Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

Happy Friday

The Drop
5” square
Black ink, watercolor paint, and colored pencil on cotton paper. #painting #watercolor

It drives me up the wall when people argue “Europe was built before cars" as a reason Europeans can support biking better than the US. On its face it doesn't make sense—we have *much* wider roads to reclaim for better uses, for instance. More, it’s ahistorical—many European cities were taken over by cars before they reclaimed space. This post has some nice before and after examples. #BikeTooter #Urbanism https://discerningcyclist.com/city-transformations-before-after/

📚 Artist: #HERA / #Herakut in City: #Vincennes 91,Rue de Fontenay, France 🇨🇵 2021 - Title: "The children asked the fox how to escape from everyday life. He answers “it’s easy, all you need is to open a book” - (Die Kinder fragten den Fuchs, wie man dem Alltag entfliehen kann. Er antwortet: "Das ist ganz einfach, man muss nur ein Buch aufschlagen") - (📷 by De La Couleur Sur Nos Murs) - #Art #Streetart #Reading #Mural #Books #UrbanArt

We’ve started laying a cone down when the #cat is under the rug so we don’t step on him 😂 🚧🐈

I refuse to bow to the nihilism. I will not accept doom as an inevitability that cannot be averted. I see no point in it. I understand that some people are just out of energy and out of ability to hope or to help. That makes me feel that it’s even more important that while I have hope I hold onto it and express it so that others who still do know that they aren’t alone and we can get together and do what we can to keep the lights on and the darkness at bay.

Focus of your research: EXTREME PETTINESS AND UNWILLINGNESS TO LET ANYTHING GO
https://xkcd.com/2894/