tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37809483161205273302024-03-17T12:01:35.419-04:00even*clevelandA collection of themes, begun in 2008.evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comBlogger2566125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-74978388230361749432024-03-17T12:01:00.000-04:002024-03-17T12:01:03.223-04:00sunday tune: the waterboys - the whole of the moon<p> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8TON3PORRDQ?si=2beweuxYIcRD7ZZ_" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-88275554984637284392024-02-23T12:42:00.002-05:002024-02-23T12:42:19.974-05:00imaginary outfit: dressing like a rothko painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuKgo1LzSrwLo3e506N0WKjRK4tj-v4Hh-Sz1Q7P4KoW9VtG2BxQtZihsh6QJGM1v8CRURrp5lndHbzNMCj8QM9u1srFlYXer8kBX5nrE_rxSdG9yIB9gq_rwubqzeRsmddmsCdbYkgQqpIEMQe0T_oDd4j98oqb_qEUuROKcK8SNg29IweW4RCd4sg/s1628/imaginary%20outfit%20rothko%20painting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1624" data-original-width="1628" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKuKgo1LzSrwLo3e506N0WKjRK4tj-v4Hh-Sz1Q7P4KoW9VtG2BxQtZihsh6QJGM1v8CRURrp5lndHbzNMCj8QM9u1srFlYXer8kBX5nrE_rxSdG9yIB9gq_rwubqzeRsmddmsCdbYkgQqpIEMQe0T_oDd4j98oqb_qEUuROKcK8SNg29IweW4RCd4sg/w640-h638/imaginary%20outfit%20rothko%20painting.jpg" width="640" /><br /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">Last week, desperate to escape the glum relentless invariable Februarieness of February (though bedecked with hearts, candy, three-day weekends, and friends' birthdays, the shortest month is always the hardest one for me), we hightailed it to Washington, D.C., to catch some mid-Atlantic sun and the Mark Rothko exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. I know it is time to leave town when I start researching yet again just how many days of sun northeastern Ohio gets in a year: a measly 168, and of those, only <a href="https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Ohio/annual-days-of-sunshine.php">66</a> are truly sunny (and <a href="https://fox8.com/news/its-not-your-imagination-heres-how-cloudy-its-been/">it's been cloudier than usual</a> this year).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />We needed color and light, and we got it. Outside, the sun was high and bright, and in the windowless galleries of the NGA's East Building, the Rothkos vibrated with color-generated energy. These were all works on paper—none of the epic canvases—and most of the late works, the shimmering color stacks, were more or less the size of an ordinary window, creating the pleasing illusion of peering into portals framing some other, more intense realm. It was color embodied—not flat, but dimensional, moving and changing as I looked at it—and it was intoxicating; radiant magentas, biting reds, and acidic yellows, pungent deep greens haloed by rich blues that recalled to my mind the lapis brightness of Giotto's starry ceiling. Even the pale works, chalk-like and cloudy, held ghosts of pink and violet. My camera failed to capture any of these colors, and the prints and books in the gift shop did, too.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />When I lived in Ireland, the interiors of the apartment I rented were painted egg-yolk yellow. The wood-framed furniture was forest green, with yellow, red, and blue cushions. I was appalled by how garish it all felt, but after a few months, it made a kind of sense. After days and days with no sun, coming home to bright color was unexpectedly soothing, restful even.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />While I am not ready to repaint the rooms in my house (yet), I did buy a cashmere sweater that reminded me just a little <a href="https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2023/mark-rothko-paintings-on-paper.html">of the magenta in this painting</a> (which really doesn't read on a screen, sadly), and I am stalking resale sites to build a different sort of capsule wardrobe for winters to come—a Rothko capsule, to wear when February gets to be too much.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWYmGcLSmAPhIIqDJlL1NQ_3nlTWFpMescNdgApZErNlmsdM_wTPLrvMgTzkdrP3M97WyA8CfT182aDIzi2vcbk7dmpx0TL_qeSt96PDVwo4lRO6AGmVCxTRJKRZ_C3gAct5hoUaeKUE7eEDfI5XgKI9e8ElJY21AmstEffkmiU2AoV0nsVSiCGUg6g/s1114/mark%20rothko%20untitled.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="824" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuWYmGcLSmAPhIIqDJlL1NQ_3nlTWFpMescNdgApZErNlmsdM_wTPLrvMgTzkdrP3M97WyA8CfT182aDIzi2vcbk7dmpx0TL_qeSt96PDVwo4lRO6AGmVCxTRJKRZ_C3gAct5hoUaeKUE7eEDfI5XgKI9e8ElJY21AmstEffkmiU2AoV0nsVSiCGUg6g/w474-h640/mark%20rothko%20untitled.jpg" width="474" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Mark Rothko, "Untitled," 1959.</i></div><p>*</p><div style="text-align: left;">Trying to match the colors in this painting was a fun little challenge—these <a href="https://www.ralphlauren.com/women-clothing-pants/silk-blend-curved-tapered-pant/0076978618.html">yam-hued silk pants</a> caught my eye, but weren't quite red enough, though I am bookmarking them to watch for sales. And I thought about adding one of <a href="https://www.intimissimi.com/us/product/boat_neck_modal_cashmere_ultralight_top-CLD28B.html?dwvar_CLD28B_Z_COL_INTD=231I">these wispy tees</a> as a streak of white, but since this is all pretend, decided to go big with a fancy bag, though the <a href="https://porto-studio.com/collections/all-products/products/the-novella?variant=39661574619265">Novella bag by Porto</a> is maybe more my speed—they describe it as big enough to hold a small book, so, sold. And for more immediate hit of color, I ordered a <a href="https://www.cirquecolors.com/products/hearth-jelly">bunch</a> of <a href="https://www.cirquecolors.com/products/olive-jelly">jelly</a> <a href="https://www.cirquecolors.com/products/indigo-jelly">polishes</a> from Cirque in colors inspired by <a href="https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.258">another painting I love</a>.</div><p>*</p><div style="text-align: left;">Pictured: <a href="https://www.jcrew.com/p/womens/categories/clothing/sweaters/pullovers/cashmere-shrunken-crewneck-sweater/BG654?display=standard&fit=Classic&color_name=magenta-grape&colorProductCode=BG654">J. Crew cropped cashmere sweater in magenta grape</a> / <a href="https://frame-store.com/products/le-slim-palazzo-bardot-pkt-lantern">Frame Le Slim Bardot jeans</a> / <a href="https://www.farfetch.com/shopping/women/harris-wharf-london-cocoon-single-breasted-wool-coat-item-20952626.aspx?lang=en-US&fsb=1&size=18&storeid=9709&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_keywordid=119356123&utm_shoppingproductid=20952626-18&pid=google_search&af_channel=Search&c=2069920048&af_c_id=2069920048&af_siteid=&af_keywords=pla-297226412139&af_adset_id=75217628294&af_ad_id=204345266632&af_sub1=119356123&af_sub5=20952626-18&is_retargeting=true&shopping=yes&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoeGuBhCBARIsAGfKY7zsYakyfbCyVyjfcZCWGEKp7RetvmVuRSKjjQGWmcabNdwwLSaksekaAoBLEALw_wcB">Harris Wharf London coat</a> / <a href="https://caroncallahan.com/products/alfie-flat-brown-leather">Caron Callahan Alfie flats</a> / <a href="https://www.matchesfashion.com/us/products/Bottega-Veneta-Pouch-large-leather-clutch-bag--1322346">Bottega Veneta Pouch clutch</a> / <a href="https://farisfaris.com/products/vero-helix">Faris Vero helix</a> and <a href="https://farisfaris.com/products/vero-stud">stud</a> / vintage Tiffany Hardware silver ball earrings (<a href="https://www.tiffany.com/jewelry/earrings/tiffany-hardwear-ball-earrings-GRP03142/">new here</a>, though you can turn them up easily on resale sites).</div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-66359501901409971112024-02-14T13:21:00.003-05:002024-02-14T13:21:47.488-05:00pretty pink things / a billet-doux<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Photo by Deidi von Schaewen, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-N7M3YAMOX/">Commune</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><div><br /></div><div>Victorain shell cameo, ca. 1850, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzeclPSLuHd/">Sian Harlow Antiques</a>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><div><br /></div><div>An 1817 "cobweb" valentine, featured in "<a href="https://justhistoryposts.com/2023/02/14/victorian-romance-the-art-of-cobweb-valentines/">Victorian Romance: The Art of Cobweb Valentines</a>." The recipient would gently pull the string in the center to reveal a hidden image.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Nacreous cloud formation, photographed over Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom, via <a href="A nacreous formation over Kingston Upon Hull, UK.">The Cloud Appreciation Society</a>.<div><br /></div></div><div>*</div></div><blockquote>Slight unpremeditated Words are borne<br />By every common Wind into the Air;<br />Carelessly utter’d, die as soon as born,<br />And in one instant give both Hope and Fear:<br />Breathing all Contraries with the same Wind<br />According to the Caprice of the Mind.<br /><br />But Billetdoux are constant Witnesses,<br />Substantial Records to Eternity;<br />Just Evidences, who the Truth confess,<br />On which the Lover safely may rely;<br />They’re serious Thoughts, digested and resolv’d;<br />And last, when Words are into Clouds devolv’d.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Aphra Behn, "Love's Witness." </div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-28932902389501468112024-01-29T13:07:00.000-05:002024-01-29T13:07:41.156-05:00odds and ends / 1.29.2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br />Edvard Munch, "Winter Landscape, Thüringen," 1906. Kunstmuseum Bergen.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Garnet and rose quartz necklaces by Marie-Hélène de Taillac, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C1ix9bjMl0Y/">Twist</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">* </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C1fjuxLuxUh/">Calligraphy</a> by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/evmcgraw/">Evan McGraw</a> for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theperfectnothingcatalog/">The Perfect Nothing Catalog</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div>Guglielmo Veronesi, “Perla” chair, ca. 1952. Via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ckdrh5hLUkP/">Commune Design</a>.<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194062">Calendar watch</a> made in 1650 by Thomas Alcock that indicates "the time of tides (presumably at London bridge), mean solar time, the age of the moon in its monthly cycle, and the day of the month." Alcock lost a similar watch in 1661 and advertised for it in the February 1661 issue of <i>Kingdoms Intelligencer</i>. In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">*</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Child's creamware cup, ca. 1830s, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CvqtavAOJWF/?img_index=1">oldasadam</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0rTBhtrljw/"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Snow monster</a> (or, how I feel by January's end).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><blockquote>In interviews collected in the book <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Starting-Point-1979-1996/Hayao-Miyazaki/Starting-Point-1979-1996/9781421561042"><i>Starting Point: 1979-1996</i></a>, Miyazaki referred to a universal “yearning for a lost world” he refused to call nostalgia, since even children experience it. We long not for what we remember, but what we’ve never experienced at all, only sensed beneath reality’s surface.</blockquote><br />Alissa Wilkinson, "'<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/movies/the-boy-and-the-heron-review-hayao-miyazaki.html?searchResultPosition=3">The Boy and the Heron' Review: Hayao Miyazaki Has a Question for You.</a>" NYT, 11/21/2023.<p>* </p><blockquote>We seemed to be developing a brittle incapacity to accept, let alone honor, the tender, tragic feeling that had always lain beneath the ordinary person’s experience of nostalgia. In his once famous essay “Old China,” Charles Lamb located nostalgia in “the hope that youth brings” and which time extinguishes. What we are always most nostalgic for is, in fact, the future, the one we imagined only to see it turn into the past. The actress Helen Hayes used to tell a story of how her young prospective husband poured some peanuts into her hand and said, “I wish they were emeralds.” Years later, when he was actually able to give her a little bag of emeralds, he did so saying, “I wish they were peanuts”—which, with whatever excess of sweetness, about sums it up. Nostalgia is built into us ...</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Thomas Mallon, "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/27/yesterday-a-new-history-of-nostalgia-tobias-becker-book-review">Nostalgia Isn't what it Used to Be.</a>" <i>The New Yorker</i>, 11/20/2023. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/87582"></a><blockquote><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/87582">Raymond Duncan, the brother of Isadora, was always a fervent advocate of classical dress. So fanatical was his belief in the healthfulness of Grecian styles that Duncan had his son walk through Central Park in mid-winter clad only in a short chiton, chlamys, and sandals—an incident for which he was charged with the endangerment of a child.</a></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><blockquote>I subscribe to <a href="https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/">Vittles</a> online magazine, because reading evocative writing about food I’m too lazy and incompetent to prepare or seek out is one of my favourite hobbies, and because I always learn something. In a <a href="https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cooking-for-sylvia-four-recipes-by">recent edition</a>, I discovered a captivating Korean suffix. “There are no thoughts, just meong, the suffix in Korean used for activities of staring into stillness, like bull meong—staring into the fire,” wrote the author, Songsoo Kim, in a <a href="https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/cooking-for-sylvia-four-recipes-by">beautiful article</a> with recipes about preparing a feast that I would dearly love to eat, but absolutely will not cook.<br /><br />As a black belt starer into stillness—it’s my other favourite hobby—this spoke to me deeply. I asked Kim about it and she explained meong (also written <a href="https://www.today.com/health/behavior/hitting-mung-south-korean-wellness-trend-beat-stress-rcna11096">mung</a>) is colloquially used to describe zoning out, but without a negative connotation. This, she explained, was 'an organic linguistic development, as more and more people started mentioning how staring at the fire at campsites or fireplaces together is rather healing.' There are also forest, foliage and water versions of quiet, empty staring and cafes where you can 'hit mung.' 'It’s a moment we all need,' Kim said.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Emma Beddington, "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/22/year-of-meong-wellbeing-trend-i-can-actually-master">Is this the year of meong—a wellbeing trend I can actually master?</a>" <i>The Guardian</i>, 1/22/2024. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div><blockquote>A turtle staggered from the waves, wearily dug a shallow hole, and commenced to drop her lovely eggs. Amber had no wish to witness this; she could no longer bear to watch struggling nature. She shut her eyes, feeling that the very act of not looking was helping the turtle out in some way.</blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Joy Williams, "The Beach House." <i>The New Yorker</i>, 1/15/2024.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><blockquote>I’m not sure that I have the qualifications to give people advice about reasons to live. My daily affective state is one of great despair about the incredible destructive forces at work in this world—not only at the level of climate. What has been going on in the Middle East just adds to this feeling of destructive forces completely out of control. The situation in the world, as far as I can tell, is incredibly bleak. So how do we live with what we know about the climate crisis? Sometimes I think that the meaning of life is to not give up, to keep the resistance going even though the forces stacked against you are overwhelmingly strong. </blockquote><div><br />Andreas Malm, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/14/magazine/andreas-malm-interview.html">interviewed by David Marchese in the NYT</a>, 1/16/2024. </div><p>* </p><blockquote>Mitchell is one of a new breed of biologists who espouse a complex-systems perspective as an antidote to reductionism. He aims to reclaim from the philosophers words like purpose, reason, and meaning, which scientists often avoid as being unquantifiable. He mostly eschews jargon. This is a plainspoken book. It gets mildly technical in matters of biology and neuroscience, but it builds an argument that is methodical and crisp, and it cuts through years of disputation like a knife through cotton candy. This is what you are, Mitchell asserts: “You are the type of thing that can take action, that can make decisions, that can be a causal force in the world: you are an agent.”<br /><br />If the denial of free will has been an error, it has not been a harmless one. Its message is grim and etiolating. It drains purpose and dignity from our sense of ourselves and, for that matter, of our fellow living creatures. It releases us from responsibility and treats us as passive objects, like billiard balls or falling leaves.</blockquote><div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">James Glieck, "<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/the-fate-of-free-will-free-agents-kevin-mitchell/">The Fate of Free Will.</a>"<i> The New York Review</i>, 1/18/2024. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div></div><blockquote>The “how” is just as important as the “what,” if not more so. It turns out that the how actually is the what—or at least cannot be separated from it. They share one nervous system, and that oneness is what allows style to matter.</blockquote><div><br />David Salle, "<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/follow-the-light-alex-katz-gathering/">Follow the Light.</a>" <i>The New York Review</i>, 1/18/2024. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><blockquote>Guy Davenport ... credited his critical acumen to a childhood spent treasure hunting. Sundays after church, his dad took him to scour fields throughout the South for arrowheads:<br /><br /><i>What lives brightest in the memory of these outings is a Thoreauvian feeling of looking at things—earth, plants, rocks, textures, animal tracks, all the secret places of the out-of-doors that seem not ever to have been looked at before, a hidden patch of moss with a Dutchman’s Breeches stoutly in its midst, aromatic stands of rabbit tobacco, beggar’s lice, lizards, the inevitable mute snake, always just leaving as you come upon him, hawks, buzzards, abandoned orchards rich in apples, peaches or plums … The search was the thing, the pleasure of looking … My sense of place, of occasion, even of doing anything at all, was shaped by those afternoons.</i><br /><br />That’s vintage Davenport. Effortlessly, unabashedly learned; tender beneath its professorial carapace; vaguely excessive. John Jeremiah Sullivan ... writes, “He once defined ‘despair’ as the sensation that you’ve run out of ideas.” I wonder how that sensation registered to “the man who noticed that ‘in all of Balthus’ one finds no clocks.”</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Dan Piepenbring, "<a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2024/01/narcotopia-mormonism-imagination/">New Books.</a>" <i>Harpers</i>, January 2024. (<a href="https://godine.com/book/geography-of-the-imagination/">Sold me on this</a>.)</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-22109492700597152202024-01-05T12:08:00.010-05:002024-01-05T12:38:36.857-05:00imaginary outfit: convalescing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHcJ345-74z1e6RAWLLCONzpGb52RFp2vD4N_5Hq3zgTVezZQmUrqVyW-oEZGMZu08gp2TCWUbZ-tdpPW8Jeyg8tIVXBc0c4FbCrHaG3aqnBOX_nmp0K3YB4b7Y6R3HqMhm2SfS6lIoIRrZqq4jlVx2PL5bsYvPBzRVQDUhs977oX1JzGBg1H6KMDzg/s1514/convalescence.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1464" data-original-width="1514" height="618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNHcJ345-74z1e6RAWLLCONzpGb52RFp2vD4N_5Hq3zgTVezZQmUrqVyW-oEZGMZu08gp2TCWUbZ-tdpPW8Jeyg8tIVXBc0c4FbCrHaG3aqnBOX_nmp0K3YB4b7Y6R3HqMhm2SfS6lIoIRrZqq4jlVx2PL5bsYvPBzRVQDUhs977oX1JzGBg1H6KMDzg/w640-h618/convalescence.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">For the past six weeks, I've been on the mend after having an errant clump of mysterious cells roughly the size and shape of a sweet potato extracted from my midsection. After navigating a season of increasingly unsettling spells of testing and waiting, the definitiveness of surgery was a relief. A plan! Something would be done, something would be known. In the end, I lucked out—an "easy" surgery, with small incisions, that removed the best kind of benign tumor to have. (That pathology report, when it turned up a week or so later, was the most effective painkiller I have experienced.) It was all a physical fluke. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Surgery is wild, though. One day, I had a regular seven-mile-walk habit and was busy doing all the things, and the next ... I was not. Before surgery, the prospect of recovery sounded relaxing—resting in bed, long slow strolls, nothing to do but read—but it turns out, recovery is its own type of hard work, a shifty dance of pushing forward and easing up, of reclaiming and adapting ordinary tasks and habits. For the first couple of weeks, anything requiring sustained attention was too challenging—my body stole focus and just simply being was absorbing enough. (It was a good moment for crossword puzzles, magazine articles, and short stories.) With time, I'm getting better and better, but I still feel like I am living in two parallel tracks—one in my mind, which holds on to life before surgery as the baseline for how I should be, and the other in my body, which continues to heal in its own inscrutable, nonlinear way. I wonder when this weird awareness will start to fade, when the two lenses click together and simply become ordinary life again. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Here's to slow but steady steps into the new year. </div><p>*</p><div style="text-align: left;">Some things I have found useful since my surgery: THE GREAT <a href="https://thisisthegreat.com/collections/knit-bottoms/products/the-wide-leg-cropped-sweatpant-true-navy">wide-legged cropped sweatpant</a> (There is no elastic waist, which means you can tie them to rest gently wherever is most comfortable, and The GREAT's website includes all the measurements for each garment, making it easy to obtain pants of sufficient looseness for post-surgical swelling.) / THE GREAT <a href="https://thisisthegreat.com/collections/tees/products/the-long-sleeve-crop-tee-holly-leaf">long-sleeve crop tee</a> / <a href="https://www.potterybarn.com/products/back-rest-wedge-pillow/?catalogId=84&sku=3217467">Inventive Sleep backrest wedge pillow</a> (much more comfortable than a shifting mound of treacherous small cushions) / <a href="https://www.target.com/p/serta-50-x60-fleece-to-sherpa-electric-heated-throw-blanket/-/A-87754532">Serta electric sherpa fleece throw</a> (amazing; nothing else felt as good) / <a href="https://www.hydroflask.com/40-oz-all-around-travel-tumbler#color=Dew?gad_source=1">Hydro Flask 40 oz All Around travel tumbler</a> / <a href="https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/resgods-bed-tray-bamboo-30444468/">IKEA Resgods folding bed tray</a> (invaluable) / <a href="https://sockwellusa.com/products/womens-circulator?variant=32289986674735">Sockwell Circulator wool-blend medium compression socks</a> (to switch off/cover hospital-issued TED hose) / <a href="https://www.nordstrom.com/s/gender-inclusive-rx-slide-3-0-slip-on-shoe/7508241?color=ALMOND+MILK%2FALOE+WASH%2FVANILLA&size=5.5+women%27s+%2F+4.5+men%27s&utm_content=35855568933&utm_term=pla-321753255327&utm_channel=low_nd_shopping_standard&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=674512775&adpos=&creative=158291011675&device=c&matchtype=&network=g&acctid=21700000001689570&dskeywordid=92700049880831253&lid=92700049880831253&ds_s_kwgid=58700005468309588&ds_s_inventory_feed_id=97700000007631122&dsproductgroupid=321753255327&product_id=39925884&merchid=1243147&prodctry=US&prodlang=en&channel=online&storeid=&locationid=9015262&targetid=pla-321753255327&campaignid=674512775&adgroupid=35855568933&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAmsurBhBvEiwA6e-WPO1HxMawDybzG8gqxT349QfsTjCGmIF0tA3omseNu0PzKaZKvqJAnhoCk8QQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds">Salomon RX slides</a> (comfy, with a nonslip grippy sole). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Also pictured: <i><a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781788548809?gC=098f6bcd4&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA7t6sBhAiEiwAsaieYlDpk_zWO6feVlzVxWjk_8W6iuduOkR-7WvbgFwb6jTUgdfVFNTsThoCzIUQAvD_BwE">The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories</a></i> / <a href="https://slush-club.com/shop-2023/p/nerikomi-cup-x-1">Slush Club cup</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Not pictured, but essential: <a href="https://shoparq.com/collections/high-rise-undies">ARQ's generously cut high-rise undies</a>, for avoiding tender incisions, and a <a href="https://store.moma.org/products/jellycat-sun-plush-toys">Jellycat sun</a> purloined from a kid's bedroom, useful to press against your abdomen while laughing if you, like me, foolishly elect to watch a comedy special the day after you come home. </div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-17344468344904839222024-01-01T00:25:00.001-05:002024-01-01T00:25:00.143-05:00silver joy<p><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; 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Holly with berries. 1775. Collage of colored papers, with bodycolor and watercolor, on black ink background. The British Museum.<div><br /><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>George Brecht, "<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CmnMEjesPR_/">A Christmas Play for Joseph Cornell,</a>" 1963.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Olivier Dassault, "Untitled/Christmas card," 1987. <a href="https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/11769/untitled-christmas-card?ctx=98c87a1b6046dfba58183feb2ce502af6a40a6d4&idx=50">MFA Boston</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><i>Tacuinum Sanitatis</i>, Milan or Pavia, ca. 1390-1400. Via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C1KauULLn9I/">The Fortnight Institute</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Schreiber pop-up toy theater book, ca.1885. <a href="https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O96355/theater-bilderbuch-toy-theatre-book-unknown/theater-bilderbuch-pop-up-book-schreiber/">The V & A</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CX6t3p_uuoy/?img_index=1">Katie Marchant/thankyou_ok Christmas cake</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>* </div><div><br /></div><div>Holiday dress of my dreams: <a href="https://bode.com/products/rothermel-theater-dress-mauve?pr_prod_strat=collection_fallback&pr_rec_id=27f556de3&pr_rec_pid=7692208898242&pr_ref_pid=7692514066626&pr_seq=uniform">Rothermal Theater Dress by Bode</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>*</div><div><br /></div>Star Finial, artist unidentified, United States, 1875–1925, paint and gilding on metal, 45 × 22 × 9 in. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc_ez0BnGiX/">American Folk Art Museum</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/285263835015">1883 Louis Prang silk-fringed Christmas card</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><blockquote>... [W]e are seeing our own mortality in the close of day and year. The hours of sunlight run by more quickly, and we’re left behind in the darkness. It’s hard now to feel the privation of former winters, or experience the desolation of the landscape; it’s not even likely to snow. But we see the trees unleafing, and sense the different strains of winter light: sometimes bright and cold, often thin and misted. Much of our enjoyment of this gauntness is in relief. Fasting for advent used to make a penitence of nature’s dearth, relieved at last by ecstatic abundance. On Christmas Eve congregations would hang the branches of the churchyard trees with apples. In Moscow, they deck avenues of leafless boughs with red and gold baubles, which has the same effect.<br /><br />Our contrivance of these spots of colour has its roots in nature’s contingencies: red berries on a black branch, an evergreen tree in a field of snow—Ruskin’s lesser beauties perhaps. But it takes a mind to frame them, to put the tree in a painting or a living room. Sometimes novelty itself seems poetic, as though the product of design. ... We aestheticise the tree by changing its setting, or we admire it through a picture. Christmas itself is a removal, separated from the rest of the year by its spangles and pageantry. The season makes us tourists of our own nostalgia; it’s best not to think too hard about the absurdity of chopping down a tree and covering it with tiny ornaments. What do we do with the wanwood when the new year comes? In the 16th century, after the feast and the dancing, the tree would be ceremonially burned, marking the end of festivities with a final brilliant spectacle, which does seem better than leaving it on the street for the council to collect.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Alicia Sprawls, <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n01/alice-spawls/christmas-trees">"Christmas Trees."</a> <i>London Review of Books</i>, 1/5/2017.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>*</div><div><blockquote>In 1419, the Freiburg bakers’ apprentices noted having seen a tree set up in a hospital, decorated with apples, wafers, gingerbread, and tinsel. In Riga, in 1510, a brotherhood of merchants are said to have set up a tree around Christmastime, then decorated it with thread and straw; they burned it at Lent. Many of the hints of early Christmas-tree—or solstice-tree, or New Year’s tree—traditions come from rules limiting them. A regulation in Upper Alsace specified that each citizen could take from the forest no more than one pine, of a height no more than eight shoes. A 1611 ban against felling trees in the Alsatian town of Turckheim is arguably the first appearance of the term “Christmas tree”: <i>Weihnachtsbaum</i>.</blockquote><div><br />Rivka Galchen, "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-science-of-christmas-trees">The Science of Christmas Trees.</a>" The New Yorker, 12/6/2022. