John Pahlas, Steel Sculptor

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It's been a couple of weeks since I've worked with @centergroundstudios. The piece I shot for him back in February will be ​having it's big reveal at the grand opening of our town's Driftless Historium. They also needed a new portrait of him to hang on the wall as part of the display. So, technically it's been 3465 days since I left the Exhibits Department of the Carnegie Museum. That's how long it's taken me to organically get SOMETHING I've created on display in any sort of museum. While I wouldn't trade being the one who stayed home with the kid, I am starting to want to get back to doing more professional work. I guess we'll see how things unfold?

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Break Time

The kid did a great job helping out with the gardening today. She did as asked. Never complained and was pretty cheerful while working. Of course, she also got to set up a little picnic spot where she could take time to just relax, snack and draw pictures in her sketchbook. Honestly, having her with me was the very best part of the whole experience. It's a day I hope to never forget!

Trillium

"Ignorance, hatred and attachment, together with their branches such as conceit, jealousy, envy and so forth are very strong forces. Once they arise they quickly dominate the mind. Then we fall under the power of the inner enemy and no longer have control or freedom. These inner enemies even cause us to fight with and harm the people we love; they can even cause someone to kill their own parents, children and so forth. From where do such acts come? They come from the inner enemies, from attachment, anger and ignorance. All conflicts, from those between members of a family to international wars, arise from these negative thoughts." ~ Geshe Lhundrub Sopa

Savory Green

“Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.”

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Yoinks! It's a Zombie Freja!

Freja went to a birthday party at the new local special effects makeup shop here in town. Glitter to Gore transformed a cute group of little kids into really creepy, awesome zombies! I was just getting ready to work on my roof when the undead kid can home. I just had to stop everything and take a photo! Yoinks!

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Taking Names

Honestly, the only thing I learned about during today's field trip to Olbrich Botanical Gardens was which boys I'm going to have to watch out for. I memorized names and faces...

Setting My Motivation

"The quality of everything we do: our physical actions, our verbal actions, and even our mental actions, depends on our motivation. That’s why it’s important for us to examine our motivation in our day to day life. If we cultivate respect for others and our motivation is sincere, if we develop a genuine concern for others’ well-being, then all our actions will be positive." ~ Dalai Lama

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