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BAKING A CAKE

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BAKING A CAKE

I'm thinking of baking a kind of cake. It's not really a cake; it's more a metaphor for the resounding question, 'Where do I go from here?'

Ingredients:

One chick healing from withdrawal, aged for 11 months in the benzo recovery barrel.

One laptop

A handful of talents and abilities: Can sew. Can paint. Can read. Can write. 

Get a house with plenty of rooms. Take the aged chick. Don't worry if her skin is burning, she has the jitters or she has no appetite. Roll her around in the sunshine; get her a little dirty and shake off the excess. Lay her on the couch with her laptop. Help her find Youtube. Shake her again if she doesn't want to do it; take her little claws in yours and type 'YouTube' in the search bar. As soon as she finds something that she can sew, paint, read or write that doesn't turn her feathers, let her watch those videos all she wants.

Bake until she is bored silly and has to do one of the things she found online or she'll scream. Take her out when she's radically accepted her lot and is starting to produce. Let her cool on the counter. You'll know the recipe is a success if someone comes by and snatches a piece from the cooling rack!

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@[Ho...] this is such an interesting and imaginative analogy! I hope you find something you can sew, paint or write soon! I know you have to "cool" first after baking, but may it be sooner rather than later!

Best,

Katz

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Hey there Oregonkatz! I'm part of the way there. Have paints. Like when you get that big box of crayons? I just want to look at them. 

What do/did you love to do?

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I love to write. Currently I'm writing "cat nonsense" . . . short books about things cats do that make us giggle. I started writing them at the beginning of the Pandemic when I thought we all needed to laugh. (I also thought we were going to die). 

I really want to see what you paint, hotcold! Do you have anything in mind? A sketch that you want to start from? Would you paint natural scenes or still life(s)? although I can't paint, but the creation of book covers from jpgs (photos) is really fulfilling to me. I so love color . . . gosh, I wish I could paint. Just looking at your paint set makes me drool!

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Oregon, that's so nice! We all definitely did need a laugh, and I think still do. That time sort of showed us what was really valuable in life, didn't it?

Let's see, I love portrait work but it takes a lot of concentration and a willingness to make mistakes. I've rarely done landscapes and am thinking about those. Do you work on book covers? That would be a very cool and fun activity. So you are comfy with illustrator and photoshop then, I'm guessing! Good for you!

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Yes, I work a lot with digital "painting" apps. If you don't like your creation, well there's always the delete key. FYI MS Word has a nifty design panel which lets you illustrate docs (like book covers). A friend told me about it. No need to purchase InDesign! I'm  investigating AI art and brother is it weird! I'll take a look at my covers and maybe post one. I did actually take Art in high school and loved it, but as you say, you have to have a lot of concentration and be prepared for mistakes. (And have some talent lol). I love landscapes . . . but alas, I don't have enough talent to capture what I see. So I rely on photos (other people's) as a starting point for book covers.

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