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August 17, 2022 – A Beginner’s View : Inflation, the Economy, Climate, Clean Energy, Health etc, How Are They Related in Our Current Everyday Lives? – An On-Going Inquiry, Part 1
I’ve no idea how long this series on climate etc will run, but I need some kind of framework to place pieces of information together that are helping me understand the rapidly changing potentially deteriorating world we live in.
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August 16, 2022 – Me, 1st Full Day Without a Beard for “Awhile”
Sheila patiently re-posed me for a re-take of my no-beard pic today….
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August 15, 2022 – Me, Last Day With a Beard for “Awhile”
A very quick post this evening – had my pre-op appt with my surgeon for a slew of breathing related fixes he and my my ENT dr / surgeon will do together..and this is me with my several-years long beard I’ve sported 😊
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August 14, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Time at the Musee d’Orsay” : circa 2012
I would hope Sheila and I get to make at least one more wonderful extended trip to Paris 🙏 ❤️ 🇫🇷
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August 13, 2022 – My 1st Back to Back SilverSneakers 45 Minute Zoom Classes : Circuit and Yoga!!
What’s particularly nice and that I really like about how SilverSneakers has their class info organized, is that one can do nearly any kind of search top of their class listings page….
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August 12, 2022 – Texas TOD ( Tourist Orientated Designation ) Sign Go-Fund-Me for #PrimalGalleryDS
Expanding on yesterday’s post, there’s a well-deserved much-needed Go Fund Me for a gallery I’m showing in – Primal Gallery! Joe the owner literally built his gallery from the ground up….
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August 11, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Riding the Tide of a Busy Day
Had wanted to write about a well-deserved much-needed Go Fund Me for a gallery I’m showing in ( Primal Gallery ), but….
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August 10, 2022 – A Beginner’s ( Layman’s ) View : Today’s #Inflation Report on #Food and #Energy
I came across several good articles, and felt The Hilll’s piece particularly well balanced and thoughtful, and, unlike as has been the case with many complex subjects, like the economy and climate and clean energy, not initially headline-presented in over-cheerily words.
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August 09, 2022 – Revisiting #FestivalBeachFoodForest with Max the 9-Year Old
And while Max helped with some watering, I asked Karen about a bright berry cluster in a small tree the morning light was glowing on —
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August 08, 2022 – Bingo! At #TheLadyBird’s 55+ Residences #AustinTexas
After a full day of live online SilverSneakers exercise classes, painting…and of course Sheila’s wonderful meals – Sheila and I, plus the 9 year old and his mom, had a good old-fashioned Bingo bash, lol! ❤️
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August 07, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week (again) @FineArtAmerica, “Walking in Light” : circa 2021
Having reappeared last week as my most viewed image on Fine Art America last week – after also being most viewed late last year ( 2021 ) – “Walking in Light” has again surfaced as my most viewed this 1st week of August 2022!
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August 06, 2022 – Discovering / Exploring #FestivalBeachFoodForest with the 9-Year Old!!
Sheila and I had heard there was to be a walk-through and intro to one of the garden areas near where we’ve recently relocated ( The LadyBird 55+ Austin Texas ) this Saturday ( today ) and we also happened to have the 9 year old overnight so… 😊
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August 05, 2022 – 2 Paintings Accepted for Juried Show at Inspired Minds Art Center, Buda Texas!!
…the bigger news is I’ve had two paintings, “Fantasy Walk” and “Walking in Light” accepted for a juried show at Inspired Minds At Center, sponsored by Creative Arts Society, opening later this month!
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August 04, 2022 – Delivered “Easy Stroll” to The Old Bakery and Emporium, Plus Poster of “Blue with Gold Twilight”
Yesterday’s post proved a good omen, as I did manage to frame & wire and have my framed original accepted for display at the Old Bakery and Emporium here in downtown Austin across from the State Capital!
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August 03, 2022 – Hoping to Deliver “Easy Stroll” to The Old Bakery and Emporium Tomorrow
Today I delivered the poster of Easy Stroll to the Old Bakery & Emporium, had a nice talk with one of the folks there about the image, and decided maybe I should try the original there too!
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August 02, 2022 – Headline Stuff I Tweeted About, #climate #inflation #CleanEnergy
I’m guessing, posting tweet-updates about our worsening climate, uncertain inflation and progress toward climate change, may be a standard intermittent feature in my blog posts for quite awhile —
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August 01, 2022 – Happy Birthday To Our Oldest Grandchild!!
I often write about our youngest grandchild, the now-9 year old, but we have four other grandchildren, and our oldest turned 28 today!
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July 31, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Walking in Light” : circa 2021
Immediately popular since completing this work in 2021, Walking in Light is still drawing attention and, at this point, still available, lol!
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July 30, 2022 – A Beginner’s (re)View – Inflation – It’s What? Really? Part 2
I think I’ve gained a personal-bodily-parallel sense of the sometimes unavoidable seesaw back and forth of money policy ( raising / lowering interest rates )…
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July 29, 2022 – A Beginner’s (re)View – Inflation – It’s What? Really? Part 1
Upfront, this is a 2-parter or more post which barely scratches the surface of the topic, especially coming from someone like me, maybe the equivalent of a pre-school newbie to finance, of which inflation, currently, is a big deal – and it is!
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July 28, 2022 – Headline Stuff I Tweeted About, #climate #inflation #CleanEnergy
It’s rare one legislative act can encompass so much of what it seems a vast majority of us folks here the US really care about, but it appears it may happen!
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July 27, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Fading Sunset #AustinTexas + The #BrokenwoodMysteries!
After watching the latest Brokenwood Mysteries installment out of New Zealand with Sheila, I didn’t have much time for more than a quick shot of the last of today’s sunset, with temps finally just below 90 after another 102 degree day.
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July 26, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Grandchildren with Grandparents, Day 2
Another very short post to go with another very long hot day, lol! Sheila and the 9 year old and myself went out early, though temps were already striking near 90, and got a short walk in feeding the squirrels and birds.
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July 25, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Grandchildren with Grandparents
It’s been a long hot but good day — It’s also very late this evening, so am simply posting we had a full day of chores and the welcome return of our youngest grandchild from an extended trip….
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July 24, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “A Yoga Teacher” : circa 2011
Though most of my gift writings / sayings were written with my wife in the early 90s, a few new ones have still come through since, with “A Yoga Teacher” being written in 2011 when I got my certification….
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July 23, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Sheila’s New Dress!!
By a little after 8 this evening the temps had dropped a bit below 100 finally, and I got Sheila to model her new dress for me on the balcony! I told her the Fitbit on her wrist worked perfect with the whole effect!
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July 22, 2022 – Watching the Summer’s Last Jan 6th Hearing, A Wrenching Reminder
Sheila and I had only seen out-takes and snippets of the previous January 6th hearings this year, but were determined to fully see the projected final session for the summer.
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July 21, 2022 – #Climate Change is Here, Part 3 – Today, Some Hope, via #TwitterTweets
This was just too adorable not to share, lol!
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July 20, 2022 – #Climate Change is Here, Part 2 – “Clear and Present Danger” via #Politico
It’s time to stop saying it’s time to prepare.
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July 19, 2022 – #Climate Change is Here, Part 1 – “Heat apocalypse”
I’ve sweltered today here in Austin, but nothing like what you see above and below.
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July 18, 2022 – Headline Stuff I Tweeted About, #climate #inflation #GlobalMinimumCorporateTax #CryptoMiners #innovation
Less than a week ago my post for the day was also a collection of my retweets on a variety of subjects. There’s a lot for most of us to think about – both whether we like or approve or agree with something, and – what if anything we can do about it.
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July 17, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “The Bird Bath” : circa 2004
I’ve long loved this small 8×10 from the early 2000s, much more abstract-y than my then mostly impressionist work, but I do think it combined the two styles in a way that was not as common for me as it’s been the last few years….
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July 16, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Downloading Last Year’s Photos, and Discovering Memories
There’s often a space, often noticed, where life is more like what you’d like it to be ❤️
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July 15, 2022 – Aging Gracefully, Finding Peace Under the Crushing Weight of Today’s Times
There’s often a space, often noticed, where life is more like what you’d like it to be ❤️
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July 14, 2022 – Sold! Center Watercolor, Pink Blue Garden circa 2020, at The Old Bakery and Emporium #AustinTexas
I was happy to discover today that one of my 3 floral 8×10 acrylics at The Old Bakery & Emporium had sold! 🙏 😊
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July 13, 2022 – Something New Today, Headline Stuff I Tweeted About, #housing #inflation #music #art
After just one longish chore this morning, Sheila and I got to spend the whole 100+ degree day inside, watching TV, exercising, eating well, and – most rarely of all – reading. She got to relax and peruse girl stuff she likes, and I finally got to read through tons of conflicting presentations ( often…
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July 13, 2022 – Parial Review : Marry Me, with Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson – 5 Happy Stars and Counting!!!
The trailer had us cracking up laughing, and the movie has us both loving and feeling tender moments for the children involved in the film —
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July 11, 2022 – Austin Texas Heat Wave Continues
I realize there are worse heat affected places in the world, with folks with less resources than Sheila and I are ( for now ) fortunate to have at this point, but if anyone is thinking of visiting or moving here, you gotta consider the heat.
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July 10, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “Flowering at Dawn” : circa 2020
One of my earliest and favorite of my 6×6 inch gallery wrap blocks of watercolor on Golden’s Absorbent Ground! Flowering at Dawn is still a mystery to me….
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July 09, 2022 – Delivered 3 Cases of Daytripper, Youngest Girl’s Newest Product-Creation, to #CannonCoffee #AustinTexas!!!
Sheila and I were more than glad to replenish Chris’ sold out supply of Daytripper to such a fun place to sit and chat 😊 Cannon Coffee’s slogan on their site is, “Quality Coffee by Authentic People” – and it showed!
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July 08, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 2 : Comparing Figure Outlines
It’s nearly ten, time for bed, but I want to follow-up on yesterday’s post showing my newest figure work in-progress, and continue the comparison to figure work since late last year and from right before our move beginning of summer ( 2022 ).
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July 07, 2022 – Working Texture and Figures into Compositions I Like, Part 1 : Using a Full Figure Outline
Today I came closest to my full exercise schedule before our move to our new apartment, and yes, it wore me out, lol! But in a good way 😊 Still, it’s past 8:30 pm, and I almost didn’t get any painting in, but thankfully, did do a bit of in-lay texture dabbling ( not shown…
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July 06, 2022 – Nice News! Accepted to the Bethany Lutheran Annual Marketplace Craft Fair in November!
Sheila and I’ve gone to this grand art and craft marketplace in south Austin since the now-9-year old was a toddler….
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July 05, 2022 – Small But Welcome 4th of July Celebrations from Our New Location at #TheLadyBird #AustinTexas
That I’m running late with today’s blog post is a bit of an understatement, it being 1/2 past 11 and nearly Wednesday! But Sheila and I stayed up late a bit, enjoying peeks of fireworks and seeing folks enjoying being able to ( mostly, but not everywhere : Chicago parade shooting ) be out –
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July 04, 2022 – Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸
Very little to say and so much to feel and think about this great country of ours.
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July 03, 2022 – My Most Viewed Image this Past Week @FineArtAmerica, “We Are the United States of America” : circa 2016 #DigitalPoster
Ironic, or simply apropos, seeing as tomorrow is the 4th of July, America’s anniversary birthday, my poster from 2016, “We Are the United States of America” was most viewed this past week on Fine Art America ❤️
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July 02, 2022 – #CrescentMoon at Sunset, Austin Texas
I hoped, in yesterday’s post, I might be able to post this sunset off our balcony – a crescent moon floating above the sea of crimson orange air – and am so glad I could 🙏
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July 01, 2022 – Our First Pigeon at Our New Place Shows Up for Food, Atop Our New Ivy Screen
Sheila and I’ve gotten to experience several 1st’s since moving into The LadyBird here in Austin, so it was specially nice when two 1st’s joined to make a memorable image through our window –
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June 30, 2022 – My Art and Prints on Special Sale At Primal Gallery 4th of July Weekend!
Primal Gallery 4th of July sale! Including both my art work and posters 😊
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June 29, 2022 – Someone Very Glad to See Us Today!
As per yesterday, still very exhausted feeling, but Sheila & I both beginning to also feel the move-fatigue to our new place is slowly being replaced by relief fatigue….
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