I found this on the Facebook wall of Brandon Shiflett (and shared it with his permission). It’s true for just about any creative right about now.
Brandon writes: “Being an artist in 2025 be like”
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“Life-Line of the Nation — American Railroads” poster, Adolph Treidler, circa 1945
Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information.
“The Rough, Violet Stone” included in the new “Bards Across The Pond” transatlantic poetry anthology
I’m pleased to announce that my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone” will appear in Bards Across The Pond, A U.S. & U.K. Poetry Anthology. The upcoming collection is another initiative of Local Gems Press, which has launched many anthologies and events on both sides of the Atlantic.
Bards Across The Pond will showcase outstanding poetry from writers in both America and the United Kingdom. The official book launch is scheduled for Friday, March 28th, at 7:30PM at The Dog-Eared Bards Book Shop in East Northport, New York. But you can preorder the book at a discounted price here at Local Gems Press.
Thanks once again to Maddie McGivney and Bards President James P. Wagner for allowing me to see my work in yet another excellent poetry collection!
“Die Eisenbahn No. 6,” Hans Baluschek, 1898
Gouache and pastel on paper, mounted on cardboard.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, all!!
If I know a few of you, you’ll need to watch those shenanigans.
Photo credit: Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of Ireland from space, 2003
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
“May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back …”
Source: Roma Downey’s Facebook page
Wax on, wax off.
Welp. My commitment to giving up candy is coming along swimmingly.
I’m willing to bet a lot of young people today wouldn’t even know what wax lips are. (They were considered vintage candy when *I* was a kid in the 1980’s.) Hell, I’m willing to bet a lot of young people wouldn’t get the “Karate Kid” (1984) reference in the headline.
To be honest, the appeal of this candy kinda hasn’t aged well? I’d swap them out for Nerds or Pop Rocks any day of the week.
“Books were the immortal part of a man …”
Source: The Heinlein Society on Facebook
“The Ossuary” from “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Matthäus Merian, 17th Century
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