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There are a lot of nits I could pick with the various apps that litter my phone. And that includes the camera and photo apps. But my favorite features are that they date the photos, and they list the location. If I can't recall where that favored piece of public art is, I can search …
I have some art stuff from the late sixties that I haven't thrown away. Two decent sketches of some friends I had in Ottawa. Also within the sketch book were a number of jewelry designs for the sort of things I was carving at the end of the nineteen sixties, some pen and ink studies …
Easy and Hard - Stream of Consciousness Saturday, March 21, 2026 I was just looking at another bloggers picture of a harbor with some low fog blowing in. It was easy to whisper, "Looks like it's blowin' a smoky sou'wester." But it was hard to acknowledge the man who'd taught me that over thousands of …
Throw 'em out the window!!! A blogger put out a prompt today for one hundred words on "defenestration." I thought about it, and could think of no way I could reduce the thoughts into a single hundred words. Of course my immediate mental wanderings directed me to Prague and it's numerous window tossing extravaganzas. Some …
for the Stream of Consciousness Saturday - February 21, 2026 Another blog that I follow and love is Canadian Art Junkie (https://canadianartjunkie.com). Today there was a feature on the work of Frank Gehry. In August of 1969, I was living in Ottawa, Ontario, and enjoying some early success as a woodcarver. The work I was …
for Stream of Consciousness Saturday Why do you ask the hard questions, right before my nap with Mom? What's love. jeeezzz, fresh catnip, my favorite dry food, having a play fight with my dog brother Max, my snuggle spot on the rocking chair in front of the wood stove? Wait a bit...there is always knocking …
I like to scratch an itch every year to try at least one thing that is impossible or improbable to grow in my New England climate
Pithy, trite, boring, and pensive. Favorite sayings can, by turn, be all of this, especially if they are endlessly repeated as a sort of tagline on everything a person utters. "It just goes to show..." was one that a friend endlessly noted, even when it made no sense. But they can be powerful reminders of …
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