Isn’t this a fabulous image? It’s a WPA poster created for the Chicago Library in 1941. I can’t say exactly why I’m inordinately fascinated with WPA art posters, but it’s certainly some combination of appreciation for the graphics of that time period and the WPA program itself providing opportunities for artists. In any case, art […]
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Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’m sharing my thoughts and reflections on a lexicon (vocabulary specific to a certain subject) of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. Ludic is defined as “playful, in an aimless way” and that’s my plan for approaching this challenge – keeping my feet on the joy trail […]
Continue reading »Writing my way through the A-to-Z blogging challenge, I’m sharing my thoughts and reflections on a lexicon (vocabulary specific to a certain subject) of unusual, obscure, or simply charming-to-me words. Ludic is defined as “playful, in an aimless way” and that’s my plan for approaching this challenge – keeping my feet on the joy trail […]
Continue reading »Over 70% of the Earth is covered by water, and we humans ourselves are composed of at least 60% water. Water is vital to all of us – we’re watery creatures on a watery planet, but we’re not doing a very good job of protecting our resource or distributing it fairly. Today, March 22, might […]
Continue reading »The final Friday of the month means it’s time for We Are the World Blogfest, the day for promoting positive news. It delights me to participate as an agent of pronoia highlighting feel-good news stories for us all to celebrate. Cohosting the project this month are: Shilpa Garg, Dan Antion, Simon Falk, Michelle Wallace, Mary […]
Continue reading »I’ve managed to read a number of books this first week of the year. Blame it the frigid weather that has made being housebound so alluring and/or my desire to up my reading ante in 2018. In any case, strangeness has certainly been showing up in my reading pile. There’s been strange story lines, and […]
Continue reading »Here we are at the last Friday of the month – one of my favorite days. It’s time for promoting positive news via We Are the World Blogfest. I love participating as an agent of pronoia along with dozens of other ambassadors highlighting little pockets of love and light for us all to celebrate. The special […]
Continue reading »I’m filing this, my ninth entry in the 100 Untimed Books challenge under prompt #71 – Zero Tolerance. The Hundred Dresses, written by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, is a children’s book published in 1944 and has been in continuous print since. Which I suspect says a great deal both about the quality of the story, […]
Continue reading »is for ylang-ylang. Ylang-ylang is a large tropical evergreen tree which likely originated in Indonesia and is now widely grown in Malaysia and the Philippines. It bears aromatic yellow flowers that are the source of an important and fragrant essential oil and also much used in perfumery. It is sometimes known as the […]
Continue reading »is for vegetables I like veggies, but I’m especially fond of root vegetables. I’m not entirely sure why. Of course there is the yum factor, but I think it also has to do their growing up underground. Mysterious. Hidden. Akin to buried treasure. I’m also partial to anthropomorphized root vegetables. Well if […]
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