Here are two pages from my delightful typewriter interview with Kate-Bingaman Burt.
To your bliss stations!
I put this Joseph Campbell quote from Keep Going at the top of my newsletter, “The World Is Too Much With Us,” the title stolen from the Wordsworth poem:
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
The one-hour studio
How I’m making art in times like these:
At some point in the day, I go into the studio. I don’t touch my computer. I set a timer for one hour. I try to make some art. When the timer goes off, I either stop or keep going, depending on what’s on my calendar.
Read more: “The One-Hour Studio.”
New dumpsters, old fires
Last Friday I didn’t have a top image or a subject line for the newsletter, so I said, “You know what? I’ll give myself an hour to play and see what happens.” I pulled a half-finished blackout poem out of the drawer and came up with “New dumpsters, old fires.”
Walk-ins welcome
I love it when people visit me in the studio. For years, I’ve been dreaming of getting a “walk-ins welcome” sign like you see in barber shops to hang in my window. (See #44 on this list.)
After watching Dean Peterson learn sign painting via his @deanpainterson Instagram account, I thought, “Why not just hire Dean to make me one?”
Boy, did he deliver!
Read more: “Walk-ins welcome.”
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