The gratitude challenge, Day Three.

By Jack Brummet

Gratitude day three:

1). Bird a/k/a Charlie Parker; 

2) Everyone who has ever picked up a pencil, pen, paintbrush, airbrush, palette knife, computer, sculptor's chisel, crayon, pastel, spray paint, scratch pen, lithograph crayon, charcoal, or silk screen to commit life or their imagination to paper, screen, canvas, wood, Masonite, clay, or stone; 

3) You, friends, associates, co-workers, neighbors, and friends of friends.

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Drawing: Faces No. 913 - Sharpie® on stone

By Jack Brummet

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gratitude challenge, day two

By Jack Brummet

There is a "thing" going around social media circles, where you list three things you are grateful for for a week.

The gratitude challenge was assigned me by Pegeen White.  I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you want to do it, give it a shot in the comments here, or on Facebook. today I am grateful for:

• My mom, Guy, Loa, Cathy and Jeremy; my surviving Jones and Brummet cousins, James, Jimmy, Kevin, Leslie, Laurie, David, and Susannah.

• The Currans, too numerous to enumerate (around 130 people or so).  My entire Brummet/Jones side includes just the twelve people named above (plus my nuclear family, listed yesterday).

• Puget Sound, an every day presence in our lives in North Beach, with the crisp salt breezes, foghorns, sea lions barking, Olympic Mountains, boats, and heartbreakingly beautiful sunsets.

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62 Lego pieces and somewhere between 143,000 and 17,500,000 ants for each person living on earth

By Jack Brummet, Cooties Ed.

I just saw on Mashable that there are 62 Lego pieces for every person on this sweet green sphere.

This made me wonder.  Not from Mashable: There are 10,000,000,000,000,000 ants alive at any time, or, roughly 143,000 per person.  Insects.com and answer.com say there are at least 1.5 million ants per person, according to various scientists.  Info.com says the number is one million.   Chacha.com says (with no supporting facts) that "For every 700 million ants that come into this world, there are only 40 human beings," or, 700,000,000 / 40 = 17,500,000 a/k/a seven teen million, five hundred thousand.  

Whether it's 143,000 or 17,500,000, that's a buttload of cooties.

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Painting: The time tunnel

By Jack Brummet

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The gratitude challenge, Day One

By Jack Brummet

There is a thing going around social media circles, where you list three things you are grateful for for a week.

The Gratitude challenge was assigned me by Pegeen White.  I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you want to do it, give it a shot. 

Day One is easy: 

1) Keelin:

2) The Brummet-Curran Youth:

3) Music:

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Sara Palin slurs out a speech to the Western Conservative Summit

By Jack Brummet

I don't know how widely this has been passed around, but this speech is pretty stunning. It almost seems like she's riding a poly-drug cocktail, maybe a couple of Xanax, a few martinis, and God knows what else.  Early on, she makes a joke about "inhaling" in Colorado. And it just came out yesterday that she and some family members were at and involved in a drunken brawl in Wasilla, where Todd got a broken nose and some other family members engaged in fisticuffs.

Sarah Palin appears starting at 3:40. . .

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Pablo Picasso poses as Popeye The Sailor Man

This photo of Pabs Picasso posing as Popeye, was shot by André Villers, who followed him for years, documenting his life.  The context is unknown, but the shot is from 1957.

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Three Poems: The Quest - Surviving - Limits

By Jack Brummet

The Quest

It’s all one story—
A ragged shape-shifting tale
Of incredible coherence and constance,
Encompassing all you know,
All you don’t know you know,
And all you one day will know.
There is more
To be seen, tasted, heard, and felt
Than can ever be known or told.
Our myths flourish and spread,
Person to person,
And the mysteries of the seas and skies and stars
Fill our collective conscience
With mystical scenes,
Quests, and tales of greatness.
These myths, tales, and fables
Cannot be invented, ordered, or denied.
When you strip away the stage flats, makeup, and costumes,
It’s all one story
Starring our private heroes and dreams.
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Surviving

Salvation lies
In remaining unblinded

To the treachery

Massing around you:

The enemy without,

Calculating your fall

And the traitor within,
Beating in your chest.

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Limits

We like to believe
We could endure anything for five minutes

But that theory, cooked up
In your hermetic study or bedroom,

Comes apart at the seams
When you imagine being on fire

Or having crows feast
Upon your eyes.
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Fidel Castro meets kids dressed up as Fidel Castro

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Painting: Incoming!

by Jack Brummet

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Photos and video from Lo Fi 2014 // Ad Hoc at the Smoke Farm

By Jack Brummet, Festival Ed.

Cooling off in the Stillaguamish River:

A river aria/performance:

Hunting Dogs:

A pharmacy where you write down what's bothering you and return later for your prescription:

Weavings:

I'm pretty sure I made the tree blush:

A shotgun shell tree:

Campers:

Eating at the shed:

Grills:

Another view of the shed:

From Saturday night at Lo Fi 2014 // Ad Hoc. A brief clip of the Bucharest Drinking Team performing at their Kafana.  [Kafana/kavana is used in the former Yugoslav countries for a distinct type of local bistro which primarily serves alcoholic beverages and coffee (and occasionally light snacks), and which sometimes also has a live band.]

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