“spring is a true reconstructionist.”
-henry timrod
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artist credit: eli halpin(elihalpin.com)
Mar20
Mar19
and on the seventh day…
if you’re like many of us who grew up in the 60s-70s
you’ll no doubt remember the popular ‘days of the week’ underwear sets
i loved the colors, the names,
the sense of knowing what day it was
without having to be burdened with a real calendar
yet i always wondered one thing about them –
why no ‘sunday’ pair?
what was the possible reason for this?
would god be mad if we wore underwear on sunday?
wouldn’t he be even madder if we didn’t?
i knew my catechism nuns wouldn’t have the answers.
i was left wondering.
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in the following scene from ‘when harry met sally’
sally explained the reason behind her latest breakup. great minds…..
HARRY: So how come you broke up with Sheldon?…SALLY: Well, if you must know, it’s because he was very jealous and I had these days of the week underpants.HARRY: [Makes buzzer sound]. I’m sorry. I need a judge’s ruling on this. Days of the week underpants?SALLY: Yes. They had the days of the week on them and I thought they were sort of funny. And then one day Sheldon says to me, “You never wear Sunday.” He’s all suspicious, “Where was Sunday? Where had I left Sunday?” And I told him and he didn’t believe me.HARRY: What? SALLY: They don’t make Sunday.HARRY: Why not?SALLY: Because of God.
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“this is sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?
-kurt vonnegut
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image credit: sassygrannysnickers on etsy
Mar18
the language of trees.
NYC Parks Are Using a Designer’s ‘Tree Font’ to Plant Secret Messages with Real Trees
Inspired by the nature around her, artist Katie Holten recently developed the New York City Tree Alphabet. Each letter is represented by an illustration of a different type of tree found in NYC. The letter A, for example is depicted as an ash tree, and the letter O is illustrated as an oak.
Holten is one of the first creatives to become an NYC Parks artist-in-residence, where she was asked to explore “the intersection of art, urban ecology, sustainability, nature, and design.” Holten’s resulting NYC Trees font is now available as a free download to anyone who wants to write secret messages in tree code. Not only that, but the NYC Parks Department plans to actually plant some of the messages as real trees in parks and other public spaces.
“Being an artist-in-residence with Parks meant that I could create a ‘real’ tree alphabet. When I say real, I mean legitimate, sanctioned, approved by the city,” Holten explains. “Often, this is exactly what you don’t want with/for an artwork! But in this case, because I really feel the project is a public service—providing a tool that people can use to interact with public space in a whole new way—it needed to be truthful and practical. It had to be something we could actually plant and that the city supported.”
Holten is currently accepting message submissions via her website. From poems to love letters, you can test out how your words would look as trees using the “Write with Trees” function on her homepage. “Right now, we’re leaving it completely wide open, so we’ve no idea what messages we’ll be planting. I’m excited to see what people send us,” Holten writes. “People have been suggesting words like ‘Dream,’ ‘Hope,’ and ‘Peace.’ But we’re also receiving longer messages, love letters, poems, and short stories. We’re curious to see how we could translate a long text into a grove of planted trees. It’s an exciting challenge and we can make up the rules as we go along, so anything could happen.”
Do you have a message you’d like to translate into your own custom forest? Planting begins in April 2019 in New York City. Download the font for free and check out Holten’s website for more details on the project.
Artist Katie Holten developed the New York City Tree Alphabet—each letter is represented by an illustration of a different type of tree.
“i think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”
-joyce kilmer
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image credit: Katie Holten
Mar17
where your heart is.
“your feet will bring you where your heart is.”
-irish proverb
happy st. patrick’s day
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image credit: art.com
Mar16
making money.
kinders have taken up a new hobby – counterfeiting.
they are now officially a gang.
‘i have ways of making money that you know nothing of.”
Mar15
find the safe spot.
after enjoying a day that finally hit a balmy 60 degrees (above zero!)
when home and relaxing at last
the tornado sirens started blasting
tv news was covering the local map live
updating the movement of the storm minute by minute
texts from the sheriffs buzzed saying to take cover.
because i live in an old cottage with no basement to be found
i went to my safe room (aka the bathroom) to hang out for a while
luckily, my natural survival instincts kicked in
and i took the following items with me to ride out the weather:
phone, laptop. chargers, flashlight, book, hot tea,
and for some unexplained reason –
an uncooked spaghetti squash.
i then decided that i might as well just take a lavender bath
enjoy my book and tea
and let the chips/cottage fall as they may
no worries.
balance was quickly restored
when the weather soon passed us by
and best of all
my spaghetti squash was still intact.
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“there is a safe spot within every tornado. my job is to find it.”
-david copperfield
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image credit: lush uk
Mar14
catkins.
the wonderful legend of one of my very favorite plants.
kindness, compassion, and gratitude at play.
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image credit: purple almond
Mar13
bambini.
i so love
my favorite italian restaurant’s
children’s menu options:
bambini –
CHEESE PIZZA 9
PASTA CLEAN 10
PASTA MESSY 10
no other options needed in my opinion
the holy trinity of italian children’s food.
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“oh, my God, I love pasta.”
-lana condor
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image credit: eating daily.com – menu credit: mani osteria
Mar12
more or less.
once again, the kinders have the right message.
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‘the day, water, sun, moon, night –
i do not have to purchase these things with money.”
-plautus
Mar11
retelling stories.
peter bence retells toto’s story of africa in a new way
not confining himself to just the keyboard
of this half million dollar piano
well worth a listen.
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“i’m an interpreter of stories.
when I perform it’s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
-nat king cole
