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C. Scott D.

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Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Excited to share new work first authored by Georgetown medical student Sweta Ghatti, comparing how medical humanities vs. empirical research approaches health disparities in DC. Congrats to our entire author team: Christopher King @charlescott.bsky.social, Xue Geng www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mapping DC health inequities: a scoping review comparing scientific and medical humanities approaches - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Mapping DC health inequities: a scoping review comparing scientific and medical humanities approaches
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Lovely thoughts to help celebrate May's National Bike Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. Celebrate next month with The Ride for Mental Health: www.rideformentalhealth.org #RideAwaytheStigma
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The Ride for Mental Health | June 21 & 22, 2025
The Ride for Mental Health is a ride in New Paltz, NY to benefit mental health. The proceeds raised will be donated to McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, for the education, research ...
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Honored to be on this team @gumedcenter.bsky.social & humbled that Medical Teacher deemed it worthy of a BEME Guide: Specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment: What is known and how can we intervene? A scoping review: BEME review no. 93 #MedEd pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40380975/
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Specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment: What is known and how can we intervene? A scoping review: BEME review no. 93 - PubMed
Specialty disrespect is a worldwide phenomenon negatively impacting the learning environment and specialty choice. It is experienced by trainees in many fields, though it disproportionately impacts pr...
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
DYK: three years before Alex Steinweiss changed the course of album art forever with the 1940 Rodgers & Hart comp for Columbia Records, he took 2nd Prize for this "See Your Doctor" poster?
Photo of a poster with a dark background and white text along the bottom (in all caps): 
See Your Doctor
Be Examined
Have a Blood Test
Above the text are three light silhouettes of presumably two older adults and one child basking in the the spotlight of a dark caduceus symbol. Poster was reproduced in the book: For the Record: the Life and Work of Alex Steinweiss
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 06/05/2025
A history of music album art. “Before most people owned a TV set, Steinweiss’s album covers were affordable multi-sensory entertainment. Looking at the album cover & listening to the music created an experience that was more than the sum of its parts.” [matthewstrom.com]
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The history of album art
I speak and write about design, front-end code, leadership, and (occasionally) math.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
What’s your fave workflow/deep focus music? I dig this research by Dr. Orpella and team @gumedcenter.bsky.social This Type of Music Can Increase Your Concentration and Productivity. www.georgetown.edu/news/discove...
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This Music Can Increase Your Concentration and Productivity
A new study found that a certain type of instrumental music can boost both listeners’ mood and concentration.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
If you’re like me and don’t want to see AI overviews in your Google search results, after your search terms, just add -ai Hot tip from one of my favorite health profession educators.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Here’s a question to celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month and National Poetry Month: what do you call #poetry derived from the song titles on one side of a #jazz LP?
Lover Come Back to Me 
Where Are You
Makin’ Whoopee
Ill Wind

