Sunday, July 28, 2024

"every walk with nature..."

“In every walk with Nature 
one receives far more than he seeks.”
— John Muir, 1877. 

 

Sunday, June 30, 2024

"I went out for a walk..."


“I only went out for a walk,
and finally concluded to stay out till sundown,
for going out, I found,
was really going in.”
— John Muir, 1938

 

Sunday, June 23, 2024

the poetry of the sea

"But where, after all, 
would be the poetry of the sea 
were there no wild waves?” 
— Joshua Slocum



 

Monday, March 18, 2024

bloodflowers

'bloodflowers' 8.5x11" pen and ink. “Bloodflowers” - loosely motivated by memories of a certain infamous conversation between a Ukrainian civilian and a Russian soldier during the early days of the 2022 invasion and a welcome gift of sunflower seeds…


 

Sunday, February 18, 2024

fun fair

Doodle word-prompt: “funfair”,
(with a little dark twist of my own,
creatively speaking)


 

Sunday, February 4, 2024

"content creator"


(a wry reflection on how participating in social media 
can devolve into an  obsession/compulsion to produce “content” 
in a perpetual, if fleeting, search for attention … 
and not without some irony, sharing on social media. go figure!)

 

Thursday, January 25, 2024

"Rest is not idleness..." -- John Lubbock

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

Thursday, December 21, 2023