A store where you can have your stringed instrument made or repaired by appointment only!
A Florida principal has resigned under pressure from the school board after three parents complained that an art teacher had shown Michelangelo’s statue of the biblical shepherd “David” (1501–1504) to their 11- and 12-year-old sixth-graders. One parent even said the famous artwork was “pornographic.” The art teacher’s lesson was part of the curriculum’s mandatory unit on Renaissance art.
What is the saying? Red sky at morning? And of course we have to drive across three states today. Worried about the higher elevations.
Saffron spice, more dear than gold.
Fiona and Chas warming themselves by the fire. Dog painting on the wall is of our rescue dog Camille who passed years ago. Painting is by my wife.
Approaching Gridlock: Arundhati Roy on Free Speech and Failing Democracy
Sweden’s V-Dem Institute, with its detailed, comprehensive data set that measures the health of democracies, has categorized India as an “electoral autocracy” along with El Salvador, Turkey and Hungary, and predicts that things are likely to get worse. We are talking about 1.4 billion people falling out of democracy and into autocracy. Or worse.
Aurora - 30 Minute Forecast - NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
Apparently this was visible at our latitude last night. We are in lower Hudson Valley.
This Is the Lightest Paint in the World - WIRED
An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler.
Court noun: An extent of open ground partially or completely enclosed by walls or buildings; a courtyard.
In back of my morning coffee shop…
Who knew all those round stones we brought back from the beach would be useful one day? Gravlax press!
Getting my Gravlax on! 36 hours and counting!
Was poking around the Obsidian file structure and realized you can move files from one vault to another should you want to reorganize… game changer for me!
Looking for alternatives—better sights than we see, better sounds than we hear, a better mind than we have—keeps us from realizing that we could stand with pride in the middle of our life and realize it’s a sacred mandala. —Pena Chödrön
My photography is built on daily walks and chance encounters. Sometimes themes emerge and then I am more intentional.
Management of our local movie theater recently changed. They used to put up the movies playing on the marquee. Now it’s this. I depended on the Marquee. It feels like they’ve lost interest in me, the customer. They can’t be bothered, so I don’t bother.
This isn’t a store I ever remember going in, virtually or physically, yet somehow we are on a first name basis and they want to help me celebrate my birthday…
After dithering around with Substack and Buttondown as a solution to having a long form only blog, I realized I could give Manton and crew more money, while spending less than I would on Buttondown, if I set up a second Micro.blog blog.
Announcing, Essays On Attention Paid.
My sister shared this with me… it’s lovely. Worth the 15-20 minutes.
emergencemagazine.org/feature/v…
Every myth begins with the day everything changes.
Every myth sets us on a journey.
In this moment of ecological crisis, when everything is changing every day, will we say yes to the journey that lies ahead?
A bit of enlightened commercial making for Amazon Prime… I wonder how long it will be before the Ron Desantis' of the world seek to curb their “wokeness?”
laurietobyedison.com/body-impo…
The point of the commercial is that she can get the jacket quickly on Amazon Prime. The point of the film is that she finds a way to not just live with the mustache but make it into an advantage. The look on her face when she figures out what to do is priceless, and the very end of the film is a closeup of her lips, with lipstick and mustache.
This is interesting: hyperallergic.com/809531/ra…
The physiognotrace was popular up until the invention of the photographic camera in 1816 because it democratized the portrait and could create scientifically exact images. …because the profiles were so inexpensive — newspaper ads digitized on the microsite show four portraits costing 25 cents (approximately $5 today) — a greater range of individuals and families in different classes could afford to buy these images as keepsakes…
www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/2…
It seems inconceivable — that everything we know, everything we love, everything that ever was and ever will be, banged into being from the singularity, and out of that near-nothingness arose mitochondria and music and “the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else,” all of it conspiring in the wonder of consciousness — the universe’s way of comprehending itself. –Maria Popova
Scenes from yesterday’s walk…
Since I make my challenge photos fresh everyday I had some worries about finding an insect in the middle of winter. I found this weird mutant in a shop window…
Outtakes for this morning’s diminutive theme…
The above sell for $100 and up. They are limited edition art toys.
