Today’s guest post comes from Sherrilee.
I’ve always been a go-getter, as my mother would say. If I want something, I figure out a way to get it and if I’m doing something, I like to do the best job I can.
As my middle sister discovered early on, this is a difficult personality trait to have in an older sibling. As I had two years on her, everything she did or tried had already been done by me. After a few years it became clear to my parents that there were things she didn’t want to try because I was already doing them (piano, dance, reading…)
So when she showed an interest in drawing and painting, my parents really encouraged her and DIScouraged me. She got art lessons, she got art supplies, she got her artwork framed all over the house, I got bupkis. To their credit, I don’t think they were trying to discourage me in their efforts to nurture something that was all hers, but the result was the same. As the years went by we were more and more defined this way; I was the smart one and she was the artsy one.
In college, during a particularly rough semester, I was looking for something that would be easy and decided to take a beginning drawing class. It was a shock to my system that I wasn’t too bad and I had a great time in class.
After that it was as if a huge door opened for me. It seemed as if around every corner, there was another artsy-craftsy experience waiting for me. Since then I’ve taken on Ukrainian eggs, rubber stamping, tie-dye, silk screen, sewing, scrapbooking, glass etching, candle making…. it’s a long list. The teenager and I now make most of our gifts and I do cards galore every year.
In a bizarre twist, my sister decided in college that she “didn’t have time for art”. So now I’m the artsy one!
What passion have you discovered later in life?
Trail Baboon 
good lead sherrilee, how do you do those ukranian eggs? nice that you and the teenager make your gifts. that is really cool. later in life i got into cooking and gardening. i have always been a little haphazard as to the i dotting and t crossing in the detail end of things. cooking and gardening are ares where if you pick the right end of the spectrum winging it works pretty good. i love digging into the hosta garden and figuring out how to split the existing inventory and where to start the west wing of the expansion project.my current garden is based on shade so the limitations are there and the area of study is pretty well defined. ferns hosta and daylillies are the bulletproof cant kill em varieties i enjoy most. cooking is a bit of a challange because things come out kind of that way again but i never really know exactly what went in there. sunday morning is my constant. i love to do a potato thing and an egg thing. my kids used to be good eaters today they are less so. one son waits tables in a good restraunt so he appreciates my efforts the others think potatoes with wine in them is weird. they prefer mcdonalds french fries. soup is more conducive to winging it than baking but i do try a little of this and a little of that. i decided a couple of years ago to do something in the area of hats. i have always loved hats and now that i am an old bald guy hats made even more sense. i have a hat business where i find great old hats on ebay and bring them to my hat guy who will tweak them as i instruct and let me take them to the next level of their possibility and allow others to enjoy them as much as i do. wood working is somethin i need to find time for. it is like threapy but it makes such a mess i am successful at putting off my projects til later. motorcycle mechanic is on the to do list for the near future, i have a couple boxes of motorcycles calling out to me. anthropoligy is untouched territory for me so that will be the thing for the start from scratch end of the spectrum. i am thinking machu pichu would be a good place to start. messing with kids is also a joy. i would guess as my kids grow up the new and exciting ways i can mess with them will become areas of great pleasure. oh yeah and white wine. now there is an area of study i can spend some time with.
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tim – you are a gardener just like I am. My yard is crammed packed with hostas and lilies. Hard to go wrong with `em!
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Add some sedums and you have a trinity – they thrive on neglect.
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I’ll need a sedums lesson. Anything that I can neglect in my garden is always good!
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i can kill sedum!!!
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We’ve had a soup exchange (kind of). Maybe we should have a plant exchange.
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im in
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Me too!
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Yeah.
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I’m somewhat like you, tim, having a lot of things, both new and old, that I have an interest in doing. I can’t understand why some people seem to think they will have little or nothing to do when they retire from full time work.
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Kids and white wine, now there is an old age to be savored. Sometimes when I read your posts tim I think I know all there is to know about you, but it just keeps coming. You might want to read the book: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
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i loved that book but the follow up was toooooooo slow. he is a method freak and i am whatever the opposite of a method freak is. 100 pages about 5×7 card files i had to scream,
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I loved the first half of that book (Zen…) but I really had to push myself to finish it, he got way bogged down in Phaedra or something… Didn’t even try Lila.