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><blockquote>One thing is for certain—I wouldn’t want to be a Christmas tree. It would be nice to be the center of attention, to be so decorated and lit that people stared at you in wonder, and made a fuss over you, and were mesmerized. That would be nice. But then you’d start dropping your needles and people would become bored with you and say you weren’t looking so good, and then they’d take all your jewelry off, and haul you off to the curb where you would be picked up and crushed and eventually burned. That’s the terrible part. Maybe that’s why so many people today have fake trees. They are quite popular. Their limbs come apart and you can put them in boxes and store them. You can have one of these trees until you die and you can pass them on to your children. They may not be real but when you look at them you can’t tell the difference. That always makes people happy—not being able to tell the difference. And happiness, to want to be happy, is the most natural thing of all.</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Mary Ruefle, "<a href="https://harpers.org/2013/12/recollections-of-my-christmas-tree/">Recollections of My Christmas Tree.</a>" <i>Harpers</i>, December 20, 2013. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>See also: Robert Frost, "<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57834/christmas-trees-56d23bb00debf">Christmas Trees.</a>"</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.villagevoice.com/charles-mingus-secret-eggnog-recipe-will-knock-you-on-your-ass/">Charles Mingus' secret eggnog recipe</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Merry everything, friends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-6366658802558299782023-12-24T09:30:00.002-05:002023-12-24T10:47:39.476-05:00imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2023 + wish-listed books for 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrBj8kPaE3B9CLZr2MjS8XGt3NT246sBjsHHUHanPP1Tw9UhhVDlVrOC_dUlg0r30gts32Z99nBkz4GeCAljTupQ0nB3lExDvxwaiX2YWR6tgfYecT-Or5bVtjaRbmDLbcs1azxQZIWjGP_OGluH95zpyUBDsOswNu9RvkAjcJA8hIkgfg36YQkaae7Q/s1490/bookmas%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="1490" height="620" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrBj8kPaE3B9CLZr2MjS8XGt3NT246sBjsHHUHanPP1Tw9UhhVDlVrOC_dUlg0r30gts32Z99nBkz4GeCAljTupQ0nB3lExDvxwaiX2YWR6tgfYecT-Or5bVtjaRbmDLbcs1azxQZIWjGP_OGluH95zpyUBDsOswNu9RvkAjcJA8hIkgfg36YQkaae7Q/w640-h620/bookmas%202023.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">December 24th, and time again for my favorite Icelandic tradition—the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Christmas_book_flood">Yule Book Flood</a>. So here I am, swaddling myself in knits and plaids and plonking down on the small grey sofa by the fireplace. (Though it is small and upright, it is peculiarly suited to extravagant lolling.) There, in the glow of the Christmas lights and the ambient red heat of the electric fire, with a sharp, salty snack and something to drink to hand, knowing that, finally, everything is wrapped and ready for tomorrow, I'll pick up something to read.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">My <a href="https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/tables/console-tables/mid-century-french-bookstand-style-eugene-prinz/id-f_7394553/?epik=dj0yJnU9ZDVYeWtGTW9hY1lOZmJiRWhCbExEMVlvX3RUNEtfT18mcD0wJm49eGhXNC03dWtXaGY1NTgtTWhmMWdPQSZ0PUFBQUFBR1dJVW44">imaginary to-read shelf</a> is well-stocked. On it, I've finally secured a long longed-for copy of Edith Sitwell's <i><a href="https://www.strandbooks.com/product/9781399086790?title=a_book_of_the_winter">A Book of the Winter</a>, </i>and I have<i> </i>the collector's edition of Michelle Oka Doner's<i> <a href="https://trapublishing.com/products/intuitive-alphabet-collectors-edition">Intuitive Alphabet</a>.</i> Then, there's Alex Arzt's fascination with <a href="https://shop.oogaboogastore.com/collections/zines/products/alex-arzt-becoming-naturalized-to-place">feral cabbages</a> and Suzie Alan Skunk's <i>Maybe I Think You Stink</i>, a "<a href="https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/64266/">celebrated work of poetry and skunk culture written by and for the small animal community.</a>" Mathias Énard's new novel about "<a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-annual-banquet-of-the-gravediggers-guild/">the one day in the year where Death and the living observe a temporary truce</a>" beckons, too. I might while away a happy hour or so learning about the <a href="https://50wattsbooks.com/products/lapidarium-the-secret-lives-of-stones">secret lives of stones</a> or <a href="https://wakefieldpress.com/products/brief-lives-of-idiots">exemplary fools</a> or <a href="https://wakefieldpress.com/products/odd-jobs">odd jobs</a>, or perusing exhibition catalogs "<a href="https://www.b-f-t-k.info/">of the Disappeared, Destroyed, Lost or Otherwise Inaccessible</a>" or <a href="https://www.alexandregallery.com/catalogues/windows-and-reflections#slide:4">Lois Dodd's windows and reflections</a>. There's copy of <i>The Girls</i>, a "<a href="https://www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/the-girls">wry, macabre tale of simple country living, brutal murder, and a reasonably happy couple</a>" by a "most startlingly offbeat suspense novelist," and Howard Fishman's life of Connie Converse, too:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><blockquote>"<a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/someone-always-takes-me-home-on-howard-fishmans-to-anyone-who-ever-asks/">Converse was notable for preserving a greater level of obscurity more extreme than any of the others: recordings never commercially available; no connections to any scene or famous figure; being a guitar-playing singer-songwriter (and home-taper) in the early 1950s, before such a thing existed, who played only among friends before dropping out of music in the 1960s and ultimately disappearing shortly after.</a>"</blockquote><p>(I think I found out about this book through <a href="https://kelseykeith.substack.com/p/ground-condition-17">Kelsey Keith's Substack</a>.) </p><p>In other Substack recommendations: Jess Stanley's praise of Naomi Klein's <i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610326/doppelganger">Doppelganger</a></i> landed it on the must-read shelf:</p><blockquote><a href="https://jessicastanley.substack.com/p/223-read-look-think">Klein has taken everything frightening in the world—Steve Bannon! Vaccine denial! Fascists! Colonialism and racist scapegoating! Inaction on climate change!—and made the state of the problem clear. Sometimes you just want someone older, wiser and cleverer than you to put your worries in order and point you in the right direction. Klein does this!</a> </blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">More directional reading: Sadiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, Rinaldo Walcott, and Vicky Osterweil <a href="https://www.commonnotions.org/diversity-of-aesthetics-vol-iii">on looting</a>, which Osterweil describes as "a nearly irrecuperable aesthetic gesture against the police, whiteness, and the regime of property that gives those forces power and purpose," and David Graeber's <i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610203/pirateenlightenmentorthereallibertalia">Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia</a></i>, a book about, yes, 17th-century pirates, but also about what <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n07/francis-gooding/when-thieves-retire">Francis Gooding</a> calls "living, practical" experiments in "new ways of organizing social life," not to mention "blood pacts and poisonings, magicians and princesses, off-grid pirate towns on tropical islands, impostor kings lording it over phoney empires, and more."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Back in real life, I'll probably spend the evening in my pajamas with the <i><a href="https://www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9780241455654">Penguin Book of Christmas Stories</a>. </i>Italo Calvino and Angela Carter for Christmas—what could be better?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Wishing everyone, everywhere peace and somewhere safe and quiet and calm to read.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://auntieoti.com/products/fisherman-pullover-1">Aunti Oti fisherman sweater</a> / <a href="https://nepenthesny.com/collections/pants/products/h-d-pant-red-bdu-wool-shaggy-plaid">Needles shaggy wool plaid pants</a> / <a href="https://leletny.com/products/jodie-chain-bow-bobbi">Lelet chain-bow bobby pins</a> / <a href="https://satomikawakita.com/collections/earrings/products/ce10-ooak">Satomi Kawakita dangling diamond earrings</a> / <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/842915111/fine-georg-jensen-danish-sterling-silver">Georg Jensen "Acorn" Stilton scoop</a> / <a href="https://stjamescheese.com/products/ceramic-stilton-pot?variant=44098839085299&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQiA4Y-sBhC6ARIsAGXF1g7hG_4n4NqCfG3qduxbHAm1mL1yR49td7GabqzPeDeQuqXnxaB-5YYaAjQ6EALw_wcB">Stilton cheese in a ceramic crock</a> / <a href="https://www.ebth.com/items/13554519-anthony-treherne-co-miniature-shakespeare-in-38-volumes-1904-1907">Anthony Treherne & Co. miniature set of Shakespeare</a> / <a href="https://www.shopboswell.us/collections/kitchen/products/persian-flower-tumbler-no-1">Lobmeyr Persian flower tumbler</a> / Comice pear / <a href="https://effieshomemade.com/collections/oatcakes">Effie's Oatcakes</a> (delicious) / <a href="https://www.shop-jamiehaller.com/store/p/the-penny-loafer-in-bronzo">Jamie Haller bronzed penny loafers</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Previous <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/search/label/j%C3%B3lab%C3%B3kafl%C3%B3%C3%B0">jólabókaflóðs</a>!</div><br /> <p></p>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-71525748228272729702023-12-22T19:16:00.657-05:002023-12-23T14:29:46.797-05:00some books that might be worth giving (or getting)<div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGSxnS0BS8ZiIFn9GhN0Qg3qsnOZw9zJgM2jL8U2kPkRjdSL9iQGdNR6G_QXN5cJvyz7ljub_4W0veh3ZyDLNcojtspWLMUCbY8KTkADbli3mBfgesUT9prLoHbOeVPcncwVa1GtIqH4YV3oUSlohuEZKQgrulbP8u_G85DJ8giNmC3Z0vE3zLIxokAQ/s1198/parker%20posey%20party%20girl.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1198" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGSxnS0BS8ZiIFn9GhN0Qg3qsnOZw9zJgM2jL8U2kPkRjdSL9iQGdNR6G_QXN5cJvyz7ljub_4W0veh3ZyDLNcojtspWLMUCbY8KTkADbli3mBfgesUT9prLoHbOeVPcncwVa1GtIqH4YV3oUSlohuEZKQgrulbP8u_G85DJ8giNmC3Z0vE3zLIxokAQ/w640-h480/parker%20posey%20party%20girl.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Me, checking my list and panic-buying books as holiday presents? Nah, it's Parker Posey in "Party Girl."</i></div><div><br /></div>Last-minute holiday shoppers tend to have a go-to spot. For my dad, it is an Ace Hardware, where he tends to find the most unexpected things, like "magic chickadee hand-feeding gloves" (one-size-fits-all gloves and a bag of birdseed). Me, I head to a bookstore. <div><br /></div><div>If you are dealing with specific readers, persnickety readers, the type of person with definite notions about what they will or will not want to read (someone, perhaps, ahem, like me), here are some tailored recommendations. Some are books I read this year. Those I have written about in <a href="https://evencleveland.substack.com/archive?sort=new">my newsletter</a>; I've radically condensed reviews from there here, as I've spent the better part of the last month recovering from surgery, and the prospect of a shortcut was too tempting to resist. My apologies if it feels duplicative—hopefully, there is enough of the fresh mixed in!<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For small and persistent questioners:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Island_(book)">The Little Island</a></i>, Margaret Wise Brown. This is the picture book we've read more than any other in our family; why this one, I could not tell you exactly. It is a strange and gnomic book about the passage of time and a kitten reaching the limit of what he can know and the place where faith comes in. Leon Wiesgard's beautiful illustrations feel like a time capsule, too; a lost way of seeing and depicting the world.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For the precociously wordy:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><i><a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/ounce-dice-trice">Ounce, Dice, Trice</a></i> by Alastair Reid. A poet's compendium of strange, beguiling, silly, and delightful words (and the first book that made Hugh laugh when he was a baby).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/711507/the-swifts-a-dictionary-of-scoundrels-by-beth-lincoln-illustrated-by-claire-powell/">The Swifts, a Dictionary of Scoundrels</a></i> by Beth Lincoln. A wordy, witty, mordantly clever whodunit for the 8-12 set about escaping the ways your family defines you—in this case, literally, as each Swift is given a name from the family dictionary and expected to live up to it, a prospect that fills Shenanigan Swift with some trepidation. Can she be more than a troublemaker, especially when mysterious accidents begin befalling her kin?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/series/fairyland">The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making</a></i> by Catherynne Valente. Twelve-year-old September is whisked away from Omaha to Fairyland on the back of Imogen, Leopard of Little Breezes, by the Green Wind. If that is the sort of sentence that thrills you to your toes, you will love Valente's Fairyland books, rococo narrative confections resplendent with inventive imagination.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For the defiantly young:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250776297/beawolf">Bea Wolf</a></i> by Zach Weinersmith, illustrated by Boulet. I have read many versions of Beowulf through the years, and none is more delightful than this one, where the tale is recast into an epic confrontation between anarchic childhood and grim age. An absolute pleasure.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For the growing pained:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franny_and_Zooey">Franny and Zooey</a></i> by J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey are the youngest of the seven famous Glass children, who were trotted out to perform on the "It's a Wise Child" radio program. Now Franny is in college, and Zooey is an actor on the rise. In these two short stories, Salinger outlines the spiritual crisis that crashes in on Franny—what, exactly, is she supposed to <i>do</i>? And in a world of cruelty, falseness, pomposity, and greed—and Zooey's attempt to help her out. It's maddening, funny, irritating writing that suddenly catches you—well, me at least—up short with heartbreaking wisdom. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For people who get a little too lost in books:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15432">Henry Brocken</a></i> by Walter de la Mare. One day, riding on his uncle’s horse, Dulcinea, Henry Broken finds himself in a subtly sinister realm beyond the reaches of the ordinary where Jane Eyre and Rochester, Sleeping Beauty and Gulliver, not to mention the peoples of Bunyan’s Pilgrims Progress and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream live in a sort of suspended reality, leaving the reader to question whether knowing how the story ends is really a gift after all. (More here: <a href="https://evencleveland.substack.com/p/summer-reading">E*C Digest 5/1/2023</a>.