...but wrote nevertheless.

Hemingway crawled out of bed at 6 am to write until noon. He was always hung over, but wrote nevertheless.

Why? Why?

Why? Why does it get late at night everyday? Why does art wait until I'm yawning? Why? Why?

Shark Eatin' Fish

I saw some kid's drawings and I was so jealous, & then my grandson drew a shark eatin' a fish and I gave up art making (for a few hours).

Good News, Bad News

I made it home with most of my walking route recorded on the map on my iphone. But I couldn't remember how to do a screenshot... and when I figured it out I had lost the map.

Tomorrow is another day.

The .lbs from the hefty bbq went away... now it is a matter of one day at a time.

Or one breathe.

May Peace Prevail on Earth

Looks Like Someone Sat on his Head

No Texas BBQs today... but just a short walk to the fridge. I ended up 40 calories below my goal... which was much better than yesterday. Yea!

Cones in Austin

Fatter Today

Getting off the Boat in Sausalito

So I'm the person with the umbrella with the three people, getting off the boat in Sausalito.

Clouds over Lake Travis

Sunset on Lake Travis

Calories

So today I splurged and got a spiffy distance app for my iphone ($2.99). It even does a map of your walk... with 4 variations. Unfortunately I messed with my 128 calorie walk before I had a chance to download it for my blog. But tomorrow, I promise, I'll give you a visual.

Tonight going to have a big dinner... so I was super good all day. Salad for lunch. 10 almonds for a snack. Etc.

In the meantime, I've been thinking about an article, "Do Libertarians Believe their own Hype?" (http://tinyurl.com/ydm66fl) and disagreeing with the author believing that they do. Let me know what you think.

Austin Cactuses for Lease

Correction

Make that 16 lbs., or else the gravitational pull on earth increased today.

Fat

I've gotten fat... in my eyes... added 15 lbs. Yikes. Time to shed.

Shadows in Austin

Variation 7 of Single Head

My Walking Neighbor

asked how I can be both in the moment, and thinking about the moment. Thinking about the moment in the moment does seem to be a contradiction, almost as if thinking is outside of the life game. So "I think therefore I am" might be "I think therefore (for the moment) I am not."

Variation 6 of Single Head

Posterized: Variation 5 of Single Head

Variation 4 of Single Head

She asked how she could read my pieces without a quote. When I hear questions like that, my impulse is to never "illustrate" another quote because I want my pictures to speak for themselves. Then I think of what Robert Frost said when asked what one of his poems said, "do you want me to tell you in other and worse language?"

Variation 3 of Single Head

Woman Crossing Street

Yesterday at a stop sign I watched a woman walk across the street. I saw the dance between the street and the woman as they separated and then came back together. And yet I was surprised that I couldn't sense any weight to her.

We don't see weight. We don't see anything beyond what is there. Then we start adding what we know and we are suddenly not seeing anymore, but caught in our preconceptions.

No More Swelled Head?

I thought I had a swelled head so I tried a compress. See yesterday's drawing if you are confused.

Variation 2 of Single Head

Another version, painting with white throughout the piece.

Matt's in Austin

Back at It

So I finished the 90 or so drawings for a book and want to take a break before I go back to make them better.

Ego?

I had a strange experience the other day. I was in a small town in Texas... one that I had never been to. There were recognizable things all around (human beings, cars, stores, streets). I never had imagined that this town existed. Nor that it existed without me! It was such a shock that it had been operating without me, or any knowledge of me, and then I wondered what else existed without me. The idea of my world changed as I realized that similar worlds existed outside of me and my consciousness.

...he had stood before the Lord.

"Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the lord." —Genesis 19:27

Almost Done