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The Monday Morning Memo

Isn't it interesting
how we instinctively look through the portal
to see what lies beyond?

The man is Josef Sigall,
a famous painter,
and this is his studio in 1928.

Did you notice
the interesting shadows?
My favorite is the shadow of the flowers in the upper right.

The BeagleSword was Interesting
and the rabbit hole was aimless wandering.

Speaking of painters,
might you be one?

Wizard Academy is hosting
a Painters Round Table – August 11-12 –
in Engelbrecht House, our student mansion.

2 days, 3 nights, no co$t.
You only have to be accepted
and cover your own travel expenses.
(You'll need to bring your own painting supplies as well.)

Engelbrecht House has rooms for 14 painters.

Each day will include tips and techniques
from Roy H. Williams on how to market your art.
(His Art Marketing Workshop is usually $2,000.)

The total price of your tuition will be a painting
made of something on the campus while you're here.

You'll leave one painting with us.
Anything else you do will be yours.

Fun times are guaranteed.

To Apply for Acceptance,
email a paragraph or two about yourself to
Tamara@WizardAcademy.org
and
include at least 3 images of your work.

Acceptances will be announced
on Monday, June 15.

Aroo.

Early one morning
a crane lowered the 60-foot piston
into the 60-foot hole prepared for it
in the bottom of the elevator shaft. 

The elevator company
didn't want to wait
until the tower got taller.

 

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Random Quote:

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Nov. 5, 2006

Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Conglusta:

I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) In his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.

What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.

Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.

Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite It to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?

Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.

God bless you all!

“

- Kurt Vonnegut

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