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I’ve embarked on a project this year.

A 365 day project. It will result in 365 draw­ings. They will be made on my iPhone. I’ll be post­ing at my art­log and you can see them there if you are inter­ested. I’ll try to write a bit about each of the draw­ings but some­times the posts will be wordless.

I stopped putting my art­work at this blog except on special occasions.

 

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I do have to admit that I’ve been on a music thang lately. Has some­thing to do with work­ing so much. Lis­ten­ing to lots of tunes. Being in the sound­track of your life. I’m not apol­o­giz­ing — I’m going with it. Who knows where it will lead. Hope you enjoy it with me.

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Dock

I haven’t seen the out­side world for three days. Yes­ter­day finally felt the out­side air and walked over to Old City Cof­fee sit­ting out­side in the sun for about two and a half hours. What a good med­i­cine the sun.

Still no Com­cast. After many more phone calls and tweets than should be nec­es­sary, instal­la­tion is expected to take place on tues­day. See­ing is believing.

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a few of our favorite things

The move is com­plete. The art hang­ers in the walls, the small pieces of art, the pocket change, and boxes of restau­rant matches have all been relocated.

Fight­ing off being sick the week of pack­ing –– the morn­ing of the move I suc­cumbed to a sore throat, body aches, and gen­eral exhaus­tion. Most of the move is a blur. I actu­ally slept while the con­tents of South Philly were relo­cated into their new con­tainer in Old City. Mambo movers and Mar­garet made it happen.

It’s all clear to me now. Wak­ing for the first time in the new space. We are eye deep in boxes.

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Phase one of the move. The day began with threat­en­ingly black skies. The day began with threat­en­ingly black skies.

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Not now.

Doing a bit of cover up. Love that yel­low, just not that much sur­face, in this space.

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acrobat poison dart frog

Life has been a bit com­plex recently. I’ve always dri­ven into the skid so to speak. But this time it’s dif­fer­ent the eco­nomic atmos­phere has much thin­ner air these days. It’s dif­fi­cult to breathe.

I decided to take some time to focus on noth­ing and breathe deeply. Quiet time reestab­lishes balance.

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storm 021010

A white day full of muf­fled sounds. Almost every­thing a whisper.

The snow is still falling and the sky is the same strange yel­low as last night. Per­fect sym­me­try 12 hours later. It has been a night and day of quiet obser­va­tion. An occa­sional muf­fled voice heard with the crunch of boots on newly fallen snow. It is a joy to be so quiet on the inside too.

Still­ness.

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Dr. King shortly after his bus boy­cott arrest
Alabama Police Mugshot, Feb­ru­ary 22, 1956

This speech by Mar­tin Luther King, Jr. rings true today.

from:
Mar­tin Luther King, Jr.
Beyond Viet­nam — A Time to Break Silence
Deliv­ered 4 April 1967, at a meet­ing of Clergy and Laity Con­cerned at River­side Church in New York City

It is with such activ­ity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, “Those who make peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion impos­si­ble will make vio­lent rev­o­lu­tion inevitable.” Increas­ingly, by choice or by acci­dent, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peace­ful rev­o­lu­tion impos­si­ble by refus­ing to give up the priv­i­leges and the plea­sures that come from the immense prof­its of over­seas invest­ments. I am con­vinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world rev­o­lu­tion, we as a nation must undergo a rad­i­cal rev­o­lu­tion of val­ues. We must rapidly begin…we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented soci­ety to a person-oriented soci­ety. When machines and com­put­ers, profit motives and prop­erty rights, are con­sid­ered more impor­tant than peo­ple, the giant triplets of racism, extreme mate­ri­al­ism, and mil­i­tarism are inca­pable of being conquered.

Full speech click on this line.

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Was just over at the Philadel­phia Museum of Art search­ing for their hours on Sun­day. Was try­ing to get over to the Gorky Exhi­bi­tion, spaced that Sun­day was the last day. So why when I come to the wel­come page can’t I find the hours in the footer or a box?

I click Infor­ma­tion. Not there.
I click Vis­it­ing. Quick scan, Not there.
I click sitemap. Not there.

Not until I go back to vis­it­ing do I notice that under Main Build­ing that there are hours another click away. Now when I click hours under Main Build­ing (what­ever that is) I get all the vis­i­tor infor­ma­tion for all of the build­ings. What the &%!.

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