It took two days to color and was worth the time I put in. |
The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela is a centuries old trek across northern Spain done by following "The Camino de Santiago", the road to Santiago. Before February of 2001 I had not heard of "The Camino" nor of the Pilgrimage. By the end of October of that year I was in Santiago after completing the walk myself. I thought that when I reached Santiago my journey was over but I see now that my journey started way before I got to Spain and still has not ended.
Monday, December 28, 2015
Friday, December 25, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Crocodile Rock
Friday, December 18, 2015
Age, With His Stealing Steps, Hath Clawed Me In His Clutch.
-Hamlet (5,1,73-4), William Shakespeare
When my mother had her first heart attack I flew out to New York to see her. One afternoon while visiting her in her hospital room she stopped talking and gazed sadly out the window. When I asked her what was wrong she turned her face back toward me and said, "When I was young I used to think that seventy was so old."
She died three years later.
This article brought this memory back to me.
When my mother had her first heart attack I flew out to New York to see her. One afternoon while visiting her in her hospital room she stopped talking and gazed sadly out the window. When I asked her what was wrong she turned her face back toward me and said, "When I was young I used to think that seventy was so old."
She died three years later.
This article brought this memory back to me.
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
But Baby It's Cold Outside
Friday, December 11, 2015
You Can't Heal What You Refuse To Confront
I've decided I want to be a faith healer. Only instead of yelling, "Be healed!" while slamming my palm into someone's forehead, I would yell, "Get some f***ing sense!"
By which I mean show some compassion, empathy, and humbleness toward your fellow man. You know, the way Jesus always acted.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Donald Trump, Making America Great!
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—-Martin Niemoller, Lutheran pastor and Holocaust survivor (Sachsenhausen and Dachau).
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."
Article that goes with this photo here.
Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Splendor Of Ended Day
-Walt Whitman, Song at Sunset
Sunset ( December 7, 2015) looking East from the pocket park near my house. |
Sunset (December 7, 2015) looking West from the pocket park near my house. |
Monday, December 07, 2015
Saturday, December 05, 2015
Friday, December 04, 2015
I Want To Join The IORAM
Below is the caption the Archives wrote to explain the photo:
"Members of the Denver Mining Club pose before the Club's bus. The Denver Mining Club was established in 1891 as a local chapter of the International Order of Ragged Ass Miners."
Thursday, December 03, 2015
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
The Doors Of Perception
What Americans Get Wrong: survey reveals biggest misconceptions. (Numbers across bottom are percentages.)
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Monday, November 30, 2015
How Now Pink Cow
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
There Is No More Neutrality In The World
Monday, November 23, 2015
Portrait Of Belle
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Hanger Bar
This photo was on the Colfax Avenue facebook page and shows the mural painted on the side of the Hangar Bar at 8001 E Colfax Ave in Denver, CO. I used to walk by this bar on the way to school when my family and I lived in the Compass Motor Lodge at 8675 East Colfax Ave. I wrote this in the comments section:
I used to walk past this bar twice a day when I was at Ashley Elementary School. Some days on the way home, if I was feeling extremely brave, I would push open the front door and yell into the darkness, "Are there any airplanes in here?" And then run like hell.
Gosh, I was such a witty fifth grader.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015
Hold Me In Your Arms, Lava Lamp!
Thursday, November 12, 2015
We Wish You A Rapey Christmas
I see Bloomingdale's department store hired some frat boys to create their Christmas catalog this year.
Washington Post article here.
Washington Post article here.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Monday, November 09, 2015
Friday, November 06, 2015
Things I Truly Love- Coloring Books
I've been coloring in one of the new coloring books that have been published by the hundreds ( Just Add Color: Day of the Dead with artwork by Sarah Walsh) and the first one I did was frustrating. I like to use colored pencils but the slick paper did not take up the color the way that I am used to and I felt more like I was scrubbing the color on than actually coloring. So I did a small coloring experiment. I finished the color pencil page and then colored another page with art markers and then a third page using crayons. Results below.
So I've decided that I will not use color pencils in this book but markers and crayons. I think the problem I had with the markers was because I bought a cheap set at Target and they dried out even as I was using them. A better quality set should take care of that problem.
Color pencils. The paper just doesn't pull in the color and the slickness makes it hard to cover all that bright white paper. |
Markers. Color absorbs well but I still felt like I was scrubbing the color on. |
Crayons. Actually felt like I was coloring and covered well but I don't remember crayons being this waxy. |
So I've decided that I will not use color pencils in this book but markers and crayons. I think the problem I had with the markers was because I bought a cheap set at Target and they dried out even as I was using them. A better quality set should take care of that problem.
Thursday, November 05, 2015
I Want To Be The Race Car!
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Light Shadows 28
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
-Lewis Carroll
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
-Lewis Carroll
The frumious Bandersnatch. |
Tuesday, November 03, 2015
Monday, November 02, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Drop Dead
October 30, 1975, New York City is on the verge of bankruptcy when President Gerald Ford announces he will not give NYC any federal assistance to help it avoid defaulting on its outstanding loans. The Daily News responses to this decision by printing this infamous headline.
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Three Views Of Last Night's Republican Debate
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
No Beer, Coke
October 28, 1919, the National Prohibition Act (a.k.a. The Volstead Act) went into effect giving Federal and state governments the power to enforce the 18th amendment. The 18th amendment banned the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors in the United States.
"A Man's Drink, A Woman's Drink, Everybody's Drink, Coca-Cola"- 1919 Coke Ad |
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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