Three Things: The Traveler Edition
I don’t know about you, but September always makes my feet a little itchy and my legs a bit restless; echoes, I’m sure, of school years past and the brisk pace (and weather) that always came along with it.
This week I’m satisfying my wanderlust with some (long-)traveling characters. Join me?
Frederick Cayley Robinson, The Long Journey, 1923. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Eric Joyner, The Weary Traveler, 2006. Oil on wood. www.ericjoyner.com
Michael Cook, Untitled, from Majority Rule series, 2014. Photograph. www.michaelcook.net.au
Psst: Join in this month with Online Open Mic! Submit your work-in-progress prose or poetry piece today and tomorrow, and get feedback from your fellow writers on Wednesday. Go!
Three Things: The Summer Vacation Edition
We all remember what summer vacation meant to us as kids. Those hot summer months meant freedom from routine, but more importantly, it meant freedom to make adventures for ourselves; freedom to get into trouble (mostly without getting caught); freedom to make magic happen.
This week, let’s explore that childhood summer-vacation feeling: anything is possible.
Frederick Cayley Robinson, The children by the fireside recounting their adventures, 1911. Watercolour, pen and ink on card. Illustration for The Blue Bird (L’Oiseau Bleu) by Maurice Maeterlinck. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Sally Mann, Emmett and the White Boy, 1990. Photograph. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.
Fiddle Oak (Zeb Hoover), because who’s to say (we are the only ones?), 2011. Digitally manipulated photograph. www.fiddleoak.com
