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By James Millikan
Categories: My Life and My art
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Climb It!

IT’S A TOUGH MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB, AND THE VIEW FROM THE TOP IS TO DIE FOR!

Looking ahead, less than a day to go, surgery about 9:00 a.m. PST tomorrow. I am calm and confident, looking forward to the event and – most of all – to my future self, whole again in body and wiser in spirit for the task successfully accomplished!

This painting grabbed me by the lapels this morning and demanded that I realize it on paper. The vision of a mountain crag first emerged for me in 2002 on a painting trip I took through Oregon (stopping first at Mt Shasta). It has been haunting me closely these past months, beginning in New Zealand, then in Baja.

Apparently this is a mountain that I need in my life and that, just now, I need to climb.

I’m buckling on my gear, and I’m ready for it. I welcome it! And I will rejoice in the view from the top!

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  1. 1 ryan douglas Jan 24th, 2010 at 9:08 pm

    climb that mountain James! i’ll be thinking about you.
    just be sure to come back down and tell us what you saw…
    all the best – ryan

  2. 2 James Millikan Jan 24th, 2010 at 9:25 pm

    thanks a million ryan! ok: i’ll tell all! – best, j

  3. 3 Linda Mc Feb 5th, 2010 at 9:52 am

    Sooo…….how is it? Did you see any goblins or angels while under the influence of the drugs for surgery? Take it easy. Breathe, sit, have a drink of water.

  4. 4 Susan Cornelis Feb 5th, 2010 at 1:30 pm

    And you made it and all is well! I need to get over to your blog more often when you’re back in action!

  5. 5 James Millikan Feb 5th, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    i made it! by all means drop by again, susan – you’ll be welcome!

  6. 6 James Millikan Feb 5th, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    hi mcbuzz — it’s good! i have only physical recovery to go through this time. i’m not psychically paralyzed, our of my mind, driven to the spin-drift edge by besetting demons, as i was before! yeah, a couple of goblins came by, in the hospital: it is so horrible and tense there in the dead of night when i couldn’t sleep and the walls are bare and the twilight zone rules amid the soft rackety sounds of gurney wheels rolling in the halls…. brrrr! but it wasn’t bad. and then i came home! yea!!!

    i love home! it’s the best!

  7. 7 UGG Boots Feb 12th, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    I found this article useful in a paper I am writing at university. Hopefully, I get an A+ now!

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  8. 8 James Millikan Feb 12th, 2010 at 8:46 pm

    i cannot begin to imagine how this post could help you with your university paper, but … anything for ugg boots! best of luck, bernice!

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