How is everybody doing? I hope there are smiles all around.
I know I have been a bad SG friend...slack on the updates. It has been a while since i have done a real update...truth is I am pretty busy or just to bloody tired. Don't take it personal if I haven't responded to your blogs or comments. I am reading as much as I can. Seems alot of what I do these days, except now I read dorky things like newspapers and academic journals....I am turning into a large brain it feels.
But I love it. School is well and keeping me busy. My favourite part of the day is riding the train home. There are always amusing ppl riding and it never fails I meet somebody new. Usually much older ppl...all the yung'uns have earplugs...excuse me earphones in.....
I am of course working, not too terribly much. Winter is slow season for me, so most nights I am out drinking...haha....just kidding, most nights are under tha covers watching old movies. I have also been horribly sick. I don't do sick very well and am happy to be feeling back to my chipper self. I did however burst an ear drum, so know I am over 50% deaf in the left ear. It's not that I like loud music, it is that I NEED it ;-)
So the most interesting thing I have to share is that a few weeks ago I got to work an event that included me getting to see The Fray perform. I just saw a couple of songs and took a couple of shots
Ok, so I have to rant about something......something I have noticed about our modern society.
Does anybody actually talk to anybody anymore? There are TV;s in the train stations, in the malls...everything is so visually saturated and ppl are so 'tech'. All I ever see is kids with Ipods, suits with PDA's and everybody else on the cell phone..checking their messages.....some days I feel like an alien in a futuristic world
We have this family of regulars, to protect privacy I will refer to them by what they drink....Stella and Groth come in with their 2 kids, 7-Up and Diet almost every night. Groth guzzles a bottle of wine, ordered via the glass (wouldn't want to look like an alkie ordering a whole bottle herself I guess) and Stella drowns a couple of beers, while 7-Up eats fried chips and cheese dip while playing a portable game console and Diet doesn't ever eats and sits sullenly with an Ipod....I see this whole scenario played out every night I work, I don't even take them menus anymore bc the whole scene is so familiar, perpetual deja vu.....is it just me or is there something wrong here?
Shouldn't parents be talking to their kids, engaging them, educating them, stimulating creativity. Now I didn't have the nicest family life...but at least when we ate dinner together we talked to eachother, albiet typically an argument, at least there was interaction. I fear greatly for the next generation. Me and my kids will live in the middle of corn country with no TV ppl. HA, just kidding but seriously I cannot bear the thought of the wasted imagination and talent that is leached into these electronics everyday. Kids belong in trees and play houses, not lost in machines and bars.
Technology has it's place, but it is not a substitute for sharing our lives with the next generation.
I look at this picture of my nephew and can't help but wonder what he was thinking
I want to whispers Picassos words to all of you and remind you that it applies to ALL of us !
"Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel . And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children." - Pablo Picasso
Ha....so I'll throw this in here, cuz I lke this style of art...Toyism
Everybody take care and be happy.
Peace,
D.
