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Tale of The Green Donkey
"The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing." -Marc Chagall
Sep 7
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August 2023
Grow In New Ways
"One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute." -Helen…
Aug 4
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July 2023
Placing Paint on Paper
"Painting is an essential function of human life. Wherever human beings live, painting has existed and exists. Painting is a language, as with words…
Jul 7
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June 2023
Like A Free-Flowing River, Keep Moving Forward
“Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river.” -Lao Tzu
Jun 2
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May 2023
Impeded streams baffle and employ our minds
"The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." -Wendell Berry
May 5
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David Burn
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April 2023
Keep Culture Alive: Sing A Rare and Different Tune
"The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice. His job is to shed light, not to master." -Robert Hunter
Apr 9
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March 2023
To Turn An Important Corner, Keep Moving, Learning, and Growing
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." -George Bernard Shaw
Mar 3
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February 2023
Grab A Spoon
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Feb 3
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January 2023
Deconstructing the Digital Self, A Work in Progress
"My daughter emails me. When your daughter starts to email you instead of talk to you... It's horrible. You cannot forget human communication." -Martha…
Jan 5
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December 2022
Power to the Poetic People
"It’s easier to sell junk when you’re known than works of genius when you’re unknown." -Iris Murdoch
Dec 1, 2022
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November 2022
Making It Up, Writing It Down
"Perhaps living in a society where realism is the reigning literary form renders that society powerless against its own absurdity." -Fernando A. Flores
Nov 1, 2022
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October 2022
Improve the Shape of Your Stories
"I believe in my mask — The man I made up is me — I believe in my dance — And my destiny.” -Sam Shepard
Oct 1, 2022
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