I was sorry to hear of your illness. (It's only in NaNo season that I crawl out of my hole and check up on fellow Wrimos and their blogs.) My best wishes to you and your family! I love your paintings.
Oh, thank you, Taisch! I hope this NaNo season (a really very tiny season, only one month...) goes well for both of us. Are you all set with your plans for the upcoming month? Love Julia
Yeah, I'm trying to do like 3 things at once, but I'm determined that NaNo will be one of them. So you're going to write this November? Glad to hear it. :)
Surgery was a month ago. Since then I have been sleeping, writing, painting (a little) and playing with my children. Each child alone is a pleasure, although the two together are baking soda and vinegar. I'm not saying which is which. Finally, Laurent took smallest monkey to France, where smallest monkey will spend a whole month alone with his grandparents, because we all needed a break, including Emile. He might even start maternelle, preschool, there, for a short while. Everyone gets a break, but I miss him like crazy. Starting tomorrow, I will be going to Boston every day for radiation - that's three hours round trip for 15 minutes of being turned into the Hulk. I'm doing it because they will also be giving me more chemo, and I apparently love chemo that much... Every day is hard. It's a mixture of crabby because I might die within the next five years, and blissed out because life is so beautiful, and crying when I hug my family. It's extrem
The Women in Abstraction show at the Centre Pompidou was arbitrary, condescending, and totally worthwhile. I mean, Elle font d'Abstraction is just short of “Look! A woman can make a painting! How quaint!” Still, go. You won't regret it. They more than make up for any condescension... And if they don't, we're clearly hungry for this exhibit. I counted two women in attendance for every man – yes, really, I counted. “The utopian ideals of pure abstraction have allowed women artists some kind of entree into art, since a truly universalist art practice would be genderfree... but it was a myth.” - Mira Schor, 2009, from “Some Notes on Women and Abstraction” On a personal note, I hadn't been expecting to have a night alone in Paris. I certainly hadn't expected to have a good time. I'd always associated Paris with exhausting in laws, arguments, and trying to keep up with fast paced conversations in a new language. But my flight out of Charles De Gaulle was sched
My name is Julia, and I am addicted to escapist literature. I'll read far into the night, even through the night, to get to the end of a story. Even a cluster of not exceptional YA fantasy stories, like the ones I've recently brought home from the library. (Librarian: "You know those are from the young adult section?" Me: Blank look.) Or maybe the stories are good, and I've just had a temporary raising of the bar for books in general, from having finished Abigail Thomas' memoir, Three Dog Life . Which is one of those books full of truth written beautifully, that often made me laugh, about loss of what we know, and loving what takes its place. Profound, in other words. Most of what I read isn't profound. My mother, who worked in a bookstore for part of my childhood, brought home great boxes of books without their covers. Some of my all time favorite books, of which I know every illustration, I wouldn't recognize on your coffee table at a
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ReplyDeleteI was sorry to hear of your illness. (It's only in NaNo season that I crawl out of my hole and check up on fellow Wrimos and their blogs.) My best wishes to you and your family! I love your paintings.
Take care!
Oh, thank you, Taisch!
ReplyDeleteI hope this NaNo season (a really very tiny season, only one month...) goes well for both of us. Are you all set with your plans for the upcoming month?
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Julia
Yeah, I'm trying to do like 3 things at once, but I'm determined that NaNo will be one of them. So you're going to write this November? Glad to hear it. :)
ReplyDeleteYes -- Not much else I can do, for the next few weeks post-surgery!
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