No artist tolerates reality.
~ Nietzsche ~
Quick Thoughts
I spent today working on re-releasing Beginnings, which has found its way into a pretty PDF and is already uploaded to the website. Now I just need to build it an equally pretty page. Let’s hope that won’t take me another year to finish. ย ๐
Ridiculously happy to have finally found a replacement bulb for my lava lamp ๐ก
Got woken by a massive bang at 2:50 in the morning, and the stuff my brain thinks about while I try getting back to sleep: How do you stress the word Himalaya? ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
Thanks to a once again cancelled train, I discovered that the old trams have a really pleasant, round chime that sounds shortly before they start rolling.
Ha, actually there are people with four cones, but it took researchers 25 years to find one. Fascinating story ๐
Things my brain ponders before we are even vertical: Are there humans with more than three colour receptors? ๐ค
Worked all morning on the construction of a privacy policy – regulations surely take the fun out of owning a private website.
Writing
The Missing Mascot
5,973 words
A Westerhaven Academy Escapade
I try to update this every Sunday.
Wise words
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide. ~ D.W. Winnicott
Beginnings is back!
Available as a series of posts on the old blog, you can finally get it as a beautiful PDF.

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