Thursday, March 7, 2013

about that trip to Ball Ground...

Ever been to Ball Ground? Me neither... We didn't go. It was just not a good day - really cold and really windy - so much of both that we decided it was just going to be No Fun at all if we tried to go and troop out through the woods to see all the bulbs. Honestly, it was so cold - if the flowering bulbs had thought of it - they probably would have retreated back underground just to get out of the wind. We'll try again in early April - and hope that there are still some daffodils to see when we get there in a  month's time.

We did amuse ourselves by going downtown to the High Museum to the 'Diego and Frida', that I had not particularly felt the need to see - but found very interesting. As I have studied art history over the years, it has been intriguing to realize how all the things that are going on in any particular point in time somehow affect and interact with all the other events of that period. Politics, society, financial world, art: all impacting the world and the way we see the pas.. On a personal level with individuals like Frida Kahlo and the art she produced that reflected her personal history and emotional state. And in a bigger sense of world influences that are demonstrated by the wall sized murals painted by Diego Rivera in Mexico and the US. One of the murals he was commissioned to do by the Rockefellers was so offensive when the family saw it, the painting was destroyed rather than allowed to remain up in a public place to be viewed by people who would see the family in an unfavorable light. Much influenced by communism and the teachings of Lenin, he used his art to promote feelings and opinions about Mexican politics and government.

We really wished we had remembered to get out the eye-liner and color in a uni-brow on our foreheads before we went to the museum - but the workers there probably would not have been amused.

Just hanging out most of the day, though we went over to Emory U. to hear some students read their poetry, along with a guy F. really wanted to hear. Buddy Wakefield is giving a poetry reading at Eddie's tonight, and was invited to come to Emory to share some of his work with students there. He is apparently successful enough to support himself with his writings and published work,  and currently doing a tour,(including Decatur) for several weeks. It was pretty interesting - especially after sitting through several performances of some really  if-fy stuff some of the students had written and read.

This made me know I did not need to drive home on Wed. night, so I got up at 6:00 am to get back to town just in time to go to work for four hours. I've been making salads.

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