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lila was the one i got fidgety in. good stuff just the long way around
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keep fighting gang word press will let you in eventually if you are persistent. i fought with it for an hour or so last night and got a head start at today. they seem to want us to sign in these days. waht a pain in the ass. we will have to ask dale if there isnt a better way when he gets back. or ask word press what the hell they are doing.
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RE: Word Press. On my iPad I have a black line across the top with a “New Post” icon that would allow me to post, including a picture or video. Surely this is an error that accompanies whatever changes Word PRess made that causes this mess. I think it is my chance to post smut or Rush Limbaugh videos. Now if I could figure out how to find them…..
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Hi gang. Writing from a beach chair in Key West, I took a break from reading Jasper Fforde to investigate the problem and change a WordPress setting. You should be able to comment now without entering name and email. Sorry for the trouble!
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It’s a tough job but someone had to do it.
Thanks Dale!
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you now have permission to drink a beer. its noon and you have accopmlished all you need to today
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The important thing to know is which Jasper Fforde?…(hope you are enjoying Key West!)
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Hopefully the new one…. if you’re willing to cough up the cash you can have it now. Unlike Anna and I who are addicted to our local library!
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I have a (new) hand-me-down iPad and am reading “Lost in a Good Book”, borrowed from Ramsey County Library. The best reading hours are in the early AM when the screen glare is not too bad!
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trying to get a gravitar back
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It looks great from here!
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Rise and Shine Baboons!
Great post Sherilee. However, as I look at the picture of your work space/studio I am skeptical. Surely you cleaned it up for the picture! Any studio I have seen or kept myself is strewn with art materials, just laying out.
I have come late in life to business–I still am in shock at owning a business. At age 19 I was hippie Jacque in jeans and knit poncho, scorning business. I was also socialized that business was too risky (might be true) and that I should comply with what “they” wanted me to do and fit that model so “they” would take care of me. At age 58 I have developed a business that is much larger than I ever thought possible. And I take care of myself and others. I also have come into art. This was forbidden to me as a child by my mother because “it has nothing to do with making a living or life.” HMMMMM. I believe art has everything to do with life.
I always was rebellious.
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Jacque – I did pick up a smidge for the picture, but not much. I work really hard to keep that space clean; when it gets cluttered it just makes me crazy. So I almost always put things away after I’ve been working in there. If I could transfer my ability to keep my studio straight to the rest of my house, it would be amazing.
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can you come live at my house for a week?
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Funny… in fact, the teenager wants to come to book club at your house next time around. Apparently I’ve described it as some kind of Mecca w/ dogs!
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my life in a nutshell
mecca with dogs
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Sex.
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MERMAN ALERT!! MERMAN ALERT!!
“What?” she yelled. “Pardon? You said that so quickly I did not hear it! You discovered WHAT in mid-life?”
Why don’t you clarify that.
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Snort!
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Can you define “clarify”? Do you, umm, want examples?
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Around 99.5 percent of guys glom on to that one early in life. You’re a storyteller, Steve; there’s got to be a story there somewhere.
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My sex life began at 59, Linda. Yup. There’s a story, but not for these pages.
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what amazes me is the number of guys who are on the decline after youth. i guess its a testosterone thing. all us bald guys are high in testoserone. sorry jim. so i guess my next wife wont get a rest either.
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Good morning to all. The most recent new interest that I can think of is an interest in wine. This isn’t a big thing. Previously I drank very little wine and now I drink it regularly and I am learning to pick out the kinds of lower priced wines that I like. A bigger interest that I developed latter in life is travel.
As a boy living at home the only traveling I did was the trips my parents made back to Wisconsin from Michigan every year to visit both of my two sets of Grandparents. My increased interest in traveling came after I completed school and was married. At first we just took camping trips to parks. Then we explored parts of the Midwest by car. Our big trip was a tour of England, stopping for 2 days in Scotland and ending in Paris. I got to see some other parts of the world as an agricultural volunteer and we have made a number of trips to various parts of this country.
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Both are worthy of exploration. Go JIm.
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Travel is awesome! I have so many places yet to visit myself. That trip you took to the UK/Europe must’ve been a blast! My husband’s from Scotland, and I have friends in England. Been to both countries several times, and both are wonderful. Paris doesn’t exactly suck, either. 🙂
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Where in Scotland is your husband from, lassie? I’ve had incredibly beautiful days in Edinburgh and up in the Highlands in a tiny town called Thurso. Such a pretty country.
