Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. Last year I entered the Incognito Art Show and my three submitted pieces eventually sold in the last week of the fundraiser, at the maximum discount to the original price. This year one of the three pieces I submitted sold for the full asking price. … Continue reading Sold incognito
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The edge
What's your favorite time of day? Dusk, sunset. The onset of evening. The magic hour. Where light dances with cloud and horizon, scattering into soft warms and intense cools in dramatic, painterly brushstrokes across everything seen and unseen. Then Venus appears. There's a peace, a calm that settles with the afternoon / evening interlude. Birds … Continue reading The edge
Dream cities
How would you design the city of the future? Well this is timely, given my doodling of late (see below). I'd design a city, first, by rereading Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Then perhaps, Perdido Street Station, and then by looking at the art of M C Escher. Then I'd recall that for inhabitants of … Continue reading Dream cities
Recalling other people’s words
Daily writing promptDo you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?View all responses The Roman poet Virgil wrote: Every man's last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave. … Continue reading Recalling other people’s words
Or 10 writing things I know to be absolutely certain
A writing list and a link to a publication featuring a new poem.
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