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Any excuse to celebrate
I have made it a life-long quest to take advantage of ANY excuse to celebrate. It’s (almost) always worked well. A great excuse came along recently that warranted a two phase celebration. The excuse? In August 2019 I made my first posting on my blog: From Paradise With Love and Rum It was the beginning…
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A must read from a fellow artist
byChrisWhite – 2025 There is a phrase I’ve seen floating through the ether of late, carried on digital tides like driftwood refusing to float away. Always the artist, never the art. It lands softly at first, like an afterthought or maybe some half-remembered line from an old movie. But the more it repeats, the more it stings,…
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Can I get a drink at that sand bar?
I’d been looking for something to post about for a while now. Several subjects came to mind and then, as I drifted off to sleep one night I heard Mark Robinson’s voice saying “What about me?” ” Hey, squid, your take off’s too late.” That was the first time i remember Mark saying anything directly…
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Ruby & Sputters coming back around
Waaaay back in the mid 1990’s I was working with the famous childrens’ author Stephen Cosgrove on the Earth Angels book series. It was a semi-crazed time with tight deadlines and daily “Are you done yet?” calls from the author. I’ll leave it to you to see if you spot one rather large error I…
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Angelic visitation?
Waaay back in the mid 1990’s I was lucky enough to be able to work with my friend the noted childrens book author Stephen Cosgrove. Usually we got together over coffee or a meal, sat outside if at all possible and “quacked” as he called it. He was completing a new series entitled Earth Angels…
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Cheque it out…
Sometimes, not often mind you, but sometimes all my surviving neurons cooperate and the synapses lead to actual ideas. It’s great when it happens and even better when the resulting idea leads to creating something fun. I’ll give you an example. I had one such opposite-of-a- brain-fart recently when talking to my friend Stan. I…
Keep readingIn celebration of a kindred soul
Start the music and read on…. October in The PNW. Pumpkin Spice Lattes spring from every doorway. Long pants and coats are de rigueur . Brother Rain is back. Even with the somewhat extended Summer we had I still miss it terribly. I miss shorts and t-shirts and warmish evenings. But…
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Samhain again
The harvest is in. Pumpkins are everywhere. The leaves are falling, the air cools instantly. The year is dying. The Dark is coming. Cern, The Horned One, the forest god rises to stalk the woods. Ghosts pass through portals opened by The Faery and roam freely. Samhain again. I am convinced the purpose of holidays (other…
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Holding On
Apart from sharing the title of the picture with this post, it sometimes describes a lot of fellow PNW denizens. The holding pattern starts with the return of Brother Rain and the area begins to wear its constant gray mantle. Around the first frost you once again hear people talking about whether or not a…
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The Muse doesn’t come without being called.
I’ve been having a blast creating posts for my fantasy-food blog From Paradise With Love and Rum. Please check it out and spread it around (pretty please) I need more subscribers. The blog centers on the sailing journals of a fictional R.B. (Rum Brother) McCarthy as he travels cooking and loving his way…
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Another Art Show
Start the music to set the mood… Summer of 1970 on the beach in L.A. was…different. I was still recovering from a nearly fatal car accident from 1969 and this was my first Summer back from the dead. I had spent from June of 1969 until late August of 1970 in hospital and bed time…
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Herbie Meets Joe Cool
If you’re as lucky as I am you can look back at times when you thought you were soooo cool and laugh your butt off.
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A case of Albrecht Dürer tries impressionism?
“We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity.”
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A Northern Trip
First…start the music 1968 was more than an odd time to be in either world. My immediate world was surfing, girls, and graduating from a nice (and only slightly repressive) Catholic high school. What awaited me was the near certainty of being drafted for Viet Nam with a very much more shortened lifespan than I…
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Desktop Wallpaper – Screen Image Giveaway!
Just like on the From Paradise With Love And Rum site I’m giving away images I’ve created as wallpaper for your laptop, tablet, or desktop computers. They are all hi-rez 1920 x 1080 pixels (up to full 27 inch screen size) .PNG format. The first 50 people who join our email list, follow this blog,…
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Artists Block
OK OK OK…So I let the work slip a tiny bit over the holidays. With that obvious gross understatement hanging there, I resolve that it’s a new year and time to knuckle back down and get that Making-a-Living thing going again. Go figure, the deadlines that were there before haven’t vanished and the only…
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” It’s Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air” W.T. Ellis
I’m pretty sure it was the same for most of us, but growing up in Manhattan Beach every time the “mailman” came to our house he seemed to bring yet another bunch of catalogs and piles of Christmas cards. Mom would hang all the cards from ribbons or decorate the fireplace with them. We’d sit…
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Trees’ Company
A single tree is simply a tree, right? But a bunch of trees together can be another world to explore. Once in a world where the trees gather to share the company of other trees you can zero in on a particular individual and see what stories it can tell. Trees last. They endure. Cypress…
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My Wave
The completely insane heat is on a break (probably weather union rules) and the thermometer is struggling to climb past the low 80’s. A sweet little breeze is playing with the curtains in the studio. It. carries the scent of salt water and promises of a beautiful Pacific Northwest Summer. These are the times, the…
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