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Plenty of changes in my plans. Due to a weekly medical treatment on Thursday evenings and the effects of weather on my stamina, I probably won't be doing the SF Street Artist Program for a while - at least a few months. I'm qualified and screened but in three months of the license I did not get one good day that wasn't taken up with going out for necessary appointments and errands like grocery shopping and medical appointments. Bummer, but I will hopefully reach a stable point where I can build the strength to go out once or twice a month and then I'll renew the license. No sense paying for it before I know I can do it. Besides, I wanted to

Today I went out and got my California Sellers Permit (free) and tax information. Then went down to City Hall and paid $25 for my San Francisco city tax registration. Last Thursday, I went in for screening for the Street Artists Program. One more thing to do. I need to get a credit union, cash my Google Adsense and Commission Junction checks along with my little prints check and write a check or buy a money order to pay the San Francisco Arts Commission for my street license. I've been running around like crazy. I went out three days in a row this week between a doctor appointment and shopping trip on Tuesday, voter's registration correctio

Well, after almost two months in San Francisco, I'm starting to draw and paint again. Yesterday I did a pastel landscape of a Welsh road that leads into enchantment. I got lost in the painting and layered it over and over, bringing out the sparkle of the light through the leaves. It's a special experience when I'm painting woodlands in a warm season. It takes me into the same place my stories come from, the road reminds me of Bilbo's song "The Road Goes Ever On." It also leads right into the elven lands I wrote about in this year's Three Day Novel Contest entry. What I write and what I paint weaves in together to an inner life that keeps me