breakfast beauty: prussian rye toast with israeli feta, italian seasoning & bariani olive oil, with matcha tea infused with fresh grated ginger, with a fresh mandarin
at about 2, we'll drive to alamosa for meetings and dinner related to our educational startup, actionlab360. don't bother to search for our company online; you won't find it. we're keeping a low profile until launch.
right now, i'm enjoying the breakfast you see above. if you're going to have breakfast, why not make it beautiful, right? since both matcha tea and fresh ginger tea both have stellar health benefits, i decided this morning to try an experiment and combine them. not bad!
on the wall, parade 29:currently in process
lately, when i walk into my studio in the morning, i am greeted with an open feeling and absence of clutter which is new. it's a result of mikela's ongoing cleanup and organization campaign, which has changed the quality of my daily experience in the studio radically, for the better. and she's only half way through her plan, which i assure you is brilliant.
lastly, before we leave for alamosa, i'm preparing a 24"x48" canvas, which will become parade 32, also based upon photos from above shot at MOMA in 2008. as i prepare to stretch the artfix portrait linen, i cast furtive glances at parade 29 hanging on the east wall of my studio. it's close, but not yet there. so in a way, it's perfect to be away today, let it sit and come back tomorrow with fresh energy and hopefully create those final, all important TWEAKS that can make or break a painting. like everything else in life, you can't be attached to results. just listen to what the painting wants and don't be afraid to do something radical, which usually makes no sense to logical mind. did davinci's helicopter drawings make sense to the logical mind in the 15th century?
and a word about the outgoing editor of the guardian. i'll be right back, just pulling up the post on daily kos. read the entire post here:
http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1368996
It has reached the point where some people can no longer sit still. The editor of the Guardian is one. Climate change: why the Guardian is putting threat to Earth front and centre
The climate threat features very prominently on the home page of the Guardian on Friday even though nothing exceptional happened on this day. It will be there again next week and the week after. You will, I hope, be reading a lot about our climate over the coming weeks.One reason for this is personal. This summer I am stepping down after 20 years of editing the Guardian. Over Christmas I tried to anticipate whether I would have any regrets once I no longer had the leadership of this extraordinary agent of reporting, argument, investigation, questioning and advocacy.
Don't look away now, the climate crisis needs you. Very few regrets, I thought, except this one: that we had not done justice to this huge, overshadowing, overwhelming issue of how climate change will probably, within the lifetime of our children, cause untold havoc and stress to our species.
So, in the time left to me as editor, I thought I would try to harness the Guardian’s best resources to describe what is happening and what – if we do nothing – is almost certain to occur, a future that one distinguished scientist has termed as “incompatible with any reasonable characterisation of an organised, equitable and civilised global community”.
Pinch me. Am I dreaming? Read on below for more.