Julie

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

Thank you!

You are doing amazing work. Keep up the good fight and ignore the petty people criticizing your hair choices.

I came back to this painting because something about it didn’t feel right. Everything was too uncanny before, too defined. I like it better now, her face looks more honest.

#acrylicpainting

Feeling a bit funny today. I’m thinking about the number of masks that I have donned in my life and how I feel like a shell. It comes out of a place of fear, of being rejected, unloved and ostracized. Not sure where this is going but maybe out of this negative energy something worthwhile will emerge

I have such fond memories of this summer playing in Lake Michigan with my daughter. Her and I trying to catch the little fish with her bucket and not being successful. #acrylic #painting

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I just watched it yesterday. It’s so good and the songs are so catchy

On another note I cannot get Golden out of my head…. No more hiding now I’m shining ✨✨✨ #kpopdemonhunters #couchcouchcouch

We drove home after a rainstorm and the sky was so magnificent with sun rays peaking out behind the clouds. I felt compelled to paint the moment to capture that feeling. I started the underpainting to work out the values. Looking forward to finishing this project. #grateful #underpainting

Taking time to read up against authoritarian governments… why…. Oh no reason 🙃 #ontyranny

I remember the magic of One Hundred Years of Solitude and reading it for the first time as a junior in the summer. I was transported. I think everyone should read it.

I’m shocked by the blatant racism and shamelessness of these fascists. Especially that Connor guy. To be so proud of something so vile. Ughhh. They must be trolling grifters right? That would be an easier pill to swallow than living in a world where people believe in those ideas sincerely

Keith Leonard

All our relations 🆘💙🇺🇸

Adding a little here and there. Trusting the process in the painting

#art #acrylic #wip #painting #spring

Rude!

A painting inspired by spring. It feels good to get back into making art after a long hiatus. I am slow because life gets in the way but I’m learning to appreciate the gradual progress

#acrylic #workinprogress #painting #art

Work in progress

#acrylic #art #wip

Jack Black leading the Black Parade🤯…didn’t know I needed this in my life so bad. I’m gonna channel my inner goth kid on vacation today

a gravestone that says: this provider is not in your network

I’m dating myself but I think the same about Howard Dean losing the primaries because of a scream…

This is so cute! I want my room to look like this

Um asking for a friend, how does one join a Bluey feed?

You are truly the king of kings

Still fuming after listening to the Retrievals podcast. How could that nurse get only 4 weekends of incarceration for the pain she inflicted on those poor women. Seems so unfair

How do you pronounce xeet? Seat? Sheet?

A sign reads “I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.”

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