The times and life

Since the Internet seems to index everything under the sun, I’m going to put this post out there to see if someone may have found a necklace I made, and lost in the surf, in Huntington Beach California, somewhere between 1972 and 1975.

It was a gold bird design (very crudely formed by beating on a lump of gold with a hammer until it sort of looked like a bird in flight), epoxied onto a piece of Obsidian (black volcanic glass), which was in turn epoxied onto the tag from our family dog that had died years earlier. As I recall, it was a round brass tag, and it may have had Cypress Veterinary Clinic or similar embossed on it.

I used to wear it on a leather thong around my neck, and while surfing one day, it was lost in the surf. The chances someone may have found it a long time ago is good, but if someone actually hits the net to see if they could find the owner, and you found this post, that would rock.

It’s a long shot, but I thought it’d be worth posting to see if it turns up all these years later.

I did a phone interview with the Daily Beacon newspaper here in Knoxville, about the monthly First Friday art openings. You can read it here.

Wow. It just turned 2010. It was just ten short years ago that our good friends Rick and Julie were here celebrating the new year with us. 2010. That sounds so far into the future, but it’s here right now, right now is 2010. Amazing. Time is flying. 2009 was a nightmare for numerous friends. It was a year filled with pain and suffering and illness and stress and death and financial ruin. I don’t know how this happened, but a lot of it evaded my wife and I, knock on wood.

This new year has a lot of promise in store. An incredibly cool project has presented itself to me, and I’m jumping in without hesitation. I’m going to rock this new project, I’m primed and ready to roll. I can’t talk about anything yet, but it involves me and my artwork. I’m going to be making my artwork for one of a kind items. If it goes as well as it appears it will, I’ll be spending my days and nights making artwork. Read more

People scare me anymore, they really do. They can see stains on an iron and claim it’s Jesus. They actually believe Jesus is giving the a sign of some sort. Yet these same people don’t believe in fossils, nor global warming is taking place. How on earth can someone put their faith into something so absurd, yet they can’t believe things that are scientific? Honestly..

Mary Jo Coady walked into her daughter’s bedroom Sunday afternoon and noticed a familiar image on the bottom of an iron sitting on the floor.

“I see his eyes, his nose, his whole face and I was like, ‘That’s Jesus looking at us,’” Coady said.

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