We need better words for failure
We need better words for failure.
Stroke and Flow
Suzanne McDermott here. I teach a contemplative approach to the practice of drawing and watercolor with an emphasis on historic painters. My private students are mature women willing to make time to sit down. drawandwatercolor.com
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A little graphite on paper
One way to earn a living
On the last day of the world
I would want to plant a tree*
A Bicentennial Memory
My design lives on
New College: a personal experience
in three parts
The World of Yesterday
read it today
Kaizen Now!
When I was building my beautiful studio, I was out the back door of my house early every morning overseeing every aspect of the process from demolition of the old dirt floor garage to the seemingly unending interior tasks, and everything in between.
The California Sun
When we got the call, we were looking out the window in a westerly direction. We checked the road at the place where it curved away into tomorrow. We dropped whatever we were doing, packed our babies and belongings, and followed the rainbow, assured of the dream and all it foretold. We killed whatever moved, we cut down anything that sprouted. This was our land after all.
The lay of the land
Adventures in landscape painting
Reclaiming Attention
“Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people’s experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take…