make things

the video teacher showed me a place where you can make comic books
so
i got a 30 day trial and seeing if i can have the medium force the message
i will write a small comic book borrowing from saved photos

do the assignment with students
brainstorm myths and talk it out
draw one from your own life and one from the world at large
this one is a combination of Prometheus and Deadalus/Icarus
pointing to the fact that, despite all the talk about
the falling son and his wild fast driving
there is a man who flies
to fly again

the big bird on the right is the vulture
you can’t see very well Daedalus who is in the framed section with the cloud

hearts
the history
the future

then put them in your bathroom

wood
chisels
with a drawing underneath
go
see what develops
c’mon
go

gingerbread house making night
this is getting to be one of my favorite nights
tables full of things to put on your pre made house
teams of people all getting a lot of satisfaction for just following their presumed instincts; there are the tidy clever types and the messy free for alls.
my team always has little people on it. I am pulling them to the delicious side of all rules are off
this house was called; Jail for Bad Bunnies
i cut a hole in the roof and imprisoned and chocolate bunny inside.

last night, tears and explanations, moving, understanding what was, is and will be
with my yet to be former wife
the papers to be filled out and how to answer all those questions
two years ago it was a different table, my swamp and mountain to get past, my hurt and wrestle with the thought of her with someone else and happier, and i am there. i do believe i am ok now. Now she has to trudge through that crumbly path
we will get there
i don’t have work today
i have cleaned the bedroom, the study is next. i will just work my way forward till i have to go and do something else, head out into the drizzled day
making things can be a difficult sculpture of your place and feelings

seven bowls almost ready to put in the kiln
i sign pottery sorts of things that i make; bowls n such, with the names of presidents, i would just like to state that i have put the name of Mr. Obama on one of them

one candle thing to put over a candle,it has marks and holes on its sides so the light will come through

eight slabs of clay to be fired flat so the glass can puddle, then put together after coming out of the kiln

24 small pieces flattened with a hammer ready for glass

i would like to talk to that person who
took down the panda
it was only up for a few days

under the goal of making things
this is a public thing, put up another panda in a “public” bamboo patch. I think someone called the cops about something strange happening on the corner, just as i was finishing a cop drove by very slowly, turned around and went by very slowly again, i was walking away. maybe i am just a paranoid panda putter upper?