My sister, trying to comprehend something, said, “I just can’t wrap my teeth around it.” According to a Library Journal article by Stephen Abram that Sally forwarded, the Chinese representation of the word for change combines the characters for danger and opportunity. Perhaps they see the relationship between the two as equal. I don’t. This is how I’d draw it, based on my current experience. The round thing, of course, is opportunity.
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Homemade things
Blind Pig Drawings: An Introduction
I know, I know. I should be working. But one has to prioritize: make a living, or write about pigs. The choice is clear. A hundred years ago, before people could avoid reality by playing on the Internet, a favorite pastime was putting together a pig book. I don’t think I’m making this up, the way my friend made up that there used to be sugar in toothpaste. You’d sit in your dark Victorian parlor […]
Read morePup 14: Jack Sparrow
July 21, 2006 Around 5 o’clock this afternoon I was yacking with my visiting friend Beth when I had the sudden urge to go to the pet adoption store. She indulged me. Needless to say, I left with an overnight foster dog. Jack is a huge, blonde, shepherdy-faced dog. I asked Beth, who knows a lot about animals, if she thought he was purebred. “Uh … purebred what?” she answered with infinite diplomacy. Stella’s only […]
Read moreDay of Rest
After a lazy morning, we rented kayaks which were unlike any I’ve encountered before. Made of thin plastic with little round, keel-less bellies, they didn’t cut through the water so much as flit across the surface driven by invisible forces. My attempts to steer prompted bouts of swearing; things were better when I just bobbed around, pivoting my mighty craft only to face the wake of a passing speedboat. Later, we swam in the very […]
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