I know that there is very little of me relfected here on RedBubble and as a newbie who has had a couple of months to climatize myself, I have been feeling somewhat irresponsible for traipsing through the creative minds of the rest of you without having offered up anything of myself. I have been re-working a piece during those months and was ready to post it this past Thursday. I haven’t been able to do so, I’ve been struck down on the wrong side of a very persistent error blockade. No longer just an error ‘message’, it has morphed into an enormous impediment….a straight-faced monolithic barricade that has spawned dozens of elephantine barricades just as impassive as the one before!! Days worth of attempts to post my writing have been met with a message indicating the Extract box exceeded 200 characters. In actuality it did not. But this particular error blockade had apparently met someone it liked and was loath to let go!
I am very anxious to give this piece to you, I have been working on it since 2002 and finally feel that it is ready to be set free. If I am fortunate enough that there are some of you who may actually be interested in what I write (special shout out here to my three watchees!) now may be a good time to let you know a little something about my ‘process’. In the interest of full-disclosure the descriptor I would use for this process is ‘slow’…it seems that work is produced at a frantic rate on RedBubble, both visual and written. I won’t be able to keep up the pace. I’m quite meticulous and do a lot of revision, but the bulk of that revision is only done after I have left the writing for a period of time. Sometimes, in fact, I leave and come back to the writing for several periods of time before I’m happy with the end result. I usually have several projects on the go at the same time so hopefully the droughts between postings won’t be too long. Who knows…perhaps RedBubble will teach me that a thing is worth while whether it has two commas or three.
But first I must slay the army of error blockade that stand in my way……….
Peace ,
Kat
Rella
Sometimes good things take extra time….I am looking forward to reading more!
Hoffard
Hope you break the blockade! Dont feel pressure though…. xoxo
Estelle O'Brien
Hi Kat, I will go and read your writing in a minute. I just wanted to say, don’t worry about the pace here. I know what you mean – I have bubble friends who paint something new everyday and I think Phew…how on earth do they do that? I am flat out if I produce something once every couple of weeks. However, it keeps me motivated, and I hope it does you too. Be kind to yourself. xx
catherine walker
James Lewis Ha...
You favorite d a tee of mine
and somehow that removed an elephantine blockage,
that kept me from meeting you …
through the wonderful words and images you compose.
No matter how sad your predicament might be,
your presentation reflects humor and hope,
leaving me in a state of feeling happy
for a new found friend.
… and we don’t have to participate in the whole human RACE,
were not human doings, just human beings… so BE! it!
kathibook:
Hi,
I can’t tell you how well your message has made me feel!! I am so thankful that you saw the hope and humor in my words…..some don’t. And your final advice is possibly the BEST…..and the WISEST…advice I have ever been given! I feel like I’ve been ‘racing’ and ‘doing’ my whole life. I have never considered just ‘being’. But I shall now that I have met you, new friend and sage guru.
Thanks for being the star-shine in my day,
Kathi
James Lewis Ha...
If you like good advise… try reading some of my Quotation Tee designs… I explain on most of them that I’ve chosen the words because it’s the lesson that is usually showing up in my own life at the time. So, by working on a tee, (what font, where to place it, etc. etc.) I end up reading and thinking about MY lesson a lot… and REPETITION_REPETITION is a very spiritual learning devise.
That’s at least one way we could explore our new friendship… and if you don’t like my tee lessons you can tell me in a comment… or you can ask me about the what or why of some quote… they’re not all obvious… just like many don’t get your subtle (and wonderful) humor. … and by the way I deeply believe that humor is extremely spiritual and if there is not at least a twinkle or wink then it’s probably nothing to do with the God I play with.
; – ))))))))))
kathibook:
Hi James,
I think I like the god you play with! As a matter of fact I’d bet our two gods would get along quite well! lol
I looked at your tees very quickly a while back. But I’m going to look at your work closely this weekend…..using it as a delayed gratification reward, something nice to look forward to after the yuk is done.
I love your artistic process! Thanks for sharing.
Right now I’m writing a poem for a comp. The first one I will enter and the first thing I have written in a while. It has to be a love poem. But my life is so not characterized by love at the moment that it’s turning into something a little dark. But I’m okay with that. It will be different. And certainly take some by surprise.
Ooooo…..I have a barking dog and someone leaning on the doorbell!! Better sign off for now.
Looking forward to seeing the tee’s!
Peace,
Kathi
James Lewis Ha...
if you do get to the tees, make sure you throw some comments around… the I can reply… and maybe such an interchange will enlighten us both…
;-))))