{"id":64,"date":"2014-04-29T18:07:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2015-07-10T00:45:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T00:45:18","slug":"art-inspiration-potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"art inspiration potpourri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Drawing is taking a line for a walk\u00a0 &#8211;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Paul Klee<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Distractions preoccupied me this month\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 one somber,\u00a0 one delightful &#8211; you\u2019ll soon read about them.\u00a0\u00a0 Here goes,\u00a0 starting with the somber one\u00a0 :\u00a0 we Bostonians lost a dear friend and prolific artist,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Lucette White<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0 Totally unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She was 82,\u00a0 full of life and vigor right up to the end when,\u00a0 after a brief illness,\u00a0 an infection took her.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re all still in shock.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of someone becomes a wake-up call for us to embrace our friends and family,\u00a0 make time for them,\u00a0 listen to them.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Promise you\u2019ll never,\u00a0 ever send a sympathy card!\u00a0\u00a0 Family members long for something personal and warm and alive.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead,\u00a0 write a heartfelt letter &#8211;\u00a0 handwritten is best even in your scraggily script\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 that celebrates your relationship with that person.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I learned this when I lost my Dad in 2001.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My Mother and I yearned for people\u2019s memories of him,\u00a0\u00a0 how they were touched by him.\u00a0 Our favorite was an hilarious comment from his best friend,\u00a0 and fellow P-47 fighter pilot,\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #333300;\">Smitty,<\/span>\u00a0 and\u00a0 I quote,\u00a0 <em>We\u2019re still the best goddam fighter pilots in the Air Force.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How that made us roar,\u00a0 for years!<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The biggest news of the month is that I became engaged to the most wonderful and amazing man!\u00a0\u00a0 Now it\u2019s fun to share it with everyone,\u00a0\u00a0 as I sign off with the happiest of distractions for April 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing is taking a line for a walk\u00a0 &#8211;Paul Klee Distractions preoccupied me this month\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 one somber,\u00a0 one delightful &#8211; you\u2019ll soon read about them.\u00a0\u00a0 Here goes,\u00a0 starting with the somber one\u00a0 :\u00a0 we Bostonians lost a dear friend and prolific artist,\u00a0 Lucette White.\u00a0\u00a0 Totally unexpected.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 She was 82,\u00a0 full of life and vigor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=64\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">art inspiration potpourri<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}