Marfa and Independence

After last night's post, I felt as if I sounded like a sad and lonely woman. Someone who would sit at their kitchen window silently whining about how their life didn't turn out the way it was supposed.

Well that's not me at all. I moved here to escape the stress of the fast paced life of city life and of being in the music industry. I CHOSE to be in this area. I'm a single woman who 1)not looking for a mate, 2)not looking for a new career and 3)don't need anyone to pay my way or to fix anything from my pickup to my heater.

I find it's amazing how so many of today's women feel a 'need' to have a man around because they don't feel that they can't do everyday chores. There are plenty of successful businesswomen that I've known that could handle millions of transactions and multi million dollar contracts but can't change a tire. Then again, being raised in the Abilene area, I wouldn't know how not to do something. My life was a typical country existence with the knowledge that you're not rich but didn't miss it at all. But more of that for another time. It definitely taught me how to be self-sufficient. Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean that I'm helpless.

Anyway...I thought that there was a need to correct this. Stop whining woman and get out there! And that is just want I do. New friends in the disguise of teachers, joined me in an adventure to Marfa.

This is actually in a town of Valentine. But it appears to be a real Prada story but like looking down the asphalt and thinking you see water. This is a mirage as well. Inside a permanent shoes, bags and whatnot. But no entry people. This, my friends, is consider 'art' not retail.

Marfa, which was about a half an hour away, is a unexpected place for art; but art it is.

Even some of the buildings have an artistic flair. How many pink art deco fire stations do you know of?

Doesn't this Chinati Foundation sculpture just scream West Texas?

Of course, Marfa is not only famous for its mysterious lights but for many and various art galleries. From very modern to children's art (photo seen below) to the obscure (how many towns has a Prada boutique that is really art?). 

 This is the mysterious Marfa lights. Personally , I must say that it does look like alien-type orbs. They move so fast!

 So much for sounding sad and helpless. I will sleep well due to what my niece calls, an adventure. Adventure indeed.  Far more exciting than sleeping all day, playing for a couple of hours and then back to a hotel room to an exhilarating night of late night television. Give me alien lights and fake Prada stores anytime.

Hágoónee'