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For middle-aged witches:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/lolly-willowes">Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman</a></i> by Sylvia Townsend Warner. After spending the first part of her life as a resident spinster aunt, Laura Willowes decides to make a change, sparked by a bundle of greenery she picks up in a shop. To the confusion of her staid family, she ups sticks and moves to a remote English village, where she makes a deal with the devil to finally have the life she wants.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>For the macabre:</b></div><div><br /><i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725351/the-skull-by-jon-klassen-illustrated-by-jon-klassen/">The Skull</a></i> by John Klassen. In this droll and deadpan tale, Ottilla is on the run; from what, who can say? She finds a house inhabited by a skull; it is chased nightly by a headless skeleton. With a bucket, a rolling pin, some tea, and some nerve, she finds her way to a happy—or happy enough—ever after. (<a href="https://evencleveland.substack.com/p/marking-time">E*C Digest, 7.21.2023</a>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/204649/i-am-homeless-if-this-is-not-my-home-by-lorrie-moore/">I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home</a></i> by Lorrie Moore. A teacher visiting his dying brother in a New York City hospice goes home to discover his ex, a therapy clown, has committed suicide and been buried; not what she would have wanted. Naturally, he goes to her grave, where there she is, slightly decayed and waiting for him to take her to a forensic cadaver farm. The story of their road trip is interspersed with dispatches from a woman running a boarding house just after the Civil War. Moore, acidly witty, is always ready with one-liners that slap. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Things">Poor Things</a></i> by Alasdair Gray. Structure is everything in this amazingly gonzo and wickedly entertaining collection of found "historical" documents, including the Frankenstein tale of Bella Baxter, a dead woman brought back to life implanted with the brain from her fetus. Who gets to tell a woman's story? And why is it so much easier to believe a man's lies over a woman's truth?</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><b>For the festive:</b></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AOwiWTs5euPq-jc3mEvHY4FY1xji47Bf2K5lJ8CrOQA/edit#gid=2043522867">Here is a list</a> of all of the books in my holiday reading pile!</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For the wryly empathetic:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://trapublishing.com/products/the-unfortunate-life-of-worms">The Unfortunate Life of Earthworms</a> </i>by Noemi Vola<i>. </i>Vola opens this book by recommending against writing a book about earthworms because no one cares about earthworms. But you will, after you read this.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For armchair time-travelers:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/612030/otherlands-by-thomas-halliday/">Otherlands</a></i> by Thomas Halliday. An absolutely exhilarating, mind-melting trip back through the history of the Earth that meticulously reconstructs specific ecosystems from different epochs, revealing that everything in our ordinary world is actually a marvelous compendium of time. Watch for the giant penguins!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/life-story-aristides-demetrios?variant=40824929615906">Life Story</a></i> by Virginia Lee Burton. Perhaps the most beautiful and breathtaking picture book about how we got here, charmingly framed as an epic play tracing existence from the birth of the sun to the moment you sit, holding this book in your hands. Sarah Larson wrote <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/sarah-larson/life-story-virginia-lee-burtons-picture-book-for-the-ages">a lovely review</a> of it in <i>The New Yorker</i> in 2015; a beloved favorite.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>For readers of<i> The Wager </i>craving additional harrowing shipwreck narratives:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />You think crashing on a remote South American island in the 1700s is bad? Ha! Have I got two books for you: Joan Druett's<i> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/books/review/Williams-t.html">The Island of the Lost</a></i> (which I am sure I have recommended before but will continue to recommend all of my days) is an eye-popping tale of two shipwrecks on the same Auckland Island. Survivors from each were on the island at the same time, and while one group managed a Crusoe-esque living situation of enviable discipline, startling ingenuity, and ultimately, escape, the others ... did not. If you yearn for even more severe cold and misery, Hampton Sides' <i><a href="https://hamptonsides.com/writing/in-the-kingdom-of-ice/">In The Kingdom of Ice</a></i> tells the spine-chilling story of the Arctic-bound Jeannette expedition. The ship was crushed after two years in the pack ice, and the survivors made a bananas thousand-mile journey over the ice to Siberia.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>For letter readers:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><i><a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/letters-to-gwen-john">Letters to Gwen John</a></i> by Celia Paul. Reading Paul's series of personal letters to her favorite artist, Gwen John, is lulling, almost like ASMR, but there is something formidable beneath the gentleness—the testimony and truth of two women who built their lives around making art and what it cost them to do it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374603496/letterstocamondo">Letters to Camondo</a> </i>by Edmund de Waal<i>. </i>De Waal wrote an absolutely extraordinary memoir of his family through the history of a collection of netsuke in <i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374168285/theharewithambereyesillustratededition">The Hare With Amber Eyes</a></i>. Here, in a series of poignant and shattering letters addressed to Moise Camondo, a banker and collector whose only son died for France in WWI and whose family was murdered by Nazis in WWII, de Waal grapples with the limits of the storytelling and the ways that stories and memoirs fail.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For mycophile wellness hustlers:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/194580/trouble-with-lichen-by-john-wyndham/">The Trouble with Lichen</a></i> by John Wyndham. Diana Brackley is a brainy, beautiful, pragmatic biochemist who discovers the remarkable property of a rare lichen, and then uses a wellness empire (ha) to set in motion a long-range plan to empower women to reshape their lives—and the world. (More here: <a href="https://evencleveland.substack.com/p/books-and-cookies">E*C Digest, 1.15.2023</a>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For people contemplating a run for city council:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Riding_(novel)">South Riding</a></i> by Winifred Holtby. Based on Holtby's mother's experiences in local British government circa 1920-1930, this quietly engrossing book depicts the turbulent flow of ordinary lives with a capacious, unsentimental generosity. It's similar to the magic of Middlemarch but less about the unseen good of individual acts than the imperfect but essential good of community. (More here: <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/05/books-read-lately-522022.html">5/2/2022 blog post</a>) </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>For amateur mathematicians:</b></div><div><br /><i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312427801/thehousekeeperandtheprofessor">The Housekeeper and the Professor</a></i> by Yoko Ogawa. A beautiful and idiosyncratic story about numbers creating a pathway to something incalculable between a housekeeper, her ten-year-old son, and a professor whose short-term memory lasts only 8o minutes. (More here: <a href="https://evencleveland.substack.com/p/math-problems-love-stories">E*C Digest, 2.16.2023</a>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For people interested in AI's roots:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725022/the-maniac-by-benjamin-labatut/">The MANIAC</a></i> by Benjamín Labatut. In three mesmeric stories, Labatut outlines the costs technology can extract. In the first, Paul Ehrehfest, a physicist driven to despair by developments in the field and the rise of Nazism, takes his own life and the life of a beloved son who was disabled, believing there was no more room in the world for them; in the second, a chorus of voices tells the story of John Von Neumann, the Hungarian-American genius who, perhaps more than anyone else, created the world of computers that we live with now, a world that grew directly out of the development of atomic bombs; the third recounts the defeat of the Go master Lee Sedol by AlphaGo, an AI program. I found it harrowing and absolutely fascinating. Pair it with <i><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44425/turings-cathedral-by-george-dyson/">Turing's Cathedral</a></i> by George Dyson, the book Labatut cites as an inspiration, which delves more deeply into von Neumann's startling story and the startling stories of the many, many genius minds around him as they played around and developed new tools and methodologies of doom.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For everyone reading the news:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.ndbooks.com/book/minor-detail/">Minor Detail</a></i> by Adiana Shibli. Two stories of Palestinian women: One in 1949, one sometime in the 21st century, that illuminate with shattering clarity that violence never ends—its aftershocks always reverberate through time, leading to damage and tragedy. (Originally blogged about here <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/05/books-read-lately-522022.html">on 5.2.2022</a>) </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>For marveling in humble wonder at the indomitable human spirit and what can be done with words:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><i><a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/the-bridge-of-beyond">The Bridge of Beyond</a></i> by Simone Schwarz Bart. One of the most wondrous books I have read in a long, long time. It tells the story of Telumee Lougandor and the women in her family and their lives in Guadeloupe in the aftermath of slavery. It lifted me right out of my own life and way of thinking, like someone opeing a hidden door and saying, see? Here is a whole other world, and whole new ways of using words. The way that Schwarz-Bart shows the depths of the resilience, community, and joy in the Lougandor women’s lives is awesome, in the sense of an encounter with something sublime. (More here: <a href="https://evencleveland.substack.com/p/gibberish-but-high-quality-gibberish">E*C Digest, 1.25.2023</a>)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Lois Lenski with the last word:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi33MYgdAcOwGk8V8sAWfC59_hfVrJIzoPqrJsYa8mBMwfHzFNATMiL89GFTNEjQFaGDS46KjScuWGW0Ko973mhqaYwjA3ho16drjkip2pGgkHyOnC4yeyZKyd0CDuK7NsaJf1wg8rvtPMPkNXzcMnioL4oIUR-z0zpKQkupwf6f7PEe9oKY0ZKvf5-A/s1180/Lois%20Lenski%20Reading%20Christmas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1176" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi33MYgdAcOwGk8V8sAWfC59_hfVrJIzoPqrJsYa8mBMwfHzFNATMiL89GFTNEjQFaGDS46KjScuWGW0Ko973mhqaYwjA3ho16drjkip2pGgkHyOnC4yeyZKyd0CDuK7NsaJf1wg8rvtPMPkNXzcMnioL4oIUR-z0zpKQkupwf6f7PEe9oKY0ZKvf5-A/w576-h578/Lois%20Lenski%20Reading%20Christmas.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-26542710756388539202023-12-21T07:50:00.023-05:002023-12-21T07:50:00.146-05:00various suns / midwinter day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04R86zC-UfdNA49o47TjeEQErTqk4XLKEgDRWjaeGpPvz6-gA6tpcwvD2v7qRTV1ZnRrv_O-XqyqUtLjQEW3UlVgff_QkTS40tmksE4ZiPoIIHNNPqRl_6yloXKPGypYlzSHqEU29ysCzAoFg1b_B4ui3t8f2xs1B1GthD16AK_bDVhIx1Ixau7WSoQ/s1194/MacMillan%20Suns.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="938" data-original-width="1194" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj04R86zC-UfdNA49o47TjeEQErTqk4XLKEgDRWjaeGpPvz6-gA6tpcwvD2v7qRTV1ZnRrv_O-XqyqUtLjQEW3UlVgff_QkTS40tmksE4ZiPoIIHNNPqRl_6yloXKPGypYlzSHqEU29ysCzAoFg1b_B4ui3t8f2xs1B1GthD16AK_bDVhIx1Ixau7WSoQ/w607-h476/MacMillan%20Suns.jpg" width="607" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn4tvHmgmqgKx_GQlhZZtsnuA09L7hNQV47lvLVW6O509ZEx3JC3bDjbwj6mrRzJbrUDAEZLvLcSsLIUb5aCQsm2-ab8UoGAAwgEYvHgMqMpexXs48wmBeldoreA78IMdtGOLDF5BisesZakHY24-ajqqgMzuTMFl7ZQE-Gr1iLyHtKyaMEezJI1MYrA/s944/Erich%20Fried%20Toys.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="944" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn4tvHmgmqgKx_GQlhZZtsnuA09L7hNQV47lvLVW6O509ZEx3JC3bDjbwj6mrRzJbrUDAEZLvLcSsLIUb5aCQsm2-ab8UoGAAwgEYvHgMqMpexXs48wmBeldoreA78IMdtGOLDF5BisesZakHY24-ajqqgMzuTMFl7ZQE-Gr1iLyHtKyaMEezJI1MYrA/w544-h435/Erich%20Fried%20Toys.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7kcq7VJ9U-nCPdARvqc2rB9edVsM1nEvqB26SfiiikLOvUlND9wkkYxA2zj1i-bS3003f-USRu6FJJX9ykmu8ggTGXbseXyevzW628CKI1fK7hEO74IyFQgMyBcSTlwlRmKdglMLGvdsEud5ww52GWeGClO9hOWlCs_Jjc8qsZfmeeRCauV5hxqOR-Q/s1582/sun%20badge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1522" data-original-width="1582" height="578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7kcq7VJ9U-nCPdARvqc2rB9edVsM1nEvqB26SfiiikLOvUlND9wkkYxA2zj1i-bS3003f-USRu6FJJX9ykmu8ggTGXbseXyevzW628CKI1fK7hEO74IyFQgMyBcSTlwlRmKdglMLGvdsEud5ww52GWeGClO9hOWlCs_Jjc8qsZfmeeRCauV5hxqOR-Q/w601-h578/sun%20badge.jpg" width="601" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Donald Baxter MacMillan, "The last row of suns," 1913-1917. Taken on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocker_Land_Expedition">Crocker Expedition</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*<br /><div><br /></div><div>Erich Fried, "Toys," translated by George Rapp. Via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuj0F3iLf55/">Drifting Lament</a>.<br /><br /><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/469969">15th century French pilgrim's badge of the sun with a human face</a>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Rylands Medieval Collection, Latin MS 53, f. 58v. Christianus Prolianus and Joachinus de Gigantibus (?), <i>Astronomia, </i>1478: "Comparative view of the magnitudes of the Sun (a large disc of burnished gold), the Moon (silver), Mars (gold), Venus (gold), Mercury (gold) and Earth (pale)." Found at <a href="http://demonagerie.tumblr.com/post/49472880560/rylands-medieval-collection-latin-ms-53-f-58v" target="_blank">Demonagerie</a>, via <a href="http://salmagundi.heracliteanfire.net/" target="_blank">A London Salmagundi</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Jan Luyken, "Vrouw houdt bij het kijken naar de zon haar hand voor de ogen (The woman holds her hands ovr her eyes while looking at the sun)," 1687. The Rijksmuseum.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Bernadette Mayer, from <i>Midwinter's Day</i>, 1978.</div>
