Steve Howell
@stethohow
Pro-Democracy Reader, Writer, Freelance Editor Insta: stethohow Substack: steventhomashowell.substack.com
"Art question 🎨 What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favorite. The one that lingered." Tom Lea "Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare" (1944)
There's a lot of hype about celebrating America's 250th anniversary of "Freedom." I'm not feeling it. I'll celebrate again when freedom and democracy are no longer under continuous threat of loss. Artist: Clay Bennett
Robert Coover, In answer to the question: “Why do you write?” -Because art blows life into the lifeless, death into the deathless. -Because art’s life is preferable, in truth, to life’s beautiful terror. -Because, as time does not pass (nothing, as Beckett tells us, passes), it passes the time.
"Eventually, we will all behold the void." --Sebastian Junger, from IN MY TIME OF DYING
My wife went out on the deck to grill some chops and discovered this horror. Bald-faced hornets. Tomorrow’s wildlife adventure.
The weather is perfect. I spent several hours on bicycle maintenance today. I love the people in my city, beautiful Winston-Salem. Despite the constant shitstorm of living in America, life in springtime North Carolina has its charms.
"Every minute I spend using AI, I get dumber, and every time somebody uses AI, it gets smarter." --CPT Willard
"You fell for one of the classic blunders--never get involved in a land war in Asia." --Vizzini