Be weird.

Paint Night

What you can do in a one-night paint class when a good instructor demonstrates how to do it step by step. Cheating? Maybe. I’m okay with it. In the spirit of historically prosaic titles for great works of fine art, I call it “Red Fox and Birches”.

“If you awaken from this illusion…”

“So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality,
the deep down basic whatever there is—and you are all that.
Only you’re pretending you’re not.”
~Alan Watts

America’s National Parks on NatGeo

While I love nature shows, there are unfortunately a lot of poorly made ones (sometimes melodramatically narrated, or artificially sensational, or just downright boring).

This is not one of them. This series highlights just how wild certain spaces in these parks still are. Highly recommend for nature lovers.

Sing Sing

“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”

~Benjamin Disraeli

RIP Prince

“And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy. Punch a higher floor.”

Famous Historical Views of the Kid, On His Birthday

(Sent this to the Kid for his birthday, and liked it so much I’ve decided to post it here….)

“The Kid himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more Kidlike in the lapse of all the ages.” ~Thoreau

“What lies behind the Kid and what lies before the Kid are small matters compared to what lies within the Kid.” ~Emerson

“When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as the Kid.” ~Job

“The Kid is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. The Kid is, in essence, a set of relationships that reach outward to other things.” ~Henry Stapp

“The Kid doesn’t have to be what you want him to be. He’s free to be what he wants.” ~Muhammad Ali

“The Kid goes to 11.” ~Nigel Tufnel

Miss that plane

Describing the sublime

I highly recommend this article (“Odd Emotions“) in Psychology Today by Rebecca Webber, especially if you (1) are someone who feels a broad range of complex emotions and (2) have been raised in a world that only acknowledges (let alone condones) a handful of them.

“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”