This is a photo of Side B track names from Ben Webster’s Soulville LP on Verve. (The pen mark is from a previous owner).
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
RefWorks now has a plagiarism checker pilot program available within their tools. If you have access to RefWorks, have you tried it yet? #AcademicSky #Librarians
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Taking a break from working on a peer review to celebrate #Caturday. Spinning this Kenny Barron & Tommy Flanagan #jazz LP that I recently bought in Beacon, NY. It’s a Japanese release with fascinating yet inexplicable art by Satoshi Saito and photo by Masahisa Fukase.
Photo of a jazz record on a shelf and a cat figurine and pothos leaves on top. The record is a Japanese release of jazz piano duets with Kenny Barron and Tommy Flanagan. The cover art depicts a cat with neon light squiggles emanating from its rear?
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
That data and social bias article had me thinking about this enlightening 2023 presentation by Drs. Deyrup and Graves for the HAPI program at G'town: youtu.be/1Oq0S2jl77o?...
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Nice brief article discussing the data and social biases that readers of scientific studies should have on their radar: #KYEO
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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Anyone can check out a book. Anyone can enjoy air-conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter. Anyone can use the bathroom, sit on a soft chair, log onto the internet. Everyone’s library card looks the same. Children can encounter new worlds, and elders can find community. There’s no red tape.
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The INDY's 2025 Library Series
Our public library system increasingly feels like a miracle.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Released #OnThisDay in 1964, this sublime album: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus. One of my favorite LPs of all time.
A photograph of a record sitting atop a blue chord organ. Record is Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus by, ah um, Charles Mingus, released on the Impulse label. 
Or is it Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus by Mingus (based on the font design)?
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Easin’ in to 2025 with the latest absolute groover from @rosecityband.bsky.social courtesy of @thrilljockey.bsky.social
Rose City Band’s newest LP “Sol y Sombra” sitting atop a blue chord organ. LP is out from Thrill Jockey on January 24,  2025. Preordered my purple vinyl like a RCB nerd and already received it!
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If you have access to @bmj.com, check out this timeless list of Climate Fiction provided by @thelakshmik.bsky.social. There are a few that I still need to read! doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Nice short piece in the Lancet: On Paying Attention #MedicalHumanities www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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On paying attention
Coined in 1971 by Nobel laureate economist Herbert A Simon, the term “attention economy” describes attention as a most valuable and limited resource. In this zero-sum game, the growing “wealth of information means the dearth of something else” or, as Simon observes, “a poverty of attention”.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
*Laszlo Cravensworth voice* “Cat?!” 🦇
Illustration from a book that depicts an animal unfortunately nailed to a wall. The animal has a head of a cat, wings of a bat, and a torso of who knows what. Below the animal are three mice or rats, acting like everything is totally normal. The book is by Athanasius Kirchner (D’Athanase Kirchere) whose name is above the animal along with the page number (113). From the NLM’s Images from the History of Medicine collection: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101595214
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Me trying to explain how I can telework as a #librarian:
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
A Journey by Nikki Giovanni from Those Who Ride the Night Winds (1983) poets.org/poem/journey
Photo of the poem "A Journey" written by Nikki Giovanni and take from my copy of Those Who Ride the Night Winds (published in 1983). 

Poem Reads:

It’s a journey . . . that I propose . . . I am not the guide . . . nor technical assistant . . . I will be your fellow passenger . . .

Though the rail has been ridden . . . winter clouds cover . . . autumn’s exuberant quilt . . . we must provide our own guide-posts . . .

I have heard . . . from previous visitors . . . the road washes out sometimes . . . and passengers are compelled . . . to continue groping . . . or turn back . . . I am not afraid . . .

I am not afraid . . . of rough spots . . . or lonely times . . . I don’t fear . . . the success of this endeavor . . . I am Ra . . . in a space . . . not to be discovered . . . but invented . . .

I promise you nothing . . . I accept your promise . . . of the same we are simply riding . . . a wave . . . that may carry . . . or crash . . .

