I love Thanksgiving because it is all about family and being thankful.  Turkey just happens to be one of my favorite foods.  I love it for two reasons.  I love the way it tastes and I love the fact that it contains tryptophan which helps me to sleep. 

     For twenty years, we have had a Thanksgiving tradition.  Starting on Thanksgiving day, we spend four days at Mt. Hermon, a Christian camp in the Santa Cruz mountains.  There is food, fellowship, great music, great speakers and a chance for us moms to celebrate the holiday without any work.  Since my family does not like to camp, it is my only chance all year to get them out into the mountains. 

We have had many wonderful experiences there and some scary ones.  My son once broke his arm there and once we couldn’t find him for hours.  We have laughed there till we cried and were given courage by the speakers to make changes in our lives.

     The greatest thing about Thanksgiving is that our loving, eternal God constantly shows us new ways we can express our gratefulness to Him and to one another.  We give Him praise and encourage each other. We also are inspired to help those who are less fortunate.  Thank-you Lord for giving us this wonderful holiday to enjoy.       

Patsy Ledbetter, who lives in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area and can be reached at patsyled@sbcglobal.net

BubbleArt is a collaborative art form, combining drawing and digital illustration. BubbleArt was created by Gig & Wendy in 2006, as an art of enthusiasm. Gig graduated with a B.A. degree in Psychology from Boston University and Wendy graduated with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Arizona. The two met while working in the high tech sector of the Silicon Valley job market and discovered a shared interest in the intersection of art and technology.

The interplay of figurative ideas, centered around the concept of “effervescence from within”, allow them to bring together the medium of pencil and paper drawing with digital illumination to express a shared vision of what they’ve dubbed “Bubblism”. As originators of Bubblism, their focus is on creating images that elevate feeling and emotion. A style of circles and arcs is used, with images of objects of the real world, to bring forward a sense of the bubbly and enthusiastic. Brightly colored compositions bring alive a sense of rich decor to capture the essence of excitement. This playful approach is both accessible and discovery-prone.

To check out more BubbleArt, go to: http://www.gotbubbleart.com/

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http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-CA/BubbleArt/81001191111?ref=share

This work represents a digital reinterpretation of drawings, a procedural transformation of one type of art into another to represent something unique. Also, as Gig & Wendy point out, happiness and excitement are re-interpreted as visual imagery here, through the duo’s signature style of lines, circles, and brightly colored objects.

 You can see Gig & Wendy’s BubbleArt at the ArtistX-Change Gallery in the Mission District in San Francisco.