100,000 to 1 Odds. I’ll take ‘em. — Fourth Quarter Begins pg286–287
Colorful companion to my memoir The Incompetent Psychic
I contacted another local painter whose work I admired. I asked Nancy if she would like to team up for a show at the library’s gallery?
Nancy Freeman’s background was fiber arts. The patterns and colors she wove into her acrylic landscapes were stylized, enchanting, and dovetailed with this looser new series I’d started. We put together a proposal for Let’s Go For a Walk for the jury, and were given a show in February 2016. That gave us four months of winter to go to town painting bright, summery scenes of Benicia’s historic downtown and waterfront. — From Chapter 15
I only started writing for the marketplace/other people a year and a half ago. Sure I’ve been penciling, penning, typing and keyboarding words to communicate and amuse as an amateur since 1960. Sixty years later I cannon-balled smack into the public infinity pool, hoping to make a splash with my (some say brilliant) memoir… even though I know it doesn’t work that way for just about every first-time author. Only just now I went surfing for the numbers. That infinity pool is the size of an ocean…
