~calamity strange~

i have been offline, out of sight, missing-in-action, and absent from pretty much everything for the past four weeks.   just a few days before the opening of  the ‘cash, clash, culture’ show at the davenport gallery in early august- i got a phone call that my mom was being admitted to the hospital and had become quite ill.  i have been in colorado with her ever since. 

i don’t know that it’s necessary to share my personal life on my “professional” (whatever that means) blog, but there are a few people that have inquired- since i pretty much dropped of the map after a busy summer of hustling photography jobs and slinging paintings.  but… i was unable to attend that gallery opening.  i was unable to deliver art for their next show.  i had to turn down some lucrative work.  i had to postpone other jobs in progress.  i had to decline a promising opportunity for a magazine spread.  i have been unable to do much of anything except climb a very steep learning curve about cancer while sitting in a hospital room for about ten hours a day.

so.  the calamity strange blog space will probably continue to be quiet for awhile, as i am home just for a few days and then headed directly back to colorado.  this will also have me missing out on interbike which i normally attend in september (bicycle=eye candy= galore) and perhaps even outerbike in october (more bicycles= more eye candy= more galore).  

the upside is:  i am getting to spend more time with my mom than i have in years, (which i am so grateful for!) and when i’m not at the hospital i am enjoying some much needed peace and quiet at her house at the east end of the grand valley where the sky is big, there are afternoon thunderstorms, and the colorado river is less than a five minute walk away.