Week 02-26 - Curiosities

Greetings from the Mesa

The first full week of 2026 is here, and so far it's full of creativity and small changes, and a community of determined creatives having fun. The super wolf moon greeted us into the new year - full, bright, dominating. News was grim - a faux 'war', sycophants pandering to the orange mad man, a DOJ determined to keep hiding the pedo from all of us. It disgusts me. The direction we are heading in is not good. And today a woman shot down by ICE in cold blood. At the same time I see a man riding horseback down the road. One tomorrow at a time, life continues on...

Curiosities of the Week

1. Betty Reid Soskin, Nation’s Oldest Park Ranger, Dies at 104 (NYT)
2. Global meteor network The goal of this project is to observe meteors, with a global network of cameras pointed at the night sky. Each camera is connected to a Raspberry Pi running open-source software for video capture, compression and meteor detection. Cool!
3. The Light Ekphrastic The Light Ekphrastic is a non-profit quarterly online journal dedicated to the creation of new written and visual artworks through collaboration between artists. Just discovered this journal, and really like it! Lorraine Roy is featured in the latest journal, and her textile art is RAD.
4. A short course in LETTERING (Substack) A lover of hand lettering (me) reveals his lettering secrets. Also, A course in LETTERING: Part Two
   50 ways to LOVE your LETTERS: A lightning tour of stylistic tweaks and playful manipulations that will give your letters personality, drama and spectacle.
5. Have an extra block of cream cheese in your fridge, try this pumpkin cream cheese swirl muffin recipe - it's so yummy!

Consuming

Currently Reading: A Life of One's Own, The Gunslinger, Queen Demon, and My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book 2

TV/Movies: Haven't watched anything after the Stranger Things finale, taking a little break and reading books and chilling instead.

Music: #100 - Choke Enough by Oklou

Thinking about: Blobs, swirls, circles, and spicy self-portraits

Thanks for reading, see you next time!