Tag: taking pictures

• Good Colors, Bad Colors, and Brown – Thoughts from February 17, 2026

  

  One day, I was listening to something that sparked many thoughts about many different subjects. As I was driving, I dictated these thoughts as email messages to myself. I automatically put any email I send to myself in a folder of notes. I try to take pictures of things that happen in my life so…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 25, 2026

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  2026, art classes, blood, brown, changing my favorite color, collections, colors, danger, dark green, discussion of colors, Dodger blue, Dodgers, email messages, emergencies, favorite animal, folder of notes, Garfield, Garfield phone, globe being covered in red paint, green, horror movies, liking red is creepy, love of tigers, loving cat, mallard ducks, mixing paints, mom’s favorite color, my favorite color is tan, my mind works faster than my mouth, notes, orange, orange fur, Patti, Patti likes pink, pink, pink cat dressed in Dodger blue, primary colors, purple, red, red cars, secondary colors, sparking thought, stripes like a tiger, taking pictures, thoughts, tigers, weird, what different colors mean to me, wood is brown, yellow, you want to feel wood

• Memories of Route 66, Anxieties, and Word Choices – Thoughts from October 12 and 20, 2024

  

  October 12, 2024 I haven’t written a Thoughts paper in a while. Actually, that’s not true. Why am I lying to you? Because I can. I should say I haven’t written anything unplanned. Patti and I took a Route 66 trip that I wrote about, but I didn’t write the entries on the date I…

  Brian Kirwan

  October 14, 2025

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  2024, a picture is worth a thousand words, airports, anxiety, anxious thoughts, arbitrary word choices, awkward, Couples Sans Souci, damaged emotions, dash cam, dash cam footage, easily triggered anxiety, electric bill, emotions, financial crisis, flying in a plane, heat of summer, images lead to memories, Jamaica, knowledge always wins over belief, only flying first class, Patti, Petrified Forest, realizing my error, Route 66 trip, snobbish rule, taking pictures, taking pictures throughout the day, thoughts, Thoughts paper, visual thinking, Wordscapes, wounded emotions, writing

• Route 66, Hotels, and Donkeys – Thoughts from September 15 and 16, 2024

  

  September 15, 2024 Today is not only Patti’s birthday, but it is the beginning of our Route 66 trip. We’re driving to various locations in Arizona and New Mexico. After we hit Roswell, we head back to California. We finished packing last night. I’m not sure I have enough clothes for the return trip, but…

  Brian Kirwan

  August 19, 2025

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  2024, American diet, Arizona, birthday, Brooklyn 99, California, complimentary breakfast, donkey food, donkey-related merchandise, donkeys by name, earplugs, eating out of your hand, eye mask, free-roaming donkeys, gas prices, giant guitar, Glenn Frey, hand sanitizer, Holbrook, homemade hummus, Lake Havasu, loud air conditioner, Netflix, New Mexico, normal breakfast, Oatman Arizona, old western town, on the corner, Patti, podcasts, pushy donkeys, regular metal key, Roswell, Route 66, Route 66 memorabilia, Route 66 trip, small hotel room, Take It Easy by the Eagles, taking pictures, tepee-shaped hotel, thoughts, TV volume, vacation breakfast, Winslow Arizona, YouTube