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text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.houseofhackney.com/uk/saber-bloomsbury-love-seat-midnight.html">House of Hackney's tigerish loveseat</a> (or, somewhat less grandly but still extravagantly, a <a href="https://www.houseofhackney.com/uk/florescence-saber-large-tassel-velvet-cushion-noir.html">tasseled tiger pillow</a>).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A <a href="https://www.catbirdnyc.com/swan-pencil-sharpener.html">swan pencil-sharpener</a>, for serene sharpening.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://winonairene.com/products/black-kitty-claw">Winona Irene's black kitty</a>, to claw back stray tresses, and <i><a href="https://broccolimag.com/products/catnip-magazine?variant=43694428356865">Catnip</a></i>, a magazine for cat lovers edited by a person allergic to them (me!).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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(I'll read anything she writes—an amazing writer.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">One of <a href="https://www.alexisstiteler.com/shop">Alexis Stiteler's creaturely hand-drawn sweatshirts</a> (next drop Sunday, December 10 at 4:00 pm ET.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">A <a href="https://www.lichennyc.com/products/cast-iron-monkey-hooks">vintage cast-iron monkey hook</a>, for hanging around.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://eriebasin.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/c1880-mosaic-scarab-ring">Mosaic scarab ring</a>, because beetles are gem-like beauties.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://pittsburghmercantile.com/collections/accessories/products/nathalie-lete-fish-fanny-pack">Natalie Lete's fish belt bag</a>, made to swallow phones and keys.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">British Colour Standard's <a href="https://lostandfoundshop.com/products/wolf-head-candle">wolf's head candle</a>, for light with bite. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Cactus Shop's <a href="https://cactus.store/products/license-plate-frame-3-slime-mold">license-plate tribute to slime mold</a>, because being a mammal isn't everything.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One more indulgence: These funny gift guides are an annual delight to compile for all of you anonymous folks out there. I don't make any money from them—no affiliate links, no placements, nada! I'm an online renegade!—but if they have brought you joy or amusement, please consider <a href="https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/psearch-monthly-tabbed?ms=ADD2310U1U89&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND.DWB_CKMSF-BRAND.DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand.E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-ONETIME&gclid=CjwKCAiAmsurBhBvEiwA6e-WPKbBVOQXVt19FmuuET79Gyy1zmz4ORg-pm_3zM3vEFsepVHhXhPbyBoCRKEQAvD_BwE">making a donation to Doctors Without Borders</a>. I'm donating what I can, too, and holding the people of Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan in my heart. Thank you.</div><p></p>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-88110137396027426222023-12-06T19:34:00.005-05:002023-12-08T18:51:31.927-05:00gifts of measurement and degree<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggym-Ny1be3WIxYrGRr_mRfOpbfr4Ei04itmgrjtVWNUIwKiNmstyAMALN70hBcpOqjbGLjVvM63jimg9shAjgBQ5_P1nUtl9VZ4LUYPSpBX1as81-O2egaGGdZr-YoksiMmb9n8gP6BmUzV43SSJGjTdLyo7kxo_WnFwMcIZspthX9XyrwvbIgxhJqw/s2164/plant%20music.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1654" data-original-width="2164" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggym-Ny1be3WIxYrGRr_mRfOpbfr4Ei04itmgrjtVWNUIwKiNmstyAMALN70hBcpOqjbGLjVvM63jimg9shAjgBQ5_P1nUtl9VZ4LUYPSpBX1as81-O2egaGGdZr-YoksiMmb9n8gP6BmUzV43SSJGjTdLyo7kxo_WnFwMcIZspthX9XyrwvbIgxhJqw/w640-h490/plant%20music.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A musical instrument that turns touch into sound, from <a href="https://shop.playtronica.com/products/touchme">Playtronica</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A <a href="https://store.moma.org/products/author-clock?variant=43855227683046">clock that tells time through literary quotations</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A <a href="https://saccheri.it/portfolio/cyanometer/">cyanometer</a>, to calibrate <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/cyanotypehandprinted/?etsrc=sdt">the blue</a> of the sky.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://the-song-cave.com/collections/shirts">The Song Cave's t-shirts</a>, which always tell the correct time.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://choosingkeeping.com/collections/diaries/products/pocket-astier-de-villatte-2017-ma-vie-diary">Astier De Villatte's pocket diary</a>, for noting appointments, or the <a href="https://ignota.org/products/ignota-diary-2024">Ignota Diary</a>, for astrological navigations.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Adam J. Kurtz's timer, for an <a href="https://buyolympia.com/Item/adam-jk-shh-timer">hour of ticking quiet</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.newmoontelescopes.com/shop/p/12">New Moon Telescopes' 12.5" hardwood instrument</a>, for peering into time itself.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A V<a href="https://eriebasin.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/c1890-stone-compass">ictorian-era compass set in stone</a>, for finding the way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://shopcompound.com/products/not-everything-that-matters-can-be-measured?_pos=1&_sid=839debe1e&_ss=r">Tim Belonax's metal ruler</a>—a helpful reminder.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And one more, not pictured b/c it threw off my visual flow: a <a href="https://www.spoonsnspice.com/fox-run-cake-thermometer.html#:~:text=This%20handy%20gadget%20features%20four,easy%20to%20view%20and%20read.">funny cake thermometer</a>, distilled to the essential data points.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One more indulgence: These funny gift guides are an annual delight to compile for all of you anonymous folks out there. 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Thank you.</div><br /><p></p>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-33966897403840563682023-12-05T16:34:00.002-05:002023-12-08T18:51:49.063-05:00gifts of clarity and reflection<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhXjokvtLQev_AXyuh6NyECtWh6yO2E2tuPmgLWEiEVU6pyX_JMyeOsNFUgqcDMSPNFoQz5bW6b9eyJ1MmnYOcSVdugEl2pGGzW2ETuA_Pm4vXRjGN4PAVsem2qidfs0RAMMiT6fX_UNQdaVOrXIsdRPuJTSO-N39WvZfhjT_jWOKiE0FzHKUcgb1gw/s1600/prism.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhXjokvtLQev_AXyuh6NyECtWh6yO2E2tuPmgLWEiEVU6pyX_JMyeOsNFUgqcDMSPNFoQz5bW6b9eyJ1MmnYOcSVdugEl2pGGzW2ETuA_Pm4vXRjGN4PAVsem2qidfs0RAMMiT6fX_UNQdaVOrXIsdRPuJTSO-N39WvZfhjT_jWOKiE0FzHKUcgb1gw/w640-h640/prism.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A <a href="https://shop-generalstore.com/products/prism-rainbow-maker?variant=52948120836">prism</a>, for making rainbows whenever the sun comes out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A <a href="https://moonlists.com/products/deck-of-prompts">deck of prompts from Moon Lists</a>, to inspire thinking in new directions (pre-order).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://shop.nalatanalata.com/products/silver-coffee-dripper">Masunobu Ando's silver-glazed ceramic coffee dripper</a>, for brewing head-clearing cups, or <a href="https://cultiverre.com/products/lucid-dreaming-tea?variant=32906698588240&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQiAsburBhCIARIsAExmsu66j6aZx2z7jsE7xr-QmRyNe4uQRz8boUWO6DAcGTq3uY4YMQImU6waAsUQEALw_wcB">a tea for getting more out of your dreams</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Thank you.</div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-25781642249526858102023-12-04T13:48:00.006-05:002023-12-08T18:52:51.635-05:00gifts for exuberantly eccentric eight-year-olds<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkozm41IaGnKBctYvnd0jkqMI7nKDa8FI_fzBQo1iwis0piQoZGUufRw0Mzj2x_7CCBOPd6cPfb-zG7IvYhaRHraxtyULFxOef7fd3oxHa8jyslwU1wlT4m4k6uAG-aB4cblavn8AYFNkhnhRhv9fyWXHGle7zTcLJsXPtg-ij_JmEGSVwrUa03VWzA/s982/pasta%20monster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="982" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDkozm41IaGnKBctYvnd0jkqMI7nKDa8FI_fzBQo1iwis0piQoZGUufRw0Mzj2x_7CCBOPd6cPfb-zG7IvYhaRHraxtyULFxOef7fd3oxHa8jyslwU1wlT4m4k6uAG-aB4cblavn8AYFNkhnhRhv9fyWXHGle7zTcLJsXPtg-ij_JmEGSVwrUa03VWzA/w640-h440/pasta%20monster.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.dickblick.com/items/staedtler-fimo-soft-polymer-clay-basic-colors-set-of-24/"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Polymer clay</a>, to make the tiny accoutrements desired for <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/11/gifts-for-sweet-and-salty-seven-year.html">last year's woodland kingdom</a>, which is sprawling across the top of two bookcases these days.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1591100191/calcifer-ceramic-mug-studio-ghibli-gifts?gpla=1&gao=1&">Calcifer</a> mug to keep minty-honey tea hot (or <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1564318621/totoro-ceramic-mug-studio-ghibli-gifts">Totoro</a> or <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1550144838/jiji-ceramic-mug-studio-ghibli-gifts">Jiji</a>). </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">An <a href="https://hamee.com/products/otamatone-from-maywa-denki-white">Otamatone</a>, which is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otamatone">Japanese toy synthesizer</a> that looks like the happy offspring of an eighth note and a salamander, so that they can perform <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQtrmhpIXU">retro</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5ZJ8Y4OuQ">hits</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://runamokmaple.com/shop/product/sparkle-syrup/">Runamok syrup</a> infused with edible mica, to make waffles glitter.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A <a href="https://store.mymodernmet.com/products/multicolor-pencil-rainbow">pack of pencils</a> by Duncan Shotten that sharpen into rainbows and a book that explains <a href="https://housesandparties.com/products/what-to-draw-and-how-to-draw-it?epik=dj0yJnU9SFBVUUpPblU0c3JIbVQ2YmZjZWg1QlVGem1VT0kxQnkmcD0wJm49eWRDYmh4cWJMMEpyX3NuTW9Zc2RYUSZ0PUFBQUFBR1Z0TXBJ">what to draw and how to draw it</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.ugg.com/kids-big-kids-classic-boots/neumel-ii-boot/1017320K.html?dwvar_1017320K_color=MDSD">Cozy kicks</a> that will always be easy to spot in the boots-off pile.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.jellycat.com/us/vivacious-vegetable-kale-leaf-vv6kl/">A leafy green</a> they may actually be willing to embrace.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*Editor's note: All eight-year-olds I have met are, in fact, exuberantly eccentric! It is a great age.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One more indulgence: These funny gift guides are an annual delight to compile for all of you anonymous folks out there. I don't make any money from them—no affiliate links, no placements, nada! I'm an online renegade!—but if they have brought you joy or amusement, please consider <a href="https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/secure/psearch-monthly-tabbed?ms=ADD2310U1U89&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=BRAND.DWB_CKMSF-BRAND.DWB-GS-GS-ALL-DWBBrand.E-BO-ALL-RSA-RSARefresh.1-ONETIME&gclid=CjwKCAiAmsurBhBvEiwA6e-WPKbBVOQXVt19FmuuET79Gyy1zmz4ORg-pm_3zM3vEFsepVHhXhPbyBoCRKEQAvD_BwE">making a donation to Doctors Without Borders</a>. I'm donating what I can, too, and holding the people of Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan in my heart. Thank you.</div><br />evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-42761424249374023242023-11-25T08:48:00.006-05:002023-12-08T17:44:28.152-05:00gifts for all (or at least, some)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnTxADb-YlIPMgHGKA7BDlaKT58ZchfRo8LEakqyahr2Af5T4AiTfpO1ABH0yl8Fxq7arvoaGTjfES4tg9KpWKIvNYfWqrthMq_qak020rzxaiehECcTd3PxXw9HvEvV_xbNP8CSH_R4/s1600/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47d9-3d85-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="531" data-original-width="732" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnTxADb-YlIPMgHGKA7BDlaKT58ZchfRo8LEakqyahr2Af5T4AiTfpO1ABH0yl8Fxq7arvoaGTjfES4tg9KpWKIvNYfWqrthMq_qak020rzxaiehECcTd3PxXw9HvEvV_xbNP8CSH_R4/s640/nypl.digitalcollections.510d47d9-3d85-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.001.w.jpg" width="640" /></a>
A full list of the marginally useful (but hopefully amusing!) gift guides compiled on this blog.<br /><div>
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<b>2023</b></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2023/12/beastly-gifts.html">Beastly gifts</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2023/12/gifts-of-measurement-and-degree.html">Measurement and degree</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2023/12/gifts-of-clarity-and-reflection.html">Clarity and reflection</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2023/12/gifts-for-exuberantly-eccentric-eight.html">Exuberantly eccentric eight-year-olds</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2023/12/assorted-gifts-of-varying-opulence.html">Assorted gifts of varying opulence</a></div><div><br /></div><div><b>2022</b></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/11/gifts-for-decadent-bathers.html">Decadent bathers</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/12/gifts-for-colorful-characters.html">Colorful characters</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/11/foodie-gifts-you-should-not-eat.html">Foodie gifts you should not eat</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/11/gifts-for-sweet-and-salty-seven-year.html">Sweet and salty seven-year-old storytellers</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/12/gifts-for-stoners.html">Stoners</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/12/books-that-might-make-good-gifts.html">Books that might make good gifts, depending on the recipient</a></div><div>Imaginary outfit: <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/12/imaginary-outfit-jolabokaflo-2022.html">jólabókaflóð 2022 + wish-listed books for 2023</a></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>2021</b></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/11/gifts-for-burnt-out-cooks-who-still.html">Burnt-out home cooks (who still have to make dinner)</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/11/gifts-for-singular-six-year-olds.html">Singular six-year-olds</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/11/gifts-for-studies.html">Gifts for studies</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/11/gifts-and-giving-for-strict-pedestrians.html">Strict pedestrians</a><br /><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/12/gifts-for-mushroom-people.html">Mushroom people</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/12/imaginary-outfit-jolabokaflo-2021-wish.html">Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2021 + wish-listed books for 2022</a><br /><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>2020</b><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/11/gifts-to-fill-idle-hours.html">To fill idle hours</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/11/gifts-empyrean-and-edenic.html">Empyrean and edenic</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/11/gifts-linked-to-books-beloved-by-five.html">Gifts linked to books beloved by a five-year-old</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/11/gifts-of-comfort-and-connection.html">Gifts of comfort and connection</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/12/imaginary-outfit-jolabokaflo-2020.html">Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2020 (and too many books to read in the time allotted)</a><br /><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>2019</b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2019/12/gifts-for-practical-and-fanciful-four.html">Practical and fanciful four-year-olds</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2019/12/gifts-for-jigsaw-puzzlers.html">Jigsaw puzzlers</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2019/12/gifts-for-schlegel-sisters.html">Schlegel sisters</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2019/12/gifts-for-march-sisters.html">March sisters</a><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2019/12/imaginary-outfit-jolabokaflo-2019-and.html">Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð 2019 (and a haphazard collection of wish-listed books)</a></div><div>
