I’ve been doing everything possible lately to avoid writing articles, which I find boring. I’ve started making pizzas from scratch (yum!) and am learning how to bake fresh bread. My family is getting spoiled! So spoiled, that no one has really noticed that I’m not really working all that much…hmm. For money, anyway. I want to find something else to do. I’m contemplating painting decorative furniture.
Sage and I had a blast yesterday making these zendoodles. The first two are mine–the last one is his. I like the really spontaneous quality his has.
We’ve been making beaded hemp bracelets as well. Good thing he’s in Boy Scouts or he’d be turning into a total hippie–I am!
This weekend, Sage and Greg went backpacking with the Scouts in the Sabine Wilderness Area. They are walking ten miles today, camping, and walking two tomorrow. I took pics, but they turned out all blurry. 
I am enjoying the time to myself, especially after putting up with Greg stressing out trying to get everything perfectly ready for this trip the past two days. There is a party today that I really should go to, lest I seem antisocial, but I am antisocial, 
so I’ll probably just stay right here with my dogs and do whatever.
I figured out how to create color palettes from photos that I like. I can think of a lot of potential uses for this! Here’s one I made from a beach photo I like.
On the reading front, I’ve just finished reading Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands, which was written by two young guys who learned Chinese and then went backpacking for months all around the edges of China, learning about ethnic Chinese, who as it turns out, are not very similar to Han Chinese at all, other than shared humanity. Even better than learning about the cultures (who knew you could eat pig that has been stuffed with butter and stored in the living room for seven years?!) was learning how the people really see the Chinese government. Greg read it too, and said that the rest of the world should definitely not refer to it as The People’s Republic of China! It’s not that the information was all that surprising–just that you don’t hear about how it really is much–especially since China is Number One US trading partner.
You have an amazing eye and so does Sage. Life sounds to be very good, in spite of the lack of work. (or maybe because of it?
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That’s so cool! I thought you were just putting up pictures that you saw on the internet and thought were really cool, but wow, you two are quite some artists!
Sometimes I would see Chinese news on TV while channel surfing. When they interview people in certain provinces, it would actually not be immediately to me that they were speaking Chinese. For certain dialects, I can tell that they are still using the same sentence structures but just pronouncing the characters differently, but in some cases, it just seemed to share no resemblance at all.
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Awesome pictures. In the bottom one I see a really chilled out inter-dimensional robot taking a break.
“especially since China is Number One US trading partner.”
Well, I think you answered your own question there.
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