The Joy of Art – April 29, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go

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The Joy of Art – April 28, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

This morning
the beautiful white heron
was floating along above the water
and then into the sky of this
the one world
we all belong to
where everything
sooner or later
is a part of everything else
which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.

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The Joy of Art – April 27, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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The Joy of Art – April 25, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“It is impossible to be lonely when you’re zesting an orange. Scrape the soft rind once and the whole room fills with fruit. Look around: you have more than enough. Always have. You just didn’t notice until now.”

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The Joy of Art – April 24, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“Live in each season as it passes. Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit. And resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

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The Joy of Art – April 23, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“Then death sits you down at his table and lays a page in front of you and after all these years of what you should have been doing, whispers to you, save your life.”

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The Joy of Art – April 22, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.”

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The Joy of Art – April 21, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

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The Joy of Art – April 20, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go but I think I ended up where I needed to be.”

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The Joy of Art – April 19, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“I believe in kindness and also in mischief. also in singing. especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”

don’t love this one, but alas. I keep showing up.

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The Joy of Art – April 18, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled, to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.”

terrible spacing on the lettering in this one, I know.

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The Joy of Art – April 17, 2025 at 06:31AM

Practicing my sketching.

“I know that my kindness hurts me but I will continue to chase it not because I am naive but because my actions define me.”

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