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If I Had My Life To Live Over

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Daily Information and Inspiration for Life. If I Had My Life To Live Over. July 9, 2012. The following was written by columnist and humorist – the late Erma Bombeck. If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more. I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded. I would have eaten the popcorn in the ‘good’ living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace. Instead of wishing away n...

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Art of Life: An Image Gallery

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. The past couple of days, I've been working on a new page. To show my carvings. It's another blogspot blog, actually, but you'd never know that by the look of it, for it's stripped down as far as I can take it. No comment forms, no titles, no dates, and only minimal text for the images. This new "blog," and I use the term advisedly, for it's hardly what we've come to expect in a blog, is called, simply Richard G. Crockett: wood sculpture. Anyhow, off now to work on th...

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Art of Life: Chains of Darkness: The Human Condition

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. Chains of Darkness: The Human Condition. Here is a sketch of what will be my largest wood sculpture to date. You see here a black angel, his wings burned off, wrapped in shadows, holding to his heart something lost, and dissolving in black flames. This is my opinion of the human condition. I do believe I hinted at some darker, edgier stuff to come. Well, there was a sneak preview. Hmmm Perhaps it should be Shrouds of Darkness. Did you like this post? Also, Im trying ...

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Art of Life: Blogging About Blogging

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. Or, maybe not. Maybe you are now saying, " Jejune. Hmmph I hate it when people toss out obscure words to show how smart. They are—so how about some words of my own. Like 'juvenile,' 'insecure,' or just, plain, 'lame? But "jejune" is a great word. I only just learned it, and it applies to blogging about blogging. Here's a cut and paste from the dictionary built into my Mac:. The New Oxford American Dictionary. Spending most of my career as a working class guy, I've al...

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Art of Life: Archive

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. 20 Some of My Best Friends Are Horses. One of my favorite posts. All the illustrations were done at the time of writing. This is the future. Another record breaker. At this time, the site gets yet another re-design. The work of that keeps me from posting for a while. I also pick up some free lance web design work. 14 Chains of Darkness: The Human Condition. 10 How to Be an Artist. It ain't other bloggers—it's the whole world. I have broken out of the box. I finally s...

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Art of Life: How to Be an Artist

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. How to Be an Artist. It is heresy to say it, but I do not believe that there is such a thing as an "authority." For that matter, there is not even such thing as a "reliable source." You simply cannot—and must not—ever believe everything. Says A fact, if it is a fact, is a fact because it is true, not because it was said by an authority or a reliable source. I was seventeen when I noticed that I would rather die than not do art. There's nothing wrong with wanting mone...

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Art of Life: Some Of My Best Friends Are Horses

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. Some Of My Best Friends Are Horses. I love horse's sweet, pure, gentle eyes particularly, and I love the way they will take food from your hand and rest their chins so delicately on your shoulders. Horses do not have a reputation for being particularly intelligent, but I disagree. They have an eerie kind of intelligence that extends in directions that are alien to us. Not a particularly religious person, horses make me believe in. To then listen to these same people ...

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Art of Life: The Penultimate Post

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. That's "next to the last," for this is not my last post. There will be one more. Exactly. I've decided to abandon Blogger. First, the interface (behind the scenes) will no longer allow me to modify the look and feel without giving an error. That, as is said, "is a deal breaker." I can no longer even enter correctly formatted html without Blogger "fixing" it. I understand this is an effort to simplify things for the "average" user. But I am not average. But this new n...

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Art of Life: What It's All About

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Richard G. Crockett. The art of life. What It's All About. I finally figured out what this blog is about. It's about what I've been doing, and it's about what I've been pondering. The two are closely related. I'm under a lot of internally generated pressure to get into a show here in Fresno, and I found that the way to really promote one's wares is to have a web page. A gallery owner actually told me that's essential. So part of "what's it all about" is what it's NOT about. You should know by now that yo...