Lisa Firke | Hit Those Keys


Bouncing your way to success

January 26, 2010

Who was your favorite Winnie-the-Pooh character? Dear Pooh? Very Small Piglet? Wise Wol Owl? Bossy Rabbit? Dolorous Eeyore? —or Bouncy Tigger?
At one time or another, they’ve all been my favorites (along with Kanga and Roo and all of Rabbit’s Friends and Relations). But, lately, I’ve had a special place in my heart for Tigger.
The wonderful [...]

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Chaos, Entropy, Meet Cosmos

January 18, 2010

Regular readers of this notebook will notice that the first two posts of the New Year went missing in the great Erase Your Blog extravaganza. And in the meantime I’ve been dithering about recreating them or just Moving On.
This is probably going to be the answer to that.

For my personal papers I used to keep [...]

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Hello world! This is my blog I accidentally deleted and am now putting back together

January 12, 2010

I promise you, it will look truly terrible while I do this.
Please send chocolate.

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lf|HTK on hiatus until after the new year

December 20, 2009

But blogging will continue intermittently. Maybe.

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There's a name for my favorite stroke

December 7, 2009

There’s a name for my favorite brush stroke!
I never knew there was a name for the broken brushwork I so dearly love, but in Chinese painting it’s called “flying white.”
Which is perfect. I love this kind of stroke, it’s so expressive, so imperfect, so very apt.

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