The Inquisitive Skink

some more of my art ......

I used to create a lot of digital art.  It has been a while.....here is my "I'm on holiday break and fooling around piece".....It is one I would like to use as a design on cloth.....if I ever find the time.

Hello family, friends, and supporters of Middle Way House,   As many of you know, I work for a wonderful nonprofit organization called Middle Way House. Middle Way House is a domestic abuse shelter here in Bloomington, Indiana. Even though many of you may not be able to support the shelter in any other way, there is a very important grant we could receive with your assistance. Middle Way is currently in the running to receive a $250,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project. In order to receive the grant, however, we need you to vote for our project every day in December.   Voting is easy.   1.) Visit  www.refresheverything. com/middlewayhouse 2.) Click the Vote Button. A box will pop up for you to sign in. 3.) Create an account. The first time you register you may have to find your way back to the Middle Way page, but it shouldn't be an issue after that. 4.) You can find us by typing "Middle Way House" in the search box in the upper rght hand corner. 5.) Once on our...

Several years ago I played around with a Chagall image to use in promotions for Food Work's Valentine Cookie Sale .....here is one of my collage results. We are considering going with the "Share the Love" theme again in 2011. In the past we have also made vagina cookies for the Vagina Monologues held each year at IU.....looks like we may be making chocolate vagina pops this year.....hee! Life is fun. Sometimes.  Nothing like making vagina cookies or pops to get a cackle out of the women in the kitchen.  

looking upon the moonlit sky as though never seen before.... clouds wrap a hard heart softly  ~donna

Anyone who knows me knows how much I require being around trees.  I remember when I transferred to Purdue starting the summer between my freshman and sophomore year of college.  I had started at Hanover College , a very pretty, 650 acre wooded campus but wanted to consider Speech and Hearing so off to Purdue I went.  I know it wasn't the only reason I didn't stay there, but back then that campus had almost all of its trees shaved away, the town was ugly concrete, and I truly just couldn't handle the lack of nature in the environment.  It cost me money, and set me back a bit in graduation time, but I didn't stay for the fall semester, scrambled to re-enroll at Hanover until I figured out what to do next. I had get back to the trees. I had spent most of my youth walking the woods around my folk's place, hiking at Clifty Falls Park and the State Hospital in Madison.  I'm odd.  I really need to be around trees.  I transferred my junior year to Indiana Univ...

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On the way home from home(town) I drive on old Helmsburg Rd. A small detour brings one to a set of barns. I've accumulated a lot of barn shots through the years.....plus I live in one. Someday I plan to put all the shots together. I am always thankful to have my phone camera with me.

Hiking old railroad cut in Madison, Indiana I was in Madison to say my last goodbye to someone I have been friends with since I was 14. I pretty much find places to hike or walk wherever I am and hiking brings peace to my mind.  I'm from Madison originally.  It is a beautiful town. For years I have just walked the river road. This morning I hiked the railroad cut that goes from downtown up to the upper part of Madison.  It was pretty, quiet and required mindfulness as you have to pay attention to your step.....lots of loose gravel, uneven and missing rails.   When you hike along the old rail road there are these very steep old steps branching off to the west.  I had never followed them before....hadn't even noticed them (I'm lost in thought a lot I guess). They were great exercise.....I climbed them all but had to turn around without completing the trail.  I believe they end up at the Madison State Hospital.  I have yet to hike the Heritage Tr...

an evening scene in Bloomington

A melancholy desire stakes me to the ground. Such babbling tales the river sings . Donna Storm July 2010

The Natural Resource Defense Council   has a request for all pet-owners: go to your nearest PetSmart or PETCO and see if they’re selling flea collars with propuxor or tetrachlorvinphos. NRDC has typed up a handy   check-list   with all the products to look for. All they need from you is 15 minutes of your time and an email to greenpaws@nrdc.org with the information you gathered. (this is a picture of my sweet dog Sophie by the way) Here is the list: Adams Flea & Tick Collar For Dogs (Large and Small) Adams Flea and Tick Collar for Cats and Kittens Adams Plus Flea & Tick Collar For Dogs (Large and Small) Bansect Flea & Tick Collar for Cats Bansect Flea & Tick Collar for Dogs Bio Spot Flea & Tick Collar For Dogs (Puppies, Small, and Large) BioSpot Flea and Tick Collar for Cats and Kittens Scratchex Color Full Formula 5 Flea & Tick Collar For Dogs Sentry Dual Action Flea & Tick Collar for Dogs Sentry PurrScriptions Dual Action Fle...

Well have you ever "over-commented" back on a string on Facebook?  You feel sheepish afterwards but just had to say it..... Just did it.  Thought about deleting.....rewording....oops too late.  Its not that I don't believe in what I said, its just that I shot a cannonball against a fly. I won't divulge the chain leading up to it, and here is my post......like I said, I believe what I say but I should have saved it for elsewhere.  Like here. Never claimed to be smart. Comment re: the racism comments: Wouldn't it be better if we sought common ground?   Jeff at least admitted that their might be some racism leaking out.....a rarity... and there is often no admission or recognition of the racism that has the face of a patronizing attitude. What Jeff expressed is what is broadly taught about the poor and those that receive government aid.  The truth is too inconvenient. When you work with people at or below poverty level as often as I have day in and...

phantom memories taste like scorched dust sprinkled red on dreams sucked inward heat upon my tongue gives way to a dark yearning that won't show its face. .......................................Donna Storm

Paintings by Jamie Combs, Patricia C. Coleman and Anna Witte April - May 2010 at Lennies Resturant, Bar and Brewhouse! 1795 East 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana The Opening Reception is April 13th - 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the bar Bloomington Artist on Smaller Indiana - come join the new group at http://smallerindiana.com/group/bloomingtonartist