About Me — Janaka Stagnaro
Following the Weirding Way
A couple of weeks ago, a reporter interviewed me for the Carmel Artist section of the Carmel Pine Cone. I have my art studio in downtown Carmel. For an hour and a half, I talked with the writer. It was interesting to see what he chose to include in his article, “Traveling Along Colorful Roads,” and what angle he wanted to present. Here is the link if you are interested (page 27A). I realized how incomplete it was, although it was written well. No one’s history can genuinely be told because no one is isolated from All That Is. There are direct influences, but many more indirect influences conspire to make us who we are. That said, I will interview myself and see what bits and pieces will bob to the surface.
Your wife just called you weird last night. Why is that? Are you?
Very weird. I think I was flirting with her in a Clint Eastwood voice. I tell her every time she is shocked by my antics that I follow the Weirding Way, a term I have borrowed from Dune.
As a Waldorf teacher, I have had the joy of teaching many classes for over 25 years. One of the words held as a badge of distinction in my classes was being weird. When a child might lament that someone called their work weird, I would reply that it is good to follow the weird way. Weird means that something is different or…
