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Tag: inspiration

  • The artwork of Jason Polan

    Today, this blog post from Austin Kleon introduced me to a charming new artist – Jason Polan. Jason died on January 27, 2020. I’d like to continue learning more about Jason, “one of the quirkiest and most prolific denizens of the New York art scene.” But from the little I know about him now, it…

  • Favorite passages from the ‘Fellowship of the Ring’

    I’m just about finished with J.R.R. Tolkien’s famed beginning of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. As I read, I like to put sticky tabs over those passages I like most, to go back to in future. Here I’d like to share a few of those passages! “Then, each in an angle of the great…