CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

beautiful beautiful, the photos and the
poems thank you Kate Sidwell

OMG Ned,you are the best. I am amazed at the comments. Lets get together with Cheryl, and have our Pol Pot Luck
Kate. great blog

I get a sour stomach watching all of this. John McCain and Sara Palin are so arrogant, smug and bullies. They are actually projecting thier own threatened
personalities onto Obama, He remained poised,in control, strong and open. Whether you are right or left, we don't need any more bullies, singing "Thats my Story and I'm stickin to it." We need
thoughtful, strong, well informed 21st Century leaders who can help us walk through this dark moment and harness the
bright and brilliant talent of our young
citizens to restore our place in the world. Talking tough and winking are not equal to our great country, Yes Country First, a country of sophiticated,dedicated, informed leaders
not talking down to people as though they were only Joe Six Pack, come on.
We deserve so much more. It makes not
difference where you come from, as Obama
demonstrates, but it does matter that you master the English language and have
the saavy to maintain a high stature in
your speech and presentation, not some
wierd country western imitation. We deserve so much more for our children,everywhere

I like the idea of many voices. What
makes someone credible to the public
education, a resume, I would love to write some but not sure if I qualify

amazing Ned, Would you want to put together an evening at the studio this summer. Get in touch Yikes what we tolerate and what we don't.violence,
war,corruption,shallow eros,anything
meaningless and vapid has a forum
but anything with a good edge, or a deeper archetypal zing, especially a
historical goddess,kill it. I remember
being a docent at the Dallas Museum of
Fine Arts when the Pompey exhibit came
along. Many things we could say but
won't. Kate I loved the references, your notebook is amazing , a true historical document, and at time a
true hysterical recording of the life
and times of Old Cape Cod

hi stacey, great post, I have been
AWOL this winter with new grandbaby
death in the family, but things
are up and running look forward to
reading your blog. Come by the
Studio on Slough if you get this way.
I would love to sit and talk with you.
Cost so much to drive even to Brewster
Take care, Happy Spring, Kate Sidwell

beautiful John, so much rich offerings
from you and this group. Thank you for
the beautiful card. I hope your
event went well it was great to see you
and your wife

John you are doing just such an
important job. We feel so lucky to
be connected. Thanks for coming to
Bentons show, so many amazing artists
and just great human beings. Loved
seeing your wife. Hope all your meeting
go well you will see more of us this winter to help your cause. Thanks so much Kate Sidwell. Great article

Ned it was our true surprise and delight that you joined us at the
studio. Laurel is the most remarkable
young beauty on Cape Cod. She has a great dream for this venture. We hope it is just the first of many meaningful
and special evenings aa we begin to gather a following and find new, provocative art to share. Thanks really so much for coming by. We love you work and blog. take care, Kathleen

hi monponsett, your comments are
always so great. yes, news these
days, CNN reports when someone sneezes
in Iowa, but I do like Anderson Cooper
he gives the real story of New Orleans
take care, Kathleen

great fun. do you have a blog? yes
always the back to work after a trip
but what a fabulous trip you took
yes we should get wind power for the cape before we burn up all this fossil
fuel and end up with out power at all
why are we so slow on all this
have you read Mckibbens Deep Economy?
What is your work. Why did you go to
Vienna.

how amazing, I would love to know about
your trip. What took you there? Wasn't it just beautiful. Please come by our
studio some day for a cup of coffee
and tell us about your journey

you are great. I want to know more
about the Colonel, I will have to
wait until I return and that will be
hard. Take care, enjoy this time.
Kate

this is so beautiful. I will get in touch in late June, I was an artist
involved in a movement call Scattered
Ephemera. bringing collective memoirs
together in art. Would love to see it
here. Such a rich place of memories

Bonjour madame,mais oui, mais non, amazing all the combinations
in this country. I had a great friend Stacy that lived in Brooklyn
your writing reminds me of her, though I know you are not her
as you would recognize my name. I have lost track of her and
miss the banter of words. Take care, have fun in the sun, will
let you know what I see in Croatia. ta ta for now

no, no not serbian, just interested
in that part of the world. I am an fullbred WASP, Yikes, ScotsIrish,Welsh
coalminers who came to leadville Colorado during the goldrush, and some
German Where are your ancestors?

I really like your writing, Would love to talk to you more
maybe someday this summer. I love that you love taking care
of your kids, Its really cool. oh Yikes that word is so old,
It is the job of all jobs, neverending, scary, tiring, undersold
and completely exhausting. It is wonderful that you can take time
and write about it all. I am off to be with my grandchildren before
I travel, for my 39th anniversary present. I have four grandkids,
two and half, four months, seven and ten. I just adore being with
them, and am half dead when I return. God bless you with your little
ones, perhaps someday we can meet and I can hear more about the war
and all your thoughts. Happy summertime. Kathleen

this is just tooo wonderful. thanks
keep giving us things that make us
laugh out loud is it the best. Kathleen

monponsett, tell me more would you
I am truly interested. When? what should
I know that I don't? write about it
it would be so interesing? Could you?

