Sometimes I wish I didn't have e-mail. Getting bad news comes swift and no indication ahead of time. It isn't earth-shattering but I must have been too easy with teaching some of the children how to manage finances.
I don't know what more I could have done. They had allowances (for doing small chores) - I encouraged them to save up for their bicycles and when they had a half amount, I'd match it. I never went over my budget myself and neither did their father.
We were never ever extravagant with buying high end anything.
No point in wondering why, I suppose and guess there's so much more temptation now to indulge with influence from T.V., magazines, I-pads, credit cards galore and their peer group wanting everything before they can pay for it. Buy now - pay later thinking.
And after saying that, I would have never given up having e-mail because today I was sent a video from my friend Michael Orton with his outstanding, forward photography and music. He began using subject matter but with an artist's eye. He won awards all the time, became exasperated with the unexciting mundane examples of other photos presented so often - and after years, and I mean years of experimenting and working, developed newer ways of combining and composing abstracts.
He had two books published on his ideas. He struggled to push higher and the results are this wonderful video, so beautiful to make my insides melt with wonder.
You can bring up his web site www.michaelorton can't remember the rest - you'll find it. Or I'll relay it tomorrow.
We came together when he was giving one of his shows in the old days where he'd set up in an auditorium and play taped music to go with his slides. He had the same compunction as I did - to go higher with art, not knowing what would make it higher. He talked about me in his book.
His wife Mary is his designer and help-mate and she's wonderful as well.
We have simultaneously both come to the point where we use abstraction in a way which brings our audience closer to us, using a title to allow a pathway for the viewer to have a better understanding of what we are portraying.
It helps to have someone who makes you feel less lonely in the strange world of art.
signed in awe of the magic of art - Doris
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