Tristan Gooley’s The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs is ostensibly a practical guide to natural navigation: a handbook for discovering direction, weather, water, animal movement, landscape, and time without depending entirely on maps, GPS devices, or other technological aids. Yet to read the book only as a manual would be to miss its more … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Book Review – The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs by Tristan Gooley
So Much, but Maybe Not!
Distaste seems so mild for this expression. Disgust doesn’t seem to cut it either. Disdain is just one of those words I’ve never fully integrated …So Much, but Maybe Not!
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #492 – I’m All In
I’m All In Musings of the Artists Mind I was aiming at a different flower altogether when the wind blew this blossom in and out of my shot and I …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #492 – I’m All In
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 5 – Vessels
Part 5 – Vessels Explorations of forms and possibilities using slabs & hand-building. This was my apprenticeship with clay. I played with wet slabs, …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity: Part 5 – Vessels
Main Character… But You’re Nerfing Yourself (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 10 for Gen Z)
Bro, stop acting like you care when you're ghosting your own damn life.You're literally your biggest L.Everybody would hype you up if you'd actually let them,But you keep everyone locked out like it's some flex.Low-key, you're your own biggest hater,Speed-running the destruction of something actually amazing.Why trash your whole vibe when you've got so much … Continue reading Main Character… But You’re Nerfing Yourself (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 10 for Gen Z)
#StopGhostingYourOwnLife (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 10 for Gen X)
Seriously... quit pretending you give a damn about anyone,When you can't even stop screwing yourself over.Everybody knows you've got people who'd show up for you,But you've built walls so damn high nobody gets in.You're your own worst enemy—hell, you're running the demolition crew,Smashing up a house most people would kill to live in.Why trash the … Continue reading #StopGhostingYourOwnLife (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 10 for Gen X)
Mullin ‘n Chewin it Over
There I be, perplexed and annoyed. The conundrum eating away at my brain, like some parasitic cicada cry. Damned confusion! It’s giving me a darned …Mullin ‘n Chewin it Over
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #491 – I’m Still Here
I’m Still Here Musings of the Artists Mind These tissue thin fragilities look as if they went through a hail storm. The petals look like paper, …500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #491 – I’m Still Here
500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #142: Stills: 10-006
Stills: 10-006: The History: Here’s my part of the story. Tell me what you see and start the next chapter… Imagine the dig site of Pompeii and the … 500 Works of Art on the Road to Your Creativity #142: Stills: 10-006
“Make Thee Another Self”: The Enduring Relevance of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 10 in the Age of Self-Identity
Among the 154 sonnets of William Shakespeare, Sonnet 10 belongs to the celebrated Procreation Sonnets (Sonnets 1–17), in which the speaker urges a beautiful young man to marry and have children so that his beauty and virtues will endure beyond the ravages of time. Yet beneath this seemingly simple appeal lies a profound meditation on … Continue reading “Make Thee Another Self”: The Enduring Relevance of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 10 in the Age of Self-Identity