November Apologies, Looking Back on 2023, & Looking Forward to 2024

I want to begin by apologizing for not providing a November blog. Some health issues

came up that I had to use most of the month just to figure out what the {BLEEP} was

going on. More might be ahead, but I have things somewhat under control now. Thank

you for your patience and support!

2023 was a YEAR of great traveling and art but also great sadness. AND, to make

things more complicated, THE BEST art was in direct result of the great sadness. While

I loved discovering the Buffalo Museum of Art & adding it to one of my new happy

places, seeing a spectacular VanGogh exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and a

wonderful Dali exhibit at the Art Institute in Chicago, the absolute best most emotional

most out-of-body experience was spending around an hour sitting in front of Jackson

Pollock’s Mural at the Stanley Museum of Art in Iowa City, IA during Father’s Day

weekend. And, the entire reason I was able to be there, hopefully without sounding too

horrible, is because my father died on June 6 of this year. Please check out my blog and

video for more details.

Here I am with the Pollock mural -oh my heart!

I already have lots of ideas for blogs & travels for 2024! Blogs will of course include

museum exhibit visits (including back to the Art Institute for an exhibit of Pablo

Picasso’s drawings and back to the Stanley Museum of Art for a Keith Haring exhibit),

but some blog themes will be around partnerships, how the military helped save art,

AND…FOOD, which will be very interesting because I have the domestic skills of a

gnat.

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my travels and keeping me well-stocked in supplies. Thank you!