“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

““Allegiances” DW1 I am frankly suspicious of the term marker. In my world you make marks with pens (fountain preferably) or brushes. Occasionally a pencil might be used early in a project. The Copic marker was born in Japan, developed in a Tokyo art store called Izumiya. The business was established in 1919, but really… Read more

-34.866109, 138.751646 John Hanning Speke was a commissioned officer in the army of the East India Company. In July 1860 he was ordered on his third expedition into Northern Africa to locate the source of the River Nile, and perhaps a commercially important inland sea. Two years later on July 21st 1862, when he reached… Read more