Day 1

“Change how you SEE and SEE how you change”

Zen proverb (a variation was made popular by Wayne Dyer – “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” )

Drawn 9/12/2025


Day 2

“Things average out: if you think too much of yourself, others won’t.” – Folk aphorism
I looked the quote up just now to get the right source and this is what they told me. hahaha, I’m famous!


Day 3

“The only benefit you get from judging others is a brief distraction from your own life.”
Drawn today, 9/3/2026

Anonymous


Day 4

“Tact consists in knowing how far to go in going to far.”

quote by French artist, poet, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau


Day 5

In DFW on the way to North Carolina
She couldn’t get the water bottle open so I did it for her then I drew her.

Drawn 9/12/2011


Day 6

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home. But unlike charity, it should end there.”

Drawn 9/19/2012


Day 7

“What does labor want?
More schools, less jails;
More books, less guns;
More learning, less vice;
More Justice, less revenge;
In fact, more opportunities to cultivate our better nature.”

Samuel Gompers, President of the AFL, 1893


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