The Crow: Green Bananas

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Green Bananas

One of the many blogs I like to visit is Notes from the VooDoo Cafe, written by Ricë Freeman-Zachery, an artist-writer-free-spirit in Midland, Texas.

Last night, before turning in after a long, hard day, while I was grousing about my aches and pains (Whiner should be my middle name), I visited Ricë's cafe. She had found and posted a short video about another artist-performer, Ilona Royce Smithkin, that inspired me to shut up and be glad I can still buy green bananas.

I had my hair cut very short last Saturday, so that most of the white is what shows now, and I was thinking about getting it colored orange or purple, but I rather like Ilona's color. More than that, though, I absolutely love her attitude and free-wheeling style.

(It appears that Google will not allow me to embed the video here, so if it doesn't play as it should, please use the link at Ilona's name.)

4 comments:

Ricë said...: thanks for sharing Ilona!; Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Zhoen said...: (o); Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Harlequin said...: thanks for this link-- i found my way there a while back thanks to your suggestions in an earlier post .... great site.
hope you are enjoying the freedom of the shortened locks...; Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Fresca said...: Thanks for that video!
She says she started wearing eyelashes "forty years ago," which means she started when she was 50.
That got me thinking. I'll be 50 in 6 months.
I wonder what I might start that I'll look back on when I'm 90 (godwilling)?; Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)