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He’s from a village about an hour outside of Glasgow called Hurlford. It’s in Ayr (Robert Burns country). We just visited last summer, and took a day trip up to Loch Ness so my daughter could look for Nessie. We didn’t find her, but there WAS a sighting reported the same day we were there, on the other side of the Loch. Figures. 🙂
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Even on days when Nessie is camera-shy, Loch Ness is goshawful beautiful!
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…meant to say Ayrshire, not Ayr. Been married 20 years and I should know the difference by now…
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i had one of the best drunks of my life on the isle of skye being taught the fine points of single malts by a local. the next day was even ok. the scenery there is not beautiful its powerful but i got to travel the uk for 6 weeks 25 years ago and it was magical. got to visit a bunch of backwater towns in scotland. hey did you notice they talk funny there.
i am excellent with accents but up north they had rocks in their mouths that made it just a riot to try to decyper the english from that part of the world. sounded almost slavic it was so getteral. beautiful country. beautiful people. the lakes district in england is to die for all of the west coast of ireland is to die for. all of italy is to die for, switerland is the most beautiful place ive ever been. the canadian rockies are the most awe inspiring place ive ever been,. bear tooth pass is my favorite road. celestine lake in alberta is my secret warm and fuzzy place. thanks for mentioning travel . i do like that. always have
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Scotland was our all time favorite travel destination. 20 yrs ago we rented a tiny car and wandered around for two weeks exploring castles, cairns and standing stones. Climbed to the top of Glencoe and saw Black Duncan’s hanging tree. The western islands are like standing at the end world. How lucky you are to have family ties there. We hold out hope to go back some day.
PS Our youngest daughter is a Scottish dancer and traveled there for the World Championships about 10 years ago. Dancing, that is, not football.
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Very cool, Robin! And IMHO, Scottish dancing requires as much strength and endurance as football – it’s not easy, so props to your daughter!
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Doubleyoo, we used to catch some Scottish musicians here in Mpls at the Cedar Cultural Center — Silly Wizard, Andy Stewart, Phil Cunningham, Aly Bain, Manus Lunny, Dougie Maclean were favorites. And funny 🙂 There’s something about that Scottish take on the world, isn’t there?. They haven’t come in years and I think it’s something that happened during the Bush years when Left-leaning performers were unable to get visas to the US. Our loss.
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I’ve loved hearing your stories about your volunteer traveling, Jim. It’s a latent passion I could see developing.
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Agree with BiR– Jim, travel with a focus like your ag work has to be such a unique lens into another culture. How lucky you are to have done that!
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I have one more country to cover from my volunteer agricultural work, Bulgaria. I will try to do something on that trip before long.
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I have developed a later life interest in hand bell ringing. I was hesitant to try it earlier since I thought the players looked so silly, but now that I have been doing ringing for a few years, I find i really like it and don’t even think about how it looks (except to make sure that I ring like the other ringers in my choir). This June we are going to a handbell convention in Duluth, where we will attend workshops to improve our techniques and play in a mass choir with several hundred ringers. With the permission of BiB, we might make a very brief side trip for a quick look at some goats who I understand live not too far away from Duluth.
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That sounds like the basis for a baboon gathering. Arthritis willing, I’d make that a trip to hear goats and see bells.
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You’re in rare from today, Steve!
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The workshop is June 28-July 1.
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I love handbells and other sorta-not-too-common instruments (glockenspiel & hurdy gurdy come immediately to mind). Handbells sound amazing when they’re done well. And they are cool, BTW – one of my favorite musical artists, Bjork, arranged one of her songs using only handbells and a human beatbox for accompaniment. It is AWESOME. 🙂
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Herbs – culinary herbs. Growing and using them.
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How do you keep oregano from taking over? I’m thinking of bringing out the Roundup.
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Dig, dig, dig. Or sink some of that heavy duty black plastic border 6 inches into the ground around it. Of course, it still may fool you and climb over the top!
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Haven’t had that problem yet…whatever you do, don’t do Roundup (i’ve heard that does bad things to butterflies). Maybe you could dig some up and bring it to the Plant Swap?
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I gave up the fight to restrain it. I moved the big clump to a place where it can just take over. The rest I mow down with the mower.
