Exciting to see this post come together. I’ll be watching the livestream where I can between work tasks! Hope you can participate too.
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Blogging Thoughts
Okay, I work for WordPress.com, full disclosure, I have a lot of blogs. Some I use for testing, some for fun, some for ramblings that I never share, the list goes on for the reasons I have so many. But I’ve been starting to wonder why. Why do I have blogs for all these different…
Read MoreThe Concept of Beauty
There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. From the Essay Dogs, Cats, and Dancers, Thoughts about Beauty, by Ursula K. Le Guin In this essay, Usula not only talks about the concept of perfection, but also about society’s expectations of beauty, and how…
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Ammonite Fossil Earrings, But Why?
I don’t often wear earrings anymore. I feel like I hardly ever leave the house anymore and when I do, it just doesn’t occur to me to put some on before I head out. I remember when I first got my ears pierced, in college, after I was 18, it was a big deal. I was…
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Book Thoughts: Einstein’s Dreams
I recently reread Einsteins’ Dreams by Alan Lightman. I just can’t help but come back to it when I get to contemplating time and reality. It’s a fictional story, or set of short stories really, about what Einstein might have been dreaming about when he was working the patent office in Switzerland and developing his theory…
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Book Thoughts: How to Change Your Mind
Not too long ago I finished Michael Pollan’s How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. And it was awesome. I don’t have a better word for it. It really was great, fun to read, full of interesting info and stories. It was just…
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Artwork Just for Fun
I’ve experimented with a lot of mediums for creating art over the years. Check out my gallery below for some samples of a bunch of junk! From drawing with pen and ink, pencil, pastels and chalk, to painting with watercolors, acrylics, oils, and encaustics, to printmaking, blacksmithing (iron), ceramics, and woodworking, you’d be hard pressed…
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Documentary Review: The Bleeding Edge
I’ve been a bit of documentary kick with Netflix recently. I generally only watch things when I’m walking on the treadmill or leave something on when I’m cooking a meal. For some reason, walking on the treadmill and watching a documentary makes the time go by faster for me opposed to some fiction show. The…
Read MoreI Started using Hashtags Sarcastically, Now I Can’t Stop.
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Read MoreUpload Once, Blog Anywhere: Photos from Google
Originally posted on The WordPress.com Blog:
Google Photos is one of the most popular ways of storing and sharing photos online. WordPress.com is one of the most popular ways to blog. Wouldn’t it be great if they played well together — if you could use photos you’ve uploaded to Google on your site? We…
