Magic
This has been a miraculous week. I am not kidding. Last week, at this time, I was feeling so pent up and so frustrated with my lonely self. I wrote in my journal: PLEASE SEND PEOPLE.
At the end of the week I got an e-mail from a friend who was coming into town from Michigan. My friend Nate got back from tour and called me. On Tuesday, I came into the office and there was an e-mail from an old friend, with opportunities for a show and for visiting (Hi Diane!), an e-mail from my friend Vitali, who is coming to New York next week, and an e-mail from Kim Wood, a writer & filmmakerI met a couple fo months ago, and who I have been trying to get together with ever since, with an invitation to join her for a book reading this week. As if that wasn't enough, my friend Kirstin called me OUT OF THE BLUE, and just HAPPENED to be in New York(from California), and wanted to introduce me to her OTHER childhood friend in New York, who happens to be an artist.
HELLO!
I love meeting new people who are friends of people that I consider very dear to me, and who also happen to be nice and warm and easy to talk to. If they are an artist, it really UPS the EXCITEMENT. Alise Spinella, my friend Kirstin's "other childhood artist friend" was all the above. I like meeting artists that I haven't seen their artwork yet, because when you go home and get to look them up, the surprise of their work is often a total DELIGHT. I had no idea that I was sitting across from someone who created something as beautiful as this:
I've also been a bit worried about money lately, and as part of Chinese New Year, my friend Chin gave me good luck money, I got taken out to a lovely dinner (see above), and Graham got a long awaited paycheck.
Also, a couple of plans that I thought were falling through, BOTH came through.
To continue the magic that is my week, yesterday I was feeling very TIGHT and FRUSTRATED about the novel I am working on, thinking I need more information about a couple of areas. One of the areas I feel insecure about is that one of my characters is a jockey, and I just don't know enough about jockeys and horse racing to flesh his life out. This morning I JUST HAPPENED to overhear my co-worker (who literally sits in the office across from me) talking about Belmont Stakes. It turns out her husband has been in the horse racing business his entire life. He used to MANAGE JOCKEYS (for pete's sake!). He comes from a horse racing family (his father is a footnote in the book Seabiscuit--for pete's sake!).
Last night I also had a breakthrough in writing, which has instilled in me a much needed sense of confidence.
So, whatever is next--I am READY! BRING IT AWN.
(Oh yes, and thank you thank you thank you!)
See you Tuesday, people!
At the end of the week I got an e-mail from a friend who was coming into town from Michigan. My friend Nate got back from tour and called me. On Tuesday, I came into the office and there was an e-mail from an old friend, with opportunities for a show and for visiting (Hi Diane!), an e-mail from my friend Vitali, who is coming to New York next week, and an e-mail from Kim Wood, a writer & filmmakerI met a couple fo months ago, and who I have been trying to get together with ever since, with an invitation to join her for a book reading this week. As if that wasn't enough, my friend Kirstin called me OUT OF THE BLUE, and just HAPPENED to be in New York(from California), and wanted to introduce me to her OTHER childhood friend in New York, who happens to be an artist.
HELLO!
I love meeting new people who are friends of people that I consider very dear to me, and who also happen to be nice and warm and easy to talk to. If they are an artist, it really UPS the EXCITEMENT. Alise Spinella, my friend Kirstin's "other childhood artist friend" was all the above. I like meeting artists that I haven't seen their artwork yet, because when you go home and get to look them up, the surprise of their work is often a total DELIGHT. I had no idea that I was sitting across from someone who created something as beautiful as this:
I've also been a bit worried about money lately, and as part of Chinese New Year, my friend Chin gave me good luck money, I got taken out to a lovely dinner (see above), and Graham got a long awaited paycheck.Also, a couple of plans that I thought were falling through, BOTH came through.
To continue the magic that is my week, yesterday I was feeling very TIGHT and FRUSTRATED about the novel I am working on, thinking I need more information about a couple of areas. One of the areas I feel insecure about is that one of my characters is a jockey, and I just don't know enough about jockeys and horse racing to flesh his life out. This morning I JUST HAPPENED to overhear my co-worker (who literally sits in the office across from me) talking about Belmont Stakes. It turns out her husband has been in the horse racing business his entire life. He used to MANAGE JOCKEYS (for pete's sake!). He comes from a horse racing family (his father is a footnote in the book Seabiscuit--for pete's sake!).
Last night I also had a breakthrough in writing, which has instilled in me a much needed sense of confidence.
So, whatever is next--I am READY! BRING IT AWN.
(Oh yes, and thank you thank you thank you!)
See you Tuesday, people!
posted by Summer Pierre at
11:26 AM
5 Comments:
I have a question, and I wonder if you might oblige me with an answer. Have you ever been impressed by the work of anyone other than an artist, musician, author or actor - for instance, a medical researcher, a public interest lawyer, a social scientist/ scholar, a schoolteacher, an aeronautical engineer making advances in airline safety, a policymaker or activist in your local community who has made a difference in your life...? I'm just wondering, because it seems from your site that the only folks who you feel are worth their salt are Artists of some type. I do not mean it as a criticism, at all, but I am just curious. As I myself am someone who could potentially have been introduced to you in the past as a friend of someone you had known (given that we nearly did have a mutual friend, it seems), I wonder if you would have only been interested in my flickerings of artistic talent, and had zero interest in my proclivities towards the social sciences?..I mean, maybe you're right, maybe art IS the only way, and I just haven't figured it out yet. I've made some decent art in my time, but tend to put myself down in comparison with those I consider true geniuses -- it seems like if I'm not a genius, it is not worth pursuing artwork at all, and then, too, I get busy and distracted with other pursuits in life as well.
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I am moved by all kinds of people, not just artists--I am sorry if I gave you the impression that's all I care about! I don't believe that art is THE ONLY WAY. It is ONE way. I have many close friends who are doctors, lawyers, anthropologist, teachers, among other professions and passions. Among my heroes, I count Oliver Sachs, a great scientist, as well as Albert Einstein. I had the pleasure of working with the doctor and activist Paul Farmer. It's the PERSON first in my book always.
And are you moved by housewives? Oh good! I just told Em that I am mentioned in your blog and he said, "What's a summersparrowpierre'sblog?" All one word. Mm-hmm.
YOU WORKED WITH PAUL FARMER?!!!! OMG!!! (I think that is MySpace-type internet slang for "Oh-My-God"? I can't stand a lot of these abbreviations, the number one offender being "LOL"...) But I seriously digress: Talk about MY heroes!! Holy cripes. It's not that I ever worked with him or met him at all, only that I read the book about his work, Mountains Beyond Mountains, and I was pretty much blown away. WOW. How did you come to work with him, I wonder?! Does this call for a Blog entry about "Working with Dr. Paul Farmer..."? :-) (That's one convention I DO enjoy, the "internet smiley face")
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