Stuff

there are precious few places in this world where i could honestly say that i would truly love to live– i spent time in santa fe in the 70s, a halcyon age there, before the blight of it being overrun by the modern carpetbagger. and of course, if summer lasted all year long in vancouver, […]

out of barcelona. the city has a great metro system, and it delivers one right into the train station, a busy place thronging with people. people going everywhere, people sitting on luggage. people– everything from greying businessmen to women in purdah, sandals to shoes with turned-up toes, the highest of heels to the more fashionable

well, this is bound to be a bit of a ramble to write, plus most likely a little longish, as i am going to be adding to it during my trip in spain and morocco, will have to wait til i add photos– after my return to cozumel on the 8th of october. we began

most likely i should have titled this “atlantean ponderings”, this being the caribbean, or even “caribbean ponderings”, but my choice has such fine alliteration– i like it!! it’s been a busy week for me here at rancho rance-o– i have been stuggling with several things, like opening up my new bank account– finished it up

having just a little problem with the computer, and it would seem like it didn’t deliver my last blog (#17– public hair, or…”), nor a couple of new images of jewellery– my mayan jaguar face earring jackets, plus the mayan jaguar face bracelet with red corals– i am not sure if i made some sort

“here i am, caught in this armpit AGAIN??”– two armpits, to be acutely correct. in the 70s, i used to associate the word “armpit” with the little town of cache creek, british columbia (apologies to all current cache creekers, i am sure that your burgh is quite spiffy by now), which was the nexus of

more madness, in other words– early in the construction of the first “madness” post, i started having problems. the script kept bounding outside the lines, and the photos wouldn’t go where i had put them— i just tried it for this post, and it went down well, thank guinness!! i had just had some work

i happened to watch my copy of “bridge on the river kwai” a few days ago, and all week long i have been struck by how relevant a quote those two words are to my life of late. last week, after a long bout of diving almost every day, i had a couple of days

not really, but this little blog will have some interesting “imagery” in it. the past couple or three days i have gotten out into my sculpture studio and made some real progress. i had mostly finished with the upper “surface” of the “matrix material” that the lower figure is embedded in, and i had visions

i just had a couple of days’ diving with a guy named kadin, a recent graduate open water diver, courtesy of my good friend jordan. kadin and i went out for his first official open water dives, and i wanted to say what a pleasure it was to be able to guide him. our first

well, it finally happened– i had thought that the sortuv platform-like area between the body of the lower figure of the sculpture and the edges of this “matrix-like material” had been finished to a good point, but then as i sometimes do i noodled around with it a little bit, which led to an ENORMOUS

i was actually looking forward as of last week to writing this blog– the gloat factor was gonna be immense!! i had planned on going over to cancun and catching the ferry across to isla mujeres (island of women, but not quite what you’d think), where i would be taking a tour out to see

number four or perhaps dolphin number 3(b)? not sure just how to categorise it, or whether it is important or not, but it was a worthy way to begin this little blog. i finally got to cast this little sucker yesterday, along with parts for another uninflated puffer fish, several links for another eagle ray