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Observations Are Deeply Personal

August 26, 2024June 14, 2024
A shirtless man with a bald head appears to emerge from a laptop screen against a plain background.

Reading a rant? Different people see different things. Or said another way, what people see is dependent on who they are and their life experiences.

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The Danger of Outsourcing Your Inner Compass

April 12, 2024March 7, 2024
mystery stick figure handing a red ball to a blindfolded stick figure with a hole in chest

If you’re told you cannot trust yourself, so you outsource the criteria for your decision-making, whose internal compass do you have?

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The Wisdom of Paint and Intuition

September 7, 2023September 5, 2023

An attempt to paint “rest” became a lesson on listening to myself.

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Not Everything Needs to be Fixed

July 4, 2023February 16, 2022

Paintings tell a story. Do we dislike the story they’re telling? Or is it that we simply aren’t listening?

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Painting Observations

July 4, 2023January 16, 2021

Two paintings in my studio made me think. Resilience isn’t the result of a negative experience; it’s a result of working through its aftermath.

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