Archive for category Storypeople

Date: May 28th, 2010
Cate: Storypeople

Storypeople: Funny World

Here’s the Story of the Day:

He told me about Jesus & Arizona & the best way to make beer & I said you’re a funny kind of preacher & he said it’s a funny kind of world & I still remember his eyes clear as a desert morning.

Storypeople: Someday we will laugh and ache about this…

Here’s the Story of the Day:

New Places

She moved with the grace of a cat & her tongue licked at the corner of her lips & I’m sure she would have helped me if I could have said I am just a child & don’t know what to do, but I was just a child & didn’t know how to tell her about those new & raw places in my heart, so she stood there in the dim light with her hair like a cloud of perfume around her face & neither of us spoke & now I wish I could go back & hold her & say someday we will laugh & ache about this.

Date: May 14th, 2010
Cate: Storypeople

Storypeople: Secret Notes

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Secret Notes

He wrote secret notes to people he hadn’t met yet. Some of them aren’t even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I won’t always be around to explain it to them.

Date: April 21st, 2010
Cate: Storypeople, funny-bone

Storypeople: Long Road

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Long Road

I understand it’s a long road to peace, he said, but I’m still hoping to get a ride part way because I’m so out of shape from the 90′s.

Date: March 10th, 2010
Cate: Storypeople

Storypeople: Life Cycle

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Life Cycle

This is a special bike that’s not very good at listening to excuses, so it takes you exactly where you really want to go & if you kick & scream it makes you pedal harder & go up steeper hills until you’re too out of breath to complain & after awhile, if you’re lucky, you start to see that it doesn’t really matter if you laugh or cry, because it just wants to ride like the w

Date: February 23rd, 2010
Cate: Great Grey Beast of February, Storypeople, funny-bone

Storypeople: Box for the Future

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Box for the Future

this is a dress-up box for the future & it’s filled with stuff like courage & love & play because they’re the only things that are any use at all when you get Right down to it.

Date: February 16th, 2010
Cate: Great Grey Beast of February, Storypeople

Storypeople: Magic

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Magic

She tapped her finger & nothing happened & she thought she had lost her magic, but it had only changed & it took her awhile to figure it out.

Date: February 12th, 2010
Cate: Great Grey Beast of February, Storypeople, funny-bone

Storypeople: Partial Enlightenment

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Partial Enlightenment

The problem with knowing everything’s going exactly as it needs to is that when you’re not having that much fun it doesn’t even do any good to complain.

Date: February 11th, 2010
Cate: Storypeople, funny-bone

Storypeople: Whales

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Whales

I remember when the whales had wings, she said. Whatever happened? I said. It got to be too noisy with all the airplanes & other stuff, so they flew into the ocean & never came back. Some days, she added, I think about going too.

Date: January 27th, 2010
Cate: Storypeople, funny-bone

Storypeople: Ready to Jump!!!

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Ready to Jump

getting ready to jump as high as she can just because there’s only so long you can sit politely & listen while people talk about any old stuff that comes into their heads

Date: March 20th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople, humor

Story of the Day – Goddess

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Goddess

I do much better as a goddess, she said, since my secretarial skills have always been limited

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Date: March 13th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Secret Potion

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Secret Potion

this is a secret potion that makes you see the world differently & she’s found it safest to use only on the weekends

Date: March 12th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Final Reward

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Final Reward

Finally realizes that all the chaos is what makes tea worth it.

Date: March 9th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople, life

Story of the Day – Theory

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Theory

trying to remember when it stopped being theory & turned into real life, because theory was a whole lot easier

Date: February 26th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Promises

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Promises

I only promise the little things. The big things don’t pay attention to what I want anyhow.

Date: January 30th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople, humor

Story of the Day – A to Z

Here’s the Story of the Day:

A to Z

Story (on both sculptures):

My mother always told me to finish what I started, but she had no idea of some of the people I’d be dealing with.

Addt’l Story (on sculpture with block only – not available as a print, but is available as the ‘Obvious Mistake’ sculpture):

Some of the stuff I learned early on was useful, she told me, but most of it was obviously meant for someone who was not me.

Date: January 27th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Saving Up

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Saving Up

saving up a bag full of peak moments she’s going to have someday if she can ever get away from all the same old stuff that’s holding her back & you can pretty well guess how it’s going

Date: January 21st, 2007
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Bones of Light

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Bones of Light

I remember we sat in the swing on the front porch & as the dusk came on us like a song, dark throated & sweet, he told me about the beginning when we had bones of light & hair that burned like the sun & I asked what happened then? & I felt him floating there in the soft dark & finally he said we forgot & I said I never would, but sometimes I do & I understand now why he put his arm around me & said nothing more.

Date: January 17th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople, art

Story of the Day – Broken Down

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Broken Down

this is a machine that’s supposed to make people good & true & kind & the funny thing is that it works best when it’s completely broken down so everyone has to stop what they’re doing & get together & figure out how to fix it.

Date: January 8th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Life Machine

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Life Machine

this is a machine that takes your life & does all the hard parts & leaves you all the parts you enjoy & almost everyone discovers they’re not the parts you’d think they were at first glance

Date: January 4th, 2007
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Real Problem

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Real Problem

The real problem with details is there’s so many of them

Date: December 27th, 2006
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Flashback

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Flashback

I’ve been having the hardest time today coming up with excuses, she said. I think that I’m having a work ethic flashback.

Date: December 26th, 2006
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Stupid Things

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Stupid Things

If you can’t laugh at yourself, my grandpa told me, you’re not doing enough stupid things. I told him I didn’t usually run out of stupid things, but it’s hard to laugh that long at anything.

Date: December 25th, 2006
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Inventing Evil

Happy Happy Hollydays

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Inventing Evil

He said who invented evil? & I said I wasn’t sure anybody invented it, it just happened when somebody got tired of all the effort it took to live right. They probably didn’t have anyone to teach them, he said & I thought to myself, we might be doing this right after all.

Date: December 14th, 2006
Cate: Storypeople

Story of the Day – Close Enough

Here’s the Story of the Day:

Close Enough

Not exactly schizophrenic in the classical sense, but close enough that people give him all the room he needs on the sidewalk.

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