Seeking clarity in our Flickr+ detritus:
me:
You are having more fun (your pictures tell me).
him:
More like the usual level. How about yourself?
me:
Probably I just want your picture-poetry more at my usual level - things are often just too mysterious.
Best to ignore lil'billy! Tend your own very productive garden.
Will be floatin' til we all re-realize that folks don't much visit the Website.
And the pictures that we love here in the family circle.
In for the long hell and high water, Bill.
him:
Hi. I have no idea what your email meant. Have a nice day.
me:
My day is at the usual level.
Os William (lil'billy).
bs: Why I don't sell pictures fer 45 yrs? - gallery folks and visitors, "I have no idea what they mean."
Go Buddha!
bss: They could just be middling gatherings . . .
him:
Heh. Thanks for the explanation. This email is priceless, a lovely dialogue poem. I figured your email was good-intentioned but after getting (random, undeserved) attacks on here lately, I sometimes look askance at things and think they're attacks when they'r not. I had no idea who "lil billy" was. Two Bills confuse a brew or stew?
It's strange. When I used to "live wrong" (or wronger, who knows what is "right," really) I would get upset if I thought someone was "badgering" me. But now it's more a blip in my day and I float on.
Your work is challenging to people, Bill, and that's the great thing. I can honestly say you to I think your stuff is truly great and you didn't fall into any of the "time traps" that so many of the people who came up alongside you seemed to have done with various genres and such.
Your work is all-out deliciously weird and divinely inspired and you crash through all that genre nonsense to get at the essential poetry and talkativeness of the image (which is, of course, a plurality of images that never stop).
I don't know about website traffic and all that but the longer you keep at it (your website is relatively new) the more you will attract people. Probably if you bragged more, you'd go up even quicker, but somehow it doesn't seem to be your personality. Tant pis. ;p
I saw you posted some good-hearted politically motivated stuff on there but it seems like we're in this post-dialogue state in America. Probably the haves love apathy on the part of the have nots.
I'm at the age where I'm realizing that not just the social world but existence itself is fundamentally insane, so I try to worry less. I don't know if that's apathy. I don't try to feel less but I do try to worry less. Maybe that's a contradiction in terms and I'm doomed for that strategy.
I dunno.
We just found out our water was disgusting through much of 2013 and our township never told us. Who knows how many people died of giardiasis in that period because they chose not to tell us. I just got a brochure for a town meeting about it. I hope someone passed it on to the ambulance chasers. One good way for the poor to get rich around here is for some entity with money to poison one of their own. The Mill did it for about a century. Now apparently it's the water company. I'd just like to get a reduced rate. I mean for the poisoning.
me:
More 'priceless' William! Thank you.
(What do folks call out? William?)
Your turn, what's this, 'Tant pis. ;p' ...
Oh .... ;p is one of those cons!
That leaves me wit 'Tant pis.' .
Tequila, then gin n vodka are clean - sips help me.
Wish they had no ethanol = nectar or noose.
'politics', I've been 'in-the-street' since '38.
What? Of a sudden I should go shut-in?!
I do take your meaning - enough sanity to move is required.
I've been lessoned that me consciousness grows on.
I wanna get-it at my level. I street-walk and hunt with it.
Not to mention the absurdity of living chipless.
Drink carefully. Os Bill.
