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In Sun Tzu's The Art of War, there is one chapter that says, You know the enemy is weak when the enemy's soldiers are drinking from the well themselves before taking the water back to camp. That means, they are thirsty, they are tired. (...) I am always bringing the water back to the camp, for my family. I always have this intention, but I know first I must keep myself alive. That is the most important thing.
— May 02, 2026 01:01PM
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"O'Keefe first clam series is solemn, quiet, and bleached of the ecstatic hues that characterize her earlier flower paintings."
"O'Keefe began her first clam series in 1926, during a difficult transitional period in her life."
— May 03, 2026 02:56AM
"O'Keefe began her first clam series in 1926, during a difficult transitional period in her life."
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"Admittedly, the clam had never been especially interested in O'Keefe, a dentists' waiting-room favorite, but now that the Clam was in New Mexico, she found the painter impossible to avoid."
— May 03, 2026 02:52AM
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"Among Rembrandt's personal effects were enormous quantities of shells (...), including a rare conch, imported from the Far East, for which he paid eleven guilders, more expensive than any other item he possesses except for a print by Rafael. (...) Yet Rembrandt's collector's mania made sense on some level. Shells are beautiful, morbid objects just like skulls. Both are calcified remains of a long-dead animal."
— May 03, 2026 01:05AM
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"She has fallen asleep under his workbench like a cat, a picture book flung open at her feet."
— May 02, 2026 01:03PM
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"You want to screenshare?" I ask daughter.
"Huh? You know how to do that?"
She sounds impressed that I know some basic things. I sign on to Skype and I tell her to open her Skype but she is like taking forever to guess her username and password. Doesn't she have the information recorded in a notebook? When I ask her this, she actually started to laugh. "Who does that, Dad?"
I said, "I do!"
"Oh, of course you do."
— Apr 30, 2026 07:21AM
"Huh? You know how to do that?"
She sounds impressed that I know some basic things. I sign on to Skype and I tell her to open her Skype but she is like taking forever to guess her username and password. Doesn't she have the information recorded in a notebook? When I ask her this, she actually started to laugh. "Who does that, Dad?"
I said, "I do!"
"Oh, of course you do."
