Spent some time yesterday with a local framer getting ready to apply for an exhibition.  Also a little bit of time spent in the studio.  I'm nervous about getting into the show and about the potential cost of framing.  Sometimes it seems as though we are going in reverse on the debt issue.  When I look at it, it's more like staying the same.  Besides the debt, it's important for me to remember that some of it is because Keith is in school, I am enrolled in a class, framing work, cost of painting supplies, etc.  These are all good things and worth the debt.  The rest is house, cars, etc. and let's face it, we all have transportation and housing costs.  Still, it gives me some anxiety at times.  Therefore, I'm off to work to pay those bills shortly.  Hope I can paint in the next few days.  My schedule is very tight. 

Worked on new website format today.  Think it works well.  The photo at top is from some shots I took last summer.

I am feeling a little disheartened today by the lack of response to the website.  It's not that I worry that people don't like the work.  It is because I wanted to be able to "give" and with very few applicants I really wonder if this idea will really work.  I talked to my husband about it today and he said that people are just suspicious when anything is "free".  "It's a natural fear response."  It just makes me sad that we often feel that way.  Why can't we beleive that people are innately good?  Why is it so hard to accept love and compassion, even if it
is easy for us to bestow them upon others?  The fear, always the fear.  "Does this person really mean what they say?  What's their angle?  Nobody is that good."  And as the song goes "you can't get something for nothing".  I just don't know.  Well, off to the studio.