Hello Again, Dear Daisy-Trodders!

Things got a bit hectic for me for a while there – uni. work slammed frantically to a halt for the semester, and an old friend, recently returned from a year working in London with his rock ’n’ roll band, Van Lustbäder, came to town to perform, and stayed with me. (You can check their site from my ‘Links’ if you feel like it.) Then, of course, there’s the regular dampness, stagnant qi, and excessive liver heat, which, in Shantoozy’s opinion, is what’s largely responsible for my ongoing fatigue of mind, body and spirit. However, all this would not have been, in itself, reason for my having not impressed a blog post here for over three weeks. The fact is that I have been feeling ‘up in the air’ with my life lately. I hate being this way, and, even though it is but a temporary state, it has been making me feel less than inspired.

Party to this state is an uncertainty as to the exact direction I want to take with my art; that is, with my writing and illustrations with which to decorate the writing, or, perhaps conversely, words for decorating my drawings. I feel confident that this shall all come clear in time, of course, and until then I must simply wait. It has long been generally decreed by fellows of my species that patience is a virtue, and I guess they are correct, but it’s also an unavoidable necessity at times, so too bad if it happened instead to be a deadly sin, what-ho! But I suppose that’s not really what they mean; they mean, be calm rather than tense while waiting, even if the magazines are old and boring.

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I termed them ‘my’ species just now, incidentally, because I assume there may well be at least one non-human peruser of this blog, given how many galaxies there are and what a mystery is the substance gold and such. Isn’t that funny? – you know, the universe and black holes containing alternate universes and such?

Anyway, “Hello!” again to you, Dear Daisy-Trodders. I’ll leave off there for now. Back again tomorrow shall I be. My mind’s a bit foggy.

Kind of like my street a few weeks ago when I took these eerie, early morning photographs that I now leave you with: