Tag: inspiration
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Big Damn Heroes
I’ve been lucky enough in my life to have met some men and women I’d call heroes. All of them, to a soul, would reject that appellation. That’s part of the charm, to be honest. Self-aware heroics… aren’t. They were, they will tell you if they are willing to talk about it at all, just…
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Maple Leaf Rag
Art and music: The Maple Leaf Fractal and the music that it made me think of as soon as I started to see the shapes emerge from the math.
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A Matter of Scheduling
I am in the throes of getting ready for Finals – the first exam is tomorrow afternoon – and have about three projects due tomorrow and tonight. So this will be brief. The First Reader asked me when I came in from Math class, after I’d informed him I will be eating, drinking, and breathing…
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Morning Miscellany
My post is up at MGC this morning: I wanted to write this post for a couple of reasons. One, to counter the claim I saw recently that crowdfunding is necessary to create a debut novel, because you need money to write. Note that the claim here is not: I need money for editing, formatting,…
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Dragons and Horses
I was sketching between *ahem* classes yesterday. I wouldn’t sketch in class. That would be a bad example for the younglings. Anyway… I had been getting a daily artwork to look at through an app on my tablet, and yesterday’s was this neat work, “Frenzy of Exultations” by a Polish artist whose name I could…
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Birth of the Kittens
Sometime in 2011, I recall, my oldest daughter Gladiana read a book she really, really liked. Being a dutiful mother-librarian, I helped her find the next one in the series. She absorbed every one of the books by this author she could find. And, because she loves me, and knows I love to read and…