps to Thinking Like a Genius... and for some reason it clicked. I've read/perused/browsed and otherwise interacted with zoodles of other creativity books but I was ready for this one and it delivered. -when the student is ready the teacher will appear - and then when the student becomes the lessons the teacher will move up.
I'm migrating MPW without it being totally ready. I'll never be finished because like all things that are born it will continue to grow and change until it dies. So I declare myself MULTIPURPOSE and I give myself carte blanche to find, ignore, stretch, make-up, theorize and otherwise play with any rules that I find, ignore, stretch, make-up, theorize and otherwise encounter.

what kind of animal is multipurposewoman.org?

When I started multipurposewoman.org and this blog last January the birth metaphor kept coming up so I started to use it. It seemed apt because I figured it would take me about nine months to get the site to a place where it was an actual entity in and of itself. Well it's going on twelve months and the gestation to birth metaphor still lingers in my mind. About two months ago I started wondering what kind of animal this project is - will it ever be born or will I forever be on the verge of delivery? It's been like a "trial" pregnancy - like I've been wearing a practice-pregnancy belly.

I know that hope is not a method but I still hope I can get the site migrated soon. more later

Braving Butter

So far if today were a piece of art I'd title it . . . Braving Butter - it would be all about gathering the courage to do everyday things. The inspiration? I made the mistake of reading the warnings attached to some medication. I realize that all medicine could have side effects but reading them - as paranoid as I am - is mind boggling and frightening. It's worse than hearing them speed-talked at the end of those "buy this drug" commercials.

PARANOIA has such an interesting definition; A nondegenerative, limited, usually chronic psychosis marked by delusions of persecution or of grandeur, strenuously defended by the patient with apparent logic and reason.
If I'm not a "patient" can I still be paranoid? or do I have to wait until someone else (a DR.) tells me that I'm paranoid?

A Treadmill Month

28 days since my last blog! But rereading the last entry makes it all make sense. My life in general has been the same ole song. That's not good. I'm going to have to institute some mandatory fun. If you have any ideas about how, what, etc email me the specifics.

On the zine front I've been behind the scenes with MultiPurposeWoman. I'm switching the server to a very nifty new open source powered one that has my mind working overtime. I've been having to grow up technologically and learn CSS and other stuff. The good thing about all this is I'm sure behind the scenes is not where I want to be. I'm ready to whip some of the random thoughts I've been storing in my blogs and on MultiPurposeWoman into some real, readable, useful, text.