This has turned out to be a wonderful day.   I came home from my night out so tired and then couldn't get a sound sleep last night.   I stayed in bed until after 9AM and then sat around in my nightgown until lunch time. 

My friend, Maureen Smith, from Chicago called at about 10:30 and we talked for over an hour.   We are going to take an evening at the gathering and just catch up for real.   She is such a great gal.  She may come to stay with me at the end of the month and go to the opening of the Making it Speak event that I am participating in at the Ebco Art Fair.  I will attach a copy of one of the press notices for you.   I will have two poems that I am sharing.    One, an artist has created a piece to go with it and one that I created a poem to go with the piece of art.     I think I am happy with my pieces and hope that you are too.

I went to Mass at 4PM.  Brought communion to Tom and Rita again.  Then I fed Roxie and went to see Mom and bring the sacrament to her.   She was so happy.   I wish there was a service or regular communion at Meadow View.  I think she feels a bit lost.   But we had a nice visit and I left her tired but content.

home again, I am winding down for the night.   Oops forgot a capital letter.  Oh Well.  

I tried to call Jacquie tonight and got her.  Yea.   She is in a rehab center and not too happy.   She knows she cannot be alone but is trying to figure out what to do.   Please pray that all goes well for her.  After all the  people she cared for she surely deserves the best of care for herself.

So. I am done.  I will add that press release.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

“Making It Speak: Poets and Artists in Cahoots”

At the invitation of EBCO Artworks founder, Tim Ebenreiter, the Sheboygan Visual Artists (SVA) and Mead Library Poetry Circle will present a unique, secretly collaborative exhibit which is free, including valet parking, and open to the public. The March 28 event at EBCO, 1201 Erie Avenue, Sheboygan, will showcase poems inspired by art and art inspired by poems.

Refreshments will be served during a reception from 6-10pm. Poems featured in the exhibit will be read beginning at 7:30pm.

Most of the seventeen participating artists and sixteen poets have never met. They have also never seen one another’s response to their art form. Artists and poets each randomly selected an envelope from event co-chairs Erico Ortiz, Georgia Ressmeyer, and Marilyn Windau, which contained three poems or photos of three art works. The artist read the poems and picked one as the starting point for a new artwork. Likewise, the poet studied the photos and chose one to serve as the prompt for a new poem.

The creative process is different for everyone. Dawn Hogue reacted spontaneously, somewhat intuitively to Christopher Tucker’s painting “The Woman with Red Lips.” Her poem quickly spilled onto paper. A passage in a book Clarke Ross was reading added further definition to his poem about Richard Biemann’s photograph “Steps.” Georgia Ressmeyer researched World War I before writing her poem to photographer Dianne Frounfelker’s “From Wisconsin to Argonne.”

“It was a fun process,” said poet Mary Kunert. “One of Keary Kautzer’s works popped out at me, reminded me of childhood experiences. I tried to paint his picture with my words.”

Ray Hagerman described on canvas Ross’ poem “The Toy Sailboat.” In both painting and poem more than a small boy trimming sails is presented. Youthful passage and future life struggles emerge in rapid, churning waters just upstream.

Sylvia Cavanaugh wrote to Paul Otto’s photograph “Duplex” in which his “interpretations and meanings were inherently imbedded.” She feared that “if my interpretations were too different, it might be disrespectful to the creative vision of the artist.”

Silk painter Patty Aker said, “I loved the challenge, but it’s a big responsibility. My art needed to honor the poet’s words.

“The arts are like lasagna,” said Marilyn Windau. “They can be sensory feasts. If you look beyond the bubbling surface, if you take time to cut into lasagna, delve down through the layers, you find treasures to savor. So, too, in poetry, painting, all the arts, there are layers of meaning, smooth or biting textures in words, transparent symbols in pigment, complexities of composition. We invite the public to explore our offerings.”

“Making It Speak: Poets and Artists in Cahoots” may also be viewed on Saturdays and Sundays, March 29-30, April 5-6, and April 12-13 from 10am to 4pm.

For more information please contact Erico Ortiz at 414-587-3474, Marilyn Windau 920-467-6614, or SVA at 262-416-1ART (278)

This is going to be short.   It is 11:41PM and I just got home.   Are you shocked?

I worked on my book for most of the day and then tonight picked up my friend, Nancy to go to see Mary Calvey's Shamrocks and Shenanigans show at the Plymouth Arts Center.   It was great.   I got to be part of the show by holding up a sign that said MORE every time we heard it in the Wild Rover song.

Then Nancy and I went to 52 Stafford for another drink and more visiting.  Just a wonderful evening.

