With snowshoeing season over and spring backpacking around the corner, this is a good time to head south for some fun in warm, clear water!

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@Lizette603_23
Sadly, most people in the performing arts seem to need to have another form of income to stabilize the lifestyle. But, you figured it out!! Yeah, "tripping through the various skills" applies to many types of work!

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@TimKStanton I think scientists and doctors have a whole tool kit, and most of it becomes educated and trained over the years. Performers in Britain are given the same kind of overall education, they can do anything within the definition. Here in this merchant based country, performers can almost be a dirty word.

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@Lizette603_23
Yeah, the big split between academics and the arts. The US is especially big on preparing for tests that are easy to grade, providing a quantitative metric of progress. The arts get crushed beginning in grade school.

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@TimKStanton As I was being educated there were still some wonderful arts programs. I started singing operas in High School, premieres from composers such as Aaron Copeland. Respected figures who believed in early education and experience in the arts. Shortly after I started college, almost all of that funding vanished. The rest was self-propelled. What an adventure! I've loved so much of my life. I'm very fortunate, and I know it. I still whine about washing machines that don't work, tho..

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@Lizette603_23
How nice! (except for the funding part). Yeah, in the end it gets down to broken washing machines (or an explosion of ants in the basement, which I just now discovered).

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@TimKStanton yikes!

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@TimKStanton I don't mind working hard, and I had a daughter to show how to do it without letting yourself be stopped. Because, honestly, life is comprised mostly of solving mysteries, so if you don't like a good mystery, you're not going to enjoy it much!

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

When distilling rum for over 200 years in an even older building, what do you make the windows out of? Rum barrels, of course! I took a rum tasting tour of this distillery in Tortola, British Virgin Islands the day before I set sail. A great way to kick off the trip! #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

Have a great weekend everyone! Enjoy this nice rainbow that I saw off the back of the boat last week! #ocean #rainbow #nature

#weekend #photography #Seascape #NaturePhotography

[elperronegro@shmg.online]

@TimKStanton Same to you Tim. Lovely image, by the way

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@TimKStanton yes! Right back at you.

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@elperronegro
Thanks, Richard. The rain there was very localized. The sun was shining on us while we watched the rain off in the distance producing the rainbow.

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@Lizette603_23
Thanks, Lizzie!

[m4lu@masto.donte.com.br]

@TimKStanton aproveitei, obrigada.

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@m4lu

[intrepidhero@vmst.io]

@TimKStanton lovely!

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@intrepidhero
Yeah, Mother Nature delivers again!

[mastosalo@nerdculture.de]

@TimKStanton

"Ok, so, just to be clear:

Exactly how blue do you want it?"

-Yes.

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

@mastosalo

[timkstanton@mstdn.social]

#SilentSunday