To the Future 2020 oil on canvas. A self portrait by way of introduction. I painted this in spring/summer 2020 in lockdown. I was on my own and found the experience isolating but also somewhat liberating in part. This painting explores the anxiety and loneliness I felt.

Four Fifty Five Wilf Perreault 2022

Maggie Smith, Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity and Change

Sound is never permanent. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/a...

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law. Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it. No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors. That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes and villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it. - JR Moehringer, The Tender Bar, A Memoir #sundaysentence

ㅤ sometimes it is about 'deep talks' but that's for more intimate situations with close friends the rest is fairly accurate for public and more casual scenarios ㅤ

So many of the responses to last night's thread about my PBS interview have been devastating. These are the realities—full-time workers sleeping in cars and cargo vans, reduced to mapping out "safe parking lots"—that countless people are forced to live through right now.

🌟 Australia will be the first nation to ban social media accounts for any child or teen under the age of 16. 🥳 👏🏻

“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.” 📸 Mark Gerson (June, 1969)

Remembering Madeleine L'Engle on her birthday 🎂 📷 Sigrid Estrada "When I have something to say which I think is going to be too difficult for adults, I write a book for children."

It is a good day. . . . to be far from the madding crowd. Unless you like that sort of thing.

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out! archive.org/details/usda... 🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration

Remembering Joe DiMaggio on his birthday 🎂 📷 Editta Sherman, 1955 "Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base." - Jimmy Breslin

It's hard to ask Google a question that someone else hasn't already asked. I just asked google if eating too many... and the rest of the sentence autofilled my question. Question: If you eat too many carrots can it turn your skin orange? A: Yes it can, about 10 medium carrots a day for 3 weeks.

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” Albert Camus, The fall.

Baudelaire also wrote about a condition now called synesthesia, in which the senses can be blended so that a person hears color, or perhaps sees music. - John Higgs, William Blake vs The World #SundaySentence

Pretending (I believe) to cast about for words, Beckett wrote in a letter to his long-time extramarital partner Barbara Bray the most beautiful thing I’ve ever read about coping with loss, “leave the rest to the stream, to carry now away and bring you your other happy days.”

oak tree above highway

I painted a bigger-than-life panther. 💙

Sometimes I build Time Machines.…

Whenever someone mocks “science for science’s sake”, I point them to discoveries like this one — which literally emerged from looking at common dirt. Seeking knowledge is a process and an ethos. The wider our horizons, the more we can see. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Hyperphantasics tend to spend more time daydreaming than the average person...are more prone to...regret, longing & nostalgia; they experience greater anxiety and greater empathy than most. - John Higgs, William Blake vs The World #SundaySentence

The Great Oak at Fredville: Jacob Strutt 1820 Majesty, the Fredville Oak - the Kingdom of Kent, was already famous 200 years ago Both have humans for scale. My son Oliver is 6’ 6’’

Within ten feet of me, anywhere on earth, is a lifetime of work. - Well, google does not confirm this but I first heard this quote ascribed to, of all people, Ansel Adams. I like to believe he said it. #quotes-I-repeat-often

'Your turning down a story doesn't make it any worse, any more than your taking it makes it better; so the effort, to please and challenge myself, remains the same.' John Updike, in a letter to his New Yorker editor, Roger Angel More on Updike's selected letters in Comments.

Noise-maker, noise-maker You have no complaint You are what your are and you ain't what you ain't So listen up buster, and listen up good Stop wishing for bad luck and knocking on wood - John Prine, Dear Abby #song-lyrics-that-keep-coming-back-to-me

Google, Bing, Everything, has become insufferable.

The walls have ears and the sky has eyes. - Steve Earle

For those attuned to synchronicity and its possible significance, this song is exactly what I was listening to when I saw this post.

County Courthouses, 1976. William Clift.

Surely you too have noticed that there is no tuba in country music.

Ray Carver:

Wooooooooow!!

Northern Lights in Lanesboro, MN

another American friend broke a whole limb while in Paris. she needed medical care, obviously, x-rays, etc. was told—very gravely—that she’d have to pay 32 euros for the whole thing. 32 euros for all of it!!!!

Ireland is the first country in the world whose people have voted to elect three women as Presidents. #MaryRobinson #MaryMcAleese #CatherineConnolly 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

When a meme hits.

From Warren Buffet's last letter to shareholders:

Warren Buffet said goodbye today. His final thoughts in his farewell letter:

Amour, gloire et navets sautés Peter Korniss

They were giving away unused pumpkins at the library last weekend; this one was too far gone for eating so I painted it instead. 🐡 #watercolour #botanicalArt

A child in San Antonio circa 1910. I love the hat. And those eyes!

Your body is nature. . . It's wise. Your body will tell you things your mind will talk you out of. - Glennon Doyle, Untamed #sundaysentence

A 50th-anniversary look at Harry Chapin's iconic song with stars reflecting on its timeless themes of family, time, and legacy. Featuring interviews with legendary musicians

Have you noticed that when you say thank you, and you mean it, it makes you feel good?

Leonardo da Vinci, Head of the Virgin, 1508-1512. Charcoal, black and red chalk, pencil strokes and brown ink on top right, 20.3 x 15.6 cm

There are currently 7 active FeederWatch Cams accessible via the link below: Hummingbirds in Panama Northern Royal Albatross in New Zealand Hellgate Ospreys in Montana Red-Tailed Hawks in NY Ontario FeederWatch in Canada Cornell FeederWatch in NY www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/panama-...

Nature sounds lower cortisol and heart rate. Your nervous system evolved to relax near birds and water.