I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway #Botd , in 1899

What if I drew the tiny fiddly branches which I usually avoid? What if I just embraced the details and enjoyed layering marks? How do different charcoals combine? Spent today in the studio answering my own questions…

Me too!!

“What you seek is seeking you.”

— Rumi

Cactus as symbolic gesture of survive & thrive rather than eating; too mushy for my taste

tres leches cake penultimate in comfort food, though a strawberry/heart bleeding down through the whiteness

the drink too sweet, alas. My mistake for not being specific,a moment of haste

Human character? I imagine that what we call personality may be an illusion, and in thinking of it as a stable thing we are trying to put a lid on a box with no sides.

Human beings are really walking question marks — hows and whys and perhapses.

— Lawrence Durrell

Fly, bird, fly away; teach me to disappear!

“Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”

— Anne Carson

The book isn't out until March, but it's already up on Amazon for pre-order, so I'll post the cover and link now. The person on the cover is 19-year-old me, the girl who first took a class called Modern Poetry. The photo was in my mom's purse for over 30 years.

Rare homeopathic gifts to myself
Port is not THE best but still 🍒

The future has always and will always belong to the poet.

Shockingly beautiful: bygone objects that put today’s aesthetic trends to shame theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

It is what the gods feed on, I have come to understand; it is the highest honor to be their creator-slave/messenger-servant…perhaps the gods even need us more than we need them.
I would tell my younger self with vehemence that this is the role & responsibility of the artist 🌹

Oh how I love this work!

Just noticed I am on this list!

Found myself stuck like glue in the literary bio section
The Last Bookstore LA

Yves Klein

“No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free...”

—-Wendell Berry

The miracle of a perfect epigraph ❤️

Thanks again Tina

...how strange
how we become
heavy, so heavy
that no one catches us
when we fall, from even the nearest
handhold, from even
the lowest branch...

Tanya Standish McIntyre
tanyastandishmcintyre

❤️Thanks Tina
Amazing to know that people are buying and reading my words! ❤️