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  • On the Way to Becoming

    hallelujah chorus spring peepers, eyes popped,inflating their balloon throats:yippee! let’s do this! yippee!           yippee!   yippee!                          yippee!             yippee!   yippee!                   yippee!       yippee!                                   yippee!                            yippee!yippee!    yippee!                                  yippee! —dotty seiter ===== ===== Notes about poem and painting:• “hallelujah chorus” is a haiku that celebrates the small chorus frogs known as peepers that make themselves known as heralds of spring in the eastern part of… Continue reading

  • “An Abstraction”

    What might have been is an abstraction Remaining a perpetual possibility Only in a world of speculation. What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. —T.S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton V,” Four Quartets I may have given Henry James short shrift in my high school years, but I selected… 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.

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