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1. Blogging is good for you


Sent by the long-suffering Val, this new article from Scientific American reveals the truth we in the blogosphere have known all along--blogging is good for you. It boosts dopamine, helps people make connections with other like-minded people, and yes, even fosters a sense of placebo catharsis that someone else is listening to my troubles.

If you're feeling blue, then it's time to blog. Would THAT be cool? Your doctor writes out a prescription: 3 tablets, 2 walks in the sunshine and 1 blog post and call me in the morning.
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DID anyone else hear David Sedaris on Fresh Air last night? That guy cracks me up. Here's on a book tour for his new book, When You Are Engulfed in Flames and was talking about Hugh, his long-suffering but always heroic boyfriend who can do anything. And random association time. Sedaris's being on a book tour reminds me of Patricia Martin's inspiration for Ren Gen--David Sedaris reading to a sell out crowd.

All of this is probably, as my friend and colleague Kate says, "fascinating, but irrelevant..."

Happy Tuesday.

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2. Peggy's Cove




This piece I did for myself over the Holidays. I'm not sure what it's about but it suggests to me the mystery of staring off into the Atlantic on a dark snowy night and you see glints of light or a suggestion of movement. I've posted both the original sketch and the finished painting because I'm interested in the relationship between the sketch and the finished piece. What should be left out of the sketch? What should be invented in the final painting? This is an example of a heavily worked sketch, I spent a few days on the sketch. Tomorrow I'll post a painting with a more minimal sketch to show the contrast.

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