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Tag: true for me

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Patron

And notes on creativity as a practice. Patron = Pat Ron (an additional pat on the head to everyone who supports the work of artists) Yesterday, while discussing…

February 16, 2025February 18, 2025 · 3 min read

Birdie, markup art on photo by EMM Matteson
Body & Health

Nurse Maid Bird | Movie Mode

I shouldn’t be happy when my 15 year old daughter is home sick, but I am. I delight in getting to take care of her because there are…

February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 · 3 min read

waitress smoking -stock image
Culture

“That doesn’t happen here”

Feminine Power in the Face of Fighting: A Waitress Story. At 22, I started working as a cocktail waitress and bartender at a jazz club in New York…

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 · 6 min read

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Article

Article = Art + Miracle I’ve been at a loss how to brand myself as a maker of digital stuffs, so I’m not going to do it.1 And…

February 10, 2025February 12, 2025 · 2 min read

Culture

Efficiency: a dangerous game

By design it benefits only a few. Oh my goodness have I loved efficiency. I drank the Koolaid early, and developed my own flavors of fast-to-faster to boot.…

February 4, 2025February 5, 2025 · 5 min read

Culture

Damn, I’m sorry

… for my part in the debacle that is the Internet, so I’m writing long form as penance. Below is this maker’s overview of the web’s history and…

February 2, 2025February 2, 2025 · 11 min read

Creativity

Terms of Endearment – Acceptance

This is a Terms of Endearment (TOE) post. These are words that keep coming up that I find myself re-defining for my own relief, amusement, and insight. Acceptance…

January 31, 2025January 30, 2025 · 2 min read

Coaching

Take back the alphabet & re-write your life

How work with the most basic building blocks in order to elevate your communication. I’ve always seen the alphabet as a beautiful grouping of shapes and fascinating set…

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 · 5 min read

Creativity

Making an oracle by machine

Get a reading of sorts at bottom of this page. Randomness is the name, and divination is the game. ~Playing The Fool1 I just added a Random Post…

January 25, 2025February 11, 2025 · 3 min read

What are your Grace Goals
Coaching

What are your Grace Goals today?

It’s Sunday morning in America1 and the texts from family & friends are coming in. “How can we get through?”“I’m freaking out inside.”“It’s like the last day before…

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 · 2 min read

with my first scarf and a flashlight
Creativity

E=mc² – a reason to make art

A genius creation that exists only inside our minds can’t hold a candle to the energy that exists in even the tiniest bit of stuff you make. I…

January 23, 2025January 24, 2025 · 4 min read

image of starry night and boat by Zoltan Tasi
Body & Health

Gravity & the living force of psychological pressure

A few months back, I lay in my bed around 3 in the morning, watching the shadows of the branches crawling across the ceiling. The craggy shapes were…

January 17, 2025January 30, 2025 · 5 min read

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