Blank Stares at Blank Pages

Head under water
And they tell me to breathe easy for a while
The breathing gets harder, even I know that

You made room for me, but it's too soon to see
If I'm happy in your hands
I'm unusually hard to hold on to

Blank stares at blank pages
No easy way to say this
You mean well, but you make this hard on me

I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you asked for it
'Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving
I'ma need a better reason to write you a love song today
Today

I learned the hard way
That they all say things you want to hear
My heavy heart sinks deep down under you
And your twisted words, your help just hurts
You are not what I thought you were
Hello to high and dry

Convince me to please you
Made me think that I need this too
I'm trying to let you hear me as I am

I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you asked for it
'Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
If you're on your way,
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving
I'ma need a better reason to write you a love song today

Promise me you'll leave the light on
To help me see with daylight, my guide, gone
'Cause I believe there's a way you can love me because I say

I won't write you a love song
'Cause you asked for it
'Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
Is that why you wanted a love song
'Cause you asked for it?
'Cause you need one, you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'Cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If your heart is nowhere in it
I don't want it for a minute
Babe, I'll walk the seven seas when I believe that there's a reason to
Write you a love song today
Today

New Beads for Sale on Etsy

Here are some beads I just put up on Etsy.com that you may want to check out (no, I don't expect you to buy any, just admire them from afar a little).

Love you all!

xoxoxox

CLICK HERE:

OpenFireGlass.etsy.com

She Sells Seashells by the Sea Shore - Now Online!

We *finally* have half a dozen seashells available for purchase on Etsy.com, and thought you all might want to view them.

Click here:

openfireglass.etsy.com

You can also click on the photos below to make them bigger:







Hope you enjoy!

Experimental Poetry: December 2008 Edition, Volume III

UNTITLED

12/30/08

We are out of food
That we want to eat
Though if our favorite food was canned green beans
We’d be in for a treat

And if you like lettuce and tomato sandwiches
You are in luck
Because we ate all the cheese and turkey some other time
Before today

We could have spaghetti
If the noodles weren’t wheat
(Mike “would rather starve”)
We could have a salad
If I knew how to prepare a beet
We could have enchiladas
If we had some more cheese
We couldn’t even have enchiladas
Because we don’t have sour cream
(Mike only likes enchiladas if we have sour cream)

As I was thinking up this
Mike brought me a toasted tomato sandwich
It was delicious
See he’s a good man
(Was there even a question? I thought this was about food.)

Experimental Poetry: December 2008 Edition, Volume II

C’MON C’MON

12/29/08

By Dr. Cleuss

Josh and Kaya
Fight all day
They’d rather argue
Than go out and play
How can this be fun you say?
What an interesting question.
(It can’t.)

Experimental Poetry: December 2008 Edition, Volume I

SMALL

12/29/08

The aquarium’s on the microwave
My bicycle’s in the front entryway
Which is also our living room
That doubles as a guest room
I guess you could say we have outgrown
This little place we call home
(Never mind we never quite fit in it in the first place)
Not to mention the head of the guest “bed” is where people also get fed

(Oops, did I mention it?)

Busy Doesn't Even Cut It

Self-employment can be rough. The freedom is exhilarating, the long hours seven days a week exhausting.

Not that I'm complaining, mind you. I know that I have it much better than many folks in this "great nation."

Anyway, since last we met, I have been down the coast as far as Monterey, which is a few hours south of San Francisco and currently the southernmost I have been since living here. I loved it there, in Monterey. We hope to go back with the kids and check out the famous aquarium there. We set up two new gallery accounts while we were out driving around, and I do in fact have high hopes for many more to come.

Next week is the marble show up in Tacoma, Washington, already. Where has the year gone? It's so weird how slow time used to go back when I was 10, now it just goes faster and faster and faster, and suddenly half of the "new year" is come and gone.

There's a lot to be said for paying attention.

I hope everyone is well in Wisconsin. I don't wish I was there - I've gotten quite accustomed to this moderate weather and never feeling too hot - though I do wish you were here! But then again, I probably wouldn't have time to have coffee anyway, so probably it's better this way.

Hugs and kisses, hope to chat again soon.

Josh and I (okay and Mike) made a video - and we really like it

I went in to Mike's studio a week ago and shot some footage of him blowing glass. Over the weekend Josh edited it and put it together into a video that we can use to promote Mike's work. We think it's pretty awesome, and wanted to share it with you.

It'll also be up on our work website: warrenartglass.com

ENJOY, hope you like it for a first effort; let me know what you think! (Even if you think it needs some work.)

And can you see what he is making???

50 Seashells, One Dog

(DISCLAIMER: These photos were taken with a Canon point-and-shoot digital camera. They are by no means professional-quality.)