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| 03/12/01 - Pa Fe Mwen La Pen. It's not French. There are no w's in the French alphabet. It's some kind of Caribbean language. It's from a "zouk love" song. Funny, the rest of the song is in French, sort of. But I'm not going to go into this cause I'd have to bring up my feelings about stuff "cajun" and I don't want to go there. It would hurt my head at the moment. And right now my head is exactly where I want it to be ... fantastically full. It was a great weekend. I like having my mind full. My Friend calls it philosophizing. That's a suitable word. I have 16 unread e-mails. They are all newsletters, most all with a literary bent. For some reason I feel this need to accumulate them. I like newsletters. They fill my need for some substance. I learn from them. But at the same time, they are distractions and their presence in my in-box frustrates me. I tell myself I will read them as a reward for accomplishing some daily tasks. Speaking of accomplishments, the printer is working again! It was beginning to really piss me off to be a writer without a printer. Fixed! Another accomplishment, and this one could have been a major bummer for a household of 5 ... the dryer ... fixed! It took a little muscle but it only needed a new belt. The dryer was broken less than 24 hours. Considering that I have tallied breakdowns of the printer, car battery and dryer in less than a week's time, I'm thinking that if catastrophes run in three's, as They say, I should have smooth sailing for a while now. So I rewarded myself and opened up the newsletter from Poetry Daily. Oh no, there was mention of a web site that sounded interesting, one I hadn't been to ... nowCulture.com. Wow, nice site. I loved the painting on the home page. I loved it so much I ended up checking out the exhibit pages of Joshu Lucas. It turns out that the artist graduated from College of Notre Dame in Belmont, CA. I grew up in Belmont. Anyway, Lucas's painting, "Blue Painted Women" really touched me. I don't know much about art. I'm eclectic in my tastes. All I know is that I appreciated the feeling I got, it touched me. I didn't have time to peruse the site, but I noticed as I was leaving that they offered a newsletter subscription ... Go figure. |
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