Sunday, January 27, 2019
Banksy -- An Extraordinary Artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy#/media/File:Shop_Until_You_Drop_by_Banksy.JPG
Saturday, January 26, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Harold Pinter
Several years ago, I saw a performance by Julian Sands of Harold Pinter's work. The setting of Baldwin Auditorium provided a distinctive stage for the narrative.
Sands knew Pinter and was coached by him while rehearsing the working. Pinter was ill with cancer and chose Sands to do the delivery. John Malkovich directed.
Sands stayed afterward and chatted with the audience. It was a glorious evening.
Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, I believe. Here is his lecture for the Prize, which he was unable to attend.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/25621-harold-pinter-nobel-lecture-2005/
Sands knew Pinter and was coached by him while rehearsing the working. Pinter was ill with cancer and chose Sands to do the delivery. John Malkovich directed.
Sands stayed afterward and chatted with the audience. It was a glorious evening.
Pinter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, I believe. Here is his lecture for the Prize, which he was unable to attend.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2005/pinter/25621-harold-pinter-nobel-lecture-2005/
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Paris Haiku and Richard Wright
https://parishaiku.com/2016/02/24/haiku-paris-and-black-history-month/?fbclid=IwAR1JW6KyRaqXLc-ll5ySni6d7YiUc-PgHEzU7ZIIpBbw7FpEuiGpye3OvW8
Sunday, January 13, 2019
NASA
PHOTO FROM OUTER SPACE OF THE MALDIVES
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/5542/malosmadulu-atolls-maldives
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/5542/malosmadulu-atolls-maldives
Waahdee
Friday Noon Poets was wonderful. Tho I miss Conrad. He had a stroke and is recovering at home.
Earle gave me a copy of his new book, The Innocence of Education, which I'm reading now. He served in the Peace Corps in the Middle East, in Oman.
He uses this as his first sentence in a poem called "Understanding the Village Terrain:"
From the west ridge above it, Bukha
spreads out in the bed of the waahdee
beneath the Musandam's ancient peaks
and desolate, bare-rock mountain walls.
Three words in one sentence I've never heard before! Bukha is a village at the tip of Oman, couldn't find a meaningful definition of waahdee on the internet, and the Musandam Peninsula form the northeast point of the Arabian Peninsula. Looks to be a beautiful area judging from this Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukha.
Here's another lovely place, this one's in the Maldives.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g6697236-d13401195-Reviews-Waadhee_Inn_Vashafaru-Vashafaru_Island.html#photos;aggregationId=101&albumid=101&filter=7&ff=341419629
or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives#/media/File:Filitheyo_bar.jpg
Earle gave me a copy of his new book, The Innocence of Education, which I'm reading now. He served in the Peace Corps in the Middle East, in Oman.
He uses this as his first sentence in a poem called "Understanding the Village Terrain:"
From the west ridge above it, Bukha
spreads out in the bed of the waahdee
beneath the Musandam's ancient peaks
and desolate, bare-rock mountain walls.
Three words in one sentence I've never heard before! Bukha is a village at the tip of Oman, couldn't find a meaningful definition of waahdee on the internet, and the Musandam Peninsula form the northeast point of the Arabian Peninsula. Looks to be a beautiful area judging from this Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukha.
Here's another lovely place, this one's in the Maldives.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g6697236-d13401195-Reviews-Waadhee_Inn_Vashafaru-Vashafaru_Island.html#photos;aggregationId=101&albumid=101&filter=7&ff=341419629
or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives#/media/File:Filitheyo_bar.jpg
Sunday, January 6, 2019
A Hundred Things
Every month, I like to make a list of 100 things (big and small) I'm grateful for/that give me pleasure/ or places I've been. Here is the list for last month (Dec.)
1. The memory of visiting Paris.
2. Spending a week at the Findhorn Community in Scotland.
3. Having a rocking chair.
4. Warm days in winter.
5. Morgan getting home safely from Tulsa.
6. Female grads of West Point who fly helicopters.
7. Having a gentle day with food.
8. Homemade soup.
9. Being able to have Hulu for a few more weeks.
10/ My rent is paid up.
