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03 July 2023

digital painting: "Ballek's Garden Center

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I was trained as a typesetter when everything was set from hot metal. It influenced my perspectives on design and composition, even how I look at the world. With the training came a belief that printers, had an obligation to gather and report back information to the general population.

We were expected to foster critical thinking and expanding our collective knowledge base while encouraging human growth and consciousness.

Nowadays the equipment is a lot easier to handle, but the subject matter still as weighty ...and printers [as well as other] dispensers of information and ideas ~ still have every much as a responsibility as ever. It's disappointing that so few entrusted with this charge even try to live up to it.

So it leaves the rest of us to continue these endeavors.

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I've made every effort to credit, cite and include links to images and words composed by others. The citation is always at the end of each entry on the blog.

On some rare occasions, there will be images I came across but do not know the source [sources?] of an images. The Guide to Animal Tracks, one such example. If a non-attributed image is yours, please let me know and I will provide a credit and a link.

The remaining images and illustrations are my own. My works are "Rights Reserved" which means ask about their use, if so desired. Please do not appropriate my images for your site, a book you may be writing, or for some ill-gotten gain. Ask about the work. Perhaps I'll let you use it. Until you ask, DON'T TOUCH!

Thank you.

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What I write about
• essays/social comment
Government Exists by Consent | Economic Treason | Making Social Change | Health care contrasts
• everyday life
What I write about | Flat Tire | Towing | New Frigidaire
• collage
Heat Grate Covers | Montreal Street-scape | Tag Sale | nineteen | Industry |
• painting
Steve Hurley ~ acrylic | Cabin Sanctuary ~ watercolor | Pilgrims ~ acrylic |
• pen+ink / pencil
Fred + George's Garage | Mike Sullivan - Champion Logger | Hot Dog Man | Writer's Block |
• photography
Angles | Beach Colors | Bus trip | God's Eye | Ralph's China Cabinet | Paris Metro | Eatery | Truth in Advertising | Winter ~ Route 9 | Time Machine | Mystic Seaport Aquarium | Water Spirit | Tribute to Hockney |
• lettering / calligraphy / typography
Sense of Dignity | Culture of Violence |
• poems/short stories
poetry | At a psychic crossroads | In the acupuncture workshop | I hate the sound of helicopters | wandering once more | What is his AXIS I? | Eastern | Therapies I have known | Spam poetry 1 | friendships |
story | Game causes workplace murder
parody | Serial Killer put on life support
• place
Meriden, CT | Montreal, PQ | New York City | North Adams, MA | Paris, FR |

other things that pique my interest

• art + artists
Comment: What is Public Art? |
Individual artists: Chris Jordan | Frieda Kahlo | Janette MacKinlay | Walter McClintock | John Singer Sargent | Art Young |
Animations: BluBlu |
• living with cancer
Day one - Chemo/radiation | Pray for BillP | Chemo | Going Haiku | Road Less Traveled | Communications at the hospital | Watchful waiting | Transfusions | Update |
• dark side
Addictions | Big Pharma and Fraud | Hiroshima | Propaganda | Pearl Harbor | Islamophobia |
• conspiracies
How to spot an infiltrator | Propaganda - Screeds |
• distractions
Anteater Painting Lessons | Dr. Laura's Stones | Octopadi | Sorority girls from hell | Wrinkled ladies |
• environment
Aurora Borealis | Gulf Emergency Summit | Hydrofracking | Oil spills and Oysters | Oil at the Beach | Shipbreaking in Bagaladesh | How bug spray works |
• fitful wanderings
(websites mentioned and commented upon)
8 december | 6 september | 9 august | 18 july | 8 july | 30 june | 29 june | 27 june | 24 june | 18 june | 16 june | 14 june | 12 june
• geek stuff
Free software foundation |
• government + corporations
Bernie Sander's 12/06/10 speech |
• homestead
Building a Post + Beam | Woodsplitter |
• human rights
Gay marriage | Slave Labor in Bangaledesh | Rights of the Disabled | Indict Bush and Cheney |
• into the woods + wilderness
Clamming | Hunting + Hunter Safety |
• music
Tina Turner | Robert Palmer | Opera at the Reading Market | Claymation does Verdi's Traviata |
• other voices
Edward Abbey | Samuel Clemens | J Donnatella | Martin Luther King | Terrance McKenna | Herman Melville | BillP | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
• unexplained phenomena
crop circles |
• unsolicited plugs + pans
plugs: Printed Matter |
pans: I won't shop at Lowe's | I-Renew |
scams: Nicholson Barnes |
• reference materials
Federal Register | Other reference links |

psyche / mental heath issues

• psyche survivor websites/blogs
Beyond Meds
Frank Blankenship's Lunatic Fringe
SCI's Mind Freedom
Alizah's Death to Life

My own comments
• accountability
Accountability
• administration
Disconnects in Mental Illness Systems
• harm reduction
Harm Reduction - Restraint + Seclusion
• human rights
Rights of the Disabled
• psychiatric medications
Adverse side effects of psychiatric meds
• perspectives
Recovery is not a treatment modality
Wither "Recovery" now?

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