Gary Gautier
@garygautier.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, traveler, bum
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A little watercolour and ink sketch from long ago of people enjoying Hunstanton beach and its rock pools. You can glimpse the brightly-coloured helterskelter in the distance.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:41 AM
A little watercolour and ink sketch from long ago of people enjoying Hunstanton beach and its rock pools. You can glimpse the brightly-coloured helterskelter in the distance.
#Hunstanton #Norfolk #pleinair #watercolour
#Hunstanton #Norfolk #pleinair #watercolour
One Question
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One Question for Writer Gary Gautier
Many thanks to Francisco Bravo and editors at LatinosUSA for the recognition linked here: * * * Click covers for links * * * BOOK CLUB/group events arranged for …
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January 28, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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Hanging out
In treehouses
Or forgotten ways
Discussing the Vagaries
Of spiritual matters
But only Buddha taught the whole of the dharma
So it was decided
Mystery was fine
And Orpheus be dammed
Peanut butter sandwiches
And stingray bikes
Peddled fast
In an attempt
To escape
This mortal world
In treehouses
Or forgotten ways
Discussing the Vagaries
Of spiritual matters
But only Buddha taught the whole of the dharma
So it was decided
Mystery was fine
And Orpheus be dammed
Peanut butter sandwiches
And stingray bikes
Peddled fast
In an attempt
To escape
This mortal world
January 25, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Hanging out
In treehouses
Or forgotten ways
Discussing the Vagaries
Of spiritual matters
But only Buddha taught the whole of the dharma
So it was decided
Mystery was fine
And Orpheus be dammed
Peanut butter sandwiches
And stingray bikes
Peddled fast
In an attempt
To escape
This mortal world
In treehouses
Or forgotten ways
Discussing the Vagaries
Of spiritual matters
But only Buddha taught the whole of the dharma
So it was decided
Mystery was fine
And Orpheus be dammed
Peanut butter sandwiches
And stingray bikes
Peddled fast
In an attempt
To escape
This mortal world
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Entering El Dorado
Next bit after THIS BIT of the excellent post-apocalyptic adult hippie fairy tale, Alice… xxx Alice stood on the hilltop from which she and Rebecca had seen the medieval village. It was still…
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January 19, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Finally ... available worldwide in paperback and kindle.
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Finally ... available worldwide in paperback and kindle.
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Two Dreams and Two Hollows
Deep dive into craziness with a two-time Faulkner-Wisdom Prize finalist. Short stories and novellas, chipped with poetry and flash nonfiction, in a mashup of voices and styles. Realism and anti-realis...
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January 13, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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Finally ... available worldwide in paperback and kindle.
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Finally ... available worldwide in paperback and kindle.
amzn.to/49PiOfv
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‘It Rains with Wings’ by Regine Ebner
‘we lay down our swords
and make peace
with the cowboy moon.’
From ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
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‘we lay down our swords
and make peace
with the cowboy moon.’
From ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
🤠 🌙 🇺🇸
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
January 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
‘It Rains with Wings’ by Regine Ebner
‘we lay down our swords
and make peace
with the cowboy moon.’
From ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
🤠 🌙 🇺🇸
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
‘we lay down our swords
and make peace
with the cowboy moon.’
From ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
🤠 🌙 🇺🇸
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
Reposted by Gary Gautier
This oil on canvas showing the garden at the front of the studio was finished in 2024 and hung in the autumn exhibition of the Cambridge Drawing Society where it found a buyer. I called it "The Stepladder" (size 30" X 34").
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January 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM
This oil on canvas showing the garden at the front of the studio was finished in 2024 and hung in the autumn exhibition of the Cambridge Drawing Society where it found a buyer. I called it "The Stepladder" (size 30" X 34").
#art #oilpainting #cambridgegarden #oillamp
#art #oilpainting #cambridgegarden #oillamp
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Top Ten Novels in English
I expect to catch hell for this, as I did for my Top 50 Artists of the Rock Era and, more sparingly, my Top 100 Albums, but that’s part of the fun :) 1. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 2.…
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January 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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Two Dreams and Two Hollows
TWO DREAMS AND TWO HOLLOWS Deep dive into craziness with a two-time Faulkner-Wisdom Prize finalist. Short stories and novellas, chipped with poetry and flash nonfiction, in a montage of voices and …
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December 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Love’s Ragged Claws, full novella in author’s voice
As taped for WRBH radio, HERE is the full audio of Love’s Ragged Claws (print length 55 pages) in the author’s voice. Purchase options below. A confession after 50 years, a priest perpl…
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December 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Rebecca, the poultry!
continuing from here with the bestselling post-apocalyptic adult hippie fairy tale, Alice … xxx “Rebecca, the poultry,” cried a voice. This time it was Jeremiah. Now he was back at the half-t…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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I don’t have anything festive for the holiday, so here’s another birch painting I did in 2024.
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
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#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold
#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I don’t have anything festive for the holiday, so here’s another birch painting I did in 2024.
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold
#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
Fog Through The Trees
9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board
Sold
#art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart
#leadership #success #inequality #philosophy #socialethics #ethics
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Defining Success
LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier hit the nail on the head at a gala for rich LSU donors. He told the crowd, in my paraphrase, “If you make hundreds of millions of dollars a year, while a fam…
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December 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Alice
Alice - Kindle edition by GAUTIER, GARY. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Alice.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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After Alice Met with John Wilson
First there was “After Freyda the White Witch and Christopher the Mapmaker Did Not Make Love” … and now on to the next scene of ALICE … Alice sat in her favorite place besid…
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December 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Frankenstein del Toro
Since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is first and foremost a philosophical novel, it may be best to lay out my philosophical framework up front. That the monster represents some projected aspect of Dr…
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December 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM