Cutting-Up’s Artist Blog

Some days I look at the world differently and appreciate people, things, and experiences even more fully.  Of late, I’ve been collecting bids from plumbers for a pipe leak in my 1950’s home, aka: “the craft cabin”.  

Today a plumber stood me up, for the 2nd time, sniff.  (Okay… um, yewww do nawt know me, snap!).  Prior to getting “The Heisman” from the ‘plumber’dzur’, Steve, one of the Cutting-Up partners, decided he would survey my situation, an offer I found endearing from our infrasturcture cultivator, numbers man, & appointed Pres also moonlighting as husband, father, friend, custom home builder, ironman - oh, and he has a full-time, high-pressure sales job.  (As an aside & very appropriately, long ago Jay dubbed Steve with the nickname “Inspector Gadget” and the scope of that title has certainly become more apparent as our time together expands.)

DIGRESSION #764 - THE TEAM EXPLAINED: Cutting-Up is a pretty special collective.  We are, at the base, four very different people who, as business partners, complete a picture.  Like a cool collage, it doesnt seem as though the pieces would naturally go together, but it works amazingly well.  We are four complimentary opposites who balance.  Together we make high-spirited dreamers with vision & direction, yet we are also full of openness to what may come and open ourselves to the sidestreets we ‘feel’ need pursuing.  We may get lost but there’s always one to help direct… We are calm and half crazed.  We have brains, heart, soul, resources, and coolness.  We are care-free and solid.  We have fashion-savy that’s also unconscious to any popularities in trend-setting.  We are business owners, artists, fathers, and mothers in the world.  We can be hard working realists and faint- hearted faithfuls… and somehow, it works. God put us together, no doubt, for reasons discovered & yet to be discovered.  All that said, at our foundation, we have guts…  We have a mission…  And, we are committed to our cause to elevate and connect.

MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH:

Steve, aka: Inspector Gadget & angel investor pulls up to my 50’s abode in his beautiful convertible sports car.  Hopping out of his ’sled’ in his typical work-day attire, t-shirt, flip flops, & surfer shorts, Steve took initiative and began discussing the pipe situation.  

TRICK OR TREAT, SMELL MY FEET:

Locating the hatch to survey under the pier & biem, Steve dangled himself over and into a hole in my closet to inspect the pipes.  As his flip-flopped feet were dangling in the air, I could only focus on two things: 1) suffering from conjection I could hear the sound of Steve’s tone change as his sinuses were stuffing from the pressure of being inverted; and, 2) As he was suspended upside down with a flashlight to view the pipes, my good dog, Huckleberry Finn, was enraptured, gently stretched out in a stanse so as not to interrupt but allow a good sniffing of Steve’s heals, seeming to recall a memory of his friend, Emma, the Karo’s good English Bulldog.

PLUMBER’S FRIEND:

Steve managed his way upright to report what he’d concluded.  While he spoke, Steve walked to my kitchen sink, noted by the small pile of dishes needing to be washed, to wash his hands.  I didn’t say a word as he reached for the tap lever to draw water & ohhhhhhhh there’s no water coming out of the tap.  Apparently even inspector gadget has absense of mind from time to time.  It made me chuckle.

KNOW YOUR PIPES:

Steve may not look like a plumber nor act like a plumber; but he was concerned and present and drew pretty good diagrams of pipes that lead to my house & different views… like underground views, side wall views… x-marks the spot views.  He tried to help me better ‘understand’ my pipes and the way they work.  I can only imagine it was similiar to telling a blind person what the sky looks like.  aka: Jo don’t know plumbing.

PEOPLE… PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE:

I may, temporarily, have a taxed plumbing system in the form of pipes in need of repair; but, I have cool perspectives too.  From that gift I can ultimately see set-backs as unique opportunities for comeback stories.  So, go out and begin to notice the levity and blessings in life’s interuptions.  It can be a curse or a gift.  Which do you prefer? 

THE MORAL OF THE STORY:

Surround yourself with a good team and know that life best little gifts may have to be looked at upside down, in a hole, with flip flops on to be uncovered.  Only the blessings are real, the rest, just a pipe dream!  Da-da-dum-chhhh!

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