One thing about having a real job is you always appreciate FRIDAYS! And when you work in school there is summer to look forward to. I have elementary Phy ed today again, and it's not so bad.  I think we might be roller skating today, and I hope they let me skate!! See? I get to relive my childhood!! Then I have major spring cleaning because our friend Justin is coming to visit Monday after the ACC art show in St. Paul.  Justin is legendary for a nightmare art show he did in Baltimore a couple of years ago where there was a blizzard on the east coast.( also his work is exceptional)  That was just the final  ordeal for him that weekend. Paul and I AND Lily wrote the Ballad of Justin's nightmare art fair and a guy might use it for a documentary he is making on the art fair life.  Boy the art fairs seem so much in the past right now.  Paul is building the wood kiln and thinks he may have it done fairly soon.  We had our monthly jam at the coffee house in Milaca last night. Busy week for jamming too, co s we did the Tuesday jam also.  Music is still a hobby for us,  paying gigs are few and far between.  I am content tho', to be able to play music with people and last night , can't remember the song but  they finished it accapella, and the last word was Home, sung in multi-part harmony stretched out it sounded like OOHHMM. ha as much as I struggle with learning meditation  am finding out that it is the meditative part of the things I do that attracted me to them in the first place. For me it's not the finished painting or sculpture or the price of same that is the reward for creating it. It is the Process of making it that I have always loved, because in the making of  something there is a period of timelessness you achieve where it's just you and the clay or paint and your ideas, and you bring that piece to life.  Music is like that too, only on a group level and when the band is really cookin'  there is a sense of being levitated, of existing only of the notes going into the air!!!  Violin wasn't something that came easy for me, and I'm still no virtuoso, but there are times when we play that I think, look at me I'm a musician! yippee, not sounding too bad either, yippee.oh well, welcome Kathy, new to my blogspace, and have a great weekend!! Love ,Denise