Always – Every One of Them

This story begins in 1982…

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Always – Every One of Them

I’ll elaborate on this over time.

Do you find your voice once and for all or over time?

I don’t want to make light of this because it may be one of our most important projects, this notion of “finding one’s voice.” I’ve given it some study and thought; I’m a huge fan of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and countless others…long story… I just wonder if it’s something that happens within a single instance (see image below), like at 3:30 am on a Tuesday or if it’s something that unfolds over time. It’s a big world, and there’s a whole lot of human variation; so, can I buy a vowel?

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Practically unrelated except for the refrigerater...a seminary-class doodle from the mid 1980s

Practically unrelated except for the refrigerator…a seminary-class doodle from the mid 1980s.

Public Structures

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Merced Amtrak Station

One of 73 California stations served by Amtrak, the Merced Amtrak Station is on the San Joaquin line.

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Today’s practice is based on an iPhone photo I took a week ago…
As usual it’s in Paper 53.

Yard Sale

I met some neighbors this morning at a yard sale. Actually, there were two yard sales, one on one side of the street and the other right across the street. One woman has been living there for 53 years…sharp as a tack and as friendly as they come. Another neighbor invited me in for a tour of the gardens, chicken coup, and house. We would have sat longer out front in the plentiful Ragsdale shade, if I hadn’t needed to get back and make lunch. How lucky we are to live along side these folks under all this shade!

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Note: I’m still using Paper by 53 or 53 Paper or Fifty Three Paper and an inexpensive stylus. In this case I took and used a photo, but I also went out for a peek in person too after I started. I often think about getting and trying out another iPad drawing app, but there’s so much more to learn about Fifty Three Paper, so many technical things to learn about drawing. Trees are tough. I’ll never take them for granted, ever!

Cedar Tree Pose Man

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Tree Pose

Stay still no matter what flutters by . . . .

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The Cedar Tree Pose Man was giving birth to me and this drawing.

When it comes to accelerating extinction…

…we’re breaking records.

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Maternity – Guayaberas

Tents?

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E 27th St. Cypress Missile Defense HQ

I love this little house on E 27th St., just down the block from us, on its own corner. Those two Cypress Trees are so strategically positioned! They remind me of missiles. Add the flag, and I think of it as the neighborhood’s civil defense headquarters.

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