Um… er…. eh…. TAPTAP TAP… “is this thing on?”
So I guess you are all wondering what ever happened to that chick that used to hang around here and, you know, make fractals and stuff… well, she’s not dead, but for a few days there she really wished she were.
What I mean to say is that I was so sick I couldn’t even enjoy layin’ around doing nothing. Doesn’t it just suck when you call in sick and you’re really sick!?!?!?
Well, that’s what happened, folks, and it wasn’t no party (birthday party, that is)! See, my birthday was Tuesday, and I was so miserable that day it couldn’t get over fast enough! In fact, I was totally off the grid for an entire week, all the while wondering why I was so blessed to have the worst birthday ever!?!?!?
To put this all into perspective, let me just shove a few phrases your way… primordial soup, blocked energies, please, just let it be over, there’s gotta be some changes around here!! Oh, and of course lots of moaning and groaning!! I think it was five days before I even had the energy or desire to try and eat or drink something!
What did come out of it was an understanding that, in fact all my energies, spiritual, psychic, cuber, physical, emotional were all out of kilter and wreaking havoc with all those various aspects of me. And the result of this introspection, was I didn’t know if I were outside looking in, or inside looking out. What I did discover is that I was doing some stupid things like swimming upstream just to have sex and then die, figuratively speaking, of course. Now that’s good for some salmon and such, but usually not too effective for people.
So that’s what happens around my birthday – I get all “resolutiony”, like most folks do four weeks earlier at the start of the year. So here I am, on the other side of it and not much wiser for it all!
Let me bottom line it for you. I need to listen to myself, inner and ethereal and stuff like that. And make sure I’m not just plowing ahead because that’s what I did yesterday. We have all these situations and circumstances that we get caught up in. Some we can change, some not. The trick is to know the difference and find a creative way of dealing with whatever is not changeable such that it’s not as bad as it seemed. Or, perhaps even coming up with a creative alternative. That actually turns it into a positive experience!
SO, the BIG BIG BIG news is that the print edition of FRACTAL DREAMS is now available on Redmund Pro! I am so delighted and proud to say that. Just follow the link and you can get your very own first edition copy of my first ever published book of fractal based art!!!
In addition, all the other books that released with the launch of RedMund Pro, including KILLING US SOFTLY, GIRL IN THE IRON LUNG, A MONTH OF MENTAL MOMENTS, DARKNESS INTRODUCED, THE FIRES OF WATERLAND, JABBERWEILL HUNT, MOMENTS, MONEY & MEMORIES, SONGS OF ANGELS, THE REGRET OF A FLOWER plus two editions of FLASH IN THE PAN are also now available in print, hold-it-in-your-hand books.
So, to celebrate this momentous event, take a trip on over to 
and pick one or a handful, for yourself and all your friends and family!!! Let me tell you, we are one proud band of authors. And one grateful bunch, to a very special publisher, Red herself. She may downplay and minimize her role in the successful release of these wonderful books, but we all know how much she really did to make this happen!!
And now, that for which I have kept you waiting long enough – those delightful Friday fractals, that we don’t realize how much we enjoy them until they’re not there when they should be!!!
LA FIORITURA
HOME PORTAL
GRACIOUS
GNARLSTROM
INFINITY
FAMILY JEWELS
Who knows… maybe this will make your week go just like a weekend!!!
Thanks for you understanding and all your support…
love and hugs and stuff…
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Janet/BuddhaKat,
Glad to hear you’re feeling better; you were missed, here if nowhere else…. (just kidding… no doubt, lots of ffolkes missed you the same as I…) Congratulations on the book launch, and I’ll be picking one, or more, out, as soon as I can afford to buy anything off budget; for a few more months, food and TP trump new books…
Feliz navidad, tambien, milady…. I shan’t inquire as to the number, as it matters not at all, but, I’ll ask if you were able to enjoy it at all, feeling as poorly as you were, and hope that you can say yes…. 🙂
Great fractals…. and thanks for the memories of the DC5. I remember seeing them on the Ed Sullivan Show sometime in the late 1960’s doing the first number in this great video, and the other one, Bits and Pieces, another time on Sullivan’s show…. a LONG time ago, as it turns out, eh?
Welcome back….
thanks, Ned… welllllll…. my actual b’day I was the sickest day of all – it was all I could do to moan and groan and try to sleep (at which I wasn’t very successful)! I’d say, it was an anti-birthday, for sure. That said, and having survived yet again the pits of ill hellth (sic), I can’t remember ever having a b’day any where near the awfulness of this one, so, all in all, I’m pretty lucky, I guess!
I believe we are very nearly contemporaries – our musical memories will most likely be similar! At least I’m not yet in triple digits!
I thank you kindly for your generous thoughts and comments, my friend…
“Glad All Over” was the reason I selected this vid – somehow it just felt right, especially in celebration of the print edition release!
I certainly hope you are able to get a copy of FRACTAL DREAMS, and show it to all your friends who will show it to all… oh never mind… I am 100% in tune with the priorities of nibbles (for me), kibbles (for the cats) and various paper products. I haven’t yet had to make a choice of only one of the 3, but sure have come close…
hope your week abounds with pleasure and mirth!
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glad you are feeling better
I thank you most kindly, Bearman (I am, somewhat)… hoping you and the gang are all well, as well…
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I’m glad you’re feeling better now. I had a mild 2-day flu or something last week.
I think my favorite one is Portal. It looks like blue galls crystal to me and seems to have real depth.
Sorry to hear you as well were under the weather, Binky!! And I too hope you are feeling much better. Being sick sucks!
I know what you mean about Home Portal… I want to go behind the “gate” and explore!
thanks for stopping by, Binky!!
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Thanks, Janet.
I meant “blue glass crystal”. I’m not sure I want to know what “blue galls” are.
Thank goodness you clarified that – I thought there were some new eerie Wombanian creatures!!!
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Hi Janet, bummer about pulling a sicky when you are actually sick!! Glad you are feeling better. I like Infinity best, probably because of the colours! Dave Clark was one of my girlhood crushes!! 😉
thanks, Caro… sucks to be sick! I can hardly believe this, but the DC5 was about the only band I cared about (read: crush city and then some!) besides the Beatles (totally IN LOVE) back in those good old days!!!
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I like them all, but infinity is Little V’s favorite and mine this week is Family Jewels. It reminds me of one I made. Hope you feel much better today than you have been feeling.
I am proud of you. ❤
xxx
Psst…might like today's post…in 8 minutes 😉
Me and Little V are so in sync!
Hmmm. My favorite images here are Infinity and Family Jewels. Home portal has a nice look to it as well. Keep up the good work!
I thank you kindly, Troy… I haven’t had much time to make art lately and it’s beginning to get on my nerves… time to start making time!!!
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Hope you are feeling better. Whatever is going around is certainly bringing us all to our knees.
Yes, it seems to have brought down some of the sturdiest of us, indeed! Hope this means if you were affected, Val, you’re well on the road to recovery!!
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Happy belated birthday, and glad to hear you’re coming out of it!
(And a great set of fractals, as always.)
OMG – how sorry and boorish am I to not reply to you comment of these many eons ago…
I apologize profusely (bless me)…
thanks as always for weighing in, EG!!
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Here’s to your health & continuance 🙂
Cheers – & loved the rare footage.
Thanks, kindly, Noeleen… so glad you made it over! Feeling much better now, thanks! Hope you and D as well are faring well for the season…
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