A great beginning to the weekend.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

 I only stepped out of the house once today, that was to get the mail.   It was very cold again so that was a good call.

I got a lot of wash done today and cleaned the kitchen and went through some of the food that I had to rush down to the freezer downstairs.  (I don't have any idea what is happening with the font as I am typing.  Really weird.)   Curt from the appliance repair company came with the right fuse and put it in this afternoon.   Should be good for quite a while again.   It has been a really good refrigerator.

 

A new Hells Kitchen started on Fox.   I mended on the Cathedral Window quilt while I watched it.    Want to get that done for Randy and Donna.   Donna will put it on Mom's bed.  They took the bed frame.

 

Tomorrow will be a little busier and I am going to join Nancy Roehre at the Plymouth Arts Center for Shamrocks and Shenanigans, an Irish song fest that another friend of ours, Mary Calvey, puts on each year.

 

Just the beginning of the St. Patrick Day festivities.  Culminating with the Walk on Monday.

 

Dia Dhuit

 

Mary

 

 

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office

~Aesop~

 

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

~Will Rogers~

I am watching Roxie finishing off my milk.   I got onto a phone call with Leslie and Bill and didn't protect my glass.   She is happy but struggling to get to the bottom of the glass.

It was not so busy today.   I went to see Mom at about 10AM and stayed until she was ready for dinner.   She is still after me because the bottom of the glass is just beyond her tongue's reach. 

Mom is doing well.  We talked about a lot of things.   She is concerned that the letters and documents fromyears past are treated with respect and I was able to reassure her that Jeff is going through everything to be sure that all important things are kept.

I took a long nap this afternoon.

Today is my Great Grandson Marcus' birthday.  He is two already.   What a handsome young boy he is and I am so happy that he is blessed with such loving parents who will help him grow to all that he can be.

Happy Birthday Marcus.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Busy Day

I know, I know, they all are.   But this was a really weird one.

Started off pretty good.    I got the trash out, checked the fridge and it had seemed to be working so I went to St John's for our Rediscovering Catholicism discussion.   Nice a group of people, the clergy should put us in charge.

I had therapy right after that and Jaren is really happy because I could tell him and now tell you that my right arm, neck and shoulder are doing very well.   So he told me to continue and let him know in a couple of weeks how it is doing then.

Then grocery shopping.  By then I was really tired, so I came home and opened up the fridge.  It was actually sending warm air out.   So I called Curt from the appliance repair and he came right over.   This time he was able to tell that the fuse was broken, so he replaced it with a temporary one, (he has to order the right one, but this one will work til he gets it).   He told me not to expect ice for a while, but lo and behold the first cubes dropped out at about 3PM.  I was so excited that I called to tell him the good news.  I cleaned the refrigerator and dumped anything that I had any thought might have suffered from the lack of cold.

I had a nurse from United Health Care for a free annual checkup they offer.   She was very pleasant.   Roxie liked her too.   I know she likes it when  we get visitors.

So.  A busy day. 
Tomorrow I have absolutely nothing scheduled but will go to visit Mom as I was not able to go on Monday.   She likes it if I keep tabs on her bills and so on.

She had a good day today too. Jeff watched the Quiet Man with her.

So.  Bless you all.   My foot is definitely improving.   As it has to heal all the way through the foot, I expect it will be a bit before I can call it healed.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Just home from the second day of mission at church AND a practice for the Plymouth Arts Center Spring concert.   My foot is itching like crazy and I am exhausted.

I had to have a repairman for the fridge today and then went to the Sheboygan Writers Club meeting this afternoon.

I am going to bed after rubbing coconut oil on my foot (not the wound itself) just the skin.

Dia Dhuit

Mary

Except for going to St. Thomas in Elkhart Lake this evening for the first of two nights of a Parish Mission, I was home all day.    I was decadent and slept until almost 10AM.  Roxie was not pleased about every half hour she would come and start stroking my face and mewing.   I would just pet her and talk to her until she lay down again. 

It was a good day.   I got letters written emails sent, reading done and cooked full meal of rabbit for my lunch which will provide the center of a couple of meals this week.   It was one of two rabbits that my friend Jerry Coenan gave me.   Pretty good too.  I cooked it with a recipe out of my New Orleans creole cooking book by Big Kevin.   The recipe is called Ya Ya Rabbit.

The meeting tonight was quit interesting.   I am also in a book group at St. Johns studying a book called Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly.  The priest who is conducting our mission was right on with the chapters I just read for our Tuesday study.   Funny how that often works.  Basically we just have to be and continue to be the best version of ourselves.  

Tomorrow will be busy ALL day.  A Monday Plus.  

Until then  Dia Dhuit

Mary