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Painting and Perfectionism
“Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a...
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Artistic Rebellion
Julia is fourteen years old and the youngest member of my Thursday morning art class. When I first started, I thought it was odd that she wasn’t in school. But then I learned that she went to an...
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Embracing Uncertainty
One of the best things I could have done for my writing was to take a painting class. Though it uses the same skills that I use as a writer, I’m less obsessed with the outcome. I’m more aware of...
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Making Bread, New Year’s Day For Tim Shaped like a brain, warm as the flesh of those soft responsive hidden oases for hands (euphemism for buttocks, belly, breasts), the supple dough, culmination...
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