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Some Creative Goals for the New Year: Three, Four
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Daily Diversion #186: Backyard Tree in Snow
Backyard Tree in Snow
Snow always looks better when captured in black and white.
Some Creative Goals for the New Year: One, Two
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Daily Diversion #185: Hello Dalí
Isn’t she the cutest?
Enjoying a cuppa in my new Hello Dalí mug. Thanks, Mom!
“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”-Salvador Dalí
Happy New Year, Buster Keaton Style!
Buster Keaton
Enjoying New Year’s Eve with Whistler
Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket by Whistler, circa 1875
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John Steinbeck Quote
[Book Nerd Links] 10 Literary Portraits of a Young Artist
10 Literary Portraits of a Young Artist [courtesy Flavorwire]
[Alternative Muses] Going, Going, Gone: Rossetti, Rilke, Phillpotts
“Choose love not in the shallows/but in the deep.”-Christina Rossetti (died on 12/29/1894)
Christina Rossetti, portrait by her brother
“Let everything happen to you/Beauty and terror/Just keep going/No feeling is final.”-Rainer Maria Rilke (died on 12/29/1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke by Paula Modersohn-Becker, 1906
“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”-Eden Phillpotts (died on 12/29/1960)
Eden Phillpotts by Frederic Taber Cooper, 1912
Goodbye, Theodore Dreiser!
Theodore Dreiser died on 28 December 1945. He was seventy-four.
A grumpy Theodore Dreiser looks like he wants to cut you. 1917.
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”-Theodore Dreiser
KNOWN FOR:
- Sister Carrie
- Jennie Gerhardt
- An American Tragedy
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