I’m still intrigued by these tiny cleaning cloths for glasses.
Why are they so small and hard to come by?
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith.
Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;therefore we must be saved by love.
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
Reinhold Niebuhr, The Irony of American History
Reference photo from this webpage. Freehand in Procreate, iPad, Sty-HD stylus.
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Technical: Used a cropped reference photo in Procreate for a side by side freehand.
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in all fairness I should divulge that I first heard this punch line uttered by Carol Jones, administrative assistant at and graduate of the International Development Education Program (IDEP) at the University of Pittsburgh in the early 1980s while I was a student in that program. Carol applied the line locally by saying, “in Pittsburgh the shortest distance between two points is under construction.” That’s funny enough, but I thought it might also be funny for Albert Einstein to say it; he’s appeared on portfoliolongo.com before.

Technical: My own iPhone photo of the binder clip on white kitchen table imported into Procreate iPad drawing app and used as a reference photo in a side by side, free hand drawing, and then exported to crop out reference photo and re-imported into Procreate for final, minor tweakographics.