Friday Happiness

So. Friday. So happy.

Things are looking up, weather-wise. Yesterday, it was grey (which way do you spell gray? grey, gray...I love it both ways.)

Yesterday it was grey, and I noticed in that cloudy-bright greyness, colors really popped. Women's faces, and school buses lined up outside the Music Hall. Backpacks bumping off the hips of kids flowing down from the high school. Awnings and street signs. Colors popped.

I noticed that it was beautiful.

I am so ready for a good, old-fashioned rain, and last night we got a little taste of one. But I want thunder and lightning. I want soaking sheets falling, and wind gusting.

And then, afterward, I want the sun to come out, sheepishly at first. Then, full force. Then all those little sprouts and shoots will know it's safe for them to show themselves.

The lilac tree in our driveway has started to bud.

Friday, and I am also ready to cut the rest of my hair off. I'm over it. I'm going greyer by the minute. Or grayer. Take your pick.

Funny, it just now occurs to me, that my most favorite tea is, naturally, Earl Grey. Fits nicely.

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We have an interview with Elizabeth Solomon, up at eyebuzz now. Tim conducted the interview with her, and when I read it, I was so impressed with both his questions, and her thoughtful, interesting, and honest answers.

I am much looking forward to our upcoming show with Jennifer Judd-McGee, and I have taken the interview reins from Tim, in what is a both a selfish and unprecedented move. It will be my first interview, and I look forward to posting it here, soon.

We have gotten so many amazing submissions for Public Bookstore. Thank you to everyone. This is a project we are excited about, and we are so encouraged by the response and the quality of the work. We'll keep you posted on the publication date, the opening reception, and the summer group show, which will exhibit some of the original work that is included in what, we hope, is the first in a series of collaborative art books.

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Friday. And I hope to notice a few more things that are beautiful, throughout the weekend.

More tomorrow. Thanks for reading.
tt