Motel art is its own special category of fine art. These are from the Condon Motel in Condon, OR:
I think your mule deer doe painting would look very nice in the right motel.
My brother found a single slice of American cheese tucked into the bedsheets in our motel room in Huntington, UT, when we were kid's tagging along on Dad's cow elk hunt. So that was interesting.
Barry, I can only imagine what you are going through--I am so sorry man. I wish you incredible strength to be there for your daughter and yourself, and that you receive enduring, loving support from your friends and family.
Like everything else, I'm sure it's incredibly nuanced. All I know is that I didn't choose a lot of my negative tendencies, but I can damn well choose to take the right action when it comes to acting upon them. This would be more difficult if I were living in a community that collectively fed...
I was going to say, that looks like a map of US poverty to my uneducated eye.
If I had to pick a category besides genetics that I'd imagine would determine someone's longevity, I'd bet it would be stress. The stress of poverty, and all its resultant behaviors (drug and alcohol abuse, poor...