tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37220856.post8910229932840163915..comments2024-02-08T13:07:43.674-05:00Comments on Northdixie Designs: Are You Planning to Talk or Listen?Dixie Redmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18290571323764327616noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37220856.post-65416677544964019242007-03-03T11:57:00.000-05:002007-03-03T11:57:00.000-05:00This is a great post Dixie---you are a wonderful w...This is a great post Dixie---you are a wonderful writer! <BR/><BR/>It is sooo true that our art has a mind of its own. I always want my art to be sophisticated and realistic but it always turns out with a child-like feeling. But I'm trying to accept that and realize that it speaks to some people. I guess the art chooses who it will speak to as well as what it has to say!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your insights--NanetteNanettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11312062289021741519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37220856.post-44349468015148334942007-03-03T10:53:00.000-05:002007-03-03T10:53:00.000-05:00I completely know this experience - I understand i...I completely know this experience - I understand it - I fight it at times...and I dance with it at times.<BR/><BR/>Time is the gift <I>and</I> the enemy...<BR/><BR/><BR/>great writing Dixie xo<BR/><BR/>~joy in the journey,<BR/>katey <BR/>blueyeduck studios<BR/>quacks of lifeBLUEYEDUCKstudioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03346885070636176539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37220856.post-22768785624846548102007-03-02T05:56:00.000-05:002007-03-02T05:56:00.000-05:00What a great question! I love that...are you plan...What a great question! I love that...are you planning to talk or listen? bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha!Deborahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08617992400219926986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37220856.post-59690020226303231222007-02-28T14:30:00.000-05:002007-02-28T14:30:00.000-05:00Kim - I love that story! I've had smells hit me a...Kim - I love that story! I've had smells hit me and bring up particular memories from my long-ago childhood, too.<BR/><BR/>DixieDixie Redmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18290571323764327616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37220856.post-35306016521259418752007-02-28T13:33:00.000-05:002007-02-28T13:33:00.000-05:00Oh Dixie: I love this post. How I wish more peo...Oh Dixie: I love this post. How I wish more people would keep quiet and listen. If only for a moment. In every aspect of everyone's life, not just artists.<BR/><BR/>I remember when my kids were younger and I would have them sit with me by the window when it was snowing. (That's when we lived in Northwest Arkansas). We would have a quiet moment just watching the bunnies and birds. Just watching. No talking. Simply seeing.<BR/><BR/>Switch to current times here in Southern California. I overheard my daughter talking to her friends in my front yard last summer. We were having an unusually humid summer and my daughter says: "it smells like Arkansas out here". Her friend asked her "what do you mean, it SMELLS like Arkansas. Places don't smell". At that moment, I was so grateful that I had taken the time to give my children the luxury of time. The time to hear and see and smell. The time to just simply listen.<BR/><BR/>Thanks Dixie, for bringing back some very sweet memories.<BR/><BR/>Kim<BR/>Garden Painter Art<BR/>gnarly-dollsGerushia's New Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12713969143534150191noreply@blogger.com