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"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -Dr. Seuss

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Today in the Tulips. All of the median beds on Michigan Ave from Delaware to Roosevelt were planted by A Safe Haven. They provide food and shelter for 3000 individuals. Many of them planted over the 70,000 tulips and 110,000 muscari bulbs last autumn. Donate at givebutter.com/asafehaven-d...

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We all want to hold in the everlasting gaze Enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway But underneath the wheels lie the skulls of every cog The fickle fascination of an everlasting God You know I'm not dead I'm just living in my head

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"One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them." -John Madden

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"I will never repeat something verbatim on the air unless I know it's accurate. And when you go to the source, sometimes there's a better story beyond the original story. That happens all the time." -Al Michaels

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"I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet." -Allen Iverson

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Looks like a probable Saturday finish for this 11x17 pen and paper #wip #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #B&Wart #GrimDark

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"Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders." -Henry David Thoreau

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A paletero making his way amongst the spring blooms along the Chicago lakefront.

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"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." -Henry David Thoreau

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Getting there slowly but surely 11x17 pen and paper #wip #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #B&Wart #GrimDark

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"You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame." -Brene Brown

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The Boats are Back! This morning's sunrise at Chicago's Burnham Harbor.

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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." -Charles Bukowski

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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Some more progress 11x17 pen and paper #wip #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #B&Wart #GrimDark

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"Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start." -Anthony Bourdain

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Tuesdays are for Tulips. Michigan Avenue's display of spring colors this past weekend in Chicago.

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"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat." -Anaïs Nin

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"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." -Katharine Lee Bates

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And some more progress in whatever this is 11x17 pen and paper #wip #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #B&Wart #GrimDark

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"A tulip doesn’t strive to impress; it just blooms, effortlessly inspiring those who take the time to notice." -Sharon Jaynes

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PurplePalozza. This morning on the Magnificent Mile in Chicago.

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"This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself." King John: Act V, Scene 7 #ShakespeareSunday

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“Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.” –Rossiter Worthington Raymond

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"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear" -Aesop

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Biscuit in the Basket. Nighttime in Chicago on this day in 2021 for Flashback Friday.

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"How you draw is a reflection of how you feel about the world. You're not capturing it, you're interpreting it." -Juliette Aristides

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Closing in on the endgame. Cosmic miiinnnnndd horsssseee... 11x17 pen and paper #wip #surreal #macabre #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky

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“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” -Benjamin Disraeli

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South Loop Sunrise. Today in Chicago along the Chicago River.

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them." -Voltaire

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Magnificient on Michigan. Chicago in Spring.

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"One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them." -Mahavira

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💚🪨 Happy Earth Day 🪨💚

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“You want to live – but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying – and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?” –Seneca

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A City in Reflection. Tuesday morning's start in Chicago.

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"Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope." -Pope Francis

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The process of selecting the new Pope:

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"The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them." -Pope Francis

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"An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them." -Pope Francis

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"Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit." -Pope Francis

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Springtime in Chicago’s Millennium Park

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"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel." -Pope Francis

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BREAKING: Pope Francis has died, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo announced.

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