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Seattle Cheese, Pike Market September 2013
Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations; being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still. ~ C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love.
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 Pick-Up in Manhattan, June 2014 I read so many blogs with good stuff that I decided to share them on Fridays. Photography, travel, books, clothing, art journals, lectures, politics, whatever. I’ll be collecting throughout the week and posting for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy the post … and your weekend. Tomorrow is the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. Read several New York Times articles about it here. We are still living under the outcomes from that 'war to end all wars', especially in the Middle East, from the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. The New Republic has an article proposing that the ethnic and religious partitions from nearly 100 years ago are collapsing. And that the US can't do anything about it. For something a little lighter, David Sedaris is obsessed with his Fitbit in this New Yorker article. I have one too but he has lovely English villages to walk through. I have hot, dry California foothills. And now for some shameless maternal promotion of my younger daughter. She's working at the Feminist Majority as an intern and posted her first blog post this week which was about Kate Kelly, a Mormon human rights attorney and her excommunication from the Mormon Church. Made the homepage of the blog and the first page of a Google search on the subject that day, above the New York Times article. Boom! 
New York City, June 2014
... on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had. ~ Elizabeth Berg
 The Getty Villa, Malibu, California January 2014 Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool. ~ Liv Ullmann
 John Wayne in the Women's Bathroom, Los Olivos, CA January 2014 I read so many blogs with good stuff that I decided to share them on Fridays. Photography, travel, books, clothing, art journals, lectures, politics, whatever. I’ll be collecting throughout the week and posting for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy the post … and your weekend.
Gertrude Bell, the woman who created Iraq out of the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. And I just picked up a book from the library for a little light weekend reading. Where it all began...as found in a DailyBeast article. A brewery comes to the Valley, according to this week's LA Times Food section, and sometime soon we'll trot over the hill to give it a try. Lime green yoga mat, purple sleeveless tee, yellow and pink bra, skintight black capri pants and I'm decked out for yoga. Now if I can just keep from getting nauseous. Definitely not ready for a trip to the hometown of yoga as found in this week's NY Times Travel section. We're putting in a drought tolerant garden, backyard and front. Just in time. Forty years ago today, according to the LA Times, the film "Chinatown" opened, the story of LA water. But now California is in super drought and nature wins out after all. This summer my word is Different, as in do something different whenever possible. Not the same old same old. Break through out of the comfort zone, found in LIfehacker. 
Chartres Cathedral, January 2013
The beauty of creating art simply for the sake of creating art is that you gradually learn to focus on the process of making. Not the rules. Not the right-wrong thing. Not whether this matches that. Just the doing. The joy and flow. My mantra. Create simply for the sake of creating. It doesn't have to be extraordinary. ~ Tammy Garcia, Daisy Yellow Blogger
Newport Beach on the Boat, June 2014
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you. ~ Frida Kahlo
 Italian Futurism Inspires the Getty, Los Angeles 2011 I read so many blogs with good stuff that I decided to share them on Fridays. Photography, travel, books, clothing, art journals, lectures, politics, whatever. I’ll be collecting throughout the week and posting for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy the post … and your weekend.
Another Creative Mornings video ... Moby - Creativity and the Freedom to Fail - and another reason to stay in Los Angeles even if I hate the traffic. Frank Bruni from the NY Times writes about spending time alone to think and why our politicians might benefit from it. A Quiet Cheer for Solitude I'm developing an interest in fonts and graphics. Here are two HuffPost pieces on Times New Roman and Comic Sans. Another Salon piece from my morning wake-up reading, novelist Ted Thompson talks about writing and Zadie Smith. Part of my morning stretches and bill paying listening ... The Unmistakable Creative Podcast talks with Jessica Hagy, Living at the Intersection of Wonder, Awe & Curiousity. 
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 2010
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Autumn in Nashville, October 2012
Art washes away from the soul the dust from everyday life.
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