Author: Tim
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Sketchbook: Someday Your Headstone Will Lean
From a Saturday drive. Pen, watercolor. 140 lb. cold press WC paper, 9 X 12, Grumbacher.
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Sketchbook: A Day In The Life, June 26, 2020
Lamy Safari fountain pen (M nib), Prismacolor pencils Some pages are just misc. snaps from life.
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Sketchbook: House Finch
Lamy Safari fountain pen (M) Prismacolor pencils From a photo on my Nikon 600B
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The Girl Who Summons Owls
When I was a young man I read a love story in which the boy exclaims “…a girl who loves owls!”. They’d go out on the lake in the canoe and she’d be all wistful at the sound of owls and his soul would leave his body at the thought that he’d finally found Her,…
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Rockhouse Holler
We’ll take a Sunday drive, but first, about “hollers” – they’re the little valleys, here in Appalachia, where creeks run. When the wagon roads first came into these hills they followed the creekbeds through the hills and we have roads now where the wagons or horses could navigate. But they could also trace a feeder…
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Colors From Miller’s Fork
Green: The sheen persimmons leave on teeth. Red: The stripe when rhubarb’s ripe. White: When heifer pails her milk. Red: Her teats when city cousins try. Black: The snake who spooks the dogs. Red: The largest crawdad’s claws. Silver: …
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What I Saw When We Passed In The Hall At Church
To Barbara_ I see you’ll speak pre-Raphaelite to mewith words long cosseted away, such wordsI’d thought were shot along the Somme. I see your hair and think of “tress”, and howthe poses those old painters loved are full of you,and how that curl along your back is why that dress. I cannot picture what your…
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Like father, Like Father.
The devaluation of father and the death of God are the same thing. Or, at least, they comfort each other. They share an elective affinity. I’m not arguing causality here, in either direction. I don’t know that devaluing father causes the ideology of God’s death. Nor do I know that atheism leads to…
