Music & Poetry Mash Up: As She Wrote - Harryette Mullen + Everyday I Write the Book - Elvis Costello

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Harryette Mullens will be reading in the city of salt on  April 4.


Everyday I Write the Book

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All She Wrote

Forgive me, I’m no good at this. I can’t write back. I never read your letter. 
I can’t say I got your note. I haven’t had the strength to open the envelope. 
The mail stacks up by the door. Your hand’s illegible. Your postcards were 
defaced. Wash your wet hair? Any document you meant to send has yet to 
reach me. The untied parcel service never delivered. I regret to say I’m
unable to reply to your unexpressed desires. I didn’t get the book you sent. 
By the way, my computer was stolen. Now I’m unable to process words. I 
suffer from aphasia. I’ve just returned from Kenya and Korea. Didn’t you
get a card from me yet? What can I tell you? I forgot what I was going to 
say. I still can’t find a pen that works and then I broke my pencil. You know 
how scarce paper is these days. I admit I haven’t been recycling. I never 
have time to read the Times. I’m out of shopping bags to put the old news 
in. I didn’t get to the market. I meant to clip the coupons. I haven’t read 
the mail yet. I can’t get out the door to work, so I called in sick. I went to 
bed with writer’s cramp. If I couldn’t get back to writing, I thought I’d catch 
up on my reading. Then Oprah came on with a fabulous author plugging
her best selling book.

Artist of the Day: Inner Spring - Louise van Terheijden

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Even though the sky is the color of old cigarette ash, I know Spring is just beyond the horizon.

The title of this print by Tilburg, Netherlands based artist Louise van Terheijden, makes me think that spring can really be a state of being or a state of mind. Since I've always embraced my inner bitch, I think it's time to embrace my inner spring.

Writing and artistic endeavors of all kinds are my inner spring. Despite the gray sky day, it's a good time to get out from under winter's heaviness, push through the snow, and allow the bud to bloom.
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artist bio: My name is Louise van Terheijden. I'm a working and living artist from the Netherlands. 'Colorful, Transparant, Poetical'. That's how you could describe my work.
I make everything in my own studio and I only use the best quality paper and inks.
Archival inks and paper so you can enjoy my prints for over a hundred years. My paintings are inspired by the beauty of nature and my observations.

Artist of the Day: Last Winter Days Paintings - Harry Stooshinoff

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last winter days

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The snow is relentless. It is hard to believe that the buds of spring are only weeks away.

Until they poke their heads through the snow, I won't believe it.

Peterborough Ontario based artist Harry Stooshinoff's landscapes of snow make winter snow beautiful.

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artist bio: When I was a boy growing up in Saskatchewan, I used to look far into the distance and wish I had more trees around me....to protect me and make the place feel less empty. Now I have lots of trees around me, but I still like to look very far into the distance. It's a big, NOISY world... So I make small, quiet paintings... It makes a certain kind of sense.

Quote Therapy: Make it Yourself

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“There’s only one very good life, and that’s the life that you know you want, and you make it yourself.” — Diana Vreeland

Write. Wander. Make. This is the very good life I know that I want. I am making it myself.

February Inspiration 2013

jessica st. hilaire

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yelena bryksenkova

gaby elies

lola donaghue

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vicky dumas 

Artist of the Day: Nothing Lacking - Louise van Terheijden

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This quote reminds me of a line from a Mary Oliver poem, that the world stands ready to offer itself to the imagination, and like Dorothy from Oz, we have everything we need for the journey.

artist bio: My name is Louise van Terheijden. I'm a working and living artist from the Netherlands.

Artist of the Day: Prints - Marta

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I've been a collector of quotes for almost all of my life as mantras, lifelines, affirmation. This year quotes are my North Star.

Seville, Spain based artist has created a series of prints that feature wise advice as inspiration for a better, more present life.
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artist bio: My name is Marta. I´m an artist, mainly a printmaker. Måridee was created with the idea of using the traditional printing techniques,applied to ordinary objects.  Using my more artistic background, and design ideas, to bring art and beauty to everyday life. I like to work with metal, linoleum, plastic and so many other different surfaces. Were I can make a mark and reproduce it. https://www.facebook.com/Marideestudio & https://www.marideestudio.blogspot.com