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For this week I want to focus on people that made me smile, gave me hope or fed my brain cells. These folks reminded me that fun, creativity and exploration are worthy things to concentrate on when you get tired of reality television or adults behaving badly.
What stared me thinking about this was that I was having days that poured from one to the next. No highs, no lows, just blah. Then a couple of non-news worthy people did things that they really should not have done and then whamo, everyone is judge and jury. Folks are lit up and engaged. Then life goes back to the pouring blahs again.
I needed encouragement. I needed inspiration. Whimsy, yeah some of that too. So I set myself a challenge to find what I need, creativity, inspiration, a bit of whimsy and people who actually have talent.
I think I can do this. Lemme see. Free association time. As a warm up I have my e-mail program Thunderbird open. Thunderbird reminds me of that foul tasting wine that I experienced for the first time as a teen. It entered my body and a few minutes later it departed my body. Yeah that is TMI but then I found the following:
I loved James Mason. Wonderful voice. I never knew he promoted that product of rock bottom vino distinction. Really, boiled rocks would taste better. That has to count for some whimsy. Certainly has me smiling. Not really educational but still James Mason + Thunderbird wine?
Ok. I know. Sorry, easily distracted. Let me try again.
Librarians get a bad rap about being stuffy and allegedly being so serious. As this image from the University of Rochester River Campus Flickr set on League of Librarian Trading Cards shows that whimsy can be found in the most unexpected places.
I don't want to leave out their original inspiration for the Librarian Trading Cards, the Carleton College Gould Library Archive has much more goodness and whimsy that I can post here. Check out their trading card gallery archive.
Saturn Girl started thinking about animation and wondering if there are women bloggers who are learning or working in animation.
Well, I found Christina
Cabral. I saw a bit of her animation work but her doodles caught my attention. This is the first dooodle that I saw on her blog.
There are others drawings that show a different side of her personality and, in particular, drawings of the young man that may or may not be inspiring other aspects of Christina.
I do know that I have been in that place where I've been inspired by a person just standing next to me.
When I viewed pieces of her art there was a moment when I remembered feeling that special place of being connected to another being.
Well, Christina reminded me that I have limited skills as an visual artist. That is ok, my role this time around on the planet is to appreciate good work be it illustrated or text based and draw inspiration from that source.
I also seemed to need an infusion of words. Poets like words. Poets need love and attention.
First you have to find them. Womb Poetry is an online journal of poetry by women. Not necessarily women's poetry just poetry by women. I'd say just dive into the archive and find a connecting poem or two.
I also checked out the blog roll which lead me to Wicked Alice, a poetry journal and Cati Porter's poem on What is A Girl? I also read June Cleaver Considers Being a Cat Whisperer, Channels a Beloved Pet by Jill Crammond Wickham.
From there it was a blur, Ivy Alvarez in Cardiff, Wales writing about the process of writing poetry when she isn't, you know, writing poetry.
Kristy Bowen's blog on visual art and poetry called dulcetly had a lot of good work. Actually Kristy makes me feel unproductive, like I shouldn't bother sleeping if I want to get half of my projects up and running.
From Kristy some how I found my way over to Cheryl Snell and Janet Snell's blog of
