A funny thing happened on the way to this post

Time flies when you're having fun AND when you're teaching art!

While I was attending the TAEA Conference this last week in San Antonio several people approached me saying things like, "You need to update the web page!" "Do you know the last thing on the web page is the TAEA/MFAH mini conference in 2011?"

Hmmm, the web page? I looked at Area VI's page on the TAEA website. Nope, no sign of action there, but no mention of the 2011 mini-conference either.

I was mildly baffled, but decided I could decipher this little puzzle one way or the other. And I did! They meant this little ol' blog!

How, you might ask, could such a thing happen? More than a year without a new blog entry, how could it happen?

Believe it or not, even the author of a lil' ol' blog like this doesn't want to be a lone voice in the wilderness of Area VI. You have to let me know you're out there. Let me know that I'm not just typing messages to send out into the darkness of the great cyber abyss.

If you miss me or if you don't see updates here, feel free to shoot me an email at taeaare6@live.com.

Oh, well, enough of that!

The conference in San Antonio was a good one. I do believe my favorite thing was the last General Session. If you didn't stay until the bitter end, then you missed it. Sam Gilliam was the speaker and what a speaker she was. She gave a wonderful talk that inspired me more than anything I'd heard in a long time. She had me laughing and crying. I looked around and saw I wasn't the only one in the room wiping their eyes. She hit the mark over and over.

Quotes from her talk:
"That's what we artists do. We tell the truth. That's what we teach. . . ."
"One step at a time! Baby steps! Post the definition of passion in your art room, in your studio, in your life!"
"Hitch yourself to something BIGGER than yourself!"
"I want to be transformed by doing what I love."
"Passion is the key."
"Stillness is our most intense form of action . . . Passion."

I came away from her talk wanting to be the best, most passionate me that I could be.

Right now it's the Thanksgiving holiday and I'm on the road again. I wasn't intending to work, so I left all the updates I meant to post on here at home, waiting patiently beside a pile of bills and junk mail. I'll be posting again when I get back home, but hey, why not make a comment or shoot me an email. Let me know I'm not in this alone.

¡Somos el arte!