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Good Bye Mike, digital artwork, copyright Alison Boston

This kind of Thought Recording is also used in creating positive affirmations. You write down - stream of conscious - all the reasons why you are no good, or why you can’t do something - and then turn those thoughts into positive statements which become affirmations.

The shoes I wore when I placed first in the Panorama Classic Triathlon

…and which I do NOT wear when cycling in the winter in Budapest!!!
but they have a story, which I will tell another time!
Meanwhile, here’s the winter cycling tale…
Something else I enjoy about Budapest is cycling in the winter. Even though […]

Now I know I am spending too much time in cyberspace…Art Attack

Highlights of the evening for me were delivered by Donarier when he played a frenzied solo on his bass clarinet, and by Blondiau when he closed the concert with a number that started with him playing a solo on flugel horn and trumpet, played simultaneously - one horn on either side of his mouth.

I finally got to hear the Váczi Dániel Trio. last Thursday on the a38 concert boat. Playing together since 2001, the trio serves up the meandering compositions of alto and soprano saxophonist Dániel Váczi. Balázs Horváth on double bass, and Zsolt Sárvári Kovács plays drums, adding colro with a few percussion instruments. […]

New category added today: CD reviews.

Mike Austin Stirs the Fire
Since coming to Budapest, Hungary I have developed strong bonds with the poetry group Labyrinth, the Association of English Language Poets in Vienna. On my many - yet not frequent enough - visits to Vienna, I have always enjoyed the conversation of Mike Austin.
Mike’s funeral is on […]

One of the things I enjoy most about Budapest and Hungary is the music. I think the country’s geographic location lends itself to a natural fusion of ethnic influences creating a unique Magyr sound.
The world music quartet Ektar is no exception.
I stumbled on them almost by accident, and that is another magical element […]

I used to sleep over at her place, and there is something of the quality of her house in that piece of art. She lived in a small country house in rural Nova Scotia, heated with a wood burning stove. It was such a cosy place. We’d sleep upstairs in her room, in little bunk beds opposite each other, and talk long into the night the way high school girls do.

This was a photograph of a squirrel sitting next to a piece of chocolate layer cake. I manipulated it using ACDSee FotoCanvas 2.0. I have never read the instructions.

Squirrel Flower digital artwork, copyright Alison Boston
Merriam Webster’s Online Dictionary - which I encourage my English students to use because it includes a handy dandy audio component […]

…for a full moon.

Moon Heads, digital image, copyright Alison Boston

I’ve just switched the site over to Permalinks to start the process of maximising my presence in search engines. I’ve scratched my head over using these since I started this website and every time I started to read the ‘instructions’ at the Word Press Codex site I’d get blurry eyed and my third […]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Notes for digital artwork 05, copyright Alison Boston
I am pleased! When I started this slog, my intention was to create a website that would function as a type of archives for my work as an artist, and I quickly realised I also had a a great publishing […]

Digital Image 09 d, copyright Alison Boston
The principal image I worked with to create Gathering Souls is in this composite image. Can you find it?

Gathering Souls
digital artwork 09, copyright Alison Boston
Digital Artwork 9 is a series. This is 1 in the series. I think this is 9 (c) or (d). The others are notes from which I cut and pasted the two pieces which went together to make the single image which is pasted
38 (?) […]

Make a conscious effort to express thanks each and every day of 2006 and witness the power of gratitude.

Happy New Year
digital artwork 08, copyright Alison Boston
This one started with the text ‘Happy New Year’ written on a blank white canvas.
In the words of one friend:
“Have a safe a happy slide into the new and uncertain.” WL
It was certainly slippery here last night with freezing rain.