Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella

The Big Gig starts today! Weather could include rain, but I’ve never known it to stop any true Summerfest fan. Maybe I’ll be web savvy again today, and put in a link that really does work. The art pictured here was inspired by such summertime festivities and is entirely imaginary. It's called 'Resort'
I’ve been pondering FUN as something we all need, ie: sayings like ‘laughter is good medicine’ and the like.

Then I remembered this quote I had tucked away. It was a page on one of those quote-of-the-day business calenders. It was Wednesday, May 2, 1990…in a galaxy far far away (before the web gave you more quotes than you can even imagine counting).

'Business should be fun. Without fun people are left wearing emotional raincoats most of their working lives. Building fun into business is vital; it brings life into our daily being. Fun is a powerful motive for most of our activities and should be a direct part of our livelihood. We should not relegate it to something we buy after work with money we earn.' Michael Phillips, Academy Award winning film producer.

Yes!

One Week to Go!

Here's my BIG GIG pin from 1997, and now it is only one week to go until Summerfest! It is billed as Milwaukee's 11-day music festival featuring everything from alternative to zydeco on 11 different stages. It has something for everybody. There is a main stage headliner with a different big name every night. Then there's all the side stages, with many different performers all day and night. For someone like me with many different musical tastes, this is wonderful. Music is an important element of my creative life. (I will be coming back to this topic in future posts.) I love just wandering around listening to all the great sounds... Grabbing a brat and a beer and strolling along with my husband is always a great date. Maybe we'll see ya there!