Here are some drawings I included in my newsletter about the joy of reading artist interviews.
Fun, play, discovery
Today’s newsletter is full of good stuff.
The Middle Passage by James Hollis
Here are some diary doodles I drew from my notes on Jungian analyst James Hollis’s 1993 book, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-Life. (I included them in my letter about Charlie Bucket’s mid-life crisis, “Quitting The Chocolate Factory.”)
After I shared these it was pointed out to me that Ted Lasso spies the book on the table in his therapist’s apartment (S02E08):
The on-off switch
Another dispatch from Arrakis
Today’s list of 10 newsletter begins:
My primary adventure this week has been going through a stack of 45RPM singlesthat someone in my neighborhood left out in the Texas heat. Remarkably, a few survived. (Here’s a Spotify playlist.) One of my favorite surviving 45s was Pete Drake’s “Forever.” I’d never heard of him, but he played pedal steel on a ton of records. (My favorite is probably Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding.) He also played steel on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, and during a break in recording, he showed another studio musician named Peter Frampton his device that makes a guitar sound like it’s talking.
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