Random Thoughts

I am at the Special Olympics USA Games in Orlando, Florida.   I am 3 days in, one more day left. I KNOW I should not write about my experiences yet, and I have a whole other day to learn and observe.   But I keep thinking about things that I do not want to forget, and my way of dealing with that when it happens is to WRITE.   So here we go. Lighting the flame at the opening ceremony - LET THE GAMES BEGIN! (Not my photo) This is my first real experience with the Special Olympics.   I have known of it since I was a child – my friend Chad competed in the local Special Olympics when we were growing up.   But I have never experienced it first-hand until now. Of course, perhaps like you, I had some preconceived ideas about what the games would be like before I came.   And, I must be honest, some of those assumptions were negative.   I will not get into those here as I am still trying to process a lot and understand if some of my hypotheses are true.   B...

I have been traveling the past few months so have not been home much.  Now that I am back home and settling in, I am feeling my creative urge again, which I love.  I have started thinking of PROJECTS.  “Projects” are what I call the work that I do – it is interactive art really – outside our home.  I didn’t realize how much I missed doing my projects, how hungry my soul was for creating, until I got back home.  Now my mind is whirling with projects begun earlier begging to be finished and shared and new ideas buzzing in my head.  I have had a couple days in a row of TIME OFF.  I am finally caught up on sleep and more easily able to focus creatively.  So this evening I put a project into play.  It is called “Take What You Need”.  I made a tear-off sign, the kind you used to find in grocery stores with apartments to rent or French tutors to hire (before Google took over for the paper versions and made it simple to find anything)...