Kiss and Tell One, Two, Three: America's Got Talent

I am fortunate to have such talented friends. Friday night, friends and I met at a concert to hear a friend's band. The next day, our same group, met for a poetry reading, where one of the group was the featured poet. Afterwards, we lunched at a nearby seafood restaurant. I was wowed by a friend who made a necklace during the car ride in the less than ten minutes it took to travel from the poetry reading to the restaurant. He had just purchased beads from the bead shop where the poetry reading was held. By the time we arrived for lunch, the AB pattern necklace with a pendant was complete and smartly displayed around his neck. I rate that performance at ten! During our meal, I sat around the table and noticed that I was surrounded by more artistic talent. To the right of me, an internationally known poet, who was invited to an extended stay in Taipei to share her acting, writing, and musical skills. She was such a success, they asked her to move to China. Across the table from me, one who is a songwriter, musician, playwright, and filmmaker. Also at the table, her daughter who is aspiring filmmaker who, this past spring was awarded second place in a citywide film making competition.

My horoscope states that I seek aesthetic beauty. I always have been drawn to visual creativity , as far as I can remember. As a child I spent a great deal of my time hanging around the beauty salon my mother ran. Mother was also a milliner and Dad, in his spare time, a carpenter who designed furniture. I excelled in art classes and made jewelry. In high school, I excelled in technical drawing, interior design, and architecture, and was a proud member of the Clothesline Fashion Club. Later, in college, one of my paper mache projects was prominently displayed in the UT Art Department main office for years after I graduated. In grad school my final project for my Creativity class included a ballet with the music of This Mortal Coil and readings from Anne Rice. Even though, I married an engineer, I have dated one fashion model, two fashion designers, three painters, and actor, a dancer, a writer, a sculptor, a singer, two musicians, and a partridge in a pear tree. STOP counting; three of the aforementioned had more than two talents. For example, J was a dancer, actor, singer, and designer. The fashion model was also a sculptor and designer. Too bad I was not around during the time of George Washington Carver.