Tag Archives: inspiration

Success and Failure, Winners and Losers

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Katherine Wikoff

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”  – Wayne Gretzky (MICHAEL SCOTT 😄) Great quote, of course, but even more intriguing and inspiring to me is the original context in which Gretzky said it. The passage below is … Continue reading →

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Bloom where you’re planted!

Posted on November 23, 2024 by Katherine Wikoff

I thought of that saying right away about two weeks ago when I saw these cheerful flowers (um, weeds) growing out of the crack at the base of this brick wall where it hits the sidewalk (and took a picture, … Continue reading →

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Karma? (Or, what goes around comes around)

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Katherine Wikoff

Remember Rueben Kincaid, the Partridge Family’s manager? A while ago I read David Cassidy’s memoir (C’mon, Get Happy) and discovered that Dave Madden, the comedian and comic actor who played Rueben, was a really sweet, generous person. Among his good … Continue reading →

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Shaded sunlight through slanted blinds

Posted on June 17, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

It has been a while since a collection of geometric shapes caught my eye, but I really liked the patterns of light and shadow seen here in the dark vertical, light horizontal, and even-lighter slanted lines created by sunlight filtering … Continue reading →

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Tenacity

Posted on May 12, 2022 by Katherine Wikoff

I don’t know what kind of tree this is, but I have to admire the tenacity with which it continually regrows branches/suckers that have been cut off. You can see scarred burls from years of pruning all along the length … Continue reading →

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Some Friday going-home-from-work photos

Posted on November 6, 2021 by Katherine Wikoff

I was going to do one post and title it “Blue and Red” (you’ll see why), but I decided that these pictures would make better sense if I just lumped them all together beneath an umbrella title uniting them within … Continue reading →

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Reliving the famous “Ice Bowl” 50 years later

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel contains a fascinating oral history of the December 31, 1967, “Ice Bowl” NFL Championship Game between Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers and Tom Landry’s Dallas Cowboys. Link to the article here. Several thoughts come to mind … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on the Importance of Imperfection

Posted on December 29, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

It’s hard to believe now, but it must have rained last week. That’s when I snapped this photograph of/in a puddle on the sidewalk in front of MSOE’s Campus Center. This recurring puddle has been a remarkably fertile source of … Continue reading →

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Knot Art – How one artist developed a daily creative practice

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

I love this article in today’s Co. Design, “How An Apple Alum Found Her True Calling–In Knots.” Windy Chien, a former producer at Apple’s iTunes, is now an artist who creates hanging textile art, jewelry and lights from complex macrame … Continue reading →

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Why do Lands’ End and L.L. Bean have the same cover?

Posted on August 17, 2017 by Katherine Wikoff

That weird synchronicity that saw A Bug’s Life and Antz released just a month apart in fall 1998 strikes again. Look at these two catalogs we just received in the mail. (My husband’s eagle eye caught this.) How did this … Continue reading →

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