Indie Ink Dot Org

'Composition. Not Competition'.

This is the brilliant tag line for the newly-launched Indie Ink.org, a modern version of The Algonquin Roundtable meets Life magazine.

For here you will not only find a wide variety of exceedingly well thought-out and articulate essays & poetry, but also photographs that are simultaneously beautiful and evocative.

All chosen by the discerning eye of a highly-talented editrix, with a critical audience in mind. Because let's face it - we here in the blogosphere are a pretty tough crowd.

With a voracious appetite for the new, the different, the edgy, the resonant, Indie Ink offers a invaluable service to its visitors - it filters through all the works that the Interwebs has swirling around and distills it down to present the potent artistry that is out there, waiting to intoxicate us.

Not entirely unlike those afternoons at the Algonquin with Parker and Benchley.

Olive or maraschino cherry, there is something for every taste.

Read now - write now.

The View From Here

Every morning, the Baroness plops her regal tush down and ponders. What could I possibly write today that makes any difference at all?

Some days, the words flow with ease and effortlessness. Other days, I sit. And sit. And as I sit, and begin to panic, and my eyes dart around the room in my charming distractable way, I always am, without fail, drawn like a magnet to this postcard which has been tacked to my inspiration board for years and years:

Child on Forest Road
1958
Photograph by Wynn Bullock

As I begin to get lost within the picture, my normally anxious nature quiets. One would think that the opposite would occur, given the enormity of the landscape versus the weensiness of the toddler. But no.

In a catalogue from one of his 2002 exhibits, there is a description that sums it up beautifully:

"...he presents humanity without sin in a
world without danger"

For an opportunity to view more of his work, go here.

As you wander through your day, may you discover wonder and exploration, nature and stillness.