About caregiverbobby

As strokesurvivorannie's caregiver, I plan to use this corner to communicate tips for being a caregiver that are practical, authentic, helpful, optimistic, and share the humorous side. You get a different person back from the hospital. The elasticity of the brain will let the old and new personality develop, but you have to be patient.



Sunday, November 13, 2011

Pacific Coast

I had a goal and a mission for my road trip. The goal was the LA County Museum of Art and the pending installation of the 340 ton rock. My mission was to reenergize creativity and take a break from care-giving. I’ve stated many times how I feel about care-giving so I’ll spare you that. Instead, check out Ariel Kaminer and The Ethicist column in the New York Times today (Sunday 11/1). She says it all in the last paragraph of her response.
But back to road trips and missions, I will do this twice a year if I can make the time. Maybe it won’t be 3500 miles in eight days but there will be a goal and a mission.

Here is a shot through the fence at the construction site at the LACMA. Moving a 340 ton rock from Riverside California to LA costs $1.5 million bucks and takes a special trailer with 200 wheels. My friends, Virginia and Tom, facilitated my getting to the LACMA and seeing the site. Tom, because he saw beauty in one of my art pieces and Virginia, because she knows the “surface” world of LA streets like the back of her hand. She likes the art too. Virginia made getting about LA a snap. Traffic on the famous freeways backed up? No problem, drop to what the call “the surface” and time is recaptured. Great friends and wonderfully welcoming. The original sculpture is fixed, another is delivered to some new friends, and we are all happy. I saw the worksite – hard to capture on film – thanks to the generosity of a Security Guard who understood my artist’s plight. I’ll go back when the rock is in place.
A side note, the La Brea Tar Pits are right next to the LACMA. 30,000 skeletons have been pulled from the goop. There are active dugs going on right now. It is so impressive that one could spend a day there. And yes, they are still bubbling tar and methane as they have for eons. Another surprise. Another joy.
And let's not forget "Smoke" by Tony Smith. Something else I have wanted to see for some time. Look this one up. The story is really cute. The piece is spectacular.

Then it was on to Las Vegas…and more adventure.
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