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Running. With 0.5 Wolfpack.
Kids: “Dad, People just don’t do that. It’s weird.” Dad: “Listen, I’m not People.” Kids: Eyes roll. Whispering to each other, don’t we know that. My text message is sent to the neighbors the night...
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Lightly Child, Lightly
The sun sliced through the windshield, sealing me in light. I closed my eyes and felt the warmth on my eyelids. Sunlight traveled a long distance to reach this planet; an infinitesimal portion of that...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
The next morning I woke up at five thirty…It was still pitch dark outside. After a simple breakfast in the kitchen I changed into work clothes and went into the studio. As the eastern sky grew...
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Murakami’s brushstrokes
Autumn steadily deepened around me. The sky opened up, the air clear and crisp, the clouds like beautiful white brushstrokes. ~ Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore: A Novel (October, 2018) Photo:...
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Saturday Afternoon
I went to the kitchen to start making lunch, but no sooner had I picked up a knife than I realized I was no longer ravenously hungry. Instead, I was very sleepy. I got a blanket, stretched out on the...
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Sunday Morning
Sunday was another fine clear day. No wind to speak of, and the fall colors in the valley sparkling in the sunlight. Small white-breasted birds hopped from one branch to the next, deftly pecking the...
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Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
I still wasn’t sure exactly what form the painting would take. But I did know how I should begin. Those first steps—which brush to use, what color, the direction of the first stroke—had come to me out...
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Walking in place. Saturday Morning.
“I like things I can see as much as things I can’t (see)…that inner light was drawing me in.” It was an innocuous line by Murakami in Killing Commendatore, but for some reason I couldn’t, I can’t, let...
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It’s been a long day
Phoenix, AZ. Visiting Brother. Time: Now. I was inspired by the full Moon over the Camelback Mountains the night before. I was further inspired by a Moon quote from a Murakami book that I came across...
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Pure Solitude and Tranquility
Notes: DK Photo: Sturgeon Supermoon. The last Supermoon of 2022. 1:55 a.m. 66° F. August 13, 2022. Darien, CT Post Title: Haruki Murakami from 1Q84: “He could well imagine what the Moon had given her:...
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