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Day 325
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. -Mary Oliver
Sam Baker
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Day 324
it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world. -Mary Oliver
Sam Baker
Feb 11, 20211 min read
Day 323
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. -Mary...
Sam Baker
Feb 10, 20211 min read
Day 322
Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time. - W.S. Merwin wedding acrylic on canvas thirty inches by forty inches
Sam Baker
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Day 321
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -Jorge Luis Borges
Sam Baker
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Day 320
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. -Seamus Heaney morning winter 2021
Sam Baker
Feb 7, 20211 min read
Day 319
The Netherlands Over a year ago with Rad. Really it seems like a life time Thursday- As only Rad can play it
Sam Baker
Feb 6, 20211 min read
Day 318
a year ago seems like a lifetime
Sam Baker
Feb 5, 20211 min read
Day 317
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. -Seamus Heaney
Sam Baker
Feb 4, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Feb 3, 20210 min read
Day 315
the birthday of James Augustine Aloysius Joyce February 2 1882 January 13 1941 His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snowfalling...
Sam Baker
Feb 2, 20211 min read
February Newsletter
Newsletter low sun on the prairie
Sam Baker
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Day 314
last summer's purple
Sam Baker
Feb 1, 20211 min read
Day 313
How perilous is it to choose not to love the life we're shown? -Seamus Heaney
Sam Baker
Jan 31, 20211 min read
Day 312
The end of art is peace. -Seamus Heaney
Sam Baker
Jan 30, 20211 min read
Sam Baker
Jan 29, 20210 min read
Day 310
Walk on air against your better judgement. ― Seamus Heaney walk on air acrylic on canvas twelve inches by twelve inches
Sam Baker
Jan 28, 20211 min read
Day 309
Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mainly standing still, and learning to be amazed. -Mary Oliver Thanks Ralph
Sam Baker
Jan 27, 20211 min read
Day 308
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in. Forget them as soon as you...
Sam Baker
Jan 26, 20211 min read
Day 307
January 25, 1759 the birthdate of Mr. Burns My Heart's In The Highlands -Robert Burns
Sam Baker
Jan 25, 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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