Happy Chinese New Year!
It is the Year of the Rat today, and though the astrologers are picking a turbulent year for all and the world we live in, I’m still holding onto hope that since the year of The Rat sign is my own, it will be a lot better of a year than The Pig was to me. I have to confess: I wasn’t much of a fan of last year. It sort of stunk. To high heaven in fact. And so did the one before it, being, The Dog…
I know one is supposed to wear red at all times to attract the good and ward off the evil, especially if it is the year of your sign, so I intend on doing just that. My friend Mo gave me some red earrings for last year’s Chinese New Year celebration, and I have a few other ideas of maintaining my swatch of red this year too. I’m not taking any chances.
I have been still making a lot of art these days, and I even got a piece accepted into the Small Works Show at the N.A.W.A. Gallery in New York, held in March. That was a bit of fresh news for me. I don’t have the piece scanned in yet but its title is, “My One Eggplant” and its a watercolor/vintage collage number.
I intend to freshen up the portfolio section with that piece, and a few others I have been working on & recently completed, just to justify to myself that I am, in fact, being productive. I know I am, I just don’t f-e-e-l like I have been. I have always felt that way when I am being productive. Odd, isn’t it? It’s all part of The Committee. Sir Procrastination serves on the Board of Directors, but thankfully is on an extended business trip.
I have a few specific goals in mind for The Year of the Rat…regardless of its tsunamis and pending Armageddon.
Comments
OMG YOU’RE A RAT?! My apologies. I am such a do-do. I kept thinking you were a Boar because you’re a year older than I. Forgetting I was born in the solar year of 1973, but lunar year of 1972. So we’re born in the same lunar year!
I am hoping for a new career beginning in the new year. Currently unemployed after giving two months notice in November, than working there part-time in January. Scary. Waiting to hear back from an interview on the 25th, will call them a third time tomorrow. Please cross your fingers for me! Babysit my youngest niece a bit today. Nice to be with family and make a little money too. Got to do some sketching. She sat really well watching tv until my brother got back. Sweet kid.
Happiness and prosperity to you and yours in the new year.
And congrats on New York daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarling.
Ok I read this and liked it, wanted to post it. Sorry for yet another post, don’t mean to bother you. Hope you enjoy:
“In general, the yang Earth Rat year, with earth on top failing to control water below, is symbol of apparent calmness on the outside but such calmness lacks a solid foundation and the mountain can tumble and devoured by the ocean of fierce water. Some kind of new world order began to emerge but it will take time to consolidate into stability. . Still there will be international conflicts and uprisings and unrest but such events may be less turbulent than 2007. The new beginning of the 12 animal cycle led by the Rat will be first step to cool down or slow down the acceleration of Global warming problem.”
http://www.raymond-lo.com/ver2/aboutmasterlo/articles.asp
Mo! That is no small feet to quit your job, as I know how loyal you are. It was very hard for me to do and quite scary as well. Still is sometimes - to be truthful. But I still believe this is gonna be a good year for rat people. And I KNOW they will hire you. How could they not?
THEY WOULD BE FOOLS.
FOOLS I TELL YOU!!!!
Got your red on?
Yeah, Im a Rat. Both my parents are too. AND my grandfather! Crazy, eh?
Thank you for all the comments! No seriously! Now it looks as if people read this thing, because I am always under the assumption nobody does. Which is just fine with me, really. I just need to be held accountable for my productivity, which is why I built this thing in the first place. But its always like Easter morning when someone comments
Especially close friends. YAY!
Thank you for the congrats on the NYC show! It was the boost to my artistic ego I sort of needed to make me continue making my pieces. Admittedly, I don’t hang out so much on the interwebs anymore, but that’s ok, because it tends to be a big distraction for what I really need to get done. Balance is not my “fortè”....but I do need to be a little more regular on my own site it seems.
Hmm.
Anyway.....
Thank you for all the cool info on the year of the Rat, MO!!!!
You’re most welcome my friend. Keep doing that art. I had a dream the other night that I was back at MIAD picking out studios and working. That was the morning of the new year. So I am thinking it will be a good year too. Nothing is a 100% anything, but overall good. I like the concept that this is the beginning of a 12 year cycle, to think and plan what you want in 12 years. I’m scared about the job, especially because I just got the bill for the sidewalk work a couple years ago from the city, which I paid before new year, but that and a credit card payment took away the cushion I had emptied a cd for. Learning the meaning of faith. In my gut this feels like the right track, scary, and relearning the definition of “faith”.
Keep me posted please on all your art goodies. When it fits your schedule of course.
Yes, I had red on. Undies and one polished toe nail (needed to stop wearing the earring) .
And thanks for the compliment on work!
Yeah, I saw that bit about being able to start anew for the next 12 years too and am oober excited about that fact. Even if it is a subconscious suggestion that gets us going, well, that can’t hurt either, right???
And yeah. That whole money thing is terrifying and you DO learn to have faith (or not) REAL QUICK.
It will be ok though, Mo. I promise you
Congrats on the NY show!!! OMG, that’s so awesome! Your work is amazing, so I’m not surprised. But still, yay for you!
Miss you! Carrie
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Commenting is not available in this section entry.Thank you so much Carrie!!!!
I totally appreciate it…
And I miss you too, Carrie!