Artisan lifelstyle ,Art, Misery,Mars retrograde

I'm gonna title this one Art,Misery and Mars retrograde. A couple of years ago before the new American depression started a patron purchasing one of my older paintings informed me that my new work was nice but lacked the dark edge of older pieces...... he said I needed more angst in my life. Well now I have it and its showing in the new work. Working in a less than ideal environment where the human condition is packaged and sold in high volume has taken me to a place I never wanted to revisit. The only way to NOT run screaming from the room is to to get it on canvas. I'm planning on a private showing of the new work in August. I'm a little confused right now because I don't know if I should be grateful for the inspiration or if I should be pissed that my personal utopia is disintegrating. Now......I know I am not alone in the new paradigm we are all facing. Astrologically speaking we are reaching a collective critical mass. Jimmy and I saw it coming years ago which is why we consciously adopted our lifestyle.
We have spent the last 4 years digging up all the info we could on subsistence living. While we were doing it, it was hip,cool, and fun. Now I fear we didn't learn enough. There is so much more we need to know to insure a high quality of life in the coming days. I know this post is a bit of a downer but I am deeply affected by the increasing numbers of homeless begging on the corners as I drive to and from work. Yes, I know there are some scammers out there but the folks I am seeing now have a look about them. Its in the downcast eyes and the embarrassed body language that tells me they don't want to be there. Its the air of quiet humiliation they are carrying. While I could keep going on this topic for pages I will move on to what we are doing to prevent our own slide to the desperate side. We are increasing our medicinal garden this year. Our starts are doing great they are all two to three inches tall and need to be transplanted from the tiny little start trays. We have had a nice surprise this last two weeks. Our winter garden which was frozen and wilted two weeks ago has sprung back to life?!? Next year I will pay more attention to it. We are only a few weeks away from spring planting.
The next thing on the agenda is to refurb my great grandmothers treadle sewing machine. Get a new drive band for it and learn to use it. It still works but needs some oiling and one new part. The thing is bullet proof. It will sew everything from silk to leather. Why did singer ever go electric when they had such a perfect product. Its almost a hundred years old and does exactly what it did fresh from the factory. There is not a piece of plastic anywhere on it!
We only have a week and a half til this Mars RX is over. This has been a tough one for everyone. I will be glad when its done. It has been enlightening though.

Suck,crochet,Mars retrograde

I haven't blogged in a while cuz... well things around the suburban farm have kinda sucked and I'm not much for whining in public. More of a problem solver.... But I'm back.
I fried not one but two computers from September to November and Jimmy was nervous about me using his Mega-fine-tuned-video-editing-bring-you-coffee-in-the-morning computer cuz even he noticed that everything I touched blew up for the last 4 months. Seriously? ever have a time period when EVERYTHING you touch disintegrates before your eyes?....... Sheesh!
Anyway to minimise the damage I took up crochet. ( I figured it was something to do that wasn't too dangerous and if I screwed it up no one would die or lose a leg and the cats ear healed nicely) The result was 22 scarves in 6 weeks ( guess what everyone got for Xmas?) and one ear flap hat that Jimmy will only wear to check the chickens cuz its well... damned ugly! I had to make him an alpaca scarf to make up for it which sounds like no great hardship except that I am horribly allergic to all things animal hair. For love of Jimmy, I itched and sneezed for three days.
When he opened it on xmas morning he said it was nice. NICE?..... NICE? all the suffering I went through and he says NICE?
On to a different topic. My last art opening bombed (part of the suck) No one showed. I found out later that zero marketing was done for it.... but still... what do I have to do to get some attention in this town? slice off my ear?shove a whip up my butt? Gah!
So the whole thing inspired me to get a real job. Shouldn't be too hard right? 56 resume submissions later and I've only had one interview which I screwed up. I mean I really screwed it up. I said something so stupid I didn't even know it until an hour and a half after I got home and was running through the interview in my head. I'm actually embarrassed. Good grief I have an excellent education from an excellent school...... how could I have been such a retard?
All this and more happened before Mars and Mercury went retrograde, so I'm hiding under the bed until its all over in March. Which brings me to the next topic....
Mars went retrograde Dec 20Th, shortly after so did Mercury. The suck factor should be ramping up for a bunch of you out there right now. I'm not much in a mood to give advice right now. Lets face it my own advice hasn't been working for me so how can I tell anyone else what to do. I will say this. hold your temper, drive carefully and think long and hard before you open your mouth. The peak point will occur 2 days either side of January 27th. I suggest marking the dates cuz this one should be a doozy. Look for a royal type person to make major headlines about that time or possibly an actor (American royalty). Look for violence and just plain stupidity. Oh and expect some very stormy/snowy weather. It will all be over the first week in March and we can look forward to some rigorous spring cleaning.
That's about all I have the energy for right now. Most of you know the retrograde drill anyway.
As for myself, I'm crawling back under the bed with my crochet and I'm gonna try NOT to poke myself in the eye. Wish me luck!