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To point-light, to go north, to pack right, to surge forth

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What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
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WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: Q: What skills or lessons have you learned recently?

Answer: To point-light,

  to go north,

   to pack right,

       to surge forth > > >

Title: Lot and His Daughters             Artist/Maker: Orazio Gentileschi (Italian, 1563 – 1639)     Date: about 1622                    Medium: Oil on canvas                Dimensions: Unframed: 151.8 × 189.2 cm (59 3/4 × 74 1/2 in.) Framed [Outer Dim]: 175.3 × 213.4 × 8.3 cm (69 × 84 × 3 1/4 in.) Place:Italy (Place Created)

Original photo shot by Myra Lambino

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1.Charming snakes 2.Channelling my inner Medusa 3.Ssss-slithering and Hisssssing 4.Shedding and leaving 5.According professional courtesy to members of the reptilian profession

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Share five things you’re good at.
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WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: Share five things you’re good at.

Sharing five things i’m good at: 1.Charming snakes 2.Channelling my inner Medusa 3.Ssss-slithering and Hisssssing 4.Shedding and leaving 5.According professional courtesy to members of the reptilian profession

derived from a photo shot by Myra Lambino,

Medusa 1911 by Vincenzo Gemito (Italian, 1852 – 1929),

The Getty: “xxx The sculptor Vincenzo Gemito derived his composition from the famous antique cameo, the Tazza Farnese, but transformed it into an entirely new kind of sculptural object. He revived Renaissance techniques of lost-wax casting to make the relief. Although he concentrated on the face of the two-sided, glistening metallic relief, he textured the back with snakeskin.”

(in this photo — just to clarify — Medusa is the one in gold po)