<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:17:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@alberto.abbate/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Fun time with my daughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today I spent the afternoon with my daughter staining papers with ink and brushes She started experimenting with spots of ink and water. She was fascinated with how the ink reacted with the water. Then]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/fun-time-with-my-daughter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/fun-time-with-my-daughter</guid><category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2016 22:17:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/x7L2VSNEiyAJGtud5iomHxqv8yu327qaGPGSzBheEnW3uo1vDVEn9y9AKW6ca4FrVAT2wrvAa6w4cyL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style - Charles Bukowski]]></title><description><![CDATA[Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it To do a dangerous thing with style]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/style-charles-bukowski</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/style-charles-bukowski</guid><category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 20:59:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/KWcVEiwEzuiGGuVCeLVBCiRpAtpxrke8skRkSDKY5gzXqhMshicHVncA7pCTVuaTXtAUx85QT5bimPeNM4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[White canvas]]></title><description><![CDATA["She thought she had her life sorted.  But suddenly something happened and everything changed.  For a moment she felt lost. She didn't know what to do. She had lost her North.  One day she]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@alberto.abbate/white-canvas</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@alberto.abbate/white-canvas</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2016 20:15:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/KWcVEiwEzuiGGuVCeLVBCiRpAtpxrke8skRkSDKY5gzXqhMshicHVnc9JwxeXmYRCJXuHuG9e7hyzinEBQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time]]></title><description><![CDATA[I wrote this in one go. It was on the 26th of August 2016 at 8:24am. I can tell because I created a Note in my Iphone and it has the date and time in it. I wrote it to myself. Because I realised I needed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/poem/@alberto.abbate/this-is-the-time</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/poem/@alberto.abbate/this-is-the-time</guid><category><![CDATA[poem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:37:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[That voice - high, husky, earthy, explosive - remains among the most distinctive and galvanizing in pop history]]></title><description><![CDATA["You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for." Janis Joplin]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/that-voice-high-husky-earthy-explosive-remains-among-the-most-distinctive-and-galvanizing-in-pop-history</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/that-voice-high-husky-earthy-explosive-remains-among-the-most-distinctive-and-galvanizing-in-pop-history</guid><category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:06:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BRWJ2XuBRXQxQtwjkpK59RMNMgNesBg1KjxnQZsCYzrZHkBx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding like "it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."]]></title><description><![CDATA["The universe is making music all the time." Tom Waits]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/he-has-a-distinctive-voice-described-by-critic-daniel-durchholz-as-sounding-like-it-was-soaked-in-a-vat-of-bourbon-left-hanging</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/he-has-a-distinctive-voice-described-by-critic-daniel-durchholz-as-sounding-like-it-was-soaked-in-a-vat-of-bourbon-left-hanging</guid><category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 23:00:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BRWJ2XuBRXQxQtwjkpK59RMNMgNesBg1Kjxmshea8hCdvJvS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA["I was not really a punk..."]]></title><description><![CDATA["When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock' n' roll was asleep." Patti Smith]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/i-was-not-really-a-punk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/i-was-not-really-a-punk</guid><category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:53:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BRWJ2XuBRXQxQtwjkpK59RMNMgNesBg1Kjxfv41cF3UvNnhC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince (1958-2016)]]></title><description><![CDATA["A body like yours oughta be in jail. / 'Cause it's on the verge of being obscene." Little Red Corvette (1982)]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/prince-1958-2016</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/prince-1958-2016</guid><category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:45:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BRWJ2XuBRXQxQtwjkpK59RMNMgNesBg1KjvJSpftxeBWapfx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[A magpie]]></title><description><![CDATA["A magpie can be happy or sad: sometimes so happy that he sits on a high, high gum tree and rolls the sunrise around in his throat like beads of pink sunlight; and sometimes so sad that you would expect]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/a-magpie</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/drawing/@alberto.abbate/a-magpie</guid><category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[alberto.abbate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2016 22:38:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/BRWJ2XuBRXQxQtwjkpK59RMNMgNesBg1KjvF8zNMMWDQQXG2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>