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Just add water
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One way to make something beautiful is simply to add water. Witness Bob Ross (The Joy of Painting) – Saint Bob, as he’s known in our house, not just for his built-in halo, but for his kindness and capacity to gently empower would-be artists of all ages and abilities. A snowy mountain scene beautified…
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I’ll name that tune in one
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As David Bowie and Bing Crosby shared Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy on the 1977 Merrie Olde Christmas Special, it was truly a meeting of titans past and future: mahogany Bing in his reassuring cardigan, the odd Werther’s Original no doubt secreted about his person, aside the unsettling, luminescent Thin White Duke. It is…
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All that we leave behind
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Antoine Lavoisier’s law of conservation of mass states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only rearranged. Other than the odd satellite, outbound/returning spaceship (aliens are presumed to take themselves and their litter home) or meteor, the earth is a closed system for matter. We’re stuck with the building materials that we have. Round…