#132: "Oh no, you didn't finish your work..."
It's easy to feel impatient, to fee like I am stagnant or moving backwards, when I recognize that the world doesn't change fast enough to...
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- Aug 21, 2022
Languages for THE OXHERD BOY
After spending the last week recovering from COVID 😷, I am very grateful to have experienced only mild symptoms and to have been able to...
- Aug 16, 2022
#131: "Sometimes I don't recognize myself..."
Collaboration with therapist and mediation teacher Koret Munguldar: Many of us struggle with having a sense of being strangers to...
- Aug 9, 2022
#130: "Love is the magician..."
Love does not change who we are, but rather it reveals how we can relate to another without pretense.
- Jul 30, 2022
#129: "It's strange how sometimes..."
Flashback to when the boy meets the rabbit. This is one relationship story I'm so excited to explore in a children's book someday. It has...
- Jul 20, 2022
#128: Fear not the wind...
Flying a kite is an exercise in life: a balance in command and release, to give into the direction of the wind, to maintain enough...
- Jul 15, 2022
#127: Riding the River
"The frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean" is one of the most famous proverbs from Chinese literature. The fable comes from "The...
- Jul 8, 2022
#126: "And the day came when the risk to remain..."
What do you think, is it pain or joy that makes us bloom? 🌺
- Jun 30, 2022
Coming Spring 2024: THE OXHERD BOY Book
It's official! The announcement was released earlier last month that The Oxherd Boy webcomic will be adapted into a book as a collection...
- Jun 28, 2022
#125: "Persistent pain is usually the indication that we have become..."
Michael Meade writes in "Fate and Destiny" that we all experience pain, which emerges when our smaller, egoic selves obscure the greater...
- Jun 21, 2022
#124: "Do you ever feel like you don't understand..."
From his journals published posthumously as "Keith Haring Journals," artist Keith Haring writes, "Life is very fragile and always...
- Jun 17, 2022
#123: "Sometimes you can only do..."
I painted this little drawing for the boy this time. I guess I wanted to show that everyone can do a little something, no matter how small.
- Jun 13, 2022
Quiet Progress
It's been a couple of months, and since the dust has settled on selling the book proposals, I've been plodding away at the daily work of...
- May 29, 2022
#121: "The sea rises, the light fails..."
From James Baldwin's collaborative book of essays with Richard Avedon's photography, "Nothing Personal," comes a timeless message that...
- May 23, 2022
#120: "Where are the rules of grief written..."
I came across this quote while reading a Regency England novel by Sally Britton, and it brought the story of Zhuangzi's mourning to mind....
- May 16, 2022
#119: "Maybe life's greatest discovery..."
I use the word "home" in a literal sense in this painting, but what is "home"? It could mean anything we associate with our identity,...
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