My wife is going back to college and to finish her degree. I’m very proud of her for doing this because I know how important it is to her.But I have many, many fears about the future of our higher education learning systems. As a father of two...
Topics: Rant

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There’s a great interview of artist Deborah Weed over at Life is Art Information.I find things like this are often times very informative.As an aside, I was really impressed with the website/blog so, of course, I instantly subscribed to thier feed..
Topics: art, artist, Deborah Weed, Life is Art Information

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Sometimes I get in trouble with the wife about being myself. I’m a strongly opinionated person. It’s really that simple.Don’t bring up politics, religion, or pther social issues with me if all you do is regurgitate what some idiotic...
Topics: Personal, personality, politics, Rant, religion, talk

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Is there a creative “genius” inside of us or does this “genius” reside outside of our minds and bodies waiting for a special moment in time to act with or without our knowledge?That’s a question that Elizabeth Gilbert puts...
Topics: art, artists, being a genius, brilliance, creative block, creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, failure, genius, having a genius, muse, My Art, narcissism, struggle, success, TED

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Well color me pleasantly surprised (that would probably be a subtle shade of pink).In today’s local news it seems that there is much for me to celebrate in my kiddos’ futures. Bowie Elementary is being converted to a Fine Arts Magnet...
Topics: art, Bowie, Elementary School, Fine Arts Magnet School, local, magnet school, Midland, MISD, My West Texas

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