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notes in carpenter pencil
Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has...
Sam Baker
Jul 22, 20211 min read
right to left
Acrylic
Sam Baker
Jul 21, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 20, 20210 min read
win win
This is the summer of the rabbit. They are everywhere. Not as a plague but as part of the landscape. And plentiful. Contrary to my...
Sam Baker
Jul 20, 20213 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 16, 20210 min read
the short answer
The short answer. Anywhere. The short question. Where do you write? I am trying to get back to being a writer. taking notes. scatching...
Sam Baker
Jul 12, 20212 min read
Chagall
When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is. -Pablo Picasso
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart … Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. –Carl Jung
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
From the Sea and the Bells
Matilde, years or days sleeping, feverish, here or there, gazing off, twisting my spine, bleeding true blood, perhaps I awaken or am...
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. -Soren Kierkegaard
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
Emerson
Where there is no vision, a people perish. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
Jane Goodall
There are really only two ways, it seems to me, in which we can think about our existence here on Earth. We either agree with Macbeth...
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
art
[T]he writer’s role is not free from difficult duties. By definition he cannot put himself today in the service of those who make...
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
at certain hours
It is good, at certain hours of the day and night, to look closely at the world of objects at rest. Wheels that have crossed long, dusty...
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
Dietrich
The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask, is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming...
Sam Baker
Jul 4, 20211 min read
Stuffed Animals
photo at a camping store -afterlife
Sam Baker
Jun 27, 20211 min read
Time Stands Still
Acrylic
Sam Baker
Jun 24, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Jun 19, 20210 min read
Paradise
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges
Sam Baker
Jun 18, 20211 min read
Like yourself
Sometimes you have to play a long time to play like yourself. -Miles Davis
Sam Baker
Jun 18, 20211 min read
also there is some kind of member thing going on that I don't understand. it will get fixed. I don't want a membership thing so please don't sign up. I am not sure what it does. ughh.
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