As if war in Europe is not enough, I can't fathom that people are talking about civil war in Canada.
Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917
Swamps, beaver dams and logging chutes: the subjects are endless.
Avoid entering a canoe with anyone who displays evangelical fervour.
A moment is a hard thing to capture.
Surprise your darling with a leopard skin. Only $450 at Simpson's Dept Store. Open until 10pm tonight. 

Alone in a studio, one learns next to nothing about painting and nothing about life.
Hello Christmas!
I mind my own business and I expect others to mind theirs.
Art lives in its mistakes.
1916 Snow Shadows #tt1916 

Someone described me as an artist with limited funds and a drinking problem.
No need to shout at the Almighty, he won't listen
That an artist needs to be depressed and drunk to do his best is utter myth
Guiding yourself to bed by candlelight makes life feel less complicated.
It is better to be true to yourself than be a groomed puppet of insincerity and falsehood
I was impressed by Jackson's 'Edge of the Maple Wood' at the 1912 OSA Exhibition.
I still have the sketch that I painted into the canvas 1915 Moonlight #tt1915 

Every man passes his life in search for friendship.
I had something that nobody else could acquire - the north in my blood.
I was more than an aging farmboy - pulling eggs from chickens I've never seen