Jacob the beard had been with me for a few months, but one morning I woke up to find him gone. I'm not sure where he went, but I wish him well. Sometimes, I like to imagine what kind of life he is living. Maybe he has attached himself to another persons face, or maybe he is just living on his own. He could be working in a factory, or maybe he is studying art restoration. If you see Jacob somewhere, please give him my best wishes. He is a very nice beard.
His name is Jeffery Williams. He teaches English at an American public school, and because of a funding cut, he teaches Spanish now too.
There are a lot of things that students know about him, but they don't know everything.
His family knows even less.
If they knew, would it change things?
Made on Garage Sale bought French Water Color Paper with Acrylic ink, water color and pen. This is part of my scrap art series, of paintings that I make on left over paper scraps without any planning or thinking about what I will draw.
These are Momets. Momets are blue and they live in the sky, so sometimes you can see them from an airplane, but not often. They are almost the same color as the sky. Sometimes people confuse Momets for Tweezles, but they are actually very different.
The Momet on the left is Loney Momet and the one on the right is Pone Momet.
Momets are sad collectors. They fly around the sky and collect small bits of sadness and they make hearts out of it.
It takes a lot of sadness to make a heart. Some Momets can go through their whole life and never make a complete heart. If a Momet dies before his heart is completed, all of the sadness floats back into the sky. It slowly falls to Earth and lands on plants, people and animals. If you've ever felt really sad, it probably means a Momet died somewhere high above you.
On Monday I went surfing at Haleiwa in the North Shore of Oahu. It's a spot famous for big waves and happy sea turtles. The turtles are almost 1/3 the size of a Ken Tanaka, and are much better swimmers.
In California I get to surf with a lot of plastic bottles, dolphins, sea lions and pelican friends. At Haleiwa, I paddled around the surf with one very handsome sea turtle (Charlie) and we duck dived a big set of waves together.
I wanted to do a video interview of the turtle but I couldn't bring my video camera into the water. We mostly talked about waves and food. The sea turtles eat a tasty kind of seaweed called Limu. I ate some Limu ahi poke, which is tuna sashimi chunks with limu seaweed, and I understand why these turtles like to eat Limu. Charlie described the Limu in Oahu's north shore as "da most ono in da islands", but he said the algae is a little better on the leeward side of Molokai.
The North Shore is famous for it's giant waves in the winter, but it was a small day of 4-6 foot wave faces ( about baby quadruple overhead..depending on the height of the baby).
This is Pierre. He is from Leon, France but he is living in the United States. When he left home, he had ideas. He had things he was searching for. But now, sometimes, he can't remember what they are, or maybe he remembers, but they don't seem so important anymore.
Do you have to know what you are looking for to find it?
