5 Things

• Mystery & Birds: 5 Ways to Practice Poetry by Ada Ada Limón. via wood s lot
  

• American Artist and Arts Organizations Circa 2009: Get Over It and Adopt a New Paradigm by Muire Dougherty.

• What 100 Paintings Will Teach You by Jen Lemon.

• The end of a nightmare by Jon Brooks. I can still remember the day GWB was first got off the plane and was doing his initial survey of the troops. I was on the phone with a friend who had been an aide in the Clinton White house and we both were commiserating over the fact that the end of the world had finally come.

Lear: Dost thou call me fool, boy?
Fool: All thy other titles thou hast given away; that thou wast born with. - King Lear (I, iv)

• Sky Lanterns. Sky Lanterns. Sky Lanterns. Sky Lanterns. Sky Lanterns.