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“You cannot tell yourself you’ll write when there is more time …”

“You cannot tell yourself you’ll write when there is more time, less responsibility, or an abundance of silence.   It will never happen.  Begin your practice here and now in the frustration and heat and cold and imperfection of it all.  Do exactly what you can with what you have.”

—  Victoria Erickson



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Photo credit: Fajrul Fala, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Cover to “Alien Volume 3: Icarus,” Bjorn Barends, 2023

Marvel Entertainment.

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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover.”

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”


― James Baldwin



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Veterans Day, 2023

Thank you to all who served.

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A sentinel from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) walks the mat at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Nov. 11, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza)

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Hungarian chess set, circa 1885

Wood and leather.  Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Word of the Day — “Pluviophile”

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Source: Live & Learn

Cover for Slowdive’s self-titled album, 2017

Dead Oceans.

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Photo of memento mori epitaph in Germany, 2022

Nebel, Amrum.

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Photo credit: Mitumial, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons