California coming home

I just got back from Italy, and have to say it feels good to be home. Not that I don't love Italy, who could not love Italy? But California has always been my home and coming back to her always makes me happy. I spent yesterday like a zombie, even getting lost on the way to my own house! What a crazy thing jet lag is, what evidence that we are so connected to this earth we live on, to the soil and the way the sun rises and sets- we have to reconnect whenever we leave our part of the earth for another.

The ways of life are so different here and there, people always say it, it makes you appreciate the life you have. There are, of course, many things I wish that we had from Italy, the culture, the food, the emphasis on community. What kind and loving people (even if they sound like they are screaming at each other all the time haha). But the smells and the sights of home...

And now the people. My boyfriend just called me on his way to San Fran, halted in traffic because there is someone with a gun and claiming to have a bomb on the bay bridge. (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/11/BAF81GAKQV.DTL) These people, so isolated in our American Dream they can't find another way to live. For all our advancements in this life, the simplicity of happiness is the thing that eludes us most- desperately we seek it everywhere but where we can find it- in the hearts and smiles of those around us.

What a world.

hello blogger world

I have abandoned my wordpress blog, which was started around a certain project and finished with it, so I feel that works out well. But in continuity and to not abandon all that work, I thought my first post here could be my homage to wordpress, and my blog there.

Hail great Wordpress! And my blog there: http://inaimless.wordpress.com/

heehee.
Anyway, that was one of my time paintings, started one year, a portrait every day, then exactly one year later I repainted the whole thing on top of it. What journeys they turn out to be, those time-paintings, as I like to call them. Give it a read if you're game.


Event for work at good ol' Bay Area Community Services this Saturday: Beers and Brats! Should be fun, come out and drink beer for a good cause: http://bit.ly/b7thdC


Then just a few more days of work next week and off to Italy I go! I'll try to blog from there but god knows I will be busy eating delicious food and drinking even more delicious wine. and that, as you know, takes a lot of concentration.


xoxox
aimee