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Taking it Easy

It is the limitation of means that determines style, gives rise to new forms, and makes creativity possible.~ Georges Braque It looks like we, as a community, will be easing back open over the next few weeks! As best I can tell, Monday the Art Supply House will be allowed to offer curb-side pickup once […]

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This too, will pass 

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.~ Frederick Douglass The image above came from FaceBook, so I can’t vouch for the validity of the numbers. However, I feel that there is a lot of good stuff still going on, even in these potentially stressful times. So here’s a bit more good news and […]

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on the doing – or not 

You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO … Try to do some BAD work – the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell – you are not responsible for the world – you are only responsible […]

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Be a Good Steward of your Gifts

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.~ Jane Kenyon Isn’t that a great reminder? It’s easy to […]

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Sharing some Hope

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.~ Jane Kenyon Over the weekend I stumbled across Emily Dickenson’s […]

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Winding Down into the Weekend

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, […]

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Growing Lists 

We don’t choose when we live, we choose how we live. I’m a list maker. I have lists of lists. A friend sent me a photo of their todo list recently. It was gorgeous – little doodles drawn in the margins and nice handwriting. I replied with 4 of mine – various todo lists broken […]

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Happy Monday! 

They say we don’t even have to be fully sane, that it actually helps if we’re a bit peculiar. I disagree of course. When I listen to the mayhem on the news each day, I realize that artists must be among the few truly balanced people on earth.~ Richard Schmid It’s certainly hard for us […]

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The future is still coming 

And this too shall pass.~ Abraham Lincoln – which undoubtedly helped him through the depths of all the crises he faced. A podcast I recently listened to spoke about the constancy of uncertainty. A listener commented on how they aren’t able to deal with the uncertainty of the rest of this year. The hosts’ point […]

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Good morning! 

It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I just […]