the bumblehill studio

somewhere in the mythic woods

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Eeeee. Animal photographer Greg Murray knows, Pups + Peanut Butter = Photography Gold!! 

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Puppies That Can Sleep Anywhere And Anytime

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Opening this weekend, and running all summer. If you’re anywhere near the south-west of England, do come.

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I’m not freestyling, I’m too old. I wrote you a sonnet instead. My wife’s the reason anything gets done. She nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one, our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they’re finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised, not one day, this show is proof that history remembers. We live through times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers, remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love. Cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa’s symphony, Eliza tells her story, now fill the world with music, love, and pride. Thank you so much for this.

Lin Manuel Miranda accepting his Tony Award for Best Original Score (via lovetheblazer)

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This incredibly charming picture is “Bedtime Story” by Chris Dunn.

To see more of the artist’s work, go here.

(With many thanks to Karenée H. for picture identification.)

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‘Hans Andersen’s fairy tales’ with illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. First published in 1913, reissued in 1917 by Constable & Co., London.

See the complete book here.                                         

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Alice Helena Watson ~ Fairy Trunk ~ The Golden Weathercock ~ 1934 ~ via

“Now you look as people ought to look.”

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In her essay "Nine Beginnings," Margaret Atwood discusses why so many talented young people lose interest in writing as they grow up. The essay was published in a book about women authors and she focuses on issues common among girls, but I'm sure there are boys and men out there who will relate to this as well:

"There's a lack of self-confidence that gets instilled very early in many young girls, before writing is ever seen as a possibility. You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river. The horse throws you and you get back on the horse. I learned to swim by being dropped in the water. You need to know you can sink, and survive it. Girls should be allowed to play in the mud. They should be released from the obligations of perfection. Some of your writing, at least, should be as evanescent as play.

"A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The waste basket has evolved for a reason. Think of it as the altar of the Muse of Oblivion, to whom you sacrifice your botched first drafts, the tokens of your human imperfection. She is the tenth muse, the one without whom none of the others can function. The gift she offers you is the freedom of the second chance. Or as many chances as you'll take."

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"I think there is a certain age, for women, when you become fearless. It may be a different age for every woman, I don’t know. It’s not that you stop fearing things: I’m still afraid of heights, for example. Or rather, of falling -- heights aren’t the problem. But you stop fearing life itself. It’s when you become fearless in that way that you decide to live. Perhaps it’s when you come to the realization that the point of life isn’t to be rich, or secure, or even to be loved -- to be any of the things that people usually think is the point. The point of life is to live as deeply as possible, to experience fully. And that can be done in so many ways."  - Theodora Goss (from her blog post “Fearless Women”)

“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”  - Georgia O'Keeffe

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."  - Cynthia Heimel

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"If we are not willing to fail, we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure. Marriage is a terrible risk. So is having children. So is giving a performance in the theatre, or the writing of a book. Whenever something is completed successfully, we must move on, and that is again to risk failure." - Madeleine L'Engle "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."  - J. K. Rowling

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A Writer’s Prayer

Let me forgive myself for the stories that are not perfect, for the scenes rushed through and the plot points fumbled, and the language less than it ought to be, and the phrases that make me wince even though no one notices but me.

Let me forgive myself for the stories I didn’t write, didn’t finish, or didn’t let anyone see - because I was too busy, too lazy, too tired, too frightened, because I was living my life, or saving my life, because I was falling in love, or falling out of love, because I had run out of words, or room, or time, let me forgive myself for all those stories that live inside me and not on the page.

Let me forgive myself for my failures, but also for all those times when I tallied my shortcomings instead of celebrating each small success. Let me celebrate now: not the life that I dreamed of, but the life that I have, not the stories that I dreamed of, but the stories that I’ve made, not the writer I imagined I’d one day be, but the writer that I am.

And then let me keep working.

                                                             - Terri Windling

Photograph: Morning coffee break in the winter sun, with notebook, pen, and faithful hound. Nattadon Hill, Devon, UK.

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An illustration for the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Maiden of Notburga,” by Wilhelm Roegge (1829-1908).

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Spotted Deer by Ian Gethings on Flickr

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From Alice Hoffman, one of the best writers of magical fiction working today:

"I write to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and oak trees, loyalty and devotion, even when my eyes are closed, and all that surrounds me is a darkened room. I write because that is who I am at the core, and when I'm unable to walk around the block I am lucky all the same. Once I get to my desk, once I start writing, I believe anything is possible."

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From Emma Donoghue, author of the brilliant adult fairy tale collection Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins (and other fine books):

"I've never had writer's block yet, which I attribute, not just to luck, but also to my technique. I would advise anyone looking to ward-off writer's block to start writing something else, a completely different project. I'm always working on about six different projects at various stages of development, so if I don't feel like working on one I just turn to another. Basically, monogamy is hard, in writing as in life."

Art: "Les ecrivaines" by Catherine Chauloux