My kingdom for consistent mental clarity. Doesn’t it feel like the further you go to improve yourself, the further the goal post seems to get?

I painted these orioles yesterday. Today I went to a gallery showing some wonderful work done by an artist who focuses on threatened species. That’s always an odd mix of inspiration and wanting to never pick up a brush again!

As per Easter Monday tradition, I painted a bluefin tuna this morning. 8x10”

Motorbike tired is a good tired.

It’s rained all weekend, so I stayed inside and painted a jerk fin whale and dick head toucan.

I’ve got some new prints you might like in my little Etsy shop, especially if your thing is black whales or orioles in pairs! etsy.com/ca/shop/Intent…

Saw Fast X last night. It makes the new Transformers movie look downright sensible.

Oh, how raising kids will break your heart.

I’ve got a couple of new prints available in my Etsy shop if blue lobsters and brownish boat are your bag! intentionalspatter.etsy.com/listing/154125… intentionalspatter.etsy.com/listing/154123…

The mind of a teenager. The air fryer beeped so I asked my son to open the lid. He walks over to an old Miracle Whip jar sitting with the dirty dishes and opens that. Yes, son, that’s exactly what I needed opened.

I’ve been on a real owl painting kick lately.

America and Ranch Dressing. You can talk about freedom, capitalism, apple pie, and anything else you want, but your national obsession with Ranch is what archeologists and even geologists of the future will find, and it’s what you will have to account for at St. Peter’s gate.

I resist Spirited’s ascension to the Christmas movie re-watch Pantheon with my dying breath.

I think it was in poor taste that Reba just shamelessly sang the intro song to her sitcom instead of the national anthem.

And just wait until halftime when it’s revealed that they mistakenly booked AN usher instead of Usher. Everybody will just be shown to different seats for 12 minutes or so. It’ll be fine.

Path of Totality sounds like it would’ve been the 3rd best song on Metallica’s Ride The Lightning.

Finally, I can go back to staring directly at the sun without consequence!

Sorry, Voyager 1. It’s a little late to be calling back now. We’ve moved on.

Now that I think about it, I’m a little surprised that Bigfoot or Grave Digger didn’t speak at the RNC…

Each year, I make one mistake when carving pumpkins for Halloween. This year, when slaughtering the rats to make the stuffing, I prepared WAY too many.