If you’re in the Seattle area, I’d like to invite you to stop by Outlier at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco for the Seattle Downtown Art Walk. I’ll be there on Friday, August 25th from 5 to 8pm (ish) for the opening and again on Friday September 22nd. I hope to meet some of...
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Alive With Beginning I’m obsessed with the plant life in Southern California. I even unintentionally had a bedroom with a palm tree beach mural when I was in high school. It wasn’t Southern California, probably French Polynesia or another island paradise. But I’ve...
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At the end of April — early May I got an opportunity to visit a friend of mine that I’ve known since college. We met in Louisiana and both ended up finding home on the West Coast. She’s been living in the Bay Area while I’ve shuttled between Seattle and Los Angeles....
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One of the goals that often comes up in art classes, journaling workshops, or creativity courses is to “return to and create from your childhood — the time when you felt most happy and free.” That’s never been a useful exercise for me. I feel more happy and free now,...
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A Quiet Morning I usually start every morning by reading part of a nonfiction book while I have coffee. Sometimes it’s a book that I’ve already read and am in the process of revisiting for fresh insight. Maybe it’s an art book and I’m studying color palettes or...
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