Last summer I decided to take up painting again. This marked my second foray into the medium, following a stint with oil and acrylic toward the end of my twenties, a period when I had mostly stopped writing and thought maybe I wasn't meant to be a writer and that I should probably think about doing something else with my time. Like paint. Part of what motivated me to try again was John Lurie’s show on HBO, “Painting with John”, which I first put on in May on an idle whim, blo