in my room on a beautiful morning while visiting.
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“in quietness the soul expands.”
-*rockwell kent
*rockwell kent was an american painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager
Mar21
Category Archives: Life
Mar20
hijinx on the first day of spring.
hijinx by maggie vandewalle
“Hijinx” is the very first hare painting by watercolor artist Maggie Vandewalle. This is a depiction of a spring day and the doings of English hares, having just just finished reading a book detailing their oddities. Hijinx is a wonderfully expressive piece, one that has inspired a whole range of hare paintings, but this being the first gives it a special place in her heart.
“i’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day.”
-the temptations
Mar19
off to the nunnery.
so off i go today
to the convent
where i’ll stay and meet up with
my sister and my aunt who is a sister
relax, talk, walk, meditate, share meals, laugh, cry, remember, tell stories
see her sacred and important places
shared spaces
if i was a nun
i imagine myself
singing and running through the hills
like sister maria in the alps
but i think this spring break
slow and easy
may be exactly perfect
a time of rest and renewal.
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“get thee to a nunnery, go.”
– hamlet to ophelia (written by william shakespeare)
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photo credit: 20th century-fox studios, the sound of music, 1965
Mar18
‘trash has given us an appetite for art.’- pauline kael
A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.
The Treasures in the Trash Collection
On the second floor of a nondescript warehouse owned by New York City’s Sanitation Department in East Harlem is a treasure trove—filled with other people’s trash.
Most of the building is used as a depot for garbage trucks, but there’s a secret collection that takes over an entire floor. The space is populated by a mind-bogglingly wide array of items: a bestiary of Tamagotchis, Furbies; dozens of Pez dispensers; female weight lifting trophies; 8-track tapes; plates, paintings, sporting equipment and much more.
The Treasures in the Trash collection, was created entirely out of objects found by Nelson Molina, a now-retired sanitation worker, who began by decorating his locker. Collected over 30 years, it is a visual explosion, organized by type, color, and size. Atlas Obscura had the chance to visit the collection with the New York Adventure Club, take some photos, and revel in the vast creative possibilities of trash. Unfortunately, this isn’t a collection that keeps regular hours; drop-ins are not allowed. For more information on the occasional organized tours, email tours@dsny.nyc.gov. Sanitation workers are welcome anytime.
“uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse.”
-j.r.d. tata
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source credits: atlas obscura, dylan thuras, new york adventure club
collection location: 343 East 99th St., New York, New York, 10029 usa
Mar16
fever.
coats ‘n kids go separate ways
as they hope for spring
on these sunny days.
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“it’s spring fever. that is what the name of it is. and when you’ve got it,
you want -oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
-mark twain
Mar15
disappearing acts.
on world sleep day
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“for disappearing acts,
it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours
supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.”
-doug larson, american newspaper columnist
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photo credit: the daily mail, elizabeth spence (archie the rescue dog and nora)
Mar10
daylight saving time-ku.
time changing on the clock face
same hours in a day
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“time is how you spend your love.”
-nick laird, northern ireland novelist and poet
mars has shared its heart-shaped craters, mesas, and depressions
photo credit: NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Mar6
party babies.
when a baby goes rogue looking for cracker crumbs in our classroom
at a class shower for my teaching partner’s soon to arrive first baby
roaming baby’s mom said not to worry,
she is just building up her immunity.
clearly not her first child.
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“babies are such a nice way to start people.”
― d
Mar5
the passing parade.
the diag at center of the university of michgan campus
on a beautiful day
a good people watching place to be.
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“i’m still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to.
for me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.”
-garry trudeau
-Garry is an american satirist whose comic strip, doonesbury,
reflected social and political life in the united states during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Mar4
the whole world gets bigger.
“oh how I love to read, she thought. ihe whole world gets bigger.”
— Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet The Spy (1964)
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i always was interested in detectives and spies, and books were a way for me to feel a part of it.
without any real danger, but just enough suspense…
on international book day
I didn't have my glasses on.... 