Now to figure out what to do with them... hey, make cartoons!
Wheeee! |
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Here lies the residue of "The Animating Apothecary," a source of obscure ephemera and thought, created fresh(ish), but now reduced to howling into the wind, sketching in sand, and nibbling at the crustier extremes of an overbaked society. Instagram? see - https://www.instagram.com/animating_apothecary/ - content (c) 2006-2024 Jim Middleton
I considered first just making a comment about the essay, but the piece is so well written that I decided to lift it straight from the readers' page of the Big Rapids Pioneer. That it needs to be said, in a region of Michigan where the erosion of civility and intellect is at times stunning, emphasizes the concurrent erosion of who we are as a nation -- and what it means to exist as a supportive society. End of soapbox.
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This is evolving - time restraints squeezed out the discussion from the recent ASIFA Central retreat. I figure if I leave it here, I'll get around to filling in the gaps sometime...someday...somewhere!
"Let's Rocket" - ominous in the current international climate! |