sadie-sunshine

Like psychedelics and the novels of Frank Herbert, Flipside is really something you have to experience firsthand in order to understand and appreciate. Keeping this in mind will help while reading the following snippets of the mind/heart/body/soul altering time I had in the Pedernales Valley. I spent my time fraternizing with clowns, poets, spacemen, tipsy gypsies, human unicorns, fire dancers, hippies, puppeteers, adventurers, sculptors, djs and tie-dye enthusiasts; listening to salacious haiku, watching blacklit croquet, attending tea parties and sock puppet poetry jams, sloshing through funhouses, bouncing on trampolines, whirling through

My recent seismic shift in situation will, with any luck, bring about a paradigm shift in mind. I am in need of metamorphosis. I went to see a movie by myself for the first time ever last night, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. I feel refreshed and inspired. I am anxious to start painting my new room now. If it turns out well, I'll post pictures.

I'm going to start making a concentrated effort to focus more on art. I've been without it for so long, curled up inside myself with no outlet, not even wanting to create. I finally feel inspired, bursting with ideas, blooming in the autumn. I hope to get the paintings I did almost two years ago up sometime this month along with several new ones and maybe some mixed media pieces. A jack'o'lantern perhaps? "I hate people at Halloween that don't carve their pumpkin out, they'll just like paint a face on it; you know what I'm talking about? But some people won't even do that, they'll paint a face, but it won't even be on a pumpkin, it'll be lik