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Mapping: meeting what you need on the checkerboard of life – with art project
On the checkerboard of life, the right thing is finding its way to you, as you are to it.~ My Mom Artwork: No Title by the author 2024…
Mommess
A Rich Background
[originally published via newsletter on 7/29/2025] “I want RRRIIICCCCH Surfaces!” Richard Calabro commanded our college art class with twinkling bright eyes and a guttural drawl. Our professor had…
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Emergence ⟺ submergence
Acknowledging your submerged self, the media you choose to portray it, and The Beatles. Have your ever felt that you are emerging from something? If so, where are…
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Sundials & Compasses
Because my writing like this last post is often a long and complex weave of many ideas1 , I’m writing this short post as a palate cleanser. I…
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Becoming a writer
Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…
Coaching
The toilet in my back yard
And the knowing that comes from an ‘in house’ metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend’s brother fix our bathroom. The floor…
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Lady of a non-specific location
Our most aligned vantage point exists in our own inner space. But if you also see yourself in part through others’ eyes things can get complicated. I think…
Coaching
making one’s own language
Correspondence, energy, and how to gain self-awareness through making your language, your way. Actually, I’m working on more of symbol set, but that’s semantics for you. This SymbolWorkTM…
Mommess
Veiling & The Blues
On my walk today, I found a painted blue trail blaze on the ground. The tree it had been painted on had been stripped of much of its…
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Why I make my work freely available
plus a touch of fundraising I believe in the importance of public institutions, especially Public Libraries, Public Education, and Public Art. And I understand the value of artists…
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an artist date: sketching with the masters
From April 25, the perfect date1. I’ve noticed recently how many of my favorite thinkers, artists, musicians, and philosophers spent/spend an good amount of time consuming literature, art…