It's a perfect Easter morning here: overnight showers have stopped and blue sky peeks through fluffy white clouds, sunbeams make the new leaves glow impossibly green and sparkling wet. The strange little flowers that have been returning from bulbs planted thirty years ago are blooming - they look a little alien - but the red-orange begonia looks homely and familiar. The tomato plants are getting scary-tall!
It's Spring. It's Easter.
Enjoyed a Quarantine-Easter brunch with dyed eggs (we were out of red food coloring so used beet juice for a pretty pink) plus just a few chocolate eggs.
What else has been happening?
Well, Kitchen Dog Theater put out a call for home videos for a project... letting our fans and theater family know what we've been doing in our unexpected off time. Here at the DeVries Architecture, Theater, Design, and Video Studio we - eventually - pulled off our 30 seconds of cinematography. (It would have been easier to have sketched my video by hand... as a series of storyboards maybe? Seriously!) But it's in the can. A virtual can.
I don't think I want to become a vlogger. But maybe Kitchen Dog's video will be as much fun as Tom Hanks' SNL quarantine video collage...
More satisfying than video... Books!
Just read a very good, useful, even wise book on creative work: Keep Going by Austin Kleon. I'd read a good review so ordered it (through Half Price Books, based here in Dallas), but I'll admit to feeling a little dubious when the mini-sized book dropped out of its mailing envelope. Sorry, but its size and zippy graphics just screamed those gimmicky gift books you find by the checkout stand... Fooled me! Because this is full of good stuff: advice, observations, quotes, and (while recommending old books) this book is very of this moment . Honestly, exactly the book I needed to find at this time.
I won't try to boil-down this already slim book for you - just read it - but tidbits? One favorite quote:
"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
Annie Dillard
And the unexpected image of Salvador Dali taking naps... but with a teaspoon in his hand so that the spoon's clattering fall would wake him in the midst of a dream-like state, the better to paint his dream-like surrealist paintings.
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