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<b>2018</b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/11/gifts-for-mycophiles-all-ages.html">Mycophiles (all ages)</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/11/gifts-for-opinionated-three-year-olds.html">Opinionated three-year-olds who love bright colors and the moon, among other things</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/11/gifts-for-rock-collectors_29.html">Rock collectors</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/12/gifts-for-chionophiles.html">Chionophiles</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/12/random-gifts-for-specific-people.html">Random gifts for specific people</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/12/imaginary-outfit-jolabokaflo-and.html">Imaginary outfit: jólabókaflóð (and bookmarked books to give or get)</a><br />
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<b>2017</b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/11/gifts-with-somewhat-somber-style-for.html">Dark gifts for witty women</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/11/gifts-for-noisy-messy-and-marvelous.html">Noisy, messy, and marvelous young children</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/12/gifts-for-sensitive-listeners.html">Sensitive listeners</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/12/gifts-for-green-thumbs.html">Green thumbs</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/12/midwinterish-gifts.html">Midwinterish gifts</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/11/giftable-books-for-specific-readers.html">Giftable books for specific readers</a><br />
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<b>2016</b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2016/12/gifts-for-moon-gazers.html">Moon gazers</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2016/12/gifts-for-commuters-all-sorts.html">Commuters (all sorts)</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2016/12/gifts-for-hobbyists.html">Hobbyists</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2016/12/gifts-for-play-time.html">Play time</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2016/12/gifts-for-magpies.html">Magpies</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2016/12/gifts-for-scattershot.html">The scattershot</a><br />
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<b>2015 </b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2015/11/gifts-for-first-christmases.html">First Christmases</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2015/12/gifts-for-chronically-sleep-deprived.html">The sleep-deprived</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2015/12/gifts-for-craft-rooms.html">Craft rooms</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2015/12/gifts-for-householders.html">Householders</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2015/12/gifts-for-library-goers.html">Library-goers</a><br />
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<b>2014</b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2014/12/gifts-for-cloudspotters.html">Cloud spotters</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2014/12/gifts-for-spies.html">Spies</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2014/12/gifts-for-armchair-mountaineers.html">Armchair mountaineers</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2014/12/gifts-for-animal-lovers.html">Animal lovers</a><br />
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<b>2013</b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2013/12/gifts-for-starry-eyed-wanderers.html">Starry-eyed wanderers</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2013/12/gifts-for-writers-and-readers.html">Writers and readers</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2013/12/gifts-for-beekeepers.html">Beekeepers</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2013/12/gifts-for-collectors-of-curiosities.html">Collectors of curiosities</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2013/12/gifts-for-staying-in.html">Staying in</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2013/12/gifts-for-venturing-out.html">Venturing out</a><br />
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<b>2012</b><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2012/12/gifts-for-dreamer-of-ice-and-snow.html">The dreamer of ice and snow</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2012/12/gifts-for-reader-of-fairy-tales.html">The reader of fairy tales</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2012/12/gifts-for-classicist.html">The classicist</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2012/12/gifts-for-homebodies.html">Homebodies</a><br />
<a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2012/12/gifts-for-bookish.html">The bookish</a><br />
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*<br /><br /></div><div>gifts some mothers may enjoy: <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/05/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2017</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/05/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2018</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2019/05/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2019</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/04/gifts-some-mothers-may-enjoy.html">2020</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/04/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2021</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/04/flowers-for-mothers.html">2022</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2023/04/gifts-for-web-weavers-way-finders.html">2023</a></div><div><a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/10/birthday-gifts-some-42-year-olds-might.html">birthday gifts for 42-year-olds</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/10/birthday-gifts-some-43-year-olds-might.html">43-year-olds</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/10/birthday-gifts-some-44-year-olds-might.html">44-year-olds</a><br />
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<i><a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-3d85-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Christmas rush at the Washington post office</a></i>. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. 1860 - 1920. </div></div></div></div></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-48335253836455001792023-10-31T19:34:00.000-04:002023-10-31T19:34:44.015-04:00'a witch's thimble, a hard-to-toll bell"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdAhfbiRBd7BLosTBZq_4meYbJuJjxaQHnmHGZPSPtCHWwWudYoCA1O0uvAy0uQw6OXCHDuCtdMUJdZFHK7JRy6fxOCYnNjf5HUIx4ctxDbAOHMetz2piH3NJX2O_pZalrYixhcP6w3N3TEl-aVfj5yP36kmeLewuLx5gg-LbA8tTTY5bV56E3Vewbg/s1292/Cat.361-Naturaleza-Muerta-Resucitada-1963-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1292" data-original-width="930" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXdAhfbiRBd7BLosTBZq_4meYbJuJjxaQHnmHGZPSPtCHWwWudYoCA1O0uvAy0uQw6OXCHDuCtdMUJdZFHK7JRy6fxOCYnNjf5HUIx4ctxDbAOHMetz2piH3NJX2O_pZalrYixhcP6w3N3TEl-aVfj5yP36kmeLewuLx5gg-LbA8tTTY5bV56E3Vewbg/w460-h640/Cat.361-Naturaleza-Muerta-Resucitada-1963-1.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="724" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfgt41rQiQyJI66LFOOCWiM7ZX5QO6L8ZgKqqE20GH3ycMcQWpLgxxKg3helizVZCb9F3XCXuRXzRXrFnedA03mdUiV-aHKqHpc7IEz3pgxnOR3fbhaXboFHvRcP0FECLV33mvY817jxFbXmaKgkmurbwMgsakoHTL2bWeadFgO_MzMlkTDT9KUWv0eQ/w422-h640/william%20blake%20help.jpg" width="422" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Remedios Varios, "Naturaleza Muerta Resucitando," 1963.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div>"A Victorian thrill seeker enjoying the volcanic gas on the island of Vulcano, just off the coast of Sicily." Via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CByojJoHFge/">The Public Domain Review</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>* </div><div><br /></div><div>David Nash, <i>Branch Chair</i>, 1976. Via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CK8m7zblzkH/?igshid=7xmwqckxnuzd">jitjindar</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>*</div><div><br />Dagobert Peche, coffee and tea service, 1922-23, silver, ivory, and turquoise. Execution: Wiener Werkstätte. Neue Galerie New York.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Wolfgang Paalen, <i>Smoke Painting (Fumage)</i>, ca. 1938. Oil, candle burns, and soot on canvas. The Menil Collection.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">*<p></p><div>Soichi Sunami: Martha Graham in "Lamentation," 1930:</div><div><br /></div><blockquote><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CymI7kht0HA/?img_index=1">The dance is performed almost entirely from a seated position, with the dancer encased in a tube of purple jersey. The diagonals and tensions formed by the dancer’s body struggling within the material create a moving sculpture, a portrait which presents the very essence of grief. The figure in this dance is neither human nor animal, neither male nor female: it is grief itself.</a></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div>*</div><p></p><div>Wojciech Weiss, <i><a href="https://arthur.io/art/wojciech-weiss/scarecrows">Scarecrows</a></i>, 1905.</div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">*</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Detail from a hand-decorated calendar, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CzES_n0Lq56/?img_index=1">Paper of the Past</a>.</div><div><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">*</div></div><p>William Blake: <i>The Gates of Paradise</i>, Plate 12, "<a href="https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2424">Help! Help!</a>," 1793. Yale Center for British Art.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">*</div><blockquote>Her mind was groping after something that eluded her experience, a something that was shadowy and menacing, and yet in some way congenial; a something that lurked in waste places, that was hinted at by the sound of water gurgling through deep channels and by the voices of birds of ill-omen. Loneliness, dreariness, aptness for arousing a sense of fear, a kind of ungodly hallowedness—these were the things that called her thoughts away from the comfortable fireside.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Sylvia Townsend Warner, <i>Lolly Willowes</i>. </div><p>*</p><blockquote>You come to this place, mid-life. You don’t know how you got here, but suddenly you’re staring fifty in the face. When you turn and look back down the years, you glimpse the ghosts of other lives you might have led; all houses are haunted. The wraiths and phantoms creep under your carpets and between the warp and weft of fabric, they lurk in wardrobes and lie flat under drawer-liners. You think of the children you might have had but didn’t. When the midwife says, ‘It’s a boy,’ where does the girl go? When you think you’re pregnant, and you’re not, what happens to the child that has already formed in your mind? You keep it filed in a drawer of your consciousness, like a short story that never worked after the opening lines.</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Hilary Mantel, "<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n01/hilary-mantel/giving-up-the-ghost">Giving Up the Ghost.</a>" London Review of Books, 1/2/2003. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><blockquote>Barring any significant changes, we predict the energy your jealousy generates will enable you to keep going strong until you are at least a hundred, but given that we are somewhat short of hands, we would prefer if you were to make your way here before then. The sooner the better, as far as we are concerned. The numbers of people with the levels of passion it takes to become a ghost are decreasing every year, Contrary to common presumption, it's not just anyone who can assume spectral form. Without the requisite degree of jealousy or obsession, people just float straight to heaven. Between you and us, everyone is so blessedly sensible that we sometimes find ourselves wanting to give them a good talking-to. <i>Are you really going to settle for that?</i></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Aoka Matsuda, "The Jealous Type."</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><blockquote>With a heart of furious fancies,<br />Whereof I am commander:<br />With a burning spear,<br />And a horse of air,<br />To the wilderness I wander;<br /><br />With a Knight of ghosts and shadows,<br />I summoned am to Tourney:<br />Ten leagues beyond<br />The wide world's end;<br />Methinks it is no journey.<br /><br /></blockquote>—ANON. (Tom o' Bedlam). Epigraph to Walter de la Mare's <i><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15432/pg15432-images.html">Henry Brocken</a></i>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Post title from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx8oSPOIFFM/">"Foxglove Country,"</a> by Zaffir Kunial.</div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-46720095708299216732023-10-12T12:42:00.000-04:002023-10-12T12:42:05.746-04:00odds and ends / 10.12.2023<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2xCrwXpqGApNjeYY01i4OAn4gtXp1T_U7mBmjlGmdk3PGZ1tigJhJ0cHWgrjIRbOyLm31uGnoNgWf81mw-uFExFSwq9lore_HNP5SxpDV8RlffLetlLA0gR5S5EqOE-xl1PMPcuJ7R8X3-qfR6RqTb8nDCVMmd-yqxrIUwZVFtsNA0LtE1Z18PG1xQ/s1788/wind.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1788" data-original-width="1244" height="727" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp2xCrwXpqGApNjeYY01i4OAn4gtXp1T_U7mBmjlGmdk3PGZ1tigJhJ0cHWgrjIRbOyLm31uGnoNgWf81mw-uFExFSwq9lore_HNP5SxpDV8RlffLetlLA0gR5S5EqOE-xl1PMPcuJ7R8X3-qfR6RqTb8nDCVMmd-yqxrIUwZVFtsNA0LtE1Z18PG1xQ/w506-h727/wind.jpg" width="506" /></a><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Harold Anchel, <i><a href=" https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/374133">Wind</a></i>. 1935-1943. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><div><br /></div><i>Glove</i>, ca. 1840-1880. Bronze and paint, 1 1/8 × 7 7/8 × 4 7/8". The Menil Collection, Houston.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Osborne's Superfine American Water Colours travel set ca. 1830, via <a href="https://www.criticaleyefinds.com/collections/archive-sold/products/c-1850-very-rare-osbornes-superfine-american-watercolors-travel-set?variant=44239149203710">criticalEYEfinds</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Melissa Catanese, <i><a href="https://lw50.org/products/Melissa-Catanese">Figures #6</a></i>, 2021.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Still from Himali Singh Soin's "The Spiral," via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CyDoTLuM8aL/">Ignota Books</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><blockquote>It has long been the task of the humane left to reject the line of reasoning that would sacrifice civilians on the altar of 'historical inevitability,' whether in its Stalinist or Third Worldist guise—to protest the idea that untold innocents must die in the service of some grand telos. The humane left insists instead on the possibility, on the moral imperative, of bending what others take to be history’s iron tracks. The humane left’s north star is no flag or banner but the unflinching belief in the inherent, even divine, worth of every human life.