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To The Substitute Art Teacher - Jordan Bolton

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“This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognized for what it is. Sorrow is very real, and loss feels very final to us. Life on earth is difficult and grave, and marvelous. Our experience is fragmentary. Its parts don’t add up. They don’t even belong in the same calculation. Sometimes it is hard to believe they are all parts of one thing.”

— Marilynne Robinson, Lila

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Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888. 

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the beach boys: 1960s concert posters

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addicted to making group projects with friends

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An Artist's Catch: Watercolors by Frank Stick (1884-1966). Edited by David Stick. Published in 1981.

Internet Archive

1.) Tobaccofish (Serranus tabacarius)

2.) Gag grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis)

3.) Yellowtail hamlet (Hypoplectrus chlorurus)

4.) Butter hamlet (Hypoplectrus unicolor)

5.) Gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus)

6.) Gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus)

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Joan Crawford snags Robert Montgomery in Untamed (1929)

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me contemplating the human condition

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Characters: Robert “Rob” Simpson Petrie and Laura Meehan Petrie

Media: The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966)

Played by: Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore

Setting: 1960s, New Rochelle

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Rob Petrie is a quick-witted but situation-prone sketch comedy writer working for The Alan Brady Show in Manhattan, juggling his home life, neighbors, and coworkers with mostly skill and a little tomfoolery.

Laura Petrie is Rob’s gorgeous, talented wife and mother to their son Richie, whom she looks after amid her sewing projects and occasional ventures into show business.

Rob and Laura met in the army at Camp Crowder, when he was working as a sergeant and she as a USO dancer, and after much havoc and misunderstanding, the two ended up marrying and creating a happy home. Despite their constant shenanigans and adventures keeping their lives in order, Rob and Laura share a unique relationship that consists equally of pulling one another out of ridiculous situations and flirting shamelessly no matter who is present. Their good-natured banter keeps their marriage strong and their dynamic entertaining, and even though they sometimes want to knock some sense into one another, they always have each other’s backs at the end of the day.

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thinking about her (old stockholm telephone tower in use 1887-1913)

"...some Stockholmers said that the [lines] were so dense they would obscure the sun," said the then 90-year-old Karl-Väinö Tahvanainen, who worked with the tower, in an interview with SvD in 2012 (x)