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Art as Time Travel

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on January 30, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Hello! So nice of you to stop by and see what’s up on this Mondayest of Mondays. I’m a little busy and I don’t want to bore you, so perhaps you might enjoy a bit of cultural enrichment? Maybe learn a bit about a master like Vermeer? 

I just discovered that the Rijksmuseum has an online tour of Vermeer’s work and world narrated by Stephen Fry. Sounds fun, right?

Closer to Johannes Vermeer – Rijksmuseum

I enjoy Vermeer’s paintings because 1) that light, so amazing, and 2) he captured the details of regular people doing regular things. Not always, of course, an artist still has to pay the bills, but enough to pass on the sense of real people doing real things. 

Art as time travel, is how I like to think of it.

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Photo by JJ Jordan on Unsplash

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Action Is Hope

Posted in Likes, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.

— Ray Bradbury

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A portrait of productivity. Photo by ModCatShop on Unsplash

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Add Title Here…

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , on January 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I have come to the conclusion that I typically have enough space in my brain for two things a day: work and one other project. 

Today, my brain overfloweth. 

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Quick, get out while you still can! Photo by Vishwesh Jirgale on Unsplash

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Wild and Unpredictable

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 25, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Some days you wake up with a story idea crystallized in your mind, bright and shiny and ready to go. And some days you wake up with “She’s An Easy Lover” by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins stuck on repeat. 

Guess which kind of day I’m having.

The funny part is that it’s not a song I’ve ever actively liked, I wasn’t dreaming about anything related to its subject, and it’s not the sort of fiction I tend to write. I mean, it’s not as if the song is about the lead singer of a band telling the story of how he stumbled into a dark street one night after a show and into the arms of a beautiful and deadly vampire or anything. 

Right?

So maybe there’s a story seed here after all. I still don’t know why this particular song came to me at this particular time, but that’s the wild and unpredictable nature of creativity for you.

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

― Franz Kafka

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Photo by Valentin BEAUVAIS on Unsplash

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Tasty Tasty Words

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.”

― Beatrix Potter

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Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash

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A Teeny Tiny Thimble

Posted in Other, tagged , , , , , , , on January 23, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Today I give you a funny animal photo, because it’s Monday and my current levels of inspiration could fit into a thimble.

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Photo by Nitty Ditty on Unsplash

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Seriously, Though…

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , on January 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Where has this day gone? Despite constant motion since pre-dawn, I have accomplished exactly two of the many things on my list for today. Ok, fine, three if I stretch it. It’s time to buckle down and finalize the edits on this story.

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”

― Alexander Graham Bell

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Photo by Romain Vignes on Unsplash

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Go Play

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagine anyone but you in the role. Go play.”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

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Photo by Cleyton Ewerton on Unsplash

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So Alive

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , on January 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

“Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.”

― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words

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Photo by Renzo D’souza on Unsplash

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Way to Go, Grandma

Posted in Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 14, 2023| Leave a Comment »

For today’s bit of fun, here’s a Nature‘s Futures story by Marissa Lingen: So your grandmother is a starship now- a quick guide for the bewildered.

Your grandmother is becoming a starship! She has gone through many phases in her life already — infant, child, teenager, young adult, student, worker, in many cases spouse, parent, retiree. She has had hobbies like knitting, volleyball and carbon mitigation. She has travelled in planetary atmosphere whenever her circumstances allowed. Now she is uploading her consciousness into a starship! The circle of life is beautiful.

I am now going to imagine that my grandmother is a spaceship.

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Photo by Shyam on Unsplash

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