If I Can't See It, Does It Exist?
Happy 90th... ready to party... They want to go for a walk... I’ll see you when you get backTime to start the renovationsFall color has finally caught up with this bagoniaDogwood berries waiting for migrating birdsI should have put this crock away before the spider moved inSunchokes blooming in September= delicious stir-fry and soups in October (the roots taste like artichoke hearts)Hazelnut harvest. Time to get cracking.Yikes! 18 inch tall white face hornets nest... No wonder they got excited when I mowed near there.-
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Tag Archives: Culture
From the Bookshelf: Hillbilly Elegy, A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J. D. Vance
In my project of reading-books-I-already-have-then-moving-them-along, J. D. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, was next in the stack. This came to me by way of my mother-in-law, whom I believe read it for her book club. She then passed it on to … Continue reading
Theatre Review: I must be So-Mantic
In January we decided to move closer to joining the 21st century by setting up a Roku for our TV screen. We could now live-stream movies. A year or so ago, The Mrs had set up an Amazon Prime account, … Continue reading
Dept. of Alternative Facts: Gated Communities
gated communities: (n) development building technique which features walls and gates to control entrance to community, provide security for residents and owners, and give a sense of superiority over the rest of society outside the gates; typically lived in by … Continue reading
Brown Signs: Cusco, Peru, Textile Studios
Weaving the past. Weaving the future.
Brown Sign: Lake Titicaca, Taquile Island, Peru
Dance to save an island’s culture
From the Bookshelf: The World is Flat, and Requiem for the American Dream
Recently, my mother gave me a book to read, Noam Chomsky’s Requiem for the American Dream. Some years ago, she had given me Thomas L. Friedman’s The World is Flat, which I have neglected on my shelf as dust gathered. … Continue reading
Brown Sign: Gaugauin to Picasso, at the Phillips Collection
In my last post, Traveling in the Age of ISIS, I made a reference to art of Impressionist to Modernists painters, and how their world, as ours, was shattered by world events. While my thoughts were influenced by our holiday … Continue reading
