I volunteered to help Melody MacDuffee with the Soul of Somanya exhibit at the Mobile International Festival this past week, which was a lot of fun but exhausting. I mentioned to my friend Nell that I would be tied up the latter part of the week and what I would be doing and she told me that I needed to have my head examined, that I need help more than I need to be helping others.<br><br>

I believe that if my fist is clenched to hold on to what I have, it's not open to receive, either. Life, for me, is about giving as much as it is getting. I'd like to believe that most people feel the same way, that's why they give when they can.

I used to draw a lot and I haven't done much in a long time. One of these days I'll pick it up again, though.

I was doing a lot of water gardening when I drew this one.

end up giving us any rain but it sure was pretty.

I love sunsets! This was a sunset I saw in my little back yard one October evening. 

So, with all of the storms brewing and boiling around me,
I am trying to keep my bearings,
retaining my personal sense of integrity
and to not hurt any of the people I've come to like and appreciate or my customers who need to be able to trust me. It's getting hard to know which way is up and I seem to keep making missteps. I'm not good at politics.

I like people and I want to trust them, especially when they appear sane and friendly. I'm fascinated by them with all the different thoughts and ways of expressing them, with the way some people think in linear fashion while others have a higher probability of having "creative burst" type thinking. Some react emotionally, some with logic and some shift back and forth between the two depending on how the subject impacts on their personal belief system and priorities.



I try hard, very, very hard, to never judge people; when I'm perfect myself I might be fit to judge them but if I make that goal I probably will have other interests.

I'm a lot like Rex from Toy Story, I think. I don't like confrontation, lol. My son had one of those talking figures of Rex from Toy Story and I think I loved it more than he did, even. And he really loved it.

Enough about me, tell me about <b>yourself!</b>.

It's that time of year again, the Greater Gulf States Fair has come to Mobile just in time for the pecans to smash our windows falling on the parking for the exhibitors, lol. So far I've avoided being stuck underneat one of them but sooner or later it's coming because I've volunteered to help at the booth and demonstrate wire work jewelry making almost every day it will be here.

The booth has taken first place in the show for the last two years and did it again this year. There are some magnificent displays including a wonderful celestite geode as big as a basketball and just loaded with big beautiful blue/grey crystals.

I'll inclue more pictures when I can get them uploaded, for now this is a picture of my display cabinet. I'm sharing it with Soul of Somanya which I'm allowed to do because I'm on ;the board of directors :~) It looks a lot better than what I did last year, hee hee.

 If you're anywhere nearthe fairgrounds in Mobile or outlying areas, pop on by, we have invitations to our first annual open house on November 7.

TTFN!