"I guess that's why I teach, or I don't teach, I unteach - I teach out of whoever I'm working with. I get them to teach themselves ... One thing I try to get people to do is to create in themselves a condition whereby their studio is with them at all times." Richard Pousette-Dart

"Bring a flashlight, Ms. Dog, and look in every corner of the brain and ask and ask and ask" -Anne Sexton, bit.ly/2BSFGxC

The approaching snowstorm brings with it wonderful meteorological prose: "Tuesday was a beautiful day with wall to wall sunshine and cold temperatures."

“They found that while the most intuitive-seeming solution — having the driver and the passenger each roll down their own windows — was better than keeping all the windows closed, an even better strategy was to open the windows that are opposite each occupant.”

#theological & #philosophical #emoji 🍎knowledge 🥄will 🙅🎯sin 🎁☝️grace 🚅🎁☝️predestination 🧩theodicy 🔐mysticism 😝confession 🧮👮‍♂️moralism 🏋️‍♀️pelagianism 👨‍👦filioque 👑🎚👻trinity 🧐clockmaker deity 🧏🏻existential deity 🥨 eternity ⏱time, a cyclical irk 🎳the dude abides

Q: "Tunnels are everywhere under the house leading to a nest?" Rat expert: "[pause] The tunnels ARE the nest." Q: "[pause] Isn't that the conclusion of all philosophy?"

Throwback. Light modulated Leonardo driven music machine. #arduino #photoCell #lightSensor

“Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.” -Anne Sexton, #Elegy in the Classroom < #poetry >

"He gets up from his chair and looks out the window. He sees the tile rooftops and the snow that is falling steadily on them. Tell the story, she says." - Raymond Carver

#culturecare

To me #culturecare involves discovering that people with whom I disagree are also just like me: they believe they hold the right convictions, think the right thoughts, they experience love & grief & happiness & sorrow. We all have favorite foods, and so on. We can build on that.

William Klein has died, at age 96. His book “Life Is Good and Good for You in New York” is one of the most exciting and idiosyncratic photography books of the past century. nyer.cm/kjYvx2m

Much needed #gospel: "This is mankind created in the image of a jealous godhead. This is fatherhood, the devil god and the golden calf — the godly man, a jealous human being. This mode of life is an all-confrontational mode of life, the highs and lows of it, what it actually is."

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