Picture perfect

It's Tew's day and the mailbox here in TulseyTown is covered with a bit of snow . . .

… and French writer Simone de Beauvoir was born on this date in 1908 Paris.

Joan Baez turns 83 today. The singer, songwriter/poet, and political activist was born today in 1941 Staten Island, New York,

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. — Martha Graham in conversation with Agnes DeMille in Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham, Random House; First Edition (August 20, 1991)

...to know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing. - Picasso

On this day in 1839 Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre of France proclaimed his invention of the daguerreotype, the first commercially successful form of photography. The French, and subsequently most of Europe, adopted the technology as an art form. The U.S. treated it as a commercial curiosity.

There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. – Ursula Le Guin

The more sacred we make our spaces

the more magic we feel called to create

inside these spaces – Sophie Strand