At long last...

So... I apologize in advance (if anyone even reads this blog) for not posting in over a month. All I can really say is that three people died in my family, i have been on somewhere around 12 planes and have desperately tried to catch up on my work (not an easy task!)... Anyhow now i am in the mountains of North Carolina co-teaching a class with Alan Cohen at Penland School of Craft. First, i have to say it is so beautiful up here i cannot begin to describe. it is a community without locks on any door, only artists of all kinds live here and go to school here, and the landscape and weather (oh and foooood) are just fantastic! i dont lock up my bike anywhere, i leave thousands of dollars of equiptment and supplies wherever and so on... it is very different than any place this city boy is used to - they stare at us when we order our triple shot soy lattes every morning.
anyhow, teaching has been very stressful and a full time job... very full time, very draining... but tonight, to add to it all, Alan and i had to give a slide show lecture of our work to the school. Alan's equiptment failed, i had to feverishly transfer it to my computer and make it work, and then ended up with negative time to do mine, so i just rushed through it. However, that said, the stress and beating heart aside, it went really well and i had lots of really nice comments afterwards. But it is strange... it brings me to the thoughts and feelings offffff..... I teach all the time and every time i get nervous before class and every time it goes really well... and so why should i get nervous before a slide show like this? why do my hands start shaking and so on? It just seems weird... i have been doing public speaking since i was very young and recently i am doing it weekly if not daily... so i dont have the answers to that question... i just think its interesting to bring up.
so i'm sorry to anyone who might read this for the absenteeism... check out Penland if you get a chance, its totally worth your time to know about it.