True to Form: My Art class

I actually did get on the road and felt a graceful peace settle on my soul.  I was listening to the music on my iPhone.  Lately, it has been finding songs I haven't heard in a long while.   I do like to drive and listen to my music.  I also had the google maps going which interrupts the music.  I was headed south down I-17.  I was to take that to the I-10 to 7th St.

Now, this is a path with which I am very familiar, having traversed it numerous times to visit family south of Phoenix.

As the voice came on to tell me to take I-10, I purposefully stayed in the left two lanes, confidence soaring through my hands on the wheel.  Life was beautiful, the songs were great.

Then 'she' told me to take the next exit...exit, exit now, I smiled to myself, I am, dear disembodied voice of instruction, just watch me.  Suddenly she said, take Jefferson, the next exit on 1-17S and make an exaggerated U-turn to get back on 17 north.

In my confidence, calm, and peace, I sped past my exit.  Yup.  This cracked me up, as closely as I was 'paying attention' to the instructions, I still missed my exit.

I checked the estimated arrival time - 1:10 still - no worries.  I whipped around and got back on I17 north this time to take the exit I had missed.  Followed the prompts to find out that she set me 'somewhere close' to my final destination.  I had to drive around the block again to reach my final destination.

The class was good, it's a six-week course on acrylics and oils.  We started with charcoal and perspective, moved on to mapping out a still life which we will start painting next week.

I like the longer courses I took at Monterey Community College, there was more time to practice technique, but it was a re-introduction that brought me back to remembering how much work I had done.

I don't hold high hopes for the finished product, but for me, it has always been about the process of creating.

Immediately after, I met my cousin and his wife for a movie and dinner.  It was one block over and two blocks south of where I was.  Darn google tried to put me on I-10 again, even after I set it to avoid highways.  Google maps - it was the exact wrong time to ask me for feedback...



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Soooooo....it was scary for me...

My George! the greyhound who is my sweet companion and calm and ever present - we were both dealing with whatever was in the air in Arizona at this June 2019.  

It had been a cool spring - cooler than I remembered in my whole two years here - I really have no peg to hang my hat on except to say this was a cool spring.

And I felt congested.  I laid on my right side.  My right sinuses are clogged but I felt the same, on the other side if I laid on my left.  So I was on my right side again reading my kindle.  Tented up with its cover providing me readability.  If you aren't addicted to reading you won't understand.  I would go out at 10 o'clock at night to the grocery store to pick up a book because I had read everything in my house.  So the ability to have the kindle propped up so I could read has been priceless.

The light in the room was darkening.  I long learned that my best bet for waking and sleeping was a mood light like the Philips Light.  One that simulates sunrise and sunset.  It was a dusky dark in my room with a dark peach hue on the walls and ceiling and my eyes were heavy.  I shut them unknowingly as I "read" a Peter Grainger book.  That DC Smith haunts my dreams.

Suddenly through a half asleep haze I heard haaaa......  haaaa....... a deep breathy voice you would only hear if you were watching a horror movie.

And here I was with my eyes shut.  I knew that in a second.  It was in my room - at the foot of my bed.  I am on my right side, eyes closed and I had heard it as clear as day. Haaaaaa..... haaaaaaaa.... deep breaths

Crimmeny Jickets I felt my whole body tense.  What do I do?  Okay - Stop.   All doors locked? Yes, for sure.  How about the windows? Locked? Yes, for sure.

Laura - there is no one your house.  There is no way anyone got into your house.  Settle (as I say to George! sometimes - settle).  Settle.  haaaaaaa...... I heard.  My ears had inadvertently moved.

l did have a moment of clarity - take a deep breath so you can scream I thought.
Breath taken I opened my eyes and flung the comforter and saw no one there.

It was George! mouth breathing which he rarely does unless there has been a late coming summer and he is feeling congested...

At least I think it was George!...hmmmm...


Laura

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