michelle nyberg
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On My Nightstand, On My Easel 4/16/24
On my nightstand: “You know,” my aunt says,“I once had a difficult period that lastedtwenty-four years.”Wait. Twenty-four years?“And it was so important to realizethat I didn’t knowwhat was on the other side of the darkness.Every so often there was a sliver of lightthat shot the whole world throughwith mystery and wonder, and reminded me:I didn’t… Continue reading
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On My Nightstand, On My Easel 4/15/24
On my nightstand:Margery held up her hands.“Very well. Very well.I shall save my breath to cool my porridge,as you like to say.”—Annie Lyon, The Air Raid Book Club I do like me a good British idiom! On my easel: Continue reading
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On My Nightstand, On My Easel 4/12/24
On my nightstand:For years now, I have been keeping small, special notebooksinto which I write passages that strike me hardas I read the work of others …I hadn’t known, when I started this practice,that these are sometimes called commonplace books. —Dani Shapiro, Hourglass I wish you could have seen my eyes widen in surprise when… Continue reading
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On My Nightstand, At My Easel 4/11/2024
On my nightstand:At the moment of this writing,I am typing into a laptop keyboard.I first learned to touch-typethe summer of seventh gradeon an IBM Selectric.Apparently,using two spaces after a periodhas become anachronistic.But tell thatto my right thumb. Dani Shapiro, Hourglass On my easel: Continue reading
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On My Nightstand, At My Easel 4/9/2024
On my nightstand:It may be that when we no longer know what to dowe have come to our real workand that when we no longer know which way to gowe have begun our real journey.The mind that is not baffledis not employed.The impeded streamis the one that sings. —Wendell Berry On my easel: I am… Continue reading
My Story
In 2014, I grab an unexpected opportunity to paint.
To make art.
I get hooked.
In 2015 I start a blog—a diary of my life as an artist.
I post my paintings and their stories. The good, the bad, the ugly.
My compass points: bust through fear, be playful, get messy, trust my gut.