Art
Thoughts on Art...
On Words and Birds
If birds don't interest you in the slightest, please charter a rocketship and go destroy some other planet.
Friday, February 27, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Context.
Do the words you say mean what the words you mean say?
Are you understood?
Hello again, btw. O/
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There's one rule when it comes to writing and speaking and that is: To be clear.
A focus on clarity of expression in Art and Life is the best gauge of success in communication.
We have a sentiment, the reaction causes a dream, we shape the dream with words to form an idea, we share our idea with our body to give The World.
Basic Being Human 101.
The point in the process where dreams get words to become thoughts is the focus and livelihood of Poets.
The success of Poetry is foundational to the success of humanity.
Imagine a World without language and then agree with me.
It's why Poets often get the reputation of being lost in daydreams; we're at work. We're circumspecting the dreams themselves to see what words serve them best.
Most people have word choice on a kind of auto-pilot. This is a good thing.
Most of the time.
There are aspects to your Life you wish to change. There's only one way to do that: Use new language.
Every word is a storehouse of potential experience.
If your words aren't meaning all they could, they're not meaning all they should.
Check your words; change your life.
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Not a change of subject, a reminder this is a morning journal... The songbirds arrived! The first true sign of Spring in the air this morning.
Birds will always be the most accurate meteorologists and calendars. They're survival depends on it.
This morning, days after a blizzard, the arrival of songbirds to signal Spring. Time to start the green grow show.
If birds don't interest you in the slightest, please charter a rocketship and go destroy some other planet.
Surely, you must at least think an eagle in flight is worth some consideration.
Songbirds at sunrise! Spring!
Take care and make a wonderful day.
~ Wynn ~
Brought to you by the emoji of the day: 🪄magic_wand
Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink drawing of songbirds in a tree at sunrise.
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AI and The Arts
2026.02.22 Mona Lisa paints Leonardo every time she's seen.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder...fell Way.
Early as these things go. More snow on the way. Phone screens talk about the weather. The calendar just turned to tomorrow in California. Welcome to Today, West Coast. O/
Time, Weather, Art, Music, the power of language, what dreams are for, the necessity of morality in stories, the Faith of Scientists, Peace, Love and the positive growth for us all AI makes possible: Some topics of this journal.
Thanks for reading.
On the topic of AI and The Arts... Artists, Musicians, and Writers, here's how AI is good.
We return to value Art because making it is what makes us human.
The sound and experience of a person in any room with you playing a violin can never be replaced by any speaker. Every note, word wrote, and brushstroke of every hand is an extension of the Artist.
Your whole life story is in every word you share. That's the Ghos+ Point discussed on this site.
What we create is an extension and reflection of ourselves.
Mona Lisa paints Leonardo every time she's seen.
Writers refer to the experience as: Our Writing Voice.
I refer to it as: O/
Who's waving to you?
What's your experience of me?
The circle-slash is my profile pic for a reason. It's how you view me through my words, through these symbols.
We do this with all we create.
Every note, brushstroke, and word shows The World who we are.
AI is a translation, a collaborative one, of what you wish to express.
Relying on AI to express anything for you is like having a translator follow you around a foreign Country that speaks an unfamiliar language. It's at least a step removed. And like that game of telephone... is your message, and meaning, being truly received?
The translator is helpful only until you learn the language and can clearly communicate your Self.
View The Arts as a foreign language. AI can help you learn to speak and communicate Artistically, but never wholly. AI is always a step away. AI is always second hand News.
Art must be an experience shared directly by one individual through the medium of their choice.
If someone or thing is telling The World what you mean, then you're not showing Life you... only another's interpretation.
Trusting AI to make Life decisions for you means surrendering your Life to Committee Rule.
We let a select view of the history of certain information dictate how we live if we give all our decisions to the collaborative translations of AI software.
Consider AI advice only, think for yourself, and make a wonderful day.
~ Wynn ~
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink image of The Mona Lisa with a paintbrush in her mouth.
