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Wanda Sykes: Very Funny!

If this doesn't get you to laugh out loud, nothing will!

Wanda Sykes is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. This bit she did is all too familiar--haven't we all done this one time or another.

True laughter, from deep in the belly, is such good medicine and we don't do it enough...God knows we all certainly need it these days!

And while we are still laughing, let's go back to better times. Here is Wanda Sykes performing at the White House Correspondent's Dinner in 2009. And Barak Obama himself performing at the same dinner in the last year of his presidency. And one more: the best of Trevor Noah.

Road_art1

The artist known as Road_art1 instagram.com/road_art1/ is a creator of these great optical illusions with chalk. Have a look at some of his amazing creations that can fool just about anybody or anything….

Poem by e.e.cummings

O sweet spontaneous

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting

fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked

thee
has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

beauty .
how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and
buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest

them only with

spring)

Painting of the Week

Just finished this painting in my studio in Maine

Charity of the Week:

About The Author

New York City based contemporary artist, Pam Smilow, began writing the creative lifestyle blog “things we love” in an effort to foster a sense of community during times of isolation and reflection. To read more about her and her art, visit her website and check out the essay written by the Hammond Museum's Frank Matheis entitled The Sophisticated Innocence of Pam Smilow.