Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Writer: Hello Muse. Muse: Hello. Another holiday movie? Writer: No. I guess you could call it an Occasion Movie, the occasion being kids going back to school. Probably a made-for-TV movie. Muse: An After School Special? Writer: No. So much no. I may be a hack and a shill for corporate advertisers, but even IContinue reading “Muse Goes Back To School, Fiction”

Awareness of the outside world. “Faces and Fabrics Everywhere! For me, making quilts is a creative outlet. Visit a quilt retreat with the Evening Star Quilt Guild, via my collection of photographs from our 2023 ‘Out of This World’ Retreat, held at the Alabama 4-H Conference Center, Columbiana, AL, Aug. 3-6.” Facebook: Meg McKinney 7Continue reading “Creek, Photography”

Awareness of the outside world. “Bats can hear shapes. Plants can eat light. Bees can dance maps. We can hold all these ideas at once and feel both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all.” Twitter, the CryptoNaturalist, @CryptoNature, 10:39 PM · Aug 15, 2018. Website, The CryptoNaturalist, list of podcasts. HaveContinue reading “Dog Stares”

Awareness of the outside world. I got nothing. I’m having a long week. Not long in any absolute sense. Long for me. ~~~ Phase I Rodney has found yet another way to get time off with minimum inconvenience to himself. It’s his super power. His left front shoe shifted slightly to the inside. He wasContinue reading “Rodney’s Ingenuity Continues”

Awareness of the outside world. I remain appalled by the news. The news keeps requiring me to be appalled by the same things. That is appalling in its own right. ~~~ Not a horse hunt. A hunt implies a mighty hunter. We are poking noses out of our burrow like a pair of alarmed meerkats.Continue reading “Horse Search Start”

Awareness of the outside world. Your Dressage: Prepare to Be Humbled, New para-dressage docufilm, Paragold, spotlights four athletes’ journeys as they strive to make the US Paralympic team, By Jennifer O. Bryant, June 20, 2023. ~~~ Photos of Milton’s tail trim which were sent to taunt the Saddlebred people. [The Unbridgeable Abyss That Shall EternallyContinue reading “Not Letting The Old Tradition Fail”

Art of the outside world, from our guest contributor, “May I recommend ‘generative art’ as a technique (which predates the recent spate of AI ‘art’), which consists of writing computer code to generate a series or continuum of art pieces that explore a specific visual space designed/chosen by the artist while holding the potential toContinue reading “Gazelle Postcard, Guest Contributor”