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On Irony
2026.02.21 The certain ways of poets and artists of seeing The World have laid quiet for so long. The consequences of which are our nightly News.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder...fell Way.
When tomorrow becomes today and starts to play anew, again, anew.
What's new?
Winter waves goodbye with a snowfall or two. The view out every window is a Baker's display, icing on every tree and fencepost.
Dawn. Lights on. Snow sugar crystals shine back the sunrise.
It's not optimism; it's observation.
The certain ways of poets and artists of seeing The World have laid quiet for so long.
The consequences of which are our nightly News.
Comedians do their best to lighten up the language of what's going on.
But it's not enough.
There's more to funny than being funny.
There's laughter funny and there's remarkable curious funny.
The latter is in the realm of Wonder.
O/
Irony is the realm of poets.
What's ironic can be worth laughing about, so poets and comedians get along well as a rule.
Irony is the display of the power of language. That words have to have agreed upon definitions to be of any value, yet they can mean something more, or something else, is the ultimate act of irony.
We grow; we evolve and so does our language. That we depend so much on something for our survival that is transitory by design is irony manifest.
Academic words at dawn... the sunrise loves to shine on cake frosted trees.
I'd rather write about deserts than the function of Irony, but my craft is an endangered species due to the misunderstanding of its necessity.
Every single word hopes to mean more.
Did you know?
Love is always looking for definition.
That one you're familiar with.
But all language is like that; it grows with the times.
Even Scientific theories adapt and grow.
Newton lives in a new town since Einstein came around. New words gave new definitions to old words and changed his zip code.
The work of poets. What both Newton and Einstein did was to use the language of Science to commit acts of Poetry. E = mc2 is using old words to shape and share a new dream. Also known as: Poetry.
The practical use of poetry is easy to see in a word like Freedom.
Our agreed upon definition needs an update.
At least a reminder.
Going to enjoy the view.
Take care and make a wonderful day.
~ Wynn ~
Brought to you by the emoji of the day: ❄️snowflake
Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink image of a person looking out a window at sunrise watching the snowfall while holding a cupcake.
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People Who Enjoy Quiet Rooms
If everyone in the World could easily sit quietly in a room alone everyday for thirty minutes, almost every tragedy of humanity would subside.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
The Sun shows about a minute earlier everyday until the solstice in June.
How did we forget?
Fire and electric lights... is the answer.
Undertaking this Wonder Fell project has taught many things, some practical, others metaphysical, the thoughts we think at daybreak.
At least poets do. O/
Like: If the Sun isn't up and it's past 6 AM in the Northeast, it's Winter.
Real quality of life details we so rarely consider. Every plant cares when the Sun rises, each animal too.
Fire and electric lights got us out of sync with the World.
They're a help in so many ways... sure.
But we have to use our technology to compliment rather than deny Nature... to encourage and direct her.
It's gratitude and taking care of our house.
And ourselves.
Our bodies are made of the Earth. The smart thing to do is to recognize how the World works best and mirror it to care for our bodies.
When we push against Life, life pushes back.
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The most interesting thing regarding showing up at the same time everyday to keep a 'what's on your mind' journal is the eclectic nature of the entries.
My life is a writer's life: dependable comfortable peace and quiet is obligatory.
And well earned.
Artists must be soft in their lives to be loud through their work.
In a culture that's put sensationalism and a go-get-it get-er-done attitude on a pedestal, the ways of successful writers and artists don't easily add up to so many.
The space required to do our work is a quiet room. People who enjoy quiet rooms are labeled depressed, or so many other things, these days.
If everyone in the World could easily sit quietly in a room alone everyday for thirty minutes, almost every tragedy of humanity would subside.
Readers and Artists know this truth.
There's more to life than fireworks and faster.
There's the beautiful dream called yourself.
And it is Beautiful.
Have you checked in with yourself long enough to recognize it?
Life isn't an arbitrary duty; it's an opportunity to make something wonderful.
Take care and make something wonderful.
