Weekend Chew & Stew - June 14 & 15, 2008

Weekend Chew & Stew - June 14 & 15, 2008

by Marilyn Mackenzie

Whether you agree with the concept or not, everyone needs to be able to vent from time to time. That's especially true if you're one of the many who suffer from an invisible illness. We have whines and rants about pains, medical professionals and prescriptions, just to name a few. Perhaps our families listen; perhaps they don't. Even if they do, they get tired of our complaining, even if they claim to understand our constant struggles. Or if they don't get tired of our "negative energy" we think they do or will.

So, are you ready to rant about something?  Or are you chewing on something?  Or stewing about something?  This is the place to tell all. 

It's also the place to tell all about the happy events in your life. 

What's happening in your world today?  Are you grumpy about something?  Or so angry that you could spit?  Tell it here.  Here at the Weekend Chew & Stew it's acceptable to rant, vent, complain, stomp your feet, throw a tantrum and shout, "Oh shuckie darn!"

Wait! Don't go away. Do you have some good news to share? Great. This is the place for that as well. If you're celebrating, dancing, and yelling, "Yippee skippy!" please share. Sometimes knowing about someone else's happiness gives us a bit of hope for ourselves.

Whether you're shouting, "Oh shuckie darn!" or yelling, "Yippee skippy!" - this is the place to be.

Happy Pop Goes The Weasel Day and Flag Day.  (June 14 was also Dad's birthday.  I should put a flag out so that he can look down from Heaven and know that I'm thinking about him.) 

Tomorrow is Smile Power Day                      , Nature Photography Day and Father's Day.

June 16 is National Hollerin' Contest Day and Fudge Day

June 17 is Fresh Veggies Day

June 18 is International Panic Day

June 19 is World Sauntering Day

Food for thought:

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.  ~  André Gide

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.  ~  Henry Ward Beecher

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.  ~  Pablo Picasso

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.  ~  Leonardo da Vinci

Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.  ~  Ernst Levy

Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.  ~  Pablo Picasso

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work.  I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw.  She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"  ~  Howard Ikemoto