Hocus Pocus Sharpen Your Focus

the way of the improvaho is the path of surprise

revisiting the past

topanga canyon diet :

a joint
a toot
a cuppa joe

sit in the sun
and have some mo'

(sometime in the seventease)

in the mail a clipping from the Topanga Messenger describing a house that cd only have been mine

Happy Trail Spider Works and Bubble Preserve

located at the end of the trail in the thicket of high resolve

'72 - '90

oh that time ! learned carpentry / tiling / how electricity works / plumbing / how to rebuild windows / how to start a restaurant on a shoestring / tune up my car / pour cement / grow pot / fix the roof / what kind of fire wood to use in each of the wood burning stoves / how to keep warm and those were the days when Tony Grant on the radio said if you are with a man to keep you warm at night you might as well have a dog / i created a lovely terraced garden / i shopped in the creek (water most of the year too) for rocks for the walls and walkways / and i shopped at the beach for driftwood and to run along the waters' edge at low tide / and in the house i had the tides phone number / gosh / i lovve that / calling up to check on low tide so i cd go down for a run in deep wet sand

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i had a lot of dogs / cats / ducks / chickens / angora rabbits

DreamBoat was my wheels

her license plate was the much envied and coveted POTANGA

people not dyslexic asked, what's POTANGA ?

the Improvaho nirvana, i replied

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*and when you get there, you say, Now What?"

that's right

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meanwhile the little pieces of glass are in their little stacks sitting on the kiln shelf waiting for tomorrow / i took some pictures / i want to see if i can match the fused ones with the original stack / just for fun / i look forward to lowering the shelf into the kiln / there is barely finger room between how you hold the shelf and the kiln inner walls / there is a litle pyrometer jigger that sticks into the kiln so the shelf must be slightly tilted to pass this / so what / if the glass pieces rearrange themselves i can rearrange them back

priscilla, my glass fusing mentor. sez Never Refuse to Refuse / she sez its like when i was teaching her to knit and then advanced knitting and custom construction we were on the phone all the time and now it is pay back time / she is teaching me how to fuse glass and she reminds me that i told her if she got the knitting wrong the first time take it out and do it again / some people gasp at this suggestion / i think doing it over and over and over / eventually you get it the way you want it and the pleasure of the process is the raising of your skill level / practice makes improvement

what i want to do with the little glass pieces is pour them all onto the kiln shelf and then arrange them in clumps and clusters / oh i cant wait for the tweezers to arrive !

see after the glass is washed and dried touching them will leave organic residue / smile / you want them nice and free of impuritease / while i wait for the right tweezers to arrive (i didnt know there were so many kinds of tweezers !) i am using a pair of needle nose pliers / they work okay / i didnt need to order tweezers or have frank yama order tweezers or have Priscilla send me tweezers

and on that note. . . . . . . . . .