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  Message 48069 Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:49 am   
Anna- you have a beautiful way with words- this is your creative genius.

i have been fortunate to have a mother that was quite an artist in her own right- she use to sell her paintings when we were all quite young to pay for our clothes and things- my father was a bit stingy but he did well with his education - which wasn't much - he became an architect before the state required a college degree to get a license . and he said once that he did plans for over 1500 homes in West Texas-of course they were not the quality of Frank Lloyd Wright- but was still suitable for the people that paid him to do the plans for their homes..

but he was stingy and didn't give much money to my mother to raise 4 children and buy groceries and all that - t think he gave her twenty dollars a week- but that was in the forties so it still was okay,

i guess i just ramble along- but what i was trying to say was that i out of four of us- apparently i was more sensitive about art and things- and worked my way through college getting a BFA- from University of Texas -Magna Cum Laude-but doing nothing with it-even turning down a Fellowship at Long Beach State in California - now it is just because of my meditation that i to do my paintings

just to be in the moment and allowing art to happen- and it is such a joy when the results are so fascinating- and i am saying wow- did i do that?- and really just like you we are only conduit or passage ways for existence to express itself.

thank goodness my awareness and my witnessing is improving and just to be in each moment is more and more - such a joy!

and i am so happy that now i can relate to you now

- i have immensely enjoyed your beautiful poetry for over a year or so- but never actually thought that you would speak with me- thank you - you are quite a splendid woman.

love da gaf

 Anna: "Life is all I/we have...until I/we don't.!



an old photo of me at the University of Texas
showing off the sculpture that i created and
planted in front of the new art Building- (1968- i think.)

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