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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”- Ray Bradbury. Day 40/100. Currently Reading: “Mending Wall”, a poem by Robert Frost, daily for the month of April, and “Th

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”- Plato.

Day 39/100: Relative, Unknown. This man sat for a family photo just before my grandfather came to Hawaii. I don’t know his name or why he was seated in the front row, one of two men in

“I never wanted be famous. I only wanted to be great.”- Ray Charles.

Day 38/100. #fisherman #the100dayproject #paintedphoto #collage #6x6 #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #raycharles

“To finish first you must first finish.”- Rick Mears. Day 37/100: Fred finished first. 🏁

#mydad #the100dayproject #stockcarracing #checkeredflag #collage #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #6x6 #oldfamilyphotos

“You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.”- Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer.

Day36/100. #ardhachandrasana #yoga #sketchbookfragments #joandidionquotes #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Day 35/100: Sisters. My mother on the right, and her older sister,

“I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.”- Steven Wright.

Day 34/100. #playball #fishoutofwater #stevenwright #collage #wallsnotebook #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #6x

“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”- Hafez.

Day 33/100: Stop, Look, and Listen. 😘 #the100dayproject #collage #happyboy #6x6 #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #st

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”- Graham Greene.

Day 31/100. #the100dayproject #collage #6x6 #whyknot #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #knottying #grahamgreene

“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.”- Elsa Schiaparelli. Day 31/100. I may go back to listening to Chopin instead of news podcasts while I’m cutting and pasting. 😬

#harumatsuda #hungryfish #elsaschiaparelli #the100d

“Kids can sniff out a moral. They can feel the heavy hand of an adult.”- Jeff Kinney. Day 30/100. I started out with one idea and it morphed into several others. Befuddled, should be the title.

#the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #do

“Love doesn’t make the world go ‘round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”- Franklin P. Jones. Day 29/100: Clara, looking at Fred as they approach the beginning of 67 years of marriage.

#clarauechi #franklinpjones #love

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”- Joseph Campbell.

Day 28/100. I asked for an AI illustration of a dream that I often experienced in childhood of holding a toothpick in the center of a giant bedroll. It’s not

“When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don’t even notice.”- Sarah Vaughn. Day 27/100. I can still hear my mother’s singing voice, distinctly. Wouldn’t it be nice to never forget the sound of her joy?

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“I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.”- George Carlin. Day 26/100.

#collage #securityenvelope #crimpedpaper #fishhead #starfish #geo

“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”- Henry Ward Beecher. Day 25/100: Linocut prints of Hawaiian petroglyph paddlers I made a few years ago. The 100 Day Project is a quarter done,

“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”- Victor Hugo. My maternal grandfather. Day 24/100.

#the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #grandfather #collage #6x6 #victorhugo #seacreatures #vintag

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”- Havelock Ellis. Day 23/100. #mymother #clarauechi #the100dayproject #dothe100dayproject #dothe100dayproject2025 #collage #6x6 #havelockellis

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