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Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:21:54 +0000

Hey, nothing like a bit of the polymorphose perverse to temper the dour duties of Saturn, god of my advancing age. That’s why I live in Florida. (Yee-haw! Surf’s up!) Seriously, age really sucks when its robbed of fresh daily wonders

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by marie danti

marie danti — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:16:49 +0000

Here in Colorado, we have a little dry snow but below zero temps all day long….more would be a level in Dante’s hell. (There is a burn to being too cold!)
When I read your post I’d just finished going through the excessive acquistions I have in my studio. More is definitely too much and it feels like I am snowed under with stuff. No melting without a conscious effort and I don’t know where to start. Sometimes more is not abundance, just layers of decay. (Sigh!)
Love your blog btw.

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by thatsally

thatsally — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:23:49 +0000

I am reveling in these comments. Never knew I was an excessive personality, but now that you mention it, yeah, it’s an issue. Elatia, all I can say is, Go With It. And Kate, I know that diving impulse when confronted with a great snow wave, tempting one like a huge swell in the ocean. Don’t think I’ve ever actually done it, but I love imagining your little boy’s ecstatic headfirst plunges.

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Kate Vrijmoet

Kate Vrijmoet — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:51:42 +0000

When I moved to Syracuse from Los Angeles with my 7 year old son who had only see the snow on mountain tops, he treated the huge cleared piles of snow like the waves in the pacific ocean, diving in head first. I had to pull him out, laughing, by his kicking boots. Joyful excess!

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Sheryl Howley Johnson

Sheryl Howley Johnson — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 02:10:19 +0000

WOW…that be an abundance of SNOW!!!

I say an abundance of love, time, attention is to be shared. Never can there be excess.

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Elatia Harris

Elatia Harris — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:24:55 +0000

And switching out the big brown taxidermy orbs for eyes of an Arctic blue… Grant Achatz, move over — this is far groovier than candied bacon in a lucite sling.

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Elatia Harris

Elatia Harris — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:19:15 +0000

‘Kay, you’ve really got me going here. I’ve been working out how to get on a saffron semifreddo with chai-chocolate sauce. I want to decorate it with tiny squares of the silver foil you see on Indian desserts, and with candied rose petals. Only, after reading this I know I’ll have to add something; perhaps I’ll serve it in Zen tea house raku, or crystal half-globes soft with enough lead to fall and bounce, not shatter, and balanced on the antlers of an albino sambar buck… But it’s not enough. It’s too much without being enough… Oh, yes, yesss… gilding the antlers…

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Nancy G. Shapiro

Nancy G. Shapiro — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:51:42 +0000

your writing is lavish, the name of your blog and its banner foto are lavish. it’s about abundance, as you say, and connection. love. sometimes i like “less is more.” not when it comes to kindness, caring, attention, or making someone feel loved and accepted. Never, never enough when it comes to those things. thank you for sharing this.

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Deborah Santoro

Deborah Santoro — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:50:05 +0000

Bring it on mother nature, bring it on.

But I wouldn’t mind if I could make it to the mailbox tomorrow.

Comment on Abundance and excess: more is more by Deborah Barlow

Deborah Barlow — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 22:01:34 +0000

You speak like an excessive personality type Sally, something I openly claim. (My friend Lesli and I have often been accused of having “excess” as a middle name.) This endless snow is just Big Mama Nature doin’ her excessive thang, and who are we to tell her to pull back? I hate when certain people who will not be named here tell me that it wouldn’t be prudent to watch yet another episode of the The Wire even though it’s 4am. That’s what’s fun!! And I love your example of how sometimes the only way to address a design or artistic challenge is to just go for more of what is already way out of line. That strategy works about as well as any I know.

Great post. You channeled my sentiments perfectly.