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Morning-
I think I have the kids to get us interested in new things. How late is ‘later in life’? Our son played Lacrosse and we didn’t know anything about Lacrosse when he started that. Our daughter and her schooling situation has brought us into contact with people and courses we’d never seen or heard of before. And we get rather passionate about that.
There’s that banjo thing…
I think I’ve learned more about photography in the last few years than I had known before.
Since I planted apple trees last year I’ve been learning about them.
Theatrical Lighting Design has always been a passion but always learning more and hopefully becoming a better designer.
I too am impressed with your studio Sherilee!
(I learned at a conference last year to call the scene shop a ‘Scenic Studio’ because administration that doesn’t know much about the theater will hear ‘Shop’ and think ‘cars’, but ‘studio’ makes them think ‘artist’. So I answer the phone ‘Scenic Studio’)
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I don’t remember you referring to “that banjo thing” before, Ben…
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I’d love to chat about photography with you sometime Ben.
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I quit doing theater for a few years and bought a 5 string banjo. I didn’t get far with it and then it sat under the bed and collected dust for a few years. This group (tim) encouraged me to get it out and pick at it, even briefly, more often. So I keep a banjo in the bedroom.
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Steve, I’d like that too. I have some fancy equipment and I’m good at taking low light theater shots, but I don’t have a good eye for other stuff. I will take 100 shots, 5 of which might be keepers. My wife has a good eye; she takes lots of nature / outdoor shots. She’ll take 15 shots, 10 of which are keepers.
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Gotta be dancing although perhaps 38 isn’t “later in life”.
My cousin moved to Minnesota from Massachusetts, in part, because she knew someone here (moi). She lived with me and my boys for 6 months before she found her own place.
She had been Contra Dancing for years and quickly found the local dance community. One evening she was heading out and invited me to join her. I thought I would just watch but someone asked me to dance and the rest is history. There is such joy and play in that group and the motto “if you can walk, you can dance” is close to true. (some people have issues with the swinging (twirling with your partner) because of dizziness issues. Wise people lock on the eyes of their partners to prevent that).
I love matching body movement to the music, touching the next person’s hand EXACTLY on beat 1, listening to the tune come around to that part where we do the unusual, interesting move.
Since then, I have added other kinds of dance. At a camp I attend, we do all sorts of dancing, Scandinavian, Israeli, home-choreographed. We even had a workshop with a young woman. For 1/2 hour she worked to teach us do about 15 seconds of hip-hop.
I wish I had started much younger. It’s a thrill to watch the young people pick up new dance steps in moments because they have the basics in their bones.
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A couple of months ago I went to a belly dancing class just for fun. Like the hip-hop, it’s sort of learning-intensive.
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Me, too, Linda! Only I took my class 35 years ago. Should take a refresher tutorial from you 🙂
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You probably know my sister’s story, Lisa, as she has posted it here. She developed an interest in dancing “later in life” and it almost surely saved her life when cancer and modern medicine tried to take her out recently.
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I do remember her story and made a mental note the of sister-brother relationship (but soon forgot who was who). Thanks for reminding me as I learn how this Baboonery is interconnected.
CB’s story and the importance of dance was and is inspiring.
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Dancing. My wife and I went to some of the beginner social dancing classes here in town. I had a problem with switching partners; I want to learn how to dance with MY WIFE and I wasn’t that interested in dancing with SOME OTHER WOMAN.
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WordPress still not co-operating for me. It made me log in, then I tried to post and it just sat there. Killed that session and when re-posting, forgot to change the name (and forgot to check the box Notify me of follow-up comments).
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I just ran an experiment with WordPress. People here have often grumbled about our inability to post pictures. Guess what? We can now, or I could. Only the picture I posted as a test and which I meant to land in Trail Baboon went to Blevins instead. Sorry. I was just experimenting.
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I hope that was not a picture related to that interest you developed later in life…
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CORRECTION! We still cannot post photos on Trail Baboon, as Dale holds veto power over that. That restriction doesn’t apply to Blevins. Thanks, Linda, for the clarification. FWIW, I think Dale should have veto power like this.
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FWIW?
When you say Blevins, Steve, do you mean Blevins Book Club?
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FWIW = For What It’s Worth.
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Yes. Blevins = Blevins Book Club.
