Category: Random
Me talkin to myself
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Canadian artist Emily Carr, with whom I’m recently smitten, wasn’t necessarily appreciated in her home town, Victoria British Columbia. She was part of a Canadian artistic vanguard in the early 20th century, embracing modernism and moving away from strictly representational art. They loved her work in Toronto. Her neighbors often scratched their heads. She expressed…
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The Heceta Head lighthouse is one of 11 on the Oregon coast. Most still functioning as navigation aids. Heceta has a Fresnel lens, an amazing bit of glass magic invented by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel and in use around the world since the 1820s, about 200 years ago. There’s no knowing how many lives his…
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In an effort to making the coming dreary rainy months more tolerable, I’m employing a strategy I learned from behavioral economist Katy Milkman, whose book “How to Change” has many strategies that I’ve come to value. One of them is pairing, combining an enjoyable thing with a less enjoyable one (listening to energizing rock’n’roll while…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 