Music, music and green oranges
By Tangerine Meg | March 18, 2010
Dear bold friends,
Yes, oranges can be ‘green’ (unripe) – who would’ve thought?! Much work has already been done by the tree and surrounding nature (and hopefully all that lovely washing rinse water has played a part). Flowers have been visited by bees, fruit has set and grown, juiciness is building. Wonderful colour will alert us at just the right time, when the sweet-orangey-goodness-forming process is complete. Have you ever noticed that sometimes what seems like a fast and huge breakthrough is actually the result of a ton of time and work and effort? I choose to take this as a reminder (from the oranges!) that persistence is a virtue!
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If you have not discovered the wonders of the podcast of the “E-Town” radio show, I can highly recommend it. It’s all about diversity, community, and connecting with the language of music that often goes beyond verbal language. I sound like a big hippie! Who me?! It’s a Feel Good listen, I love it for exercising or commuting. I was just listening to the episode from February 18 this year with Playing for Change featured. A singer-songwriter, Grandpa Elliott also had some songs, including a lovely love song, with words something like: … “sugar is sweet, but so is your kiss… honey is sweet but so are your lips….. if you kissed the sea it would turn to lemonade…” Have a listen – I challenge you! Let me know what you think in the comments section below.
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I am currently having rather a lot of fun helping to make really useful music teaching resources with my friends Kevin and Janice Tuck. If you have friends who are music teachers, I recommend either ‘becoming a fan’ at their Facebook page at the Fun Music Company to keep informed about Music Teaching resources, or checking out their site for those that they create themselves (sometimes I help!!)
In the spirit of the green orange invisible gestation period (do you think nature is keeping them as hidden treasure til she has them ready?) I am working on my contribution to the Fun Music Company Music Theory sheets (History of Rock and Roll is coming soon), new lino prints and website improvements. Today has been a ‘pimp my blog’ day, with the new CommentLuv application (in the comments section, signified by the heart) and a new simplified blog feed (which you wont notice if I’ve done it right) through to my Facebook Visual Artist page.
I haven’t been entirely well. Whilst not really wanting to elaborate on that here, I am now taking good care of myself and getting better every day.
Soon green citrus (tangerine in this case) will be coming to fruition in all of its juicy, colourful goodness. Stay tuned!
Lots of green and orange, healthy, musical love to you,
Meg
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You are beautiful!
By Tangerine Meg | March 7, 2010
Greetings, Beautiful and Glorious ones!
Continuing on the theme of beauty from last time…
There is synchronicity going on. The other day I took this photograph of a footpath (sidewalk) message:
Within hours I found a site which seems to have a mission similar to the ‘concrete-writing encourager’. It’s called Operation Beautiful and intends to transform the way people view themselves, one post it note at a time! One of my favourite suggestions is the succinct: “Count your blessings, not your blemishes.”
You are beautiful. Just as you are. Right now.
Meg x o
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Live Bold List 13: Beauty and Truth
By Tangerine Meg | March 1, 2010
Hello, dear Petals of Life’s Beautiful Flower; and a warm welcome to readers new and old!
Whilst Work in Percolation is brewing on the other end of this multi-purpose gigantic table at which I sit, I offer a list themed on Beauty and Truth. I have been thinking about that quote:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
-George Keats
Live Bold List 13: Beauty and Truth
- There’s great site, Choosing Beauty, where you will find extra story to this cool video of a mural being painted as well as the story of a coincidental connection. I love art on walls!
- This link is worth taking a look just for the cool illustration. In “Happy Healthy Boobs”, Christine Kane frankly talks about how she managed to set herself up to have positive surroundings and useful feedback for her process.
- Are you ever mystified by teenage behaviour? This article, an interview with Frances Jensen (pediatric neurologist) gives some clear scientific insight into what is going on! The graph is interesting, it seems the white connecty stuff that makes our brain more ‘adult’ diminishes again later on. I wonder what that implies for older folk! Let’s face it, we’re all heading that way, Universe willing!
- I adore Sesame Street. Have been slowly making my way through their 40 year anniversary book. How cool would it be to make an animation for Sesame Street? ‘Twould be a beautiful thing.
- Want to take It IS Easy being Green to a whole new level? Even using 1 or 2 tips from this thorough list of 17 easy alternatives to everyday disposables would make a difference! My next step towards the Beauty of Reusability is to add to my collection of reusable glass containers. Some creative op-shopping is in my future I see!
- The wonderful WOMADelaide (World of Music and Dance, Adelaide) is here in only days. You can download some of the WOMAD artists’ music for free and start getting yourself ready for the beautiful chilled extravaganza of sound.
Have a beauty beautiful day,
Meg
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Fringe parade and printing in the vicinity of kookaburras
By Tangerine Meg | February 23, 2010
Hello Wonder Beings!
Hooray for the Fringe Parade! This is me in my giant puppet rig as a Space Knight getting ready to walk the path!
Cool sunlight effect on the photo. Thanks for the picture Kurt; he was wearing a similar rig. Unfortunately I did not have a similar phone camera. I am pleased to have completed the distance in the set up, it was a challenge.
Those of you who are ‘fans’ on my Visual Artist page on Facebook know that I did some lino printing today. Hooray! Whilst I was printing inside there were kookaburras laughing outside. I am sure that kookaburras laughing near printing can only be A Good Thing!
I am just pondering having a Mothers Day Competition again this year. Do you think that would be fun? Let me know below in the comments section or on my Facebook Visual Artist page. More details when I have them, but last year a lucky person (Hi Nick!) won 6 of my art cards and a lovely silk scarf from Oxfam.
May kookaburras laugh near you,
Meg
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Live Bold List 12: Collected wisdom
By Tangerine Meg | February 11, 2010
Hello wonderful Dearhearts,
Work in progress: Hooray! Here’s a shot of the partly-carved lino for my next print. You can see it will have little squares making up the border, and some leafy goodness.
In between the doing of the carving (and the running of the errands!) I have been gathering little goodies for you from the internet. I must be in a phase of needing / enjoying life lessons this week, as that seems to be the theme. This could probably even come under the category of Live Bold List! (spoken in a resonating, deep manner + echo… echo….) Ta-daaaaa…. The first Live Bold List of 2010!
Live Bold List 12 : Collected wisdom
- Wisdom from an 11-year old at All I Did was Listen blog. It’s short; I thought you might like the picture there too. Ummm….
- An astute and lively list from the lovely Meg Fowler, listing some of the life lessons she has learned from Gradon. How awesome: “Music is a vitamin.”
- There’s food for thought in Jonathan Fields’ 8 Timeless Rules for my (his) 8-year old daughter. I specially liked numbers one and two: 1. Never get a tattoo you can’t see, and 2. Never get a tattoo you can see!
- One of my favourite comedians is now blogging. Meshel Laurie says she started blogging because she can’t get a paid column… Her cheery signoff: “…I’ve decided to blog as no one can stop me and if I’m not going to get paid, I don’t expect to have to follow any rules either. Let’s go bitches.”
I enjoyed the comment made at the market last weekend, looking at my cards and choosing. I think this one… with it’s “generalized butterfly goodness”.
Have a great Friday, Lovelies; with plenty of Generalized Lifey Goodness!
Meg =)
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Treasury of Joy is a joy to treasure
By Tangerine Meg | February 1, 2010
Dear, dear Dearhearts,
I am very excited to have had my work chosen for an etsy “treasury” on the theme of Joy.
See you soon,
Meg
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