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VS, beautiful artwork! (I took Clyde’s tip of clicking on the pictures so I could see better). I’d say you’re definitely Arty&Smarty both.
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Same here, Sherrilee. I am not artistic – can’t even manage to draw convincing stick people. Anyone who can do what you do impresses me a great deal! 🙂
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Your story is inspiring, sherrilee, as is your artwork. One of life’s sweetest rewards is being told you can’t do something and then learning that you can do it and do it well.
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Agreed. I’m sure I wouldn’t value my artsy stuff half as much as I do if I had been surrounded by it all my life.
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Sorry for the length, but I just got carried away with your post… Sherilee, we could be twins separated at birth if I didn’t have 20 years on you! At Blevins book club you mentioned your studio and when the topic wandered off, as it is wont to do, I never asked what you did IN your studio and had been wondering ever since. The cards are delightful, the egg so beautifully intricate. And the time spent with your daughter priceless. Wonderful, beautiful, fun! (all the superlatives I can think of) Each of us needs the time and space to noodle around and find our own pleasure niche. 🙂 Jacque, your illustrated books were such a treat – I’ve already talked to my mother about doing something similar with our combined scribbling and art work. Thanks for the inspiration.
I also have a room of my own and have always followed my obsessions. Jack of all trades, master of none. 🙂 Husband and I have had a few side businesses over the years which grew out of random artsy craftsy fun: Rubber stamp designing and making; molded & hand carved fruit and other props for commercial photographers before the days of digital photography etc. etc.
Fiber arts are my thing—everything from dyeing wool and fabric, spinning, quilting, beading, embroidery, and currently knitting. I’ve made hundreds of crazy sock animals which morphed into another small side business. For 10 or 15 years, husband and I did lots of costuming—First in a living history group where we made all our garments from the skin out, shoes, millinery, parasols, etc with all the research towards historical accuracy in construction methods, fibers, and accessories. Later in theater where the focus was on visual effect on stage and ease of movement etc. we had to outfit lots of people under tight deadlines, a different set of challenges. Later, I had the great pleasure of volunteering on several Guthrie Theatre productions in the accessories shop. Both the historical and theatrical were great fun. Now when we go to the theater or movies, the first thing I see is the costuming.
I adore miniature objects of all kinds like netsuke and matryoshka dolls and 19th c. hair jewelry – have collected some and tried my hand briefly at carving, painting, and once traveled to Michigan to meet an old gentleman who gave me a lesson in the Victorian art of hair flowers.
In 2000 I quit my job at the public library due to carpel tunnel issues and leapt right into gardening at a center where we maintained 10 acres of plants. Very physical work, but the carpel tunnel totally disappeared?!? I absolutely love gardening although perfection isn’t the goal — my own garden is still a work in progress since it’s never done, always morphing into something new.
Sherilee, it’s fascinating to hear and see how each of us channels our vagabond nature/OCD/curiosity/love of beauty into our own obsessions. I feel like I’ve been discovering passions all my life. I think I said something to you at Blevins about at my age realizing that I won’t be able to do it ALL, and maybe narrowing the focus and going deeper. It’s fascinating to me that when you take the plunge into an art, all of a sudden a whole new world opens up. There are so many subcultures (like the Baboons!) under the surface of everyday life, built around people’s obsessions. Don’t you love it? I’ve never understood being “bored”. If you’re bored, you’re boring, because there’s more out there than any of us could explore in 1000 lifetimes.
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Robin – great post! Fiber arts is the one place I haven’t ventured much. I got all excited about learning to knit about a year or so ago and then realized that if I’m sitting, knitting isn’t what I want to be doing. Oh well… at least I tried. And I love the quilted look, but think that’s probably another of those admire from a distance kinds of things!
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I know what you mean, Sherrilee. We try lots of things that have an initial appeal, but after all is said and done, we all have our favorites that we gravitate back to. It’s time to dump that harvest gold/avocado/orange afghan in the closet that you’re never going to finish!
I have some friends who are very focused, who have known since the age of 12 or 15 what they wanted to “do” and have followed a linear track over a lifetime. I’ve gone off on so many tangents I’ve lost count. “One dabbles, one dabbles.” (Margo from BBC’s “Good Neighbors”)
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Aaahhh…. a “Good Neighbors” fan. I absolutely adore it! Watching always made me want to start making wine…. peapod!
