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Think about this: your eye is an evolutionary wonder. It collects and focuses reflected light onto sensors lining the back and your brain interprets it into shades, colors, shapes, and depth. Think then, of how much that same visual information is translated and re-shaped when a digital picture is taken, edited, and translated on to your computer screen.
read moreI've been painting dragons lately. On canvas, in my mind, and with words. Dragons are amazingly, and almost inexplicably present in a huge range of cultures. Scratch beneath the surface of ideas of where they came from and you'll find that the theories are shaky at best, and nobody really knows how dragons first entered human culture.
read moreI am constantly amazed by the complex order of nature. Take trees for example. You look at most of them and they're pretty random, right? Wrong!
read moreOn Saturday we saw a man trying to commit suicide. He had one leg hooked over the bridge railing and was staring towards the lights of the Inner Harbour. It was night and he was dressed in a dark track suit with sneakers and white socks. He strode purposefully over the bridge and stopped off centre where he hooked his leg and stood staring at the water as we drove by. We turned the car around and stopped in our lane right behind him.
read moreI love the fall. I love the healthy, sweetly decaying smell of fall. I love the driving rain that rattles the leaves from the trees. I love the bold, infinitely variable swaths of colour that dress the trees before they strip themselves naked and black against the mercurial sky. [...]
read moreWell, the countdown is finally here. I am so excited that everything is finally coming together! I’m getting used to Quickbooks (seriously,...
read moreThe last several weeks have been very busy. I’ve completely renovated and organized the Rook Nook so that I can create en force without fear...
read moreThis is a flannelet quilt I made for my sister’s new baby (yet to be born). I’m really happy with how it turned out! I bought a metre...
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from the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Transient passing especially quickly into and out of existence Ephemeral striking brevity of life or...
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Over the years I've received some good advice about overcoming the creeping fear of failure before even starting. When I was attending University, I picked up Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones.