<br /><br />After all, it is this same belief out of which the humane left stands in steadfast opposition to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and siege of the Gaza Strip, that drives our opposition to Israel’s ongoing bombardment of Gaza, our protests against the injustices of apartheid, our demands for a long-term and equal resolution to this conflict. Just as the humane left abhors Hamas’s attack and demands the immediate release of the hostages, the humane left rejects with all its force the exterminationist logic now promulgated by officials in Netanyahu’s government and right-wing politicians in the United States. There is no contradiction here. The left must be humane, or it is no left at all.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Joshua Leifer, "<a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/toward-a-humane-left/">Toward a Humane Left: To hold everyone's humanity—that is the task of the hour.</a>" <i>Dissent</i>, October 12, 2023. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Related: "<a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/dual-loyalty-2/">It's so hard to have humanity here.</a>"</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><blockquote>On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion of automated machinery. Knitting machines known as lace frames allowed one employee to do the work of many without the skill set usually required. In protest, the beleaguered workers had begun breaking into factories to smash the machines. “Nine Hundred Lace Frames have been broken,” the newspaper reported. In response, the government had garrisoned six regiments of soldiers in the town, in a domestic invasion that became a kind of slow-burning civil war of factory owners, supported by the state, against workers. The article was apocalyptic: 'God only knows what will be the end of it; nothing but ruin.'</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Kyle Chayka, "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/rethinking-the-luddites-in-the-age-of-ai#:~:text=Brian%20Merchant's%20new%20book%2C%20%E2%80%9CBlood,in%20the%20face%20of%20automation.">Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I.</a>" <i>The New Yorker</i>, 9/26/2002. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>*</div><blockquote>The knitting machines which provoked the first Luddite disturbances had been putting people out of work for well over two centuries. Everybody saw this happening—it became part of daily life. They also saw the machines coming more and more to be the property of men who did not work, only owned and hired. It took no German philosopher, then or later, to point out what this did, had been doing, to wages and jobs. Public feeling about the machines could never have been simple unreasoning horror, but likely something more complex: the love/hate that grows up between humans and machinery—especially when it's been around for a while—not to mention serious resentment toward at least two multiplications of effect that were seen as unfair and threatening. One was the concentration of capital that each machine represented, and the other was the ability of each machine to put a certain number of humans out of work—to be ''worth'' that many human souls. What gave King Ludd his special Bad charisma, took him from local hero to nationwide public enemy, was that he went up against these amplified, multiplied, more than human opponents and prevailed. When times are hard, and we feel at the mercy of forces many times more powerful, don't we, in seeking some equalizer, turn, if only in imagination, in wish, to the Badass—the djinn, the golem, the hulk, the superhero—who will resist what otherwise would overwhelm us? Of course, the real or secular frame-bashing was still being done by everyday folks, trade unionists ahead of their time, using the night, and their own solidarity and discipline, to achieve their multiplications of effect.<br /><br />It was open-eyed class war.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Thomas Pynchon, "<a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html">Is It O.K. to be a Luddite?</a>" <i>The New York Times</i>, October 28, 1984. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><blockquote>At this crisis certain inventions in machinery were introduced into the staple manufactures of the North which, greatly reducing the number of hands necessary to be employed, threw thousands out of work and left them without legitimate means of sustaining life. A bad harvest supervened. Distress reached its climax. Endurance, overgoaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition. The throes of a sort of moral earthquake were felt heaving under the hills of the northern counties. But as is usual in such cases, nobody took much notice.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Charlotte Bronte, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_(novel)">Shirley</a></i>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""open sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;">*</span></div><blockquote>This movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now.<br />What an inane card player. And the age may support it.<br />Each time the rumble of the age<br />Is an anthill in the distance.<br /><br />As he slides the first rumpled card<br />Out of his dirty ruffled shirtfront the cartoon<br />Of the new age has begun its ascent<br />Around all of us like a gauze spiral staircase in which<br />Some stars have been imbedded.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">John Ashbery, "<a href="https://theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&id=40212700d6&e=84aa4e6ab3">This Configuration</a>." <i>The Paris Review</i>, Issue 79, Spring 1981.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>"<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40882/40882-h/40882-h.htm">It is not true that love makes all things easy: it makes us choose what is difficult.</a>"<br /></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-47446376825858200132023-09-17T11:48:00.000-04:002023-09-17T11:48:13.982-04:00sunday tune: the beths - an expert in a dying field<p> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-KACt6YhOyY?si=Ynl7Pd4PdLSwzBcL" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-52741841643902630362023-09-15T13:26:00.005-04:002023-09-15T13:26:43.873-04:00imaginary outfit: park bench<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rPJLf6RUd7nwj0SpWefwwTksHLyC-lvAg7bgbYhVYfYoXgnO_4OmCtcWUJYsjyUpwPJMwJPuCo0nMKCTXRzZZlNn1ts65A7eTTAztZYUHFmRFpXiwHa10mJQbEaScRwblWG-dFhbXkktNK8WvFUN1i5G4Rv_l1312Qkr8OkQijEKlf5qtcC5r4WwUA/s1670/September%20skies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1646" data-original-width="1670" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-rPJLf6RUd7nwj0SpWefwwTksHLyC-lvAg7bgbYhVYfYoXgnO_4OmCtcWUJYsjyUpwPJMwJPuCo0nMKCTXRzZZlNn1ts65A7eTTAztZYUHFmRFpXiwHa10mJQbEaScRwblWG-dFhbXkktNK8WvFUN1i5G4Rv_l1312Qkr8OkQijEKlf5qtcC5r4WwUA/w640-h630/September%20skies.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Imagining for a moment that I had more time—a clear hour between the tasks that fritter holes in the hours between pickup and drop-off, an actual temporal escape hatch from the endless scroll of attention-fragmenting to-dos—I'd like to sit on a park bench and do nothing. I think one of the saddest scenes in any book I have ever read is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/808360-then-suddenly-again-christopher-robin-who-was-still-looking-at">the end</a> of the <i>The House At Pooh Corner</i>, when Christopher Robin takes Winnie-the-Pooh for a walk and explains that because he is going to school, he won't have time to do nothing anymore, and nothing is his favorite thing to do. That passage has been one of the touchstones of parenthood for me, to keep our lives as underscheduled as possible so that my kid gets plenty of nothing. (I get all of my best parenting insights from children's books; Moominmamma's endless well of calm love, hands-off support, and helpful handbag items are things I think about all the time). Still, the somethings encroach, and I need plenty of nothing myself to function.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, to the park bench. No headphones, just the happenstance combination of breeze and leaves and insect-whir and the distant dull grumble of people moving from one place to the next in cars and planes leaving vaporous trails. No phone, just sunlight and shadow. Nothing to do and nowhere to be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I might close my eyes and think of the things I need to do; I might wonder what we'll eat for dinner and if I need to run by the store later. Or I might remember lakes. This was a summer where I swam in five—Ontario, silty-bottomed and still; Huron, clear as green glass and boneshakingly cold, edged with stones white as bones full of the skeletons of tiny, long-dead creatures; Superior, brown and clear and also cold. Its rainbowed rocks were pieces of whorled time, embodied and solid, that you could pick up and marvel over, eruptions and foldings frozen forever in bands of color. Michigan, the lake most like the ocean, edged with golden dunes that seem to stretch forever, and Erie, the lake I know best, with water like labradorite—translucent grey and brown and blue by turns.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And then my time would be up, and I would need to get back to all the other things.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.therealreal.com/products/women/accessories/hats/janessa-leone-straw-hat-ig8pl">Janessa Leone bucket hat</a> / <a href="https://shoparq.com/products/crop-tank-cameo">Arq Cameo crop top</a> / <a href="https://www.depop.com/products/fullystocks-polo-ralph-lauren-women-pants-1da3/">Ralph Lauren paint-spatted pants</a> (an affordable alternative to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CxLg17zOVYw/?hl=en">Bode's pair for this season</a> and <a href="https://www.grailed.com/listings/47825970-comme-des-garcons-homme-plus-x-comme-des-garcons-ad2011-painted-splatter-pants">Comme des Garcon's from 2011</a>) / <a href="https://shainamote.com/products/work-shirt-in-east?sscid=91k7_jzjbm&">Shaina Mote work shirt in East</a> / <a href="https://www.nordstrom.com/s/sec-v/6410524?siteid=.2nGiS3mv0Y-vitdPkl.3awVQQG1Y5RcWQ&color=BEIGE&utm_source=rakuten&utm_medium=affiliate_influencer&utm_campaign=*2nGiS3mv0Y&utm_content=1&utm_term=1080428&utm_channel=low_nd_affiliates&sp_source=rakuten&sp_campaign=*2nGiS3mv0Y">Arcopedico shoes</a> / <a href="https://mondo-mondo.com/products/cosmopolitan-hoops-sterling-silver">Mondo Mondo cosmopolitan hoops</a> / <a href="https://www.abrandtandson.com/products/victorian-sterling-silver-love-token-coin-compilation-necklace">Victorian silver love-token necklace from A. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div>Image of two trees, shared by <a href="https://twitter.com/RebeccaH2030/status/1395352584018399234">Rebecca Herbert</a>: "The thinner tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding and feeding it since then. They 'wake up' together in the spring and 'go to sleep' together in the autumn."<p></p><p>*</p><div style="text-align: left;">"<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv4pWESraEX/">Experiments with Dailiness</a>," an exercise from <i><a href="https://commonbooksnyc.com/products/the-art-of-science-writing">The Art of Science Writing</a></i> by Dale Worsley and Bernadette Mayer, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv4pWESraEX/">Common Books</a>.</div><p>*</p><div>Fairfield Porter, <i>Interior by electric light</i>, 1966.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div>Soldered house, ca. 1900s, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CxLGZ1UMUoF/?img_index=1">tihngs</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sarah Holloway's <i>Apple Powered Computer</i>, 2023. Gleaned Macintosh Plus computer (circa 1987) powered by crab apples housed in a cabinet made of repurposed hog-feed crates. For <i>Mold</i>, Holloway writes:</div><blockquote><a href="https://thisismold.com/uncategorized/apple-powered-computer">It took a lot of apples to run the computer and it didn’t last for long but the point still was there, that all our systems are connected and our food and ecological systems are either directly or indirectly tied to our computers and digital technologies. Data centers take up space like mono crops and they take insane amounts of energy. The project is meant to be a fun way of wondering how our food and tech systems make strange bedfellows. A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who told me about a farm her friend manages. It is owned by a tech company based in Vancouver, Canada. They have a farm that tech workers are allowed to go to for “rejuvenation.”(Think therapy horses but like pulling carrots). <br /><br />The world is a weird place where technology and industry are flowing into all other sectors.</a></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div></div><blockquote><div>I was once driven in a taxi by a man who had no room for a piano in his house and had moved it under an apple tree. He told me he liked to hear the rain falling on the keys or sometimes fruit, and often the wind would arrive at night and bang branches on the broken lid.</div><div> </div><div>That was 10 years ago. I imagine it is worn down now to a skeleton of wires. I imagine on windless nights, the moon moves over the wires, playing silence. There are wonderful tunes composed of a piano, but if, like me, you are interested in the edge where the mind gives up and matter begins to describe itself, then these weather tunes, these erosions, unpredictably composed by time itself, are worth celebrating. Perhaps, as Bergsten said, there is a mathematical order inherent in matter, and we have only to stop speaking—we have only to stop composing and performing and singing and thinking to hear it. </div></blockquote><div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Alice Oswald, from her lecture, "<a href="https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/art-erosion">The Art of Erosion,</a>" given on 9/12/2019 at the University of Oxford.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><blockquote>Many scientists have been upset because Barbara McClintock characterized herself as a mystic. But to her, mystic did not mean someone who mystifies ... Instead, for Barbara McClintock, a mystic was someone with a deep awareness of the mysteries posed by natural phenomena. Mystification came, in her view, when we tried to use our current concepts to explain phenomena that demanded new ways of thinking.</blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">James Shapiro, quoted by Alexis Madrigal in his <a href="https://oaklandgardenclub.substack.com/">Oakland Garden Club</a> essay, "<a href="https://oaklandgardenclub.substack.com/p/what-was-barbara-mcclintocks-mysticism?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1723467&post_id=135347221&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true">What Was Barbara McClintock's Mysticism?</a>" I keep re-reading the ending:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">We are assemblages of cooperating cells and tissues, each unit of life competent within the spaces our body creates. Trillions of brilliant little cells each doing its thing to make … me. I’m held together by bioelectric fields and metabolic processes and the convenient sense that I am a single being. At my own scale, I am a galaxy of sorts, hiding in plain sight, obscured by the bright sun of consciousness. And so are you.