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And raise goats!!!
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Some of us Baboons are really “Art Gypsies”. I go from knitting to needlepoint to sewing to polymer clay sculpture, to pastels and around again. Clarinet used to be in the list, too until my jaw could not handle it anymore. And then there is the garden which I really just consider a long term ever changing canvas…
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I like “Art Gypsies”.
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I just started blogging in the recent past. Unlike Sherrilee, I have zero artistic talent, but I am picking up on trying to develop and improve my writing skills, as I used to enjoy doing P.M.A.C. (that’s Pre-Marriage And Child). They’re rusty but they’re coming back day by day!
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I think you’re five-star hilarious 🙂 Keep writing.
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Thanks, Robin, I appreciate it! 🙂
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Very nice post about your art work, VS. I haven’t done much in this area. I have designed and made some things with macrame.
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The big one is another dancing story, which I’ve mentioned here before – at age 29, having thought for years (since public school PE) that I was clumsy and uncoordinated, I discovered folk dancing (international) when I first moved to Mpls. There was still a large group that met at the Armory on University Ave. I was absolutely intoxicated by the sounds, the rhythms, strange harmonies and melodies… and I was inexplicably good at it.
Then I remembered I’d danced a lot as a little girl – folks would put on a 78 record, and I’d dance around the living room like a whirling dervish. They could only afford one kind of lessons, and since we had the piano, that won out. But it was almost richer to rediscover the dancing on my own, made it really mine. I started going to weekend workshops, and eventually did some teaching. After about a dozen years’ hiatus, I’m back now, but have to pace myself due to a little arthritis in right hip…
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I’m glad you posted the photos, VS. I’ve just started to let myself delve into arts & crafts, and I find your studio inspiring. There is a large bookshelf in the “study” I created last year. Just this week I cleared half the shelves to make room for some crafts projects I’ve begun. (Bye bye to two more boxes of books.) It’s a huge shift in self-concept, from reader (sitting) to crafter (a more active kind of doing).
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Barbara, I’ve got a ton of mosaic stuff in my garage. Let’s make stepping stones. I’d rather do that than dump the boxes. Linda in SP?
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I’m in. When you say a ton, do you mean that literally? Will we require chiropractor visits the next day?
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Several heavy cartons of broken china, glass beads, stones… Too much that has been taking up shelf space for too long. Either use it or lose it this summer. BiR has a great back yard for messy work. My place would be fine, too. Chiropractor is optional.
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Define “later in life”….as Ben says. Being a good, stoic, Norwegian Minnesotan, passion is not really in my vocabulary. Think it was bred out of the familial lines generations ago (might have been the dairy farming on a cold Norse mountainside that did in any notions of “passion”). That said, I have been doing a lot more baking in the last couple of years than previously. I have always enjoyed it, but find that I gravitate to recipes that I can mess with (like Ben’s Friendship Bread, and some Bundt recipes that lend themselves to experimentation and substitutions). I am not a “fine” baker – you will not get fancy pastries or flaky croissants from my kitchen, nor will you get cakes that have been decorated with curlicues and frosting lovingly squished out to form rose petals. You might, however, get a dark chocolate cake with cinnamon and a bit of red pepper or a lemon cake with orange juice substituting for the water and some added ginger or cardamom thrown into almost anything that I can get away with adding cardamom to…
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I’ll take that over frosting rose petals any day.
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So when would like us to be there?
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I’ll get experimental with a Bundt for next BBC – maybe a chocolate orange something with a a little kick…hmmm…now I am contemplating…hmmm….will have to experiment on the co-workers (who will, I’m sure, be sad to have to eat experimental cakes…).
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Oooh…just got to thinking a lemon/orange roll cake with cinnamon and cardamom – whipped orange marmalade and maybe a bit of lemon curd for filling…hmmm…haven’t made a jelly roll style cake in a while – but it’s an excuse to buy a new pan.
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I guess I have carried my passions for most of my life, to varying degrees of passion at different times.
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I hope to have some more “later” in which to adopt some new passions and maybe rediscover some old ones.
“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
– James Joyce
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Perfect, Linda.
I’m an Aries, and the part of all that which does apply is: I get passionate about anything new, for about 5 minutes. So I get all invested, buy books and materials, and then frequently it fizzles. But I get to try a lot of cool stuff, and some of it sticks.
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