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Remembering My Budgerigar and the Naming of Pets
When we lived in Australia I had a budgerigar—a.k.a. budgie, a.k.a. grass parakeet. They are native to Australia and fly in great flocks over the iron-rich red desert of the interior of the continent. I thought I loved birds until I saw these in their natural habitat and then everything clicked together for me—geology, geography, […]
Notes from Past Conversations
One of the benefits to come out of downsizing is the sorting through of things, notes, boxes, shelves, and nooks and cranies. Lots of things turn up. I have been putting the little scraps of things into my current journal if they mean something to me. Here’s a little note I made after a conversation […]
Drawing on Scraps of Paper
I love to draw on scraps of paper. As a bookbinder I have a ton of paper scraps leftover after any binding session. There are trimmings of course, but typically because of the way I want my handbound books sized, I fold and tear away bits from the main paper sheets before I start making […]
How You Can Use Visual Journaling to End Arguments
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Reflections on a Big-Hearted and Generous Life
My mother-in-law Phyllis Stone, passed away on January 16, 2018. She had just celebrated her 97th birthday on January 5. On January 10 she caught the flu. She was hospitalized a couple days later with flu, pneumonia, and additional issues. She died peacefully on January 16 with Dick and me holding her hands. She was […]
Saying Good-bye To The Bell Museum—My Last Day There and Some Musing on Painting
Or as I like to subtitle this post: On Painting Dead Birds… Left: 9 x 12 inch sheet of Stonehenge. Pen and gouache, with Montana Marker Background. Not from my last day, read below to find out more. I love setting up projects with specific parameters, and scheduled times, and sometimes even special forms I […]
My Cunning Plan To Be Ageless and My Function on Road Trips with Linda
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Friends Who Really Get You—And Why We Need To Work To Keep Them
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Buttons: I Love Them and I Wanted to Make a Friend Laugh
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