Wonder - probably one of the best books my kids have ever made me read
Month: November 2017
Tracy Chapman: Baby Can I Hold You
Song Lyric Sunday ... with 15 minutes to spare
Not a Cyclist: Twittering Tale #57
“It’s too high. I’ll fall off! Will you help me?” “It’s easy. Come on! Your big brother can do it. Why can’t you?” I never took to cycling. (137 characters) A tweet-sized story written for Kat's weekly Twittering Tales photo prompt. Check out the details here if you want to join in.
The Purpose
I love this! Reblogging as it’s a good reminder why art – or creativity – call it what you will, is important to us all.
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” Dr. Martin Luther King
“…then what are we fighting for?” Winton Churchill – when asked to cut funding for the arts in favour of the war effort.
“Art washes away from the soul, the dust of every day life.” Pablo Picasso
Times are bad. Really bad… Mass shootings, political unrest, natural disasters, sex abuse scandals, threat of nuclear war, poverty, illness… I could go on. How do we even get ourselves out of bed in the morning? I suppose everyone has a way to cope. After all, here we are, right? But as artists –and by artists I mean anyone involved in creative work– we may ask ourselves, what is the use? What practical purpose does my writing, painting, poetry, photography, music, dance, woodworking, quilting, sculpting, and so on, and so on, serve?
I began this piece with those quotes for…
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Faint: WordPress Daily Post
Confessions of a fainter
Song Lyric Sunday on Tuesday
Bruce Springsteen. Just because.
Hello WordPress, it’s been a while…
I've missed this funny online world of words. Time to come back.
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