The ancient ways of blogging

SO, is blogging a thing of the past? I’m not sure as facebook has absorbed the better half of my time. I realized I hadn’t written anything here in quite sometime and perhaps many of my readers have lost interest… I do not know. What I do see is a social revolution taking place via facebook. It’s a huge factor in how Obama got elected and it’s certainly a barometer for people to see what issues affect the world and the numbers that care about the various issues. I have found it utterly fascinating that a group I started on facebook for Watts Towers has members from Italy and everywhere else now. There are peace groups and whale watchers, global warming groups and bring peace to the middle east groups. The most fascinating and amazing thing to me was watching the President speak and watch this live feed through CNN in conjunction with facebook. One side of the screen was the live video and the other part of the screen was the world chatting, live, leaving their comments as he spoke. This is the revolution. The revolution will not be televised but it my be on computer monitors.
Aside from all this amazing technology, I have a new studio in Santa Barbara that is warm and almost ready to work in, thanks to my industrious husband who is incredibly handy with electric saws and sewing machines, nail guns and more!!! and willing to share the talents and energies to assist me!!! Lucky me!

Planted a new crop of vegetables in my garden this week, watermelons, squash, tomatoes, peppers and basil. Pulled a million weeds and put a lot of snails in the green waste container so they can eat and thrive as they travel to wherever it is green waste goes. The succulents are thriving and our orange tree is covered in perfumed blossoms that intoxicate as they deliver the scent to your nose.
Off to the desert to give a mosaic workshop, then San Diego for a mosaic conference and then back to the desert for three art openings. I have a mosaic piece in the jack rabbit homestead festival which should be an amazing show thanks to Chris Carraher and Kim Stringfellow. Go Jack go!!!

See you there!!! and remember to “Be the change that you want to see” – Gandhi
One more note on facebook. The group IUOMA (International Union of Mail Artists) just gave me the position of Center of the Universe. I did request it, as Middle of Nowhere was already taken but it PLEASES me to have this title… I can already feel the whirlwind…PEACE

LOVE CARD new greeting card…

Inspired by MC Yogi !!! thank you for making this music and thank you Felicia for turning me on to this. It inspires and moves me. Thank you. Grateful…. practice and compassion……. I want this LOVE card NOW

In the news… July issue of Instinct Magazine

New Mosaic Artwork

Folks, I’ve been so wrapped up in my lover’s arms, I mean wedding plans… I mean workshops, NO WAIT… wedding planning, postal meanderings, eQuality banging and fluxing with the international mail art community, refreshingly, again… that I have not posted some of my art in a while. So here’s a brand new piece that I created this weekend during the workshop I gave in Santa Barbara. I will continue to post the love video of the day till June 17th… Obsessed? Me??? This Buddha and Bird mosaic is 2′5″x8″ on backer board, ready to install or just hang up as is. Has a wire for hanging in the back. To purchase.

bug in my ear

A new collage reminiscent of the 80’s color xerox phase I was once deeply entrenched in. You might call this a Quflux. Also posted in a new site/group I was invited to join, via the European mailArt commmunity, called fluxLISTeurope. The original russian stamp can be seen at magentALTERego… possibly where the raven sleeps at night… or roosts and fidgets with widgets and photo slideshows. Also reactivated flickr recently so expect to see more there too. Peace.

Let the marriages begin!!!

This just in from Pam’s House Blend “This hit my inbox just moments ago. Fundie religious and legal orgs, including the Campaign for California Families, had asked the state Supreme Court to delay allowing same-sex marriages until after the November election, when an amendment initiative would place marriage equality in the hands of voters. The decision will now become final on June 16 at 5:00 p.m. Let the marriages begin! ” More of the story at Pams’House.

Fluxus TOMATO

Wow. I love this. The Fluxus Heidelberg Center site is the place where all Fluxus activities of the artist-duo Fluxus Heidelberg (Litsa Spathi and Ruud Janssen) are documented. The TOMATOtimes site is a treat.

New QUEER stamp approved.

Get em while they’re legal. Send your celebratory mail. Also if the mail artist world is looking to partake in a good cause… buy a sheet of stamps, and send mail art postcards. 50% of the proceeds from the stamps will go to Equality California. Now you have two designs to choose from.

Red Buddha Stamp

This stamp was approved today. It’s a photograph of a ceramic buddha head I had exhibited in the Buddhas and Birds show in 29 Palms this past April at The Creative Center. Now it’s a stamp, for peace and compassion. Use it on mail art that needs an extra energy lift.

another New Stamp Design

I just sent this design in and waiting for approval. I called it quality.