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19:26 My hair is positively "steam punk" but I don't think that term is well known down in these parts. I sorta like it! #
19:27 @SeaSarasota It should be a full moon tonight too...I hope it shows through the storm! #
19:30 I guess it is going to be a lighted boat parade...not a "lit" one which is how I've been planning it... #
19:32 The boat parade map...I'll be at my rented seat at Pelican Alley www.venicechristmasboatparade.com/routemap.htm #

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:09:28 GMT

Sadie the pug muse is helping me paint by exhaling calm as the storm winds pick up.

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:36:44 GMT

More $10 signs for Bradenton beach saturday.

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:11:32 GMT

$10 tall small sea signs for cubicles, kitchens, bathrooms or doors. 16"x4" buy at Bradenton beach Saturday december 5, 9-2

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Bucket of rocks

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:24:46 GMT

My mom wants a bucket of rocks for Christmas. Nokomis Beach has been very poor for wood scavenging. However, these amazing rocks and pebbles wash up. Pretty big almost handsized pink looking coral ovals, beige translucent swirled rocks...a rock that looks like a huge lima bean, a burnt orange pebble that is shaped like an L. There are black rocks with coppers lines. Taupe rocks with black spirals.

So everyday, Sadie and I go down to the beach rock hunting never ever finding two of the same rock...pebble...fossil.

I am reading Carlos Fuentes A-Z essays. They are brilliant, revealing, provocative. I am thinking about doing something similar but with slideshows and my art. I can't decide if I should go 26 or do 26 slides.

I am still doing slideshows on Slideshare.net. It has become a repsitory for the stories behind my work. I am still trying to do original pieces because I want people to know my Florida which I think has a familiar, but unique look and place. It's more than 5 o'clock somewhere...and Florida's coolest places aren't necessarily even around Key West. Even as the Keys subsides into a condo world with growing noise ordinances...and not even affordable to an average family...there's a world of Florida that is all Key West is and more. Or less.

Depends on what you're looking for...

That's my rock hunting rant.

As usual...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:55:33 GMT

someone really should clean up my house...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:16:22 GMT

Now I am going to try to sleep. So I can get up early to try to complete 15 signs before I go to work. The tiki bar girl is particularly good. Need to do bordered sign.. Baitshack and some new things.

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:07:20 GMT

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Sometimes I need to say...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:36:23 GMT

it is OVER...I can't go ON..there is NO REASON to LIVE...

so I can get on to next.

I keep thinking about the PhD dream with Alan helping me...the dream ends, he's standing on a corner across the road-- I say to him -- You belong to me now. Come on.

Which put me in a viscious, evil black dark beyond Gothic funk.

I really don't believe in life after death which puts me at a disadvantage for the "better place" thought.

You belong to me now. Come on.

When Alan left for the Keys, I more or less started trying to build something for him to come back to, even if just as friends. We worked that well together sometimes. This was a burning and ultimately profitable state of mind. When Alan died, I switched that to creating something in his memory--even it was me. Which was a more burning and even more profitable state of being. More than once I stood in front of the mirror, 3 foot long dread in one hand and scissors in the other. Because, of all things Alan created, my dreads are one of his living arts. And almost weekly I'll find myself backed into a corner with someone's hands in my hair asking me WHY..HOW..WHEN...WHAT and so on.

Which sort of functioned to make me feel like the created thing--which isn't a good place. Nor particularly accurate. Because I've got some history that brought me to this place and I've got time ahead of me. My time has not stopped.

In deciding not to live...essentially in giving up his life, he's given over the power of people or person to define him. Tell his story. Become someone else's legend or myth. Or funny drinking story. Whatever.

I wonder if this is the message my subconscious is trying to deliver. However, honest, I wish it wouldn't because it only functioned to distress me. Unless, it wanted my sole attention that badly.

And in all of that...the PhD thing. In all my goals, this is about the only thing I haven't done. I keep getting wishy washy on it. I wanted a PhD in Literature...sometimes Theology..occasionally I want to go to law school. I've thought on Educational Tech more as it is somewhat sensible.

Probably the most crushing remark that is with me from Alan is the thing he said sometimes daily. That we'd grow old and be dreadheaded artists together.

My desire for dreads predate Alan. But that statement was new in my little world.

But the PhD desire predated it all to almost 5 years old staring at these ants in the grass. Face down, lying on my stomach in the back yard of the family house.

So, I wonder why these two things cross in my brain's endless working at this point in time. The TikiMan and my thinking about ants.

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:02:03 GMT

13:18 Rhondak Native Florida Folk Artist Not Your Mama's Mermaids ... slidesha.re/7DLK6T #

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The Holidays are just really eating into me

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:29:32 GMT

I am not having happy holidays. There are too many people missing from it.

Last night I had a dream about Alan

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:39:18 GMT

which I had ....

not dreamed of Alan but the night he killed himself.

He was wearing a red shirt-not buttoned. Helping me out with my PhD.

He helped me alot. Then when I was going home, he stood there. I told him he belonged with me. To come with me.

I will tell you he remains a complicated issue...but in my heart he has remained clearer to me than he allowed himself to be when he was alive. He made some bad choices. No matter how I want to pretty it up, he didn't do me right though he often did things for me. While it continues to cut me to the bone, my not going to Key West still may not have changed the outcome much. But in my life of few regrets--there is that one.

But this night he was with me getting my PhD.

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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:51:33 GMT

This guy does custom fire pits. He builds his own bowls and everything. I should have set up next to him.

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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:48:37 GMT

At Osprey Market freezing.

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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:01:03 GMT

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Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:58:05 GMT

The heater just kicked on

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:51:39 GMT

with the sound of waves coming in ..and the shadows on palm fronds blowing in the wind.

I read LJ more than I post on LJ anymore

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:47:38 GMT

and I have always loved the Holiday posts...from now to New Year's Eve its full of heart, pics, memories and all sorts of good things. If I don't post...it doesn't mean I don't read.
It doesn't mean I don't smile about you and am happy for you.

Honest,FB has killed me with that LIKE button.

I'll be better in 2010.

Meantime, you are all very beautiful and sexy and really do up the holidays in a funny, amazing, heartfelt way.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:19:36 GMT

For the next few days I'll focus on found wood, light blues, a pirate, a frog, a bait shack, a pug staring at a martini glass. But this is where they begin. Http://www.rhondakwrites.com

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Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:41:27 GMT

Sound of a pug snoring. More of a white noise like waves.

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