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- Garden photos and how to see even better June 20, 2021
- How clean are your glasses? May 28, 2021
- Goldilock’s Sketching Travel Kit May 23, 2021
- A time of gentle peace, with W. B. Yeats May 14, 2021
- An inspired podcast about “Why bother?” April 10, 2021
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Author Archives: Bobbie Herron
What I’ve been learning
It’s been a busy month since I last wrote: finishing up one course (writing), still in the middle of another (art), loving what I’m learning in both. Writing The course I just finished was offered by Memoir Writing Ink, an … Continue reading
This gentle man changed my life
As I work along on my painting and writing projects, I catch myself every now and then having a spontaneous “bird’s eye view” of my cozy little life. Does that happen to you? Are there moments when you suddenly feel … Continue reading
Posted in Musings on Life, Tip Jar, Writing
Tagged Community, Creative Habit, Inspiration, Mentors, Perseverance, Writing Habit
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“Up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no…it’s a brick!”
So here I am, several days later than expected, still enjoying walking around my lovely city. A little FYI about it: Concord is home to about 43,000 folks, residing in a 67-square-mile area. We have lots of hills, trees, rivers, … Continue reading
Brickwork of Concord
Do you ever stop to think about all the brickwork in your world? It’s everywhere, and yet almost invisible. Interesting facts: A standard red brick in the United States is 3.625 inches deep by 2.25 inches high by 8 inches … Continue reading
Garden photos and how to see even better
I recently returned from visiting two long-time friends whose rustic home and gardens are tucked into a wooded hillside in central New Hampshire. Early Sunday morning, long before I heard my sleepy friends stirring, I tiptoed outside to enjoy my … Continue reading
Posted in 3- Magic: Art Epiphanies, photography, Seeing and looking
Tagged photography, rule of thirds, seeing
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How clean are your glasses?
I was prescribed eyeglasses when I was about 10 years old, and for me, wearing glasses is as normal as breathing. My poor mother had three kids who all wore glasses from a young age, and I recall her chiding … Continue reading
Goldilock’s Sketching Travel Kit
It has suddenly jumped from almost-too-cold to almost-too-hot to be sketching outdoors, which means there’s no time to waste in fine-tuning my art-supply travel kit. I say “travel,” but in truth for me, “travel” usually means leaving my third-floor loft … Continue reading
A time of gentle peace, with W. B. Yeats
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us . . . that they may see, it may be, their own images . . . and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps … Continue reading
An inspired podcast about “Why bother?”
You think you know someone, and then you listen to a podcast that launches your understanding to a brand-new level. I just finished listening to Episode 14 , “Making It Look Easy” with Liz Steel and host Nishant Jain on … Continue reading
Posted in Musings on Life, Pen & Ink, Urban Sketching (On-Site Creativity), Watercolor
Tagged Creative Habit, Inspiration, Mentors, Perseverance, seeing
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A modern-day sacred scroll: Your CVS receipt!
The café tables are back on the patio at my favorite downtown haunt, and I’m once again luxuriating in a cup of coffee-someone-else-made as well as a uniquely New England hermit bar. My shoulder bag is loaded with all the … Continue reading
