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A selection of my drawings and paintings from 1966-2008
Stecher descendants (the photos were identified by my grandfather)
The YouTube titles are "42 years: a book of changes" and "Retrospective 1966-2008"
Places I visit when I can
- words and silence
- wood s lot
- Windy Skies
- Whiskey River
- Vulture Cafe
- Velveteen Rabbi
- The White House
- The Sandbox
- The Goat That Wrote
- synch-ro-ni-zing
- Something Beautiful
- Solitary Walker
- Seeking Spirit
- Sacred Shadow, Sacred Ground
- Roundtop Ruminations
- Robin Chapman's Poem a Day (with her watercolors)
- RConversation
- R. L. Bourges -- A Writer's Notebook
- Outside The Windows
- Out of the Lotus
- One Word
- Nicole and Gwendolyn
- Mole
- Interim Arrangements
- In A Dark Time
- Ici Graulhet
- hermit's thatch
- Hayley's Comments
- Faith and Meow (Fiona)
- Digital Doorway
- Dharma Bums
- Crashingly Beautiful
- Consent of the Networked
- Chatoyance
- Burning Silo / Journey to the Center
- Alive On All Channels
Glimpses
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2 comments:
a beautiful birthday wish. I love the quote.
and on another completely different matter, thank you am for your kind generosity. I appreciate it very much. I don't often fund raise, but I was compelled to help with this particular cause.
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