It’s a journey . . . and I want . . . to go . . .
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Fun old school holiday drink recipes from the @librarycongress.bsky.social What's your go-to holiday 🥃🍷🫖🍺🍸🍹☕🍶? blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/12/...
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Lift a Glass to Holiday Drinks Gone By | Timeless
Cheers to a list of favorite holiday drinks from long-ago mixology books in Library collections as curated by J.J. Harbster, head of the Science Reference Section. You can try the Baltimore Egg Nog fr...
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Born #OnThisDay in the town that gave me my license to drive, is this Hammond master: Jimmy Smith. I hope you’re still rockin’ the boat with Sweet Poppa Lou. #JazzSky
Photo of Jimmy Smith’s Rocking the Boat LP (Blue Note 1963) atop a chord organ with a wood block in the shape of a heart.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Found this item while working on manuscript revisions and citations. We're not citing this perspective but I strongly encourage the practice: "Using Punk Rock to Invite Dialogues on Diversity and Inclusion" www.facultyfocus.com/articles/equ...
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Using Punk Rock to Invite Dialogues on Diversity and Inclusion
From the outset of the class, you want to create an environment that welcomes discourse and provides some challenge to the students.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Exploring the Research Outputs where I work using @altmetric.com and these are the thirty articles that already have @bsky.app mentions. There's a long tail so apologies for the eye strain. Keep skeeting the good word!
Screenshot depicting the thirty articles by researchers where I work that have Bluesky mentions as of December 4, 2024. The article with the most mentions has thirteen mentions while the majority of articles only have one mention. Long tail, that.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Finding peace and comfort with this listen: Therapy by the Brendan Eder Ensemble. brendaneder.bandcamp.com/album/therapy
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Therapy, by Brendan Eder Ensemble
12 track album
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Roses are red, Violets are blue. Thoughts and prayers 'cause, AI is coming for your profession, too. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Huzzah! Scoping Review will finally be a Publication Type in PubMed MEDLINE starting in 2025. Reviews will get the rare retroactive indexing but unclear how far back.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
A Comedy of (Database) Errors: I’ve collected a few of my favorite #library database errors and bugs below. Please share your favorite errors?!
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This stellar album was recorded #OnThisDay: Booker Ervin’s The Freedom Book. Featuring Richard Davis, Jaki Byard, and Alan Dawson. If we are to believe the sleeve notes, this is the first time the quartet played together and the session was recorded in five hours!? #jazzsky
Photo of Booker Ervin’s The Freedom Book reissue LP sitting on a white shelf. Green leaves from a pothos plant can be seen above.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
To help celebrate #Caturday, here's a relatively recent document from the National Library of Medicine's historical collections, demonstrating a unique perspective of cat therapy: resource.nlm.nih.gov/101611663
Color illustration of a seemingly distressed black & white cat sitting on a wooden chair and all four limbs submerged in metallic tubs filled with water. Attached to the tubs are devices that provide electric currents, which were thought to be therapeutic (Schnee Four Cell Bath). The distressed cat is apparently saying "I say! Stop it!!" while an orange cat standing on the left and dressed in a nurse's uniform is smiling mischievously; all totally normal. The artist's name, Louis Wain, is written on bottom right corner.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Books Not Bars
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Is this a controversial take?: Instead of gravy with your Thanksgiving dinner, try お好みソース (okonomi sauce); spicy preferred but regular will also work. おいしいですよ いただきます
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
#NowReading this disparate yet complementary pairing of nonfiction and fiction: The Occasional Human Sacrifice by @carlelliott.bsky.social and We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Ishida Syou. #Booksky
Photo of two hardcover books against fireplace bricks that have been painted blue:
On the left stands The Occasional Human Sacrifice by Carl Elliott: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No. This book’s dust jacket has a photo of a large orange pill capsule against a yellow background. 

