{"id":42,"date":"2017-10-06T01:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T01:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2017-10-06T19:13:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T19:13:27","slug":"breaking-free-big-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/breaking-free-big-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Top"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019d like to welcome you to a place where<\/strong>
\n nothing\u2019s too weird or nonsensical, too sad or misshapen.<\/strong>
\n It all<\/em> lives in and under The Playbox.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

Inside The Playbox you\u2019ll find an array of works that express the bulk of my story, beyond Pondering Pool<\/a> \u2013 writings, drawings, sculptures, and videos that speak about such things as a love so deep, being a Band-Aid, compassion, neuroses, you had me at ha, and so much more. What doesn\u2019t fit inside lovingly resides beneath, where it needn\u2019t worry about smiling or taking care of anyone else, it can simply rest.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s taken me a while to be ready to talk about the delicate, sticky areas, but dammit, the poignant stuff can be very connective and healing, and dare say, funny.\u00a0 On that note, I hope these works will not only be amusing and meaningful to you, but will inspire you to create, fill, and share your own Playbox.<\/p>\n

Click here to watch my video interview.<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Breaking free<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Big Top<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I\u2019m sitting in my chair, twiddling my mind, tweaking each moment into a smile, when to my left I hear a roar then a burp.\u00a0 He\u2019s awakened, and if I don\u2019t remain twiddled, chances are my smile will fall into a slack and drool and I\u2019ll morph into a lap dog, there only to serve him.\u00a0 I\u2019ve managed over the years to step beneath his loud voice and negative vibrations and in so doing, burrowed underground.\u00a0 To my delight, there was an entire circus awaiting me.\u00a0 So instead of lowering my head in sorrow or subjugation, I clowned it up, made nice with the ringmaster and became friends with the wonderfully intriguing array of characters that lived beneath the \u201cbig top.\u201d\u00a0 This turned into my second home, where I grew new versions of myself full of charisma, humor and color (lots and lots of red) \u2013 take-offs on peculiar thoughts I\u2019d always had but had been afraid to nurture for fear they\u2019d send me spiraling out and away from home.\u00a0 Then I realized they were<\/em> my home.\u00a0 Lucky me.<\/p>\n

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Tarletta \u2013 one of the many dear ladies I met who were born with a touch of clown.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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I\u2019d like to welcome you to a place where nothing\u2019s too weird or nonsensical, too sad or misshapen. It all lives in and under The Playbox.   Inside The Playbox you\u2019ll find an array of works that express the bulk of my story, beyond Pondering Pool \u2013 writings, drawings, sculptures, and videos that speak about … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-free"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ponderingpool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}