Bee is striding toward the kids, and I am sitting to the right.
Title: :The Summer of Our Discontent,"
Medium,: Acrylic on canvas 4 x 8 feet,
Artist: MGH. Late 1960's,
Owner: Bee.
I started writing this piece about mutton about a month ago, and I could never get it going. I knew it was a good idea, I knew I was on the right track, but I couldn’t get the words to go anywhere. On the way home from errands yesterday, and I am learning to love having free time all to myself out there in the world, I figured it out.
Why wasn’t the piece going anywhere? Mutton by itself wasn’t funny….even endless mutton that I was allergic to. I’d brought in the more than endless Bob’s dinners that I used to feed family and friends when we all lived in Chula Vista and Imperial Beach, but that casserole only gave me a nice middle ground.
Where was the contrast?
I’m sorry that I can’t put the piece here on my blog. Most places don’t want already published writings, and putting it here would be self publishing. But I can tell you about my epiphany….edible repetitions when you are a kid, an adult, and when you grow older. What do you consume by mouth as you grow older? Medications. I had to laugh.
That’s where the piece is now going….into laughter.
I looked the folks up who were either in that painting above or sitting yoga in my back yard those long ago years. I could find all but three of them. I know two of them moved to Kentucky, and the other vanished from the art world, but I was exciting to know that some of us made a mark out there in the world fueled by those endless Bob's Dinners.
Links:
Francis Jeffrey: Mavericks of the mind
Bobbie Moline Kramer: Painter
Paul Hawkins and Susan Zalkind: Stoneworkers in alabaster
Uncle Wonder Ray: Artist, sculptor, and teacher
Don DeLlamas: Painter
Tommy Driscoll: Sculptor
Joleen K McPherson: Playwright and supporter of the arts: Magic Theater Scripts UC Berkley: Folder 8, pdf
Not found via Google: Paul Waltz, Don Fulford
I'm sure your piece will be another hit.....good luck with the fine-tuning! Love the painting too.
ReplyDeleteLove the painting and the fact that you look up friends who've moved on as well.
ReplyDeleteI think the neatest thing about composing is the introspection it involves. So good for the soul!
Only YOU could write a story about mutton! I love this! Love the painting too. Very sweet.
ReplyDeleteI hope we have a chance to read it someday. Most publishers get only a first-american-publishing rights (or something similar) then all rights revert to you as the owner of intellectual material, am I somewhat correct? Then you can publish it here, maybe. Good luck with it. Soon you'll be teaching us how to write.
ReplyDeleteSuper nice painting--
ReplyDeletea mutton story...sounds like you will get it right!
That really is a super painting! I love the color and movement. Hmmm... a story about mutton. Sounds very, very interesting already.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous painting, love the variety of primary colors, and the joy and sunshine of the day in it.
ReplyDeleteThat is a gorgeous painting. Love the vivid colors and activities. You are lucky to have that and all of the memories to go along with it.
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