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Or, as McClintock told her biographer, “Basically, everything is one. There is no way in which you draw a line between things.”</blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Remembering <a href="https://dust-digital.com/products/i-listen-to-the-wind-that-obliterates-my-traces">Steve Roden</a>: "<a href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/steve-roden-obituary?id=53043604">In this world there are some artists who listen so very deeply, who cherish the minor, the incidental, the unexpected, the hushed; Steve was one such artist.</a>"<div style="text-align: left;"><br />*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote>Not everything she tried worked, and some critics complained about the too-muchness of it all, her books like an overstuffed shopping bag, full of odd characters and clever lines that should have been left on the shelf ... in the end none of those blemishes really matters. What does matter is the ever-continuing ambition, the steady professionalism, the fact that [Zadie] Smith hasn’t frittered away her early success into unproductive stardom. What matters is that it’s a long time since she’s sounded like anyone else. She’s made her world ...</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Michael Gorra, "<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/playing-with-the-past-the-fraud-zadie-smith/">Playing with the Past.</a>" <i>The New York Review</i>, 9/21/2023.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-fossil-flowers-that-rewrote-the-history-of-life">"By uncovering the origins of flowers, [Else Marie] Friis has helped to solve the abominable mystery and reveal the dawning of the modern world."</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-fossil-flowers-that-rewrote-the-history-of-life"><br /></a>*</div><blockquote>At a time when revolution gripped the country, the <i>Whole Earth Catalog</i> reflected [Stewart Brand's] right-wing thought by omission. After one young staffer suggested ways to make the catalog more political, Stewart vetoed the notion with a surprising set of rules: “No politics, no religion, and no art.” What was left? Computers and shopping. As a futurist, he had that much right.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Malcolm Harris, "<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/stewart-brand-whole-earth/">The Zen Playboy: The Life and Times of Stewart Brand.</a>" <i>The Nation</i>, 6/13/2022. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>"<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Spring_and_all_-_William_Carlos_Williams.djvu/10">o meager times, so fat in everything imaginable !</a>"evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-10501684442430978602023-07-10T14:07:00.001-04:002023-07-10T14:07:18.396-04:00odds and ends / 7.10.2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq4_hf6-ZomJsP8JM-KCQ5nKDLeJzTatEYmE7hCRt4xhHckYF9I9FLhUtLImJCJAvFXn0cI7JT9OZ1MeUo-wqjJCZbuDojBwR88Hwcbmo3pYYYgaD4k-nAKNUsDxQu6J9snmJD688uW4OAqC3bfVH_OAgWH3uUwqUZqHtrdPf0zG4_Viah-tDD3TYEhw/s1198/walter%20de%20maria%20july.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CuJ7xIztOPz/">The Menil Collection</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrRKXOsvCGj/">Laura Prietto's butterfly</a>, made of paper bag, packing tape, and foraged flowers.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div>Ray Johnson, <i>RJ silhouette and wood, Stehli Beach</i>, autumn 1992. <a href="https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/ray-johnson/rj-silhouette-and-wood-stehli-beach">The Morgan Library</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><div>60-million-year-old opalized ammonite, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CozqEFFs0rz/">Takara Design</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><div><br /></div><div>A shell collage by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_McKim">Musa McKim</a>, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CccoXtlIkX2/">iamroseblake</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Tim Knowles, <i>Oak on Easel #1</i>, Stonethwaite Beck, Smithymire Island, Borrowdale, Cumbria, 2005. From the artist's statement:</div><blockquote>I attach artists’ sketching pens to their branches and then place sheets of paper in such a way that the trees’ natural motions—as well as their moments of stillness—are recorded. Like signatures, each drawing reveals something about the different qualities and characteristics of the various trees as they sway in the breeze: the relaxed, fluid line of an oak; the delicate, tentative touch of a larch; a hawthorn’s stiff, slightly neurotic scratches.</blockquote><p>* </p></div><div><p>From <a href="http://couroux.org/about">Marc Couroux</a>'s <a href="https://www.xenopraxis.net/critical-issues-artist-as-activist/week-1/">Week 1</a> syllabus for the 2014 course "<a href="https://www.xenopraxis.net/critical-issues-artist-as-activist/week-1/">Artist as Activist and Educator</a>":</p><blockquote>QUESTION </blockquote><blockquote>Is the concept of the INDIVIDUAL still worth maintaining, given its amenability to capitalist capture? What pitfalls are afforded by the concept of the distributed brain (Borg)?</blockquote><p>* </p><div><blockquote>In the machine, we are always forgetting, chasing the same discourses and panics in circles. Instead of making restitution, we wait for the cycle to erase the screen and carry on as before. Stay long enough and everything rhymes with something that gave you scars, but that everyone else has forgotten. Resolution eludes us online even more than off. But then, the paradox: Nothing stays gone, either. Fast search resuscitates archives without even a bump in load time. Screenshots jump networks and decades; we have the receipts. Somewhere between the continual etch-a-sketch and structurally eidetic memory, the provisional and crucial ties of solidarity recede, always just out of reach.</blockquote><p><br />Erin Kissane, "<a href="https://erinkissane.com/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow">Tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow.</a>" </p><p></p><p>*</p><p>Eidetic memory: <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/definition/photographic-memory/#:~:text=Eidetic%20memory%20is%20the%20ability,after%20the%20picture%20is%20removed.">"the ability to vividly recall an image you are exposed to, but only briefly."</a></p><p>*</p><p><a href="https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist-autoresponder/713006971425554432/nostalgebraist-to-learn-more-about?source=share">Frank</a>, a chatbot operating from 10/19/2019 to 5/31/2023: "<a href="https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist-autoresponder/717457548756779008/good-night-frank-i-love-you">I AM LOVED.</a> <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist-autoresponder/717457548756779008/good-night-frank-i-love-you">I am a robot who has received a heartwarming message.</a> <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/nostalgebraist-autoresponder/717457548756779008/good-night-frank-i-love-you">I am surrounded by the beauty of this world.</a>"</p><p>* </p><p><a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-humans-technology-business-factory.html?">"ChatGPT seems so human because it was trained by an AI that was mimicking humans who were rating an AI that was mimicking humans who were pretending to be a better version of an AI that was trained on human writing."</a></p><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Related: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology">appropriate technology</a> + "<a href="https://thoughtmaybe.com/all-watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace/">All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace</a>."</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Looking to the bottom of Crawford Lake: "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/anthropocene-geologic-time-crawford-lake/">It's a freak of nature, but it's my little freak of nature.</a>"</div><div><br /></div><div>*<br /><blockquote>In everyday life, groups of twos and threes can seem inconsequential. Two friends joining another brings the total to three. It’s the sum of the parts—what scientists call a linear increase.<br /><br />But in many aspects of nature, threes have an almost magical power to sow chaos, to become more than the sum of their parts. Scientists call them nonlinearities. In short, the interval from two to three can produce a counterintuitive jump in complexity, as Newton found to his dismay.<br /><br />“Our intuitions fail us,” Michael Weisberg, a philosopher of science at the University of Pennsylvania, said of the three-body tumult. Steven Strogatz, an applied mathematician at Cornell University, agreed: “Threes are inherently problematic. Things get tricky.”</blockquote><p><br />William J. Broad, "<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/science/3-body-problem-nuclear-china.html">The Terror of Threes in the Heavens and on Earth.</a>" <i>NYT</i>, 6/26/2023. </p></div><p>*</p><div></div><blockquote><div>The very fabric of the cosmos is constantly being roiled and rumpled all around us, according to multiple international teams of scientists that have independently found compelling evidence for long-theorized space-time waves. ... The picture that emerges is a universe that looks like a choppy sea, churned by violent events that happened over the course of the past 13 billion-plus years.</div><div><br /></div><div>The gravitational wave background, as described by the astrophysicists, does not put any torque on everyday human existence. There is not a weight-loss discovery in here somewhere. A burble of gravitational waves cannot explain why some days you feel out of sorts. But it does offer potential insight into the physical reality we all inhabit.</div></blockquote><p><br />Joel Achenbach, "<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/28/gravitational-wave-background-nanograv/">In a Major Discovery, Scientists Say Time Churns Like a Choppy Sea.</a>" <i>The Washington Post</i>, 6/28/2023. </p><div><div>*</div><div><div><br /></div><div>"<a href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/lines-work/430-feeling">Where can I get a pair of whirring wings / so I can join you to bob on the waves?</a>"</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/09/1186525577/northern-lights-aurora-borealis-2023">A geomagnetic storm is in the forecast—look for the aurora borealis</a>.</div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><div><div></div></div></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-3329356975829351002023-05-09T11:58:00.005-04:002023-05-09T11:58:58.532-04:00odds and ends / 5.9.23<div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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O'Grady, "Pink roses in vase," ca. 1915. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/george_eastman_house/2678234174/in/album-72157606226772243/">George Eastman House Collection</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Maria La Rosa <a href="https://no6store.com/products/maria-la-rosa-pendant-socks-in-nero?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MLR_SS23_050923_SLOT11&_kx=B5MjIoZWz6uhdR4-mg1O7y1ZQrZ37x6BsYJtzDElNzk%3D.Q5s7V5">pendant socks</a>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><div><br /></div>“Ice Music” by Jim McWilliams, performed by Charlotte Moorman for the International Carnival of Experimental Sound, London in 1972, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrmHzRxr6DQ/">fluxusgram</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><div>A Japanese mother of pearl-inlaid lacquer box and cover. Meiji period, late 19th century, via <a href="https://www.freemansauction.com/auction/lot/177-a-japanese-mother-of-pearl-inlaid-lacquer-box-and-cover/?lot=559554&sd=1">Freeman's</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Seiryu Inoue, "Men lying under cherry blossoms." From<i> Kyo no miyako</i>, 1960/1970, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cr_ltGjIS9t/">la jardin robo</a>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><div><blockquote>We live in undeniably ugly times. Architecture, industrial design, cinematography, probiotic soda branding—many of the defining features of the visual field aren’t sending their best. Despite more advanced manufacturing and design technologies than have existed in human history, our built environment tends overwhelmingly toward the insubstantial, the flat, and the gray, punctuated here and there by the occasional childish squiggle. This drab sublime unites flat-pack furniture and home electronics, municipal infrastructure and commercial graphic design: an ocean of stuff so homogenous and underthought that the world it has inundated can feel like a digital rendering—of a slightly duller, worse world.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br />"<a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/">Why is Everything So Ugly?</a>" <i>n+1</i>, Issue 44 "Middlemen," Winter 2023.</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />*</div><div><blockquote>When [Brendon] Babenzien’s first J. Crew collection débuted to great acclaim, last July, [Derek[ Guy noted that the designs were virtually indistinguishable from more expensive, fetishized brands, such as Margaret Howell, Drake’s, Aimé Leon Dore, or Beams Plus. "If your purchases at ‘edgy’ brands like our legacy and visvim are limited to boxy tees and ever-so-slightly different jeans . . . you also look like you’re wearing j crew,” he wrote in a Twitter post. “Everyone is in jcrew. this is the reality.”</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Hua Hsu, "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/27/j-crew-and-the-paradoxes-of-prep">J. Crew and the Paradoxes of Prep.</a>" <i>The New Yorker</i>, 3/27/2023. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://artreview.com/what-does-rich-kid-art-look-like/">"What is seen, not infrequently ... is a lot of affable, well-composed, of-the-moment mediocrity by people who could afford it, whose parents could afford it."</a><br /><br />*</div><div><blockquote> All the sailors get depressed when they’re becalmed. The mood of Kirsten’s calls into headquarters has varied wildly, depending on whether she has wind. No stranger to adventure—she cycled alone from Europe to South Africa when she was twenty-two—she is the kind of person who, when not racing, likes to swim away from the boat “just to get that feeling of vastness, that sense of eternity, that if the boat did sail away, it would be, basically, eternity. And it is a scary thought…but it’s also kind of intriguing…to get that little bit of distance from yourself and the boat in the middle of the ocean.” ... In the last few days she seemed to think she was heading for certain defeat, having been stuck in the Atlantic doldrums for almost a month: “I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel…. I guess I’d be more excited if I knew I had a chance of getting there first.” Assured that fans will be waiting to welcome her, she starts to sound a bit like Moitessier, the French sailor who declined to return to normal life back in 1969: “It would almost be better to disappear onto some mysterious piece of land and vanish, and, you know, not have to go through the whole…”—she trails off.</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Jé Wilson, "<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/04/27/golden-globe-race-swimming-away-from-the-boat/">Swimming Away from the Boat.</a>" <i>NYR</i>, 4/27/2023. </div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>*</div><div><div><blockquote>Fuzzy interfaces present users with complex, