You'll Poke your eye out!

Recently i spent the day at the Portland Art Museum... a favorite place of mine to hang out. i traveled by train to spend the day at a Class for Art teachers to bring the Art of Egyptology to the classroom. it was an incrediable time and i even walked away with curriculum to teach... thank goodness i didnt have to create another unit...!
This coming month i am beginning a journey that is not that new for me.. i get to get back into the classroom only this time i am teaching 1st through 8th graders art...

i know what you are thinking... you will shoot your eye out... no no no running with scissors... are you delerious?? but honestly God has given me such a passion to teach that i cant wait.... so next time you hear " you'll shoot youir eye out.. will you pray for me?

love you
kg

PERHAPS MY GARDEN SHOULD BE GLASS

HOW CAN I SAY THIS RESPECTFULLY? LET'S SEE.... OKAY WHAT IS IT ABOUT THE SPRING THAT CALLS TO ME, YET BY FALL I FEEL AS MUCH LIKE TURNING SOIL INTO LIVE GARDEN PAINTINGS AS I DO ABOUT GETTING AN INGROWN TOENAIL REMOVED.. PERHAPS THAT IS THE GRACE OF STAIN GLASS.

MY BROTHER IN LAW SENT ME THIS PIC OF A WINDOW I DID FOR MY sIS (COOL FOREST BACKGROUND IN THE FORREST GLASS HUH? HE IS A GENIUS) AND I THOUGHT... HUH.... I MISS TURNING GLASS INTO ART AND I MISS THE SOFT SOIL OF SPRING AND I HATE THAT MY FLOWERS LOOK WHEATHERD SO QUICKLY THANKS TO THAT STININ' 110 DEGREE 2 WEEK BLAZING SUN STINT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.. I HAVE TORN MANY THINGS OUT OF MY GARDEN THAT IN SPITE OF MY WATERING AND GATHERING SEEDS AS FAST AS I COULD, DIED ANYWAY.

I AM FINDING LIKE EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE I START OUT WITH SUCH A PASSION ITS UNBELIEVABLE AND THEN I SLOWLY SPUTTER UNTIL ONE OF TWO THINGS HAPPEN.
1. I GET REIGNITED.. OR
2. I POOP OUT.. ITS NOT FROM LACK OF PASSION ITS CAUSE I GO A GAZILLION MILES PER HOUR AND WHO CAN KEEP THAT MOMENTUM UP?

LESSON TO BE LEARNED HERE.... EASY GIRL.. E-A-S-Y... I HAVE SO MANY THINGS I LOVE TO GET MY HANDS IN THE SOIL OF..... GOD WILL HAVE TO TEACH ME A FEW LESSONS I THINK....
THE SOIL OF GLASS ART IS CALLING MY NAME WHILE MY POOR SUMMER GARDEN SLOWLY WINDS DOWN FOR THE SEASON LOOKING A BIT TIRED AND BLOOMED OUT...... NOT THAT I KNOW WHAT THAT FEELS LIKE.... SO WITH THAT.. I WILL GO HAUL WATER ACROSS THE STREET TO THE OTHER GARDEN I KEEP GOING.....LOCATED IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE FUNERAL HOME... I NEED TO CLEAN UP THE PAINT AREA I JUST REPAINTED THE FUNERAL HOME SIGN.
AND THEN I WILL CLEAN OFF THE PORCH SWING WHERE I PLACED ALL THE NAILS AND HARDWARE FOR THINGS AROUND THE HOUSE THAT NEEDED TO BE TAKEN DOWN IN ORDER TO PAINT THE HOUSE AND FUNERAL HOME THIS WEEK....

WHAT WAS THAT LESSON AGAIN.... EASY GIRL... E-A-S-Y.... MEANWHILE I HAVE TO MAKE MY LESSON PLANS TO TEACH ART THIS YEAR TO THE 1-8TH GRADERS..... GOOD LORD!

His Wife has Changed

So, Here Hubs and I are, creeping up on 17 years of marraige. i am finding a change of heart taking place in the very depth of me...a change i like.

Last Friday i asked myself a question while answering phones for the Chamber of Commerace here in a sleepy town of 2640. i asked myself the question that changed my thinking and spun my marraige on its head.

How Can I,

Be The Wife, That Makes

My Husband

Successful?

O.k. Many of you Bible Thumpers are Screaming from your Mountain tops of Laundry...... Proverbs 31... Read Proverbs 31 its all in there!!! !!!!(i know.. i can hear you yelling from here.)

Remember back, those of you who shared wedding vows- the part where it says to Honor and Cherish? amoungst those other fine things? well i am learning a new kind of Honor.

Hubs is a People Person i mean more than the average People person... Hubs Collects Friendships like i Collect books... anyone who has met him and spent any time with him would be able to tell you this... he draws breath of life from people.. as much as i do from quiet solitude.... so how in the heck do the two worlds meet... or should i say, at times collide? well this is the part i am getting to.... Hubs is a Civic minded, Community related, Family loving, Friendly heart touching, God loving MAN.

If i were to respond to him in a way that blesses him i would touch any of the above mentioned areas... the balance of this is that I need to do this with a desire and not a "have to" frame of mind... so where hubs in on the Chamber Board, I volunteer to help out on fridays. something that i truely love... telling people what to see for all the points of intrest around the area...c'mon i love it... Going down on Wednesdays for Lunch at the Senior Center where i get to sit back and here history being spoken about by the lives and hearts that lived it... the 70-80-90 and yes Centurians who lunch there just want to be heard.. and my heart and imagination can't wait to be there with them... all the little things i do in town are a reflection on my Hubs. i enjoy showing him Honor by speaking well of his name... not for his sake... but also because i get the benefit of being Cherished by a Man that deeply loves me and wants to honor me too....... hence Olivia June bug my 73 Vdub...