Putting aside the month of my wedding, my daughter’s birth, and, perhaps if I remembered it, my birth…this has to be at the top of my list for best months. I’ll get to the “mouth” thing later. It’s probably different from what you are expecting.
About a year ago, I heard from the Copley Society that I was accepted for a solo show in their main gallery for June of 2010. That’s a “wow” for me. The Copley Society…that’s where “the first large survey exhibition of Monet was held…in 1905″. I love MONET!
Maybe the Monet exhibition at the Copley Society?
John Singer Sargent had an exhibition in 1899. In 1913, it was the Copley Society that introduced modernism to Boston exhibiting Duchamp, Dufy, Kandinsky, Picasso, Redon, Roualt and Van Gogh…all in one “Modern Art” exhibition. Winslow Homer showed off his watercolors in an exhibition in 1921. O.k, you get the point. Having a show at the Copley gives me a connection to artists I’ve admired for decades.
The show opened June 24th. What a fabulous night. Both Artscope and Art New England have reviews of the show.
Copley Society Opening, "The Colors of White"
Moving on…I’m getting more brave with sending out applications. Not worrying as much about the stress of rejection. As I’ve always thought in my head, if I don’t apply, I have 100% chance of being rejected! So, I applied to the Danforth’s “Off the Wall” exhibition. When I got my acceptance letter for the photo “Typhoon: Blue Mist”, along with it came the stats…800 pieces entered, 113 accepted. That’s a lot of work to go through. Certainly made me feel honored to be on the list of those who had work accepted. The second piece I entered was rejected. I’ve pretty much ignored that piece of the story! Bringing it up now just to keep it honest. The show opened with a Patrons’ Preview on June 12th. It’s open through the summer.
Off The Wall at the Danforth "Typhoon: Blue Mist"
Adam Sandler’s film “Grown-Ups” signed with me to have my work in the film. 8 pieces were filmed. The opening?..June 25th, the day after the Copley Opening. We planned to have a group of friend go to see the film, but when the reviews came out, Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 7%. What kind of a person would make their friends sit through a bad Adam Sandler film? Instead, we had a fabulous dinner at our home…thank you Trader Joes!
Marty and I went to see the film 3 days later. My work is somewhere on an editing room floor, either collecting dust or already swept into the bin. Still fun having the opportunity.
Add to all of this First Friday, iPhone 4, and my photo being the award given to Senator Kerry at “The Zakim Center’s 10th Anniversary”, plus amazing seats at the James Taylor/ Carole King concert thanks to my sister and niece
James Taylor and Carole King
…it was a full month. And, with all of this, here’s the absolute highlight of June 2010…visualize a drum roll here…
My husband, Marty, surprised me by flying my daughter in for 5 days. Steph lives in Chicago and I hadn’t seen her in months. This visit was different and absolutely fabulous. We spent so much quality time together and sharing part of “June 2010″ with her helped raise June to a bar that will be tough to match. Not to mention how amazing Marty was to arrange everything without me knowing.
So what’s the deal with “my mouth”?. Well, you might be thinking that I said something I wish I hadn’t said…no, although I probably did, this is about something odd. A little more than a week ago a strange thing happened when I was eating…I had this horrible aftertaste with everything I ate. I decided to ignore it at first. Three days later…still there. EVERYTHING had this sour aftertaste…even ice cream! I did what many of us do now with odd symptoms…I Googled it. Got on the medical sites and found it could be related to all kinds of bad diseases. But I felt fine…maybe it was post nasal drip?…but I didn’t have post nasal drip. Then I noticed anchovy poising. I had eaten Cesar Salad. Hmmm. But I had none of the other symptoms. I’d wait it out. It would have to go away eventually.
It’s Saturday, July 3rd as I write this. I still have this horrible taste. In fact, it may be even worse today. So I google it again. This time I find the answer… http://www.hyam.net/blog/archives/60
PINE NUTS!!! Mom had given me a bag of yummy treats at the opening. In a bag with some of my favorites from licorice to pumpkin seeds was a tub of Pine Nuts. I’ve been munching on them, small bits at a time, since the opening. I never would have known. Thank you Google and Roger Hyam, whoever you are, for posting the information. Wikipedia has an entry and even discusses this taste disturbance. The good news, “cases were self-limited and resolve without treatment”. Since I had a few yesterday before I knew that they were the culprit, I will have my taste buds back in less than two weeks. Anyone for some ice cream?
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