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Day 140 isolation
the cardinal symphony collage and acrylic
Sam Baker
Aug 3, 20201 min read
Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus
According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling...
Sam Baker
Aug 2, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Aug 2, 20200 min read
August Newsletter
August Newsletter
Sam Baker
Aug 1, 20201 min read
Day 139 isolation
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. -Mary Oliver
Sam Baker
Jul 31, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 30, 20200 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 30, 20200 min read
Day 136 isolation
adjustments in the sky
Sam Baker
Jul 28, 20201 min read
Sam Baker
Jul 27, 20200 min read
...at certain hours of the day and night,
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 26, 20201 min read
too silver for a seam
A Bird, came down the Walk - He did not know I saw - He bit an Angle Worm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then, he drank a Dew...
Sam Baker
Jul 26, 20201 min read
How fish see things V one
acrylic on canvas
Sam Baker
Jul 26, 20201 min read
From my dear friend Eliza Gilkyson
Angels all.
Sam Baker
Jul 26, 20201 min read
Day 134 isolation
It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how...
Sam Baker
Jul 26, 20201 min read
Day 133 isolation
I can never repeat too much Emily- and as my friend Virginia says: - One needs never to make excuses for Emily Dickinson. It's all I have...
Sam Baker
Jul 25, 20201 min read
This past winter
seems so long ago. Photograph of my home prairie when I got back from Europe.
Sam Baker
Jul 24, 20201 min read
Joan Didion
What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the...
Sam Baker
Jul 24, 20201 min read
Day 133 isolation
acrylic on paper
Sam Baker
Jul 24, 20201 min read
Merton
My successes are not my own. The way to them was prepared by others. The fruit of my labors is not my own: for I am preparing the way for...
Sam Baker
Jul 23, 20201 min read
Bonhoeffer
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 23, 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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