“I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn't so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things. Society is no help. It tells us again and again that we can most be ourselves by acting and looking like someone else...”

― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“We are a link in a chain in making a contribution that goes well beyond our own life. And that’s part of what makes dying tolerable. That’s what makes being a mortal creature tolerable.”

 --  Atul Gawande

 Listen to Atul over at On Being : What Matters in the End and then revisit this one, How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations

Karin Mamma Andersson: Paintings as Weapons from Louisiana Channel on Vimeo.


“Being an artist,” says Mamma Andersson, ”is to go around in circles in different directions. You always go back to start like in a game of Monopoly.” It is a professional development that is akin to personal growth, a constant coming back to core issues to understand yourself.” For Mamma Andersson, this means always returning to painting and images: “It's through painting that I reach a psychological or political level.”

Karin Mamma Andersson

I am not unhappy
I have learnt to drift and sip
The smallest things are gifts

-- Julia Darling.

inks

Ink tests from the Toronto Ink Company

no seeing everything at once

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Word for World is Forest. Found via even*cleveland

Blogging, that much-maligned pastime, is gradually but surely disappearing from the Internet, and so, consequently, is a lot of online freedom and fun ... Blogs are necessarily idiosyncratic, entirely about sensibility: they can only be run by workhorses who are creative enough to amuse themselves and distinct enough to hook an audience ... who work more on the principle of personal obsession than pay.

Jia Tolentino, "The End of The Awl and the Vanishing of Freedom and Fun From the Internet." The New Yorker, 1/18/2018.

 life got on the way of posting for awhile, but i'm happy to be 'sketchbooking' again....