5CT for May 2017

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From the new 5CT corporate headquarters on Whidbey Island, we bring you the No country for old men who love cortado’s edition. 1. Our editorial team uses Bear all day long. 2. Let’s say you’ve heard about ‘storytelling’ and how ‘storytelling’ might help your business. What to do? 3.Where do fairy tales come from? 4.Please do enjoy this sparkly shop window duet. 5. Poems from an unlikely — or perhaps not — place. “If you want to be happy, be,” said Leo Tolstoy and what, we should argue?

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Bear

5CT February 2017

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And so we careen into February hoping for the best, prepared for the worst. As always, there is art and music and writing to help. Meet an artist from Venice, CA and do observe his magic with magazine clippings. Who to follow on Twitter in these days of sound and fury? Who should we read? A wicked smart Seattle artist tells the creative class what it needs to know. The courageous team at the Munich Post kept at it until the end. And because we all need music more than ever, a 5CT Winter Playlist. I love you, 5CT readers.

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Jay Kelly |Venice Beach, CA

{ As One | Jay Kelly }

5CT for December 2016

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One hates to boast, but just this once. EPIC issue. Hope you enjoy as much as the 5CT team enjoyed putting it together. It’s that season, so hold your lovelies close. Especially in these perilous times. “I wish there was a treaty between your love and mine,” said Leonard Cohen, and what could anyone possibly add to that? Have a lovely, lovely season.

1. Kait Dunton and the joy of the trio

This is Kait Dunton’s world and I’m smitten. I’ve listened to this song about 150 times. My second favorite tune of hers is Real and Imagined. To find out more pop on over here —>

5 Cool Things for Oct. 2016

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Herewith, five great notions, quotes, thoughts, passages, and a poem, from poet-philosopher, and Puget Sound resident, David Whyte. What’s unusual is that this poet works in the corporate world. Whyte also seems to have helped inspire the formation of Dark Angels, the UK-based writing collective. (Of which I am a proud member.) I thought this was perfect. “And so the ability to ask beautiful questions, often in very unbeautiful moments, is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered.” (Thanks to Tim and Neil, friends and 5CT subscribers for the tip.)

david-whyte by Nicol Ragland

5CT August 2016

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To the lazy days of summer’s end, I welcome you. First, over to England for some great black and white photographs. A hot tip on a great little notebook. LARB—dish from Laos or book review website? Baa Baa Black Sheep by Wynton Marsalis is the perfect accompaniment to tour the work of a Portuguese goddess of abstract painting. “At night I would go to sleep dreaming of sea adventures.” – John Claridge

{The canal, 1966, John Claridge}

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The River Tay, Scotland

Select fine art prints now available. Pop over here for details.

Paris, France

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ~ Robert Frank

Pears, Seatte, Wa

These prints are five-by-five inches and matted on acid-free rag board.

photo of a lake on the Olympic Peninsula

Lake Ozette, Olympic Peninsula Wa

"To collect photographs is to collect the world." ~ Susan Sontag

Sailboat, Puget Sound

Space Needle, Seattle, Wa

The bass player

Cappuccino

Dream

Thomas Merton

"Now let us frankly face the fact that our culture is one which is geared in many ways to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self. We live in a state of constant semi-attention to the sound of voices, music, traffic, or the generalized noise of what goes on around us all the time. This keeps us immersed in a flood of racket and words, a diffuse medium in which our consciousness is half diluted: we are not quite ‘thinking,’ not fully present and not entirely absent; not fully withdrawn, yet not completely available. It cannot be said that we are really participating in anything and we may, in fact, be half conscious of our alienation and resentment…We just float along in the general noise…”

5 Cool Things

Category Books

5CT for May 2017

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Bear

5CT February 2017

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Jay Kelly |Venice Beach, CA

5CT for December 2016

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Kait Dunton and the joy of the trio

5 Cool Things for Oct. 2016

5CT August 2016

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Writing Shed, Whidbey Island

Thomas Merton

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Writing workshops

5CT RUNS ON CORTADO’S

photographs from one year

Category Books

1. Bear

1. Jay Kelly |Venice Beach, CA

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Kait Dunton and the joy of the trio

PURCHASE A PRINT

Writing Shed, Whidbey Island

Thomas Merton

Gift

Writing workshops

5CT RUNS ON CORTADO’S

photographs from one year

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Bear

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Jay Kelly |Venice Beach, CA