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That stunning sunrise is a view from our neighborhood, Mt. Rainier taking second place to the breathtaking sky. Thank you to Lorna Curtis for the photo. (She’s up that early. Me…uh…nope.)

Here are three things for this Thursday. Hope you find something to entertain you and inspires you to put another notch in your “love the arts” belt.

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Lemony Snicket has partnered with our friend Maira Kalman (last February’s calendar artist) to create a cute book, the essence of which you will enjoy just watching this video.

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If you’re in need for some some pretty enchanting art, you will most definitely find what you need at these:

- drawings and doodles of Zom Osborne, a Pacific Northwest artist currently living in Australia. Scroll down the link to read an interview.

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- innovative oil portraitures of fictional black figures by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

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You may remember Mo Willems from “Lunchtime Doodles”, which I posted early pandemic time. He’s interviewed here, an article from the NYTimes magazine. (The title of this post refers to a line out of this article.) It’s pretty interesting! He’s a very wise man (since I agree with everything he says here, he must be. wink wink).

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