How can you be an artist when your muse hates you?
When the goal is to connect with an audience, it would be nice if your own creative impulses weren’t working against you, wouldn’t it?
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Ikkyū and Sōgi discuss creativity and the infinite: a koan
“Output is finite,” says Sōgi. “Input is eternal.” Sōgi sits at a small table. Before him are several papers covered in numbers, formulas, scraps of text, and … well, doodles. “What’s all this?” asks Ikkyū. “A meditation on creativity and the infinite,” Sōgi replied. Ikkyū spends a moment looking over the materials before his young friend. “You’ll pardon me for
Read moreArtSunday: Sunflower
Dacono, Colorado Three takes.
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How can a thing be both path and obstacle at once?
Read moreThere is no future: the ironic peace of learned hopelessness (#zenofdoc)
We must be prepared to laugh with the universe at the banality of our own immolation. Full moon. Snowfield, vast beneath the mountain: to understand the truth of people, study their contradictions. This morning I posted this little koan (minus graphic) to Facebook: I’m hardly the first to trot out a “there is no future” Zen meme. My grasp of
Read moreFanfare
This may or may not be a creeping trumpet flower. Help?
Read moreMadonna of Gilead
Vintage miniature…
Read moreWake me up, lay me down: goodbye, Avicii
RIP Tim Bergling.
Read moreA doll house
Childhood is a complex thing. Depictions and memories of childhood … even moreso. I’ve been working on this series for two or three weeks now. In doing so I’ve thought about the sheer wonder of childhood, of its innocence and beauty, but also its darker side, so prone to exploitation and horror. I’m following where imagination leads.
Read moreS&R Honors: Stephen Hawking
We recently lost one of the greatest minds on the planet when physicist Stephen Hawking died at age 76. Much has been written about the man’s accomplishments, and I suspect this will continue to be the case for a long time – perhaps centuries. I have nothing to add to those analyses, but, being the publisher of a site called
Read moreDrift – Saturday Video Roundup
It’s a swirly, dreamy morning. Space Team Electra – swaddled in cotton candy, drifting through space. Lush – please come back. It’s dreamtime. Happy Saturday.
Read moreDresden, 1945
Bleib ruhig und mach weiter…
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Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle
Read moreS&R Honors: Colin Kaepernick
Justice. Fairness. Sacrifice. Service. Humility. Aren’t these qualities on which we Americans pride ourselves? Few people were more in the news in 2017 than former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the man who touched off a massive cultural battle over his decision to kneel for the playing of the national anthem during the 2016 season. Oddly, he continued to
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Hey Kids, it’s Howdy Doody time. See you in your dreams.
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lullaby pit 