Its never too late, maybe it just go
lost in the mail. ha. life is a trip
huh?

my husband coached in the NFL for 30 years. A year after he retired he had
a major brainstem stroke. He recovered
and I can truly tell you Life is Short
"don't worry, be happy" Really.

how about Life is short, enjoy it.
Great article. Marriage is where true
love grows to something sweeter, more
important and like an old patina, rich
and valuable. Thanks for reminding us.

the garden of eden, wow, Just great.
Mothers of every species, doing what
they do. Its quite a program huh?
I have four grandchildren, it never
gets old. For all the work ,the thrill
of being a mom out weighs the work.
Romance takes over, their voices and
amazing comments remind ne if why I loved it all. When my cajun grandson
called me meimster, instead of mimi
it all made sense again. Happy Mothers
Day to you. I love your blog, I read it
everyday. Thanks for writing it.

yikes

this is so beautiful, though out and
really the only answer. Please if you
ever want to get in touch with The Studio on Slough Road and do some sort
of forum or event about this subject
let me know. I wrote the article about
Mikeys Shoes. Art vs Life. We have to
reach out and have a grass roots campaign to end the darkness in our culture. It is so apparent that we are
very lost. Thanks for your thoughtfullness. Kathleen

great photos thanks. I love your comments.

ned your comment was a riot. being
a 60 something myself I am always
shocked at how old, out of touch
and cranky some of my contemporaries
are. Are we that old, Yikes, we
need some new movement toward a more
contemporary image for people in our
genre. The Studio on Slough Road is a
gathering place for new, fun, exciting
contemporary art, music, thought,
conversation. Old, cranky stick in the mud,racist, sexist,angry white males are discouraged from participating. Ha, get on our website and read about the fun going on over
here. We have a big party all day saturday of Brewster in Bloom. Your
comments are just great. Enjoy

what a great blog,such great information. Hate is so ridiculous
it gets nothing for anyone. Thank goodness you can write about it.
Life has too many amazing people
to spend time on hateful people.
Maybe we can enlighten them? Anything
is possible. thanks for the information
especially about the photographer who
assisted Man Ray. Great stuff

its really so sad and scary and perpetuated by lack of knowledge
and information. Art and journalism
allow us to bring it to light. We
have one job for survival,to teach
our kids a better way. Your writing is
so powerful and the statistics are frightening. We stamped out smoking by
awareness,and thatsaves us untold dollars
in health services.On an economic level
is we stamp out abuse it will help
us all. I saw a powerful art work by
a Nausett High school student about Rape
and how it destroys the inner world of
the victim and even their family. Abuse has many faces and like smoking it damages us all. Thanks for speaking
out and giving such an in depth view of
the situation on Cape Cod.

I am more upset over him calling her a whore than her hair. its ok to poke fun at people, and then there is just plain old insecure meanspirited abuse usually from those who have been abused themselves or whatever. I love dry humour its great. I lived in New Orleans for 14 years. I have so many black, brown, yellow, tan friends. There are a million ugly words, jew,
kike,spic, rag head, etc. Hate has no limits. I guess what gets me going is that he goes after the kids that made it out of the ghetto, that I taught, and also there were 100 who didn't make it out that still deserve human respect.

What creates the need for that? What do you call a white man who is a run around guy? < and bald to boot> I have a funny name but I wouldn't type it a blog. Life is rough enough without
meanspirit idiots. I worked in the 9th ward and have some great sucess stories.

thanks for such a great blog, He is
my favorite. I saw a great Hopper
show last summer at the Whitney in NYC
How wonderful that we will all see
him here. thanks for all the info
Kathleen Sidwell www.studioonsloughroad.com

Happy Easter, yes so much is still unanswered,
and like in the days of old. A religion that teachers love and forgivness is threatening to people
who rely on power and violence for
their inner security. We heard a great
priest today in Syracuse he spoke of
the revolution of love. It changes the
equation that we live by most of the time. Renewal is old and in all cultures, forgiveness and grace are
life altering, and given to all, the
lowly and the high. Now that is hard
for many to imagine. thanks for the
offering I enjoyed it.

yes all of these comments are powerful... where can we put them.? Is there
anyway for us to have our creature comforts and fresh air.? What if we all agreed locally to go to bed earlier and turn off our power? then we could be healthier and not need so much medical care.
But what would stores who open at night do? How about air conditioning? I hate it, refuse to use it on cape cod but so many seem to need this? Remember the good old days when you slept on the porch and be uncomfortable in a beautiful romantic way. Oh I am just old I guess, but wow, we really have to find some middle ground or we will suffocate in our own by-products? thank for all the thoughtful educated suggestions

what a dilemma, I have so often been quoted as saying Yikes, you don't want
Cape Cod to look like Myrtle Beach do you./ Its a fine line, business, brings
life and where with all for those
who inhabit this fragile amazing
peninsula, I took my children
'to the Natural History Museum in
Brewster over winter break. I wept as
I tucked them in , will there be birds
and butterlies for them to pass on to
their children? But then, who knows
how to control nature, we are nature
Have you read Chet Raymo, he write and teaches at Stonehill, He wrote
a book Honey from Stone, it changed by
vision. Come visit us online at
www.studioonsloughroad.com come see
us and we would love to dialogue