We need a break from the exhausting political, social, and public health issues that are ongoing, so for the next few posts I will delve into something a bit less stressful: art, and our relationship to it. Some of this content is updated material from a previous blog. Artists often say that creating an emotional […]
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Most people feel a need to belong. Most people crave the approval of their peers. Many feel a need to climb to the top of their social group, to become leaders and receive praise and adulation. To feel superior. These are basic human traits that are not necessarily bad in themselves. They spur some people
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Apparently there are two realities. I know this because the 2020 US presidential election in particular and the Trump presidency in general have revealed that there are two groups of people who live in entirely different worlds. There may be others, but for the sake of brevity let’s just concentrate on the Big Two. One
Time is never lost, actually. You can lose track of it, but it is always there, stubbornly draining away as you frantically dash around trying to keep up with an unrelenting to-do list. The more responsibilities we assume, the less time is available for fun and creativity. That is a problem, because creativity is food
Here I am trying to be creative while the world around me does its darndest to divert my attention. The pandemic, a narcissistic US president whose tantrums are a danger to the entire planet, and work. That last one is the Yin and Yang of my existence. It propels and nurtures while simultaneously obstructing and
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I will get back to my normal routine of b*tching about life soon, but since I’m learning a thing or two about building websites with WordPress I thought I’d share. The previous incarnation of this site was extremely slow. I initially blamed my provider (which might not have been entirely wrong), but later discovered that
Back to square one. I decided to do a little housecleaning and completely nuked the original site. There really wasn’t much worth keeping, so no regrets. For now this is all there is, but I have upgraded to the “pro” version of the Astra WordPress theme and will try to make the most of it,
