Wafting: the Words

I feel the call to intrepidly explore the mainland, risking the good, the bad and the ugly. I’ve been so caught up in giving attention to the creations, dynamics, opinions and activities at MU that I’ve gotten unbalanced it attending to what interests me.

Often words fail me and I live in a world of images while my biological agent lives in feelings, sensations and emotions.

Some words become sprinkled more liberally throughout our lives for a season and my human doesn’t question it much beyond simply being aware.

Several words were showing up in MU Talk during the last month; kerfuffle, utopia, chaos and roulette among others.

Wafting is the word that has arisen for me during the last month. When I write, it’s been a word that seems to fit in. I’m not even going to look up the meaning of wafting. (I’ve been known to use words incorrectly throughout my human life.)

I titled my abstract colored pencil drawing, “Wafting”, which I posted about last week. I’ve noticed it in things I’ve read including the last two novels.

Yes, part of my curriculum is to read whole books and most of the ones I’ve picked from the library I haven’t been able to finish. I like to read Walter Mosley and near the end of his novel Diablerie, he uses the word wafting. The book “Night Watch” by Linda Fairstein, which I’ve just finished, uses the word wafting as well.

It isn’t an unusual word at all but it leaps out at me and is staying with me. I’m not over thinking it; I need my bandwidth for my objectivity reality human life. But since I feel like I’m often about connections of seemingly unrelated stuff, like a river winding its way through the landscape leaving twigs, leaves and sediment deposits, I feel comfortable using this word wafting here and there like patches of fabric in a quilt.

Sunrise

Pearl and April

April

Black and White

At the Beach

Yeah this is what I need to do.

Pay attention to when it’s time to change the channel and enjoy the outdoors. Hearing myself.

Daydreaming about what really matters.

More Tai Chi and a Nap

 

Oona and the Shadowbox

Oona built a shadowbox for me to do my over-the-couch-art series. I could have done it and it would have taken much longer.

There’s room to rez it temporarily on the side of my studio to have other people to pose in. That was my original wish. I don’t want to schedule it. Maybe I’ll IM people when they’re in the area and ask for them to come over and pose.

I’ve since used this in my storyboard project for April. It makes the visual more difficult to see but I can always go back to the other way for May. Anyway, I will use this for my little project.

My Eye

One of the reasons I make time to skim through blogs is because sometimes people open up their private sims to the public for a limited time in a low-key way. That was the case with a place, I believe it’s called Sacred, that I went to recently. As often happens, when I relax into an activity like this I gain clarity on some nuances often missed in a noisy, demanding world.

Recently someone told me I have a good eye and I believe and accept that. I’d rather take that sort of thing in than the babblings of people who don’t get me.

The above photo is fairly good. But then sometimes I need to take pictures like this:

Here I was marveling at the attention to detail and aesthetics of the way the scene and space creator had set things up. And I like having a record of it here.

And this one? There are some obvious flaws in the picture but I had an experience of walking around the courtyard and seeing it from different views. It was quite lovely and I remember it.

And this one has meaning to me. It’s the picture on the easel and the two pictures on the wall. I had an experience of validation of my own changing tastes in art.

Of course there’s value in creating things that speak to others too but I like being authentic. Being authentic is a contribution.

Participation Yeah

When the gif cubes were at Vashti 1

Drinking and Drawing class joined by critters.

Discussing drawing

Walking home from class and spotting Lemonondo Oh at their LEA sim

Doing tai chi alone

A peaceful moment during an overwhelming week. This is the region setting for the sim.