Follow your bliss...: Gallery Opening...

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Gallery Opening...

This is our wall at the Delavan Art Gallery (pre-view before opening, I didn't take a single picture tonight, I was too busy people watching and chatting!) I'm sure you can pick out my little bits from past posts, they pretty much represent my summer evolution. The four paintings grouped in the lower middle and right are my Fred's (see his Blog "Crux" in the line up on the right!) He sold one early, the little vertical on the left next to my tall skinny vertical (Welsh Slate). It was Th3 in Syracuse tonight...and the opening was very crowded and lovely, we had perfect weather today and tonight, so everyone came out to browse the city's art world...We're both feeling buoyed by the event, it feels good to see our accomplishments on display!

4 comments:

Cyndle said...: I love the grouping! I'm glad you had a great event--it always helps make things feel a little more worthwhile when we can see others appreciating our work, doesn't it? Congratulations! :) And thanks for the "Follow!"; 7:50 AM
Blue Sky Dreaming said...: Congratulations on this wonderful wall! So exciting to have an opening, greeting friends and strangers alike...a huge spirit lifter!! Mary Ann; 12:41 PM
layers said...: openings are always fun-- to see art and friends in one place-- best wishes for a good show; 9:09 PM
Alex said...: I don't know how to describe it. They are very emotion provoking type of paintings. I don't know if it's because of the way I have been feeling lately. But I get a feeling like I'm daydreaming from your paintings.; 7:58 AM

Me and Fibromyalgia...the good news is, it's not going to kill me.

I was finally diagnosed with Fibromyalgia in 2007 after years of being told my illness was all in my head. My Fibro is everyday fatigue with body aches, mostly tolerable, but when I have a flare-up, which can be triggered by stress, hormones, or being over tired from over-doing it, I get the full body pain, including chest pains (yes, these are scary, like an elephant standing on my chest.) Thankfully, it doesn't hurt to take a breath, but I feel breathless, I just do yoga and breathing exercises to stretch and breathe to ease through the worst of it, NSAIDs help to cut the pain, and naps are always a necessary thing when needed (but hard to do while at the day job!) It's a balancing act to manage, I take advantage of the good days, lay low on the bad ones, and very often, push through in spite of the bad days...some mornings I wish I could stay in bed, but I'm glad that I get up and about, very often 'the kinks' work themselves out. I refuse to take the recommended pharmaceutical band-aids on the market, I tried one once, and I don't like feeling like a zombie. I keep active with my creativity, I think that's the key to my overcoming this obstacle every day...and I have my Fred and our son, five cats, and one dog named Max.