Day 8 – Barz

Day 7 – Foundabout

Day 6 – Imaritas

Day 5 – Nayu

Day 4 – Sunbelt

Consider yourself warned. Say ‘agency’ all you want, just know you won’t be hanging out with me.

Maria Semple, Today Will Be Different

Day 3 – Caro

To see a life back to front, as everyone begins to do in middle age, is to strip it of its mystery and wrap it in inevitability…

Richard Russo, Bridge of Sighs

Day 2 – Flame Flower

If you don’t value the ability to solve poorly defined problems, you’ll never get more of it. You won’t seek out people who have that ability and try to learn from them, nor will you listen to them when they have something important to say. You’ll spend your whole life trying to solve problems with cleverness when what you really need is wisdom. And you’ll wonder why it never really seems to work.

Adam Mastroianni, “Why Aren’t Smart People Happier?“

Day 1 – Beelight

Inktober 2023

I decided to work this a little differently this year. Some of the work I saw on Facebook last year inspired me to put all of my tangles into one large, erm, oeuvre, if you will. So for the month, I’m going to post my practice tangles daily, and then at the end I’ll post a scan of the full month monstrosity. I’m kind of excited!

Respectful Behavior

When there’s no social pressure behind it, respectful behavior becomes a decision, an individual choice. Americans, even when they pay pious lip service to Judeo-Christian rules of moral behavior, tend to regard moral behavior as a personal decision… This is morally problematic when personal decision is confused with personal opinion. A decision worthy of the name is based on observation, factual information, intellectual and ethical judgment. Opinion — that darling of the press, the politician, and the poll — may be based on no information at all. At worst, unchecked by either judgment or moral tradition, personal opinion may reflect nothing but ignorance, jealousy, and fear…

…When applied in moderation and with judgment, the social requirement of respectful behavior to others, by repressing aggression and requiring self-control, makes room for understanding. It creates a space where appreciation and affection can grow.

Opinion all too often leaves no room for anything but itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Diminished Thing” in No Time to Spare