11. I completed a week at the Pilobolus workshop last year.
12. I might go back again.
13. Or maybe to New York for Gaga Technique
14. Hourglass timers.
15. Taking my time today.
16. Walking in the woods.
17. Having a Fit Bit
18. The Orange Couny Sportscomplex
19. Tai Chi
20. Qi Gong
21. My family.
22. The place where I live.
23. Going thru old photographs.
24. The film, "They Shall Not Grow Old."
25. The Imperial War Museum in London
26. A good doc tonight to watch while I bike.
27. Franklin's back!
28. My church.
29. Rusty
30. A lot of people who love me.
31. Mindfulness
32. Breath counting
33. Taking it easy
34. This phrase: "There is no failure" (Susan B. Anthony)
35. This quote: "The critic doesn't count.) (TR Roosevelt)
36. Beverly
36. A clean kitchen
37. Debussy
38. Having a gym where I live
39. A new place: the Orange County Sports Complex
40. My music.
41. Writing my first sestina
42. My poetry group.
43. Being a grandma
44. Wonderful FaceTime chats with my son.
45. iPhones
46. Shots today of the woods and the lake.
47. Tch Naht Hahn
50. Reading Issacson's bio of Einstein
51. Yoga
52. Learning that exercise can be fun
53. the American Library in Paris
54. Candles burning
55. Epsom salts
56. Warren Wilson College
57. NC Poetry Society
58. Warm soup
59. Savoring my soup
60. Hot showers
61. Warm baths
63, Planks
64. ADF
65, Steevie
66. The Beatles.
67. Playmakers
68. Throwing away papers
69. Deep breaths
70. Duke Chapel
71. Duke docs
72. Duke bookstore
73. Being here
74. Ram Dass
75, Present moment
76. No pressure.
77. Nantucket
78. Meditation
79. "The Reach"
80. Looking younger than I am
81. Green smoothies
82. Eating slowly today
83. My dad's photographs
84. A nice warm bed
85. Illustrated Poetry
86. My engravings
87. Chinese woodcuts
88. Jenny and her boys
89. the Gardner Museum
90. moving in a Tai Chi-esque way today
91. Chatting with my friend Faye, a Civil Rights worker from Durham
92. The Civil Rights exhibit at the Carolina Theatre has a photograph of her trying to buy a ticket
93. George Moses Horton
94. the Durham Museum of History
95. Centering Prayer
96. A peaceful way of eating while reading my Bible
97. Getting 3 poems published
98. the Sun Dance channel
99. the brilliant writer, James Baldwin
100. my career as a school librarian and having the opportunity to teach children about him
101. Now wanting to re-read "The Fire Next Time"
102. Learning about Baldwin's kindness and how he was so accepted abroad
1. The memory of visiting Paris.
2. Spending a week at the Findhorn Community in Scotland.
3. Having a rocking chair.
4. Warm days in winter.
5. Morgan getting home safely from Tulsa.
6. Female grads of West Point who fly helicopters.
7. Having a gentle day with food.
8. Homemade soup.
9. Being able to have Hulu for a few more weeks.
10/ My rent is paid up.
11. I completed a week at the Pilobolus workshop last year.
12. I might go back again.
13. Or maybe to New York for Gaga Technique
14. Hourglass timers.
15. Taking my time today.
16. Walking in the woods.
17. Having a Fit Bit
18. The Orange Couny Sportscomplex
19. Tai Chi
20. Qi Gong
21. My family.
22. The place where I live.
23. Going thru old photographs.
24. The film, "They Shall Not Grow Old."
25. The Imperial War Museum in London
26. A good doc tonight to watch while I bike.
27. Franklin's back!
28. My church.
29. Rusty
30. A lot of people who love me.
31. Mindfulness
32. Breath counting
33. Taking it easy
34. This phrase: "There is no failure" (Susan B. Anthony)
35. This quote: "The critic doesn't count.) (TR Roosevelt)
36. Beverly
36. A clean kitchen
37. Debussy
38. Having a gym where I live
39. A new place: the Orange County Sports Complex
40. My music.
41. Writing my first sestina
42. My poetry group.
43. Being a grandma
44. Wonderful FaceTime chats with my son.
45. iPhones
46. Shots today of the woods and the lake.
47. Tch Naht Hahn
50. Reading Issacson's bio of Einstein
51. Yoga
52. Learning that exercise can be fun
53. the American Library in Paris
54. Candles burning
55. Epsom salts
56. Warren Wilson College
57. NC Poetry Society
58. Warm soup
59. Savoring my soup
60. Hot showers
61. Warm baths
63, Planks
64. ADF
65, Steevie
66. The Beatles.
67. Playmakers
68. Throwing away papers
69. Deep breaths
70. Duke Chapel
71. Duke docs
72. Duke bookstore
73. Being here
74. Ram Dass
75, Present moment
76. No pressure.
77. Nantucket
78. Meditation
79. "The Reach"
80. Looking younger than I am
81. Green smoothies
82. Eating slowly today
83. My dad's photographs
84. A nice warm bed
85. Illustrated Poetry
86. My engravings
87. Chinese woodcuts
88. Jenny and her boys
89. the Gardner Museum
90. moving in a Tai Chi-esque way today
91. Chatting with my friend Faye, a Civil Rights worker from Durham
92. The Civil Rights exhibit at the Carolina Theatre has a photograph of her trying to buy a ticket
93. George Moses Horton
94. the Durham Museum of History
95. Centering Prayer
96. A peaceful way of eating while reading my Bible
97. Getting 3 poems published
98. the Sun Dance channel
99. the brilliant writer, James Baldwin
100. my career as a school librarian and having the opportunity to teach children about him
101. Now wanting to re-read "The Fire Next Time"
102. Learning about Baldwin's kindness and how he was so accepted abroad
Saturday, January 5, 2019
Thursday, January 3, 2019
TRIM YOUR WAIST IN THE POOL
HERE WE GO -- THIS IS FROM POP SUGAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yS9OF5l_Dc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yS9OF5l_Dc
Vegan Days
January 3, 2019 Christine came over with the "Fully Raw 21 Day Challenge Guide"
Today: brown rice, sweet potatoes, spinach, pineapple ----- YUM!!!!!
Christine's Facebook page has some recipes. Certain foods like pomegranate, apples, watermelon, cumin, citrus, blueberries
Today: brown rice, sweet potatoes, spinach, pineapple ----- YUM!!!!!
Christine's Facebook page has some recipes. Certain foods like pomegranate, apples, watermelon, cumin, citrus, blueberries
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