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"This monthly theme of "Mistakes" got me thinking. Mistakes to me can be a negative outcome to an intended or an unintended action. Something called a "dictionary" says mistakes can be "an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong." But there are also "happy accidents" which is more fun to talk about than "sad accidents" so lets do that. As a fairly high-strung person, "rolling with it" doesn't come very naturally. Fortunately my chosen vocation and hobbies allows for a little bit of wiggle room when creating and/or messing up. "

"Most non artists think that a work of art begins with an imaginary grand design, which is then made real by using the techniques the artist has developed.   That's not the way it usually happens.   It's certainly not the way interesting art usually happens.  In the beginning there is most often nothing, and nothing, and nothing for hours and days, and sometimes weeks and months.  There are scores or hundreds of false starts.  Then, when something does pop into the artist's head it isn't anything close to a grand design.   It's usually an inkling, a notion, a fleeting feeling.  It's an unintentional smear in one corner of the same canvas the painter has been fruitlessly fiddling with all along.  But it suggests something.  It's a start, only an idea, a hunch, but nevertheless something concrete to work with."

"You can look across a vast expanse of ice, all white and blue and cold, and see nothing. The lead is choked with pack ice or sealed over with newly formed ice, and there is no movement or sound. With few birds, no whales and no bears, one might mistake the Arctic for a desert. But if you go down to the ice edge, pick a hole in the new ice deep enough to reach water and drop in a hydrophone (an underwater microphone), the cacophony is astonishing. "