(Christmas Thoughts) Allora and I would share christmas parties with a lot of no

(Christmas Thoughts)

Allora and I would share christmas parties with a lot of northwest artists. There were variations on a theme, but often we would make a christmas ornament. And we would exchange them by drawing slips of paper. One year I had a bit of time, so I made my ornament of a very fat, very naked santa sculpture out of oven-drying clay – about eight inches tall.
The woman who won it was a bit horrified because she had a daughter that might see it. I told her I’d take it or she could trade it with someone else. I don’t recall what happened but she went away a bit off.
Artists are not necessarily all that bright, it’s the occupation of a type of character more than intelligence. They’re generally good people if left leaning. Eventually when we started arriving to social groups in a ferrari they began to distance themselves from us because we were ‘different’ (meaning not poor starving artists).
I don’t care. Good people are good people, and the people in the working, lower middle, to middle classes appear to be the most moral people – something which can not only inspire the christmas spirit, but encourage noblesse oblige toward them in those of us who rise to different status. Conversely, disdain for them is the antithesis of character – the absence of it.

Merry Christmas. 😉