Tortured Artist

Above is a clip of Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) talking about the idea of the tortured artist. I really like what Jeff had to say about the "tortured artist" myth and where he is now creatively as an artist.

Below is "Born Alone" from Wilco's latest album. Some of the lyrics were inspired by Emily Dickinson of all people*.

*Nicole, Anna actually watched this band perform on You Tube over Christmas while you were gone. She was dancing on my lap and then we got to this song and she was quiet.  I looked down and her eyes were huge while she just listened. It was cute.

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Einstein...Yarn Bombed?

Although I didn't take this photo (I work about 3 blocks from this statue), I wanted to share this "yarnbombing." Einstein usually looks like the photo above..but for a few hours he was yarnbombed. I told my best friend about it and the next thing I know she wanted (me) to knit Einstein a hat with earflaps.

A look into a Toddler's Brain....

Earlier this week I shared the image below with my sister in law. My two year old niece saw the image and immediately reacted by saying, "ELMO ELMO ELMO LOOK MOM ELMO ELMO ELMO LETS DRAW ELMO ELMO"
I think the image is pretty accurate.