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Breathing Room: Meditation

Lisa Creech Bledsoe

This painting spent time sitting quietly in the studio while I figured out what it wanted to become. The forms remind me of algae, or some kind of floating ecosystem—green shapes suspended above deep indigo water. Eventually, I added gold leaf details… Over time, it became a meditation on the...

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bring back boom-and-bust

antipaucity

A dozen years ago, I shared an edited-for-readability chat I had with a friend on the gold standard. In it I stated: I’d think that it would be better to keep the mountains and valleys more stable / less high|deep, so that slowdowns aren’t felt by a disproportionately small community/niche...

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