The morning began with moonset, reading the Sunday Times and an hour of baseboard painting project work for Jack and daily drawing practice and wrestling with the text of chapter 3 for me. After an early lunch we headed back to the Selby Botanical Gardens - arriving in time to see the Lion Dance by the Tang Martial Arts Group (and demonstrations by students off all levels)
This was followed by some wonderful Balinese dances - some mask "character" dances by the man and traditional and moderen dances by the woman. They were wonderful! 
Bali is now on my list of places to visit! 
Bali is now on my list of places to visit! All my thoughts of post-modern theory vanished
as I enjoyed the demonstrations for the art form, without trying to decipher the underlying meanings through my Western framework. We were back on the Key in time to spend a hour reading on the beach. I debated swimming in the Gulf, but deferred to another day.
I'm reinvigorated for the coming workweek, knowing full well it will bring more of the same frustrations: my (lack of) technical drawing skill and dilemmas of juxtaposing pictures and text to convey complex ideas. I eagerly await a breakthrough on both fronts!
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