Lay Down All Thoughts and Surrender to the Void

Doesn't everybody watch "Mad Men" on Sunday nights?  O.K.  I guess not.  Don't be alarmed.  Yesterday's post was just about that, about the Existential Dilemma.  You don't know about the Existential Dilemma.  Well. . . join me in (re)reading "The Organization Man," "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," "The Lonely Crowd," and "The Power Elite."  They are all railings against Corporate America.  It is what I was raised on.  And I am feeling it again.  Roger Sterling dropped acid a few episodes ago.  Now. . . he is happy.  Draper's wife quits working for The Corporation on a stormy day.  She leaves, and Don almost steps into an empty elevator shaft.  Pete, in a terrific Cheever fashion, falls for an acquaintance's wife.  Hard.  If it ever becomes available, I will show you the last two minutes of Sunday night's episode.  It is something most wonderful.

If you have been reading for awhile, or if you are a reader who has bothered to go back to catch up (I know that there is a lot of "catching up"), you will remember the Korean woman I met in NYC a couple years ago.  I went to her Facebook page yesterday and saw so many wonderful pictures of her.  I can't read the text, but the most recent pictures are from Paris.  Has she moved there?  She looks tremendously happy.  I am very glad.  I will write to her and ask her for an update.  I think back with longing.  I left her on a train.  I don't know.  I had a girlfriend at the time.  I try to be a good guy.  But the girl went bad in the end.

Is this not dying?  Is this not dying?

By the way. . . I worked all weekend on encaustic pieces.  I think I have it down now.  I know how to work with it.  They look. . . fantastic. . . sort of.  I was only trying for technique.  Now I will focus on "creation."  I will look to be artistically, if not genuine then genius.  Ho!