On the right stands We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Ishida Syou. This book’s dust jacket has an illustration of a giant orange pill container with a grey tabby cat (with black stripes and a white belly) coming out of the container like it’s totally normal.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Long shot here, but are there any other #librarians attending #PRIMR24?
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Finding peace and comfort with this #SaturdaySpin : All is Sound by the Cosmic Tones Research Trio.
All is Sound LP by the Cosmic Tones Research Trio, resting on top of a  blue chord organ.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
So much to love about this one:
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Mood: Sometimes I Wish by Black Merda. tuffcityrecords.bandcamp.com/track/someti...
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Sometimes I Wish, by Black Merda
from the album The Folks From Mother's Mixer
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
While working on a complex search about neglected topical diseases, I was reminded of this fantastic release by Yellow Fever (cats and rats!):
Yellow Fever's 2009 LP release that compiled their previous output. Yellow Fever's name is hand-drawn in yellow against a plain brown background; above is a black-lined drawn rat who is eagerly looking at the viewer; below is a black-lined drawn who is laying down and looking a little judgemental.
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curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
'White Cat Hissing at Its Reflection in a Black Lacquer Mirror Stand' - Yashima Gakutei, 1820. #WyrdWednesday #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt
A white cat hisses at its reflection in a mirror. The reflected cat looks like a black cat.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Calling out to... youtu.be/nt3WWKV2EPk?...
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All You Cat Lovers - Immersion | Tarwater
YouTube video by headgit
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Me trying to put on a brave face each morning:
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
*Jon Spencer voice*
Photo of a bag of coffee with text above and below a generic brown clip art design (decorative steaming coffee cup, coffee beans, cinnamon sticks, and other doo-dads). The text reads: 
“Flavored Specialty Coffee
Naturally Flavored with other Natural Flavors”
Which I like to imagine as a discarded outburst from the penultimate track off the 1994 album, Orange, one of my favorite JSBX LPs.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
"The Dance of Death," German oil painting, 18th century. It depicts living people from all walks of life encountering skeletal figures who force them to engage in a deathly dance - a metaphor for the inevitability of our ultimate demise. #Halloween2024 #History #Death
Various scenes showing skeletons dancing with living people, showing them to their graves.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
If you’re up for it, grab your wheels…
Still from the anime Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na! (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)
An adolescent, riding a bike, wearing a green olive colored jacket with a camouflage backpack and hat, is saying to another character behind and out of frame: “Because we’re going sound hunting!” Like it’s a totally normal response to any and all questions.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
This #librarian, who works in a health sciences library, absolutely adores this one-two punch from Bob’s Burgers.
(Still from the animated show Bob’s Burgers, 1 of 2)
Louis Belcher, wearing her normal pink rabbit ear hat, sitting/hiding behind the low book shelves in the school library with a book open in her hands and reading intently. The book has  “Medical Encyclopedia” written on the front cover. Louise is sitting next to Tammy and Tammy says: “Oh God, don’t open it-“(Still from the animated show Bob’s Burgers, 2 of 2)
“You’ll get book smell everywhere.” Tammy finishes her statement from the previous shot.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
We are now less than eight months away from the Ride for Mental Health. Perhaps you might want to see what it’s all about and join the riders and volunteers to help #RideAwaytheStigma www.rideformentalhealth.org
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The Ride for Mental Health | June 21 & 22, 2025
The Ride for Mental Health is a ride in New Paltz, NY to benefit mental health. The proceeds raised will be donated to McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, for the education, research ...
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
The Treachery of Images: ce n'est pas une publicité (1883)
From a 19th century medical magazine, a rad black line drawing of a human skeleton superimposed on a penny-farthing, with the text:
This is not an advertisement but a request, to each practising physician who reads it, to send us his name and address, for a small treatise on THERAPEUTICS and the terms of a CONFIDENTIAL OFFER of OVER $450 in prizes, to physicians only, by THE POPE M'F'G CO., Makers of Columbia Bicycles & Tricycles 551 Washington St., Boston, Mass
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Now and forever, vote for books! 💙📚
Photo of a bookmark with the words “Vote for Books” in all caps with caricatures of an elephant and donkey wearing a red, white, and blue top hat like it’s totally normal.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 12/10/2024
I don’t care that it’s gonna be in the upper 70s today, it’s time for Frost on the Pumpkin y’all! #bluegrass
Kenny Baker’s Frost on the Pumpkin LP, sitting along side a plastic cat balancing a Jack-o-Lantern on its back, like it’s totally normal.
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C. Scott D. @charlescott.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Upon seeing a Birge Harrison painting, I hoped to find music that evokes feelings of American #Tonalism: “… characterized by soft, diffused light, muted tones, & hazily outlined objects, all of which imbue the works with a strong sense of mood.” (Grove Art) What would y’all listen to? #MusicSky
Oil Painting by Lovell Birge Harrison: Moonlight Nocturne, Santa Barbara [date unknown]. 
Image of landscape painting with dark colors, small crashing waves along an empty beach with visible hills in the background and a full moon hanging low in the sky.
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