Post to go - thanks.

4 minutes until closing.
Appointments, work and new horizons.
Waterloo, Tasmania??
More homework to do.
Postgraduate studies?
The Huon river - views.
Sound alright to me.

Thoughts coming back to me today.

Left glassess at home.
Useless without them.......
Will venutre back soon.
Cleaning and more cleaning today - sorting really.
Moving things around.
Tired beyond tired yesterday.
My thoughts coming back to me today.
Jenny cut down your hours.

200th post

Wish I could remember particular references by the media/authors & their views on art & life - but often I foot note it in my mind - and that's not a reliable organ these days!
Oh well, I know Nick Kent makes some observations in his memoir 'Apathy for the Devil' A 1970's Memoir, but where I don't know, perhaps instead of sifting randomly through I should just read the whole lot.....................
Time?
Have got some head space today, finally.
Coffee time soon.
Yesterday was a perfect morning, bright sunshine. Went for a walk during sunday school, just too nice to stay inside. Looking for butterflies.
By early afternoon I was feeling quite fragile - got a coffee while out doing some domestic erands and felt a whole lot better.
Fresh fish and chips for dinner tonight.
The art quote for today in the title comes from a Holocaust survivor.
Adolek Kohn was liberated by Russian troops in WWll.
He returned as a survivor with his daughter and five grandchildren and broke into a dance in front of the ARBEIT MACHT FREI sign to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's 'I will survive'.
Kohn states 'Someone said I nearly danced on my own grave. But this danciong at Auschwitz is a celebration of life.'
The message - Art must go on even after Auschwitz.

Coffee cards and books.

Icon's of England. Recently wrote a review for the library catalogue, which I have found out about. See Essy. I see a picture of the Mindips and a little dairy farm tucked away in a narrow muddy track. Crapnell farm B & B. Cetainly not on the main tourist route. Circa January 2010.
This Party's Got to Stop - Rupert Thomson. A memoir. Reminiscent of other writers who try to make sense of the demise of a parent, and why they never talked real talk. ie I'm dying, I love you, this is what I am all about. Is it a generational thing, particularly British, or led by illness?
By the way the spelling error of the week goes to moi - again - Orson Welles - okay?!
Time to move on - other duties for the day, then night duty.
Coffee for the day @ Three Monkey's.
Coffee cards so far in use are:
McDonalds, Cibo, Market 190, Blessed Cheese, The Green Room, Chrystina's on High Street and a seldom used Tango Turlte and Bean Bar card.

Images on images

Me and Orson Wells.
Christian McKay is outstanding as Orson - must research more on this actor.
Zac Efron doesn not overcome his status as a teen idol.
I have started photographing all my photo montages- and then ran out of battery.
But at least I started.
Have just got the children's flowered cross back from framing - excellent.
Images on images preserved on film.
Also listening to the Whitlam's best of - so wistful.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life - Oscar Wilde.
Art is a lie - Lady Gaga - interview in Rolling Stone - August 2010.
Going to a gallery to see art is like visiting your friends - Dennis Hopper - Retrospective article in Rolling Stone.

Willunga Christmas Tree Festival Poster Competition

Ring those Bells.
The poster for the 2010 festival is being formulated as we speak by the general public.
Submissions are currently sought.
Willunga Uniting Church has a Bell Tree in the Bell Paddock and yes, that's right our festival this year will kick of with Bells.
Bells ringing.
Getting visuals for the Bell Tree thus far has proved elusive.
Looking forward to seeing what submissions come our way.

Knowledge and the 'in and the out' of nursing.

RNAO Registered Nurses'Association of Ontario.
Speaker Doris Grinspun - social elements of health in our communities.
Just had a quick lunch and the Federal minister for health will be arriving soon.
Feeling brighter than yesterday.
Homeward bound and looking forward to that later today.
Reward for being a delegate was a USB, water bottle and Ambassador's card.
Early overtime shift tomorrow. Hope to sift through the mulitple piles of info I have in my work life.
The main thing is that life is promising - but I'm not making any promises!
Job planning or otherwise.
Please pray for the people of Pakistan where they have been ravaged by floods.
It is also Jeans for Genes day.

Rotate around in life.

Nurses Professional Day.
Some topics are perenial - discharge times - heard it for the last 30 years!
Discharge early, better management of beds, flow etc etc.
A female system of order trying to be overlayed on to a monolith of a beast, the medical profession and hospital departments - uh ohhh!
Talking up nurse practitioners, more primary health care and limitations on midwives.
Some mention of burn out with senior nurses in the ED Department, but I think that is overall in nursing.
But is it a bad thing to want to rotate around in life, otherwise one's perpective gets pretty narrow. Over to you..........................

North Adelaide Investigations

North Adelaide investigations.
Staying in Nth Adelaide and wanting to explore.
Last year I had car issues and didn't really see any of it.
Thinking of doing a location swap for a year to shake things up a bit.
North Adelaide, Norwood, Parkside, Hobart, England, New York!
Have visited Jasmine's group art exhibition - very fine work in quality and type.
Work has been intense. Contemplating the subject of chaotic lifestyles.
Why do some people go from moment to moment in chaos ie no home, money, poor health and dangerous choices. It's not all about the quality or level of income wwith or without a mental illness.
It is like an inbuilt destruct button, with plenty of people on the sidelines.