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Sat on little waterfall bridge and drew this of the car bridge in Frink park. I feel like I did a good job considering that dense ubiquitous foliage is not intuitive to draw. I need to do some youtube studying here. My approach was to try and get things that were farther away even more…

Thoughts for this week: Thoughts can take a vacation: Many negative feelings/stresses I had on my mind pre-bike adventure just sat on the shelf until I returned. I was surprised to find them as fresh 5 weeks later – and that was a bit disheartening. Once again, house projects take up most of my time.…

Long while since I have posted, got back from 5 week trip – Wished I had more time to paint – just was exhausted everyday. did 1 painting ( last one in sequence) at Acadia in Maine. Middle painting was from awhile back of the bradner garden’s community center that was burned 2 years ago.…

Lots of ruminations: Sabbath thoughts: One of the sabbath’s lessons is to be able to let go in the face of negative consequence. That a thing may need to be neglected to its detriment in order to heal ourselves. The thinking is, on other days, we neglect ourselves to negative consequence, but devalue its damage…

Landscape design work: trying to make the yard feel like a great place to hang out. Been read a lot about landscape design and I didn’t appreciate how much of an art it really is. I found this fun app called gardenpuzzle that allows you to add plants over a photo. You scale the distance…

Small Creatures in a Large Universe reading “for small creatures such as we” right now -> a book by Sasha Sagan. things that stuck out to me: Is serendipity more meaningful if it is a miracle or if pure coincidence? some may call you a buzzkill if you say “well there is no god…no magic”…

Been working loads on the house this week. but got a few days of drawing in on the scroll. heres that work:

Just thinking about those Stumptown days. Trading homebrew for coffee, getting a wild restless anxiety, a test around the corner or a paper to write. The benchtop was a special place right there, looking into xavier hall and seeing the students mill about – never seeing anything newsworthy. I continued with my daily writing and…

I have written before about “The Artist’s Way” and the practice and benefit of writing daily and general task continuity as opposed to sprinting(!). The magic of just writing is that you can discover a good idea or thought somewhere along the way all mixed in with the bullshit that swims in your mind. I…

I have to manage myself. Manipulate myself as if I worked for me in a different body. Make sure I had all the little levers in the right spot so I will work overtime and feel good regardless. This guy needs arbitrary deadlines and pats on the back and gold stars I am thinking… How…