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Hourly comic day. Every year I swear to myself that I will do the Hourly comic day on February 1. Every year I fail to do it. This year I even added it to my calendar. And still... The hours run away from me and then I think to myself - who wants to know the hours of my day. And I think to myself - nobody. So I don't. Maybe next year.

"English as She is Spoke" is a delightful example of incompetence and bad judgement. Jose da Fonseca and Pedro Carolina set out to write a Portuegese-English phrasebook. The only problem was that they didn't speak any English. They did know some French and armed with French-English phrasebook, dictionaries and enthusiasm they brought forth this phrasebook. Mark Twain was an early admirer of this book. "Nobody can add to the absurdity of this book, nobody can imitate it successfully, nobody can hope to produce its fellow; it is perfect, it must and will stand alone: its immortality is secure." I need some levity and silliness. I hope you do too. Esperái ôu espere úm pôuco. Stop a little.

Erik Satie (1866–1925) In 1898, Satie moved from Paris’s Montmartre district to the working-class suburb of Arcueil, where he would live for the rest of his life. Most mornings, however, the composer returned to the city on foot, walking a distance of about six miles to his former neighborhood, stopping at his favorite cafés along the way. According to one observer, Satie “walked slowly, taking small steps, his umbrella held tight under his arm. When talking he would stop, bend one knee a little, adjust his pince-nez and place his fist on his hip. Then he would take off once more, with small deliberate steps.” His dress was also distinctive: the same year that he moved to Arcueil, Satie received a small inheritance, which he used to purchase a dozen identical chestnut-colored velvet suits, with the same number of matching bowler hats. Locals who saw him pass by each day soon began calling him the Velvet Gentleman. The last train back to Arcueil left at 1:00 A.M., but Satie frequently missed it. Then he would walk the several miles home, sometimes not arriving until the sun was about to rise. Nevertheless, as soon as the next morning dawned, he would set off to Paris once more. The scholar Roger Shattuck once proposed that Satie’s unique sense of musical beat, and his appreciation of “the possibility of variation within repetition,” could be traced to this “endless walking back and forth across the same landscape day after day.” Indeed, Satie was observed stopping to jot down ideas during his walks, pausing under a streetlamp if it was dark. During the war the streetlamps were often extinguished, and rumor had it that Satie’s productivity dropped as a result. - From Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

Plantain, Plantago major, was considered to be one of the nine sacred herbs by the ancient Saxon people, and has been celebrated in Anglo-Saxon poetry as the "mother of herbs." In Russian this plant is called Подорожник - meaning near the roads. Native Americans called it "white man's foot" as it is often found growing along well-trodden foot paths and it was brought to the Americas from Europe. The Latin generic name means "sole of the foot." When I was a kid, we would use the leaves of this plant for small hurts and scratches. We would spit on the leaves and stick it onto our scratches. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSE9jT9LqUY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

think deepppppppppppppppppply https://www.instagram.com/p/CV0ZZP7rExi/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cat couldn't decide whether to dress up as Santa Claws or Krampus. https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1TfShLt2t/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

You are not your suffering. https://www.instagram.com/p/CbfRZ1CrexB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

A burden of history. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdi8xGUOcBZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Discombobulated. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq3ov0dpaC3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Little but fierce. Always loved hybrids. Keep coming back to them over and over.

Don't get your tail in a twist.

I actually said it to my child (while backing away from her) when she tried to pet my stomach after I ate a lot of falafels. Decided it was a good advice if you want to stay on my good side. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUGGH12B8_s/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE BALLOON by Ben Loory. "That night the mother had a terrible dream. In the dream, Annie was a balloon. She floated up out of her bed and through the open window and away across the sky toward the moon." https://www.instagram.com/p/CgzLv_COUat/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The Wonders of Nature from Rooster's Wife by Russell Edson A circus manager, who secretly likes to wear women's clothes, has run out of money and is selling his wonders-of-nature show. #dailydrawing #watercolor #ink #illustration #poetry #russellEdson #beardedLady #circus https://www.instagram.com/p/CjBeUYVJBhK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Drawing with my non-Dominant hand. Cormorant sunning. The sight of these birds, regal and ridiculous at the same time , always lifts my spirit. https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmaOeAD0u_/?utm_medium=copy_link

Self-portrait. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZKW2jOpQhA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Whoever be born on Friday or is night, he shall be accursed of men, silly and crafty and loathsome to all men, and shall ever be thinking evil in his heart, and shall be a thief and a coward, and shall not live longer than to middle age." From "A DICTIONARY OF OMENS AND SUPERSTITIONS" by Philippa Waring https://www.instagram.com/p/CCi5jJEhTuJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cat is reading a book that I wrote. And illustrated. You also can read it soon - it is coming out in May. Pineapple Princess is almost here! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58484169-pineapple-princess

a little bit more. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbpwmxar9Gp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Beginning. Eleleth got bored of dancing on the needle's point pretty quickly. Now he read. Cat's autobiographies were his favourite. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQT4rFaBuys/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Inktober indecisions. https://www.instagram.com/p/CUiX8DvLojG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link