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September
23, 2002 1:34 PM
Subject:
LELAX HOSTS AND SWAPPERS (Was- Animal Skin Swap)
I'm sending chimbos to claymates individually, my frogs are lined up on a tile figuring that they might have to hop on over to their claymate on their own also, what else... There's no late on swaps I host. I ain't got that kind of energy shares to invest in something that's just supposed to be a motivator to get people putting their hands into clay. The arbitrary deadline for swaps is not the goal, not my aim of the swap. In a competitive environment it is often seen as a race, to best your fellow swappers, surprise them the most with keeping swap secrets. Bah I say, double bah, even. My desire and expectation is to have the swaps inspire folks. If it did that then the goal of the swap is met for me. Even if folks have to back out of a swap for any reason. I'm rarely disappointed. The expectation was not to gather these plastic bits and bobs, but to get a clayer to get over THE FEAR of opening that pack of clay. So if folks make the deadline...and I hate the word, it's negative. Haven't you ever thought that.... it's the drop dead line, if you dash to freedom passed the barbed wire and into no man's land the guards can shoot you at the dead line. Wasn't that what they called the perimeter around Andersonville Prison during the Civil War? I've spoke about swap stress from the point of view of the new clayer. How swap stress can sour the art soup. Swap HOST stress is another thing that should be recognized. I don't want swap hosts to feel weirded out because their real life had to get more energy than getting the swaps out to folks. People have fussed and fumed, people have gotten frustrated and unsubbed, resubed to fuss some more, unsubbed again in a huff over .... what? Getting some bits of plastic in the mail? In the cosmic scheme of things, let's remember, one has to be alive to complain. If you can complain you're not in the obits today, so be happy, chill out, LELAX dagnabbit before I have to give you a shake is what I feel like telling folks who are stressing out about... little plastic things in the mail? Wasn't the aim of the swap to inspire folks to get a grip on their clay. Isn't it the aim of our swaps here to cherish and cheer the beginner's works because they are brave pioneers in a new landscape of clay? Aren't due dates... I like that term, reminds me of birthing, renewal, it's life giving... ok, aren't due dates, even in pregnancy, flexible. Babies tend to come when they are ready, we just have to be prepared for when they do. I find that it's a bell shaped curve both with birthing and with getting swaps in and out. I just don't want to toss the clay baby out the window of the doll house with the dirty water of deadline distress. yikes... relax. If anyone is reading this right now, as your eyes roll over the letters, you've got a roof over your head, electrical and phone lines working, you've gotten some education enough to use your computer and to read, you're awake enough to read which means you got a cot, you're not dizzy with starvation so there's food there, clean potable water, modern sanitation... in the global picture no matter what else is going on in one's life at this time those few things makes us all lucky ducks. With that being said, I am up and awake, all systems are GO, and I'm feeling pretty relaxed and anxious to toss some clay scraps around. All the demos created a pound of trims and cane ends. My treat for myself is to chop them up and see what happens. What's your treat for yourself today? How are you going to follow your bliss in that Joseph Campbell sort of way? What are you doing to manifest your personal creative expression? I'm chopping scraps and actually looking forward to doing a whole lot of nothing else. relax, it's all good, nownowtherethere LOL xoxo NJ ++++++ --- In MSATClayArt@y..., Dragginwing@a... wrote: > Nora Jean, > > I am so very pleased to say my masks for the animal skin swap are on the way, > I just hate being late!!! Tha return label is in the box and extra for > postage and the webcam fund... > > Dag
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