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OH CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

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Skull and Cloth. Oils on primed print making paper.Mini painting. 6x8 inches

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whale fall 🦴

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Lies I have told children ages 7-9

I am five billion years old

My name is Snuffalufagus Bartholomew Von Maximus the Third

I'm in Kindergarten because after college they make you start again all the way back in the beginning.

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The Wicked

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Tree Hugger (The Green Reaper?)

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lets glow serenely with mama

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finished this one recently (didn't realize I started this last february haha)

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One thing that has made me a much more well-adjusted person is a clip I once saw of Hank Green saying that anyone can be in amazing shape as long as being in amazing shape is one of their top three priorities.

(This is obviously a generalization that isn't true for everyone. But it is true for most people and I'm proceeding from there.)

This "top three priorities" framing has genuinely reduced my tendency toward jealousy and self-comparison a lot. Now when I feel envious of someone’s spotless, aesthetic home, I think to myself, “Having a spotless, aesthetic home is probably one of their top three priorities. It’s definitely not one of mine, so I shouldn’t expect my home to look like that.”

Or when I see an influencer with a body that takes a ton of work to maintain: “Maintaining that body is obviously one of her top three priorities, because it’s her livelihood. My livelihood is my brain, so I’m never going to prioritize my body like that.”

It also helps me to identify areas that I actually DO want to prioritize more. I realized in recent years that my envy for my friends who prioritized writing more than I did was NOT going away, so I started to prioritize writing more. (Not top three, but higher priority than it has been in the past.)

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its really telling where you learned about lapis lazuli. put yours in the tags

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Still life with a gramophone   -    Kubarev Philipp Vyacheslavovich

Russian, b.1969-

Oil on canvas. 76 х 81 cm.

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I've been juggling a bit too much recently, but found some time to draw for myself. Finally getting back on track. 😅 Also, in case you missed it before - I'm going to begin the Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan next month(!?). It's been a lifelong dream, but I'm going to be walking for over two months visiting 88 temples over 750miles. It's kind of crazy that it's actually happening! Doing the final prep/planning has been wild. More on that soon, though!

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director’s cut of Let’s Play!

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let’s play 🏒

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I feel like maisy mouse should get more love on here I think she'd be besties with snoopy, miffy, etc.

look at her she's so cute

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MONTREAL, CANADA - FEBRUARY 15: Mitch Marner #16 of Team Canada challenges Auston Matthews #34 of Team USA during the second period in the 2025 NHL 4 Nations Face-Off at the Bell Centre on February 15, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Team USA defeated Team Canada 3-1. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)