Author: splendorinthesticks
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One Good Thing
Seven years ago, on this very date, I picked up a watercolor brush. I’ve come quite a ways from my first efforts, but what hasn’t changed a bit is my enthusiasm for the medium. Watercolor is magical – it can be transparent and luminous and it can also just stubbornly sit there and refuse to…
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Magic – 1
At the beginning of the year, I declared 2026 to be my “year of magic.” I expect that is going to look different from month to month, but considering that my part of the Carolinas had its first big, pure-powder snowstorm in easily ten years yesterday and that today was all bluebird skies and wonder…
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One Good Thing
Here in the Carolinas, we’re enjoying the first real, honest-to-goodness snowstorm (one that isn’t just a sloppy mix of sleet, freezing rain, and other glop but is instead fluffy, pristine, gorgeous snow) in years. A friend reached out to me and asked if I’d consider a “guest post” of something he’d written on Jan. 30,…