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Day 151 isolation
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. -Aristotle
Sam Baker
Aug 18, 20201 min read
a sample of news
News from the Guardian August 11, 2020. A sample of news on this day. The English are freezing their pants to stay cool in a heat wave....
Sam Baker
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Day 150 isolation
There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -Rumi photograph
Sam Baker
Aug 17, 20201 min read
to give light...
What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor E. Frankl
Sam Baker
Aug 16, 20201 min read
the band driving...
I forget what a powerful singer Jimmy LaFave was. Oddly enough Walk away Renee came on shuffle. It is a live version. I heard it real...
Sam Baker
Aug 16, 20201 min read
Day 149 isolation
I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues. -Samuel John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982)...
Sam Baker
Aug 16, 20201 min read
Day 148 isolation
in the shade
Sam Baker
Aug 15, 20201 min read
...there is a space.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20201 min read
Baldwin
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. -James...
Sam Baker
Aug 14, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Aug 13, 20200 min read
Day 146 isolation
We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors. -Jorge Luis Borges photograph- from...
Sam Baker
Aug 11, 20201 min read
Day 145 isolation
down to dirt
Sam Baker
Aug 10, 20201 min read
Day 144 isolation
august forecast up to 100 down to 73 up to 100 down to 73 up to 102 down to 75 up to 102 down to 73 up to 102 down to 73 a tiny yellow...
Sam Baker
Aug 9, 20201 min read
Day 143 isolation
acrylic on board
Sam Baker
Aug 8, 20201 min read
Live the questions now.
I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked...
Sam Baker
Aug 6, 20201 min read
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the...
Sam Baker
Aug 5, 20201 min read
Day 142 isolation
He was the sun burning bright and brittle. She was the moon shining back his light a little. He was a shooting star. She was softer...
Sam Baker
Aug 5, 20201 min read
Day 141 isolation
Northwest wind and sunrise
Sam Baker
Aug 4, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Aug 3, 20200 min read
W. H. Auden
Epitaph on a Tyrant Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly...
Sam Baker
Aug 3, 20201 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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