So, another year, another variant, and we trudge on across the tundra. Courage, creativity, and, yes, peace, love, and understanding are needed now more than . . . Well, they’re needed. In that spirit of hopeful trudging, Spinozablue offers new literature, literary criticism, and home-brewed paintings.
Robert Mueller brings us his unique take on Petrarch, and David Groulx gets obliquely iambic. It looks like we’re off to a solid start.
I had a stretch there with at least two kinds of artistic blockage: writing and imaging. A dearth of imagination, perhaps, inhibiting both. But recent days have seen the breaking up of the dam — at least this is how I choose to see it. So it’s flowing now. Not unbridled, but safely making its way between at least two shores.
Stumbling has its rewards. Again, I fall into new ways of working with GIMP brushes and effects, aided by other painting programs. I like the results:
As always, your comments, questions, and requests are most welcome.