Sunday, July 5, 2026

Monet......................

 

Claude Monet   1874   Sunset on the Seine    Oil on Canvas










The Art & Artists blog gifted us a 27-part series on the wondrous works of Claude Monet.  Do take advantage of it.


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continuous judgment..........

 

The skill can’t be ‘learn the fixed answer,’ because there is no fixed answer. The skill has to be continuous judgment.

Speed matters, but speed without judgment is just fast failure.

-Nicholas Bate, from here


Let's keep it simple...................

 

........................................just call me flag.


Be careful what you wish for...........


We nationalized risk, socialized failure, taxed boldness, and administered everything else. Result: a magnificent country that builds nothing anymore, that manages its decay with a funereal elegance, and where the most gifted young person dreams of only one thing—leaving.

Freedom doesn't die assassinated. It dies anesthetized, to applause.

-as culled from here