Some of the results from yesterday’s collaborative art project, adapted from an exercise developed by Juliana Coles and published in Kaleidoscope: Ideas & Projects to Spark Your Creativity. The six of us all worked simultaneously on sixty surfaces, with no individual person having ownership of any one board. The exercise uses a timed script with a […]
If you want to support someone…you need to ASK them what actions they would actually find supportive. Well, duh, you might say. Isn’t this obvious? Perhaps not. I’ve seen a lot of faux support circulating on social media recently, starting with the whole “wear a safety pin to show you’re an ally” meme on Twitter […]
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According to the folks at Foursquare, today is Fall Off the Wagon Day – the day most people bail on their New Year’s Resolutions to exercise, eat more healthfully, and so on. This is consistent with my observations – attendance at my fitness boot camp goes up in January, and drops back to normal in […]
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I love this comic, “How to Be Perfectly Unhappy,” by The Oatmeal (AKA Matthew Inman) and inspired by Augusten Burroughs. I, too, am not a happy person. I am engaged, interested, busy, passionate, curious, and funny. I find the whole world pretty damn fascinating most of the time…except when I don’t. I am critical and […]
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I have never been able to meditate in the sitting-crosslegged-on-a-cushion sort of way; I am way too fidgety and my muscles cramp up. I can, however, achieve that same quietness of mind through repetitive movement. Running, hiking, paddling can get me there. So can doodling, moving a pen or brush across paper without a specific […]
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At a conference a few years ago, a colleague of mine gave us an assignment: Prepare a list of fifty Declarations that we absolutely know to be true. As a marketing tool, each of these could then turn into a blog post, book chapter, or newsletter article. I add to my list regularly, and have […]
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Another version of my wife’s Gary Larson-esque family. I am obsessed with this photo! Semi-blind contour drawing, watercolor pencil.
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Yay! It’s Art Every Day Month! An annual challenge to create – and post – art every day for a month. I’ve participated now for three or four years and find it a wonderful practice and a wonderful community. This year I’m involving some of my “real life” community of art makers – we’re having […]
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