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Maria Arango's
QUEST: 1,000 Woodcuts
Summer 2007 Update - 248
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Hello dear friends!
The spring season has come
and gone. Although I missed seeing many of you I enjoyed my shortened schedule.
One of the reasons I became an artist to get away from the pressures of corporate
life and having control over how much I work has been an excellent way to
advance my home projects!
In any case, I have a full fall/winter schedule coming up so we can catch
up then. Here is one of my latest prints, a refreshing one for the summer heat
called Waterbearers. Really the image is a little about renewing
that precious life giving resource of the desert: water. Maybe also about renewal
in general?
As
always, you can peruse the latest works
here:
http://www.1000woodcuts.com/1000woodcuts/1000.html
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Thoughts and Ramblings
A good friend pointed me to a "days alive" calculator. Here are
my results:
This is day number 17,369 for people born on November
29, 1959
Your 10,000th day was April 15, 1987!
Your 15,000th day was December 22, 2000!
Your 20,000th day will be August 31, 2014!
Your 25,000th day will be May 9, 2028!
Your 30,000th day will be January 17, 2042!
Your 35,000th day will be September 29, 2055!
...and after that we're getting pretty damned optimistic.
This was kind of fun to do and I highly advise everyone to play.
But calculating how many days I've been alive also made me think of time in
a completely different way. Think of it, every day, we tally a new day
and at the end of that day, it is gone. Most of us think of time passing in
years, we put off projects or we plan accomplishments for the next year, next
summer, and so on.
Think of living day by day! That number above will change for
me tomorrow...another day gone by. I make lists and cross things off when I
get them done, but thinking of time in days rather than years made me take
a hard look at my lists and, instead of planning to get those done by the end
of summer, I started planning on how many I can do by the end of THIS day.
Then tomorrow I will do that again, and the next day and the next day. Well,
there are rest days too! But thinking of time in days gave me a sense of urgency
and I took one moment today to reflect: did I get anything really done today?
I sure don't want any days to just go by unnoticed, a number tallied without
meaning, a time never to be recovered.
To inspire my daily quest for achievement, another friend sent
me a whole bunch of quotes so my quotes page is full of new artistic inspiration.
Check it out: http://1000woodcuts.com/1000woodcuts/quotes.html
Tally ho!
Oh, here is the days-alive-calculator link and you even get a
free poem:
http://www.bonkworld.org/index.php?action=show_content&id=45
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Schedule for the rest of the year 2007
is more or less set
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The Quotes of This Day:
"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
-Pablo Picasso
"Time is the substance from which I am made.
Time is a river, which carries me along, but I am the river;
it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger;
it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
-Jorge Luis Borges
Thanks for listening,
Maria
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Maria Arango, Printmaker
http://www.1000woodcuts.com
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