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink image of a person sitting in a quiet room looking out a window at sunrise.
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A Portfolio of Your Dreams
Surround yourself with so much evidence of the work you love that you're undeniable.
Sunday, February 08, 2026
Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.
Welcome Back. O/
Imagine doing work you love.
Take some time today, even five minutes, and do some.
Really.
Everyday do work that you love.
The more you do the more you're able to do.
Artists and Craftspeople, the World is with you. Some just don't understand your work at first.
The only way to feel right being any kind of Artist is to make your Art. Write, paint, draw, sing and shape notes.
Craftspeople, set up a shop in a quiet room and build something. People will understand you, but only by working.
Do what you love everyday. Build a portfolio of your dreams.
Surround yourself with so much evidence of the work you love that you're undeniable.
Artists and Artisans, Life gets better, but only by working.
You can create for five minutes everyday.
One true sentence or drawn shape, if you say depression is in the way, will get you evidence you're not depressed after a few weeks of making them.
Be undeniable to yourself.
There's a palace of words on Wonder Fell for my mirror.
Thanks for reading. O/
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There's something worthwhile in you worth sharing. Share it. Build something. A stick figure drawing, a dining room table, a new exhaust manifold, a sonnet... something.
The idea is to create. Find ways you most enjoy creating and go!
Fast or slow just go.
It adds up; it gets easier.
You are what you make yourself to be. It's called being an adult.
When we're young we dream ourselves the most incredible things: A Spaceship, A Dinosaur, A Dragon!
The practicality of growing-up doesn't need to end those dreams.
Adult! Make A Spaceship, A Dinosaur, A Dragon! Let me know when you do. I'd love to see your creations.
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Sun's up. Light blue, the kind you find in nurseries, for a sky. A few puffs for clouds. A day of Arctic temps for the Northeast United States.
Stay warm, dream something, make something, take care and make wonderful our wonderful day.
Wynn
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How Stories Shape Our World
No worries, it's not as dull academic as it sounds.
Thursday, February 05, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Something new and tried and true... The Sunrise.
And Wonder Fell. O/
Glad to be read by you.
On with our show...
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Practical matters lately. Getting New-New Hampshire set for formal publication.
Colore is still in the works. No worries, Dear Reader, we won't leave Hope, and Finn, and Langston standing at the threshold much longer.
There's the site redesign and clean up.
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Do you read Wonder Fell at night?
How ironic of you.
Having such a good relationship with irony, we're sure to be great friends.
Poet: Irony is in the job description.
Poets do write stories too, by the way.
When a poet writes a story it's called an Epic.
Wynn, The Poet, writes an Epic; it's called: Colore.
It's in the works. I post progress of it here and discussion of working on it here.
At present, the storyline is on pause to finish some world building.
One of the main differences between a poetical Epic story and the novels we're used to is the structure.
Poetry uses the form of the text to help shape its message.
No worries, it's not as dull academic as it sounds.
Dr. Seuss is an example of a poet using verse to help shape the story's message.
Colore is not a story for children, though there maybe a rhyme from time to time.
The poetic shape is that of characters experiencing mythic type stories and then juxtaposing the moral message of those events to happenings in the modern world: The Side-Stories.
The intent of Colore is to remind us how our stories shape our World.
It shows why The State of our Modern Press is our poison at present. It's a reminder of our responsibility to share better tales to see a better world.
We can only ever be as good as the dream we have of Ourselves.
Poets and Artists of all types shape ways to express what is possible to experience.
Our Arts and Entertainment industry in America right now is just as responsible for our Nation's divide as is The Press.
Where's Hope Hollywood?
Hope is in every story told well and every honest brushstroke of every Artist.
And so I write.
It takes words to heal Our Nation of Words.
Stories are always the best way to take that kind of medicine.
Popular music lyrics, as well, help give Hope.
Artists of America someone's got to be the adult in our Country's dividing room. My Vote is for The Arts to step up and heal Our troubled Nation.
Take care, if you're an Artist of any kind consider what hope you can share and where, then share it and make our wonderful day.
Wynn
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We're a Nation of Words
Poets and Literary Artists are the only means of medicine that ever heal Our Nation because we are a Nation of Words.
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
The sunrise returns sooner everyday, as of late.
Despite what groundhogs and meteorologists say, more opportunity to have a shadow at all, and not if you see it, is the true indicator of when Spring arrives.
Hope all's well, Dear Reader.
On with our show...
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The site changed! Wonder Fell updated its wardrobe. A new poem, which is now the title for the anthology of poetry here arrived:
A recognition of some of poetry's short story in our Country, with reference to Frost's anthology of about a century ago for the title.
America's changed a lot since then. Our views drastically shifted on some very poetical topics.
The stations of Poetry: Love, Faith, Joy, and Common Decency; look and sound vastly New.
It was time for an update.
A Nation built on a living document is only as strong as its shared understanding of its words.
Poets and Literary Artists are the only means of medicine that ever heal Our Nation because we are a Nation of Words.
What we talk about everyday as a Country, and how we talk about it, defines all that we can be.
Right now with the state of our Press and Arts our words aren't meaning all they could, so they don't mean all they should.
It's our Poet's, our Artist's, our Storyteller's responsibility to keep what's best about us always in the forefront of our thoughts.
The Arts give us language to express what is best about us.
We haven't seen much, if any, of what's best about us for some time in words.
And so I write with the sunrise every morning as a civic duty to remind us what's wonderful about us.
Words are my Life, my Love, my Livelihood; just like The United States.
We have so much in common.
Would we rather have what Our Country means defined by the state of The Press at present or by our greatest and most compassionate Artists?
Would we rather an American Shakespeare help to define what freedom and justice for all means or our current Nightly News?
Time to start listening to our Artists and our hearts again, America.
Let's take care of each other by redefining the meaning of the right of all of us to have Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness.
I'm not so usually so blatantly patriotic, but clarity is the most important aspect in Art and Life.
We're a Nation of Words and they're under fire, twisted and corrupted to serve a few.
I'm a poet; words are my Life and Livelihood. The trash perverting language, and so the very foundations of our Country, are messing also with my Love, my work, my Life.
And so I write.
We're so much better than we're allowing ourselves to be, America.
Remember what Freedom means to you, look around, see that's threatened right now, talk to each other about what you value, and make our wonderful day.
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen illustration of an open book on a table shaped like the United States of America at sunrise.
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A Poet's Paint
A place for a poet to have a conversation with his Country.
Sunday, February 01, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
The healthy way to start your day.
Thanks for being healthy. O/
True health starts on the inside.
The amount of stress your body feels determines its well-being.
So stressing out counting calories is counter-intuitive.
If you enjoy counting... it's a fine thing to do.
Interesting morning, health on the mind.
I wonder how many journal entries the world over deal with topics of physical well-being.
A large percent I'm sure.
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Wonder Fell's turned into more than just a journal. It's become a place for a poet to have a conversation with his Country.
Because what's missing most from America is what Poets do best: A quiet introspection and an appreciation of moments.
There are so many of us who believe the only way to make a song sound better is to turn up the volume.
Give that sentence a thought or two and you'll see it's the cause of all our Nation's unrest.
Our music and our media are worth more than a volume button consideration.
Substance over image... the substance makes the true value of the image: The Ghost Point.
How we shape and arrange the materials of our lives determines our worldly success. But how we choose, and what we choose, depends on the substance of our character.
How we do anything at all defines our ultimate success.
How we use our words determines their success. This is poet's work.
We're focused on how language works.
The properties of paint say what an Artist can paint.
The substance of language is a poet's paint.
And so Wonder Fell... to defend the materials of my work.
There's more to language than exclamation points. Someone tell our media and entertainment industry that periods, questions marks, and lyricism still exist. Someone show the view out our windows and on our screens is the result of not valuing them.
Someone is. O/
Thank you for reading. Take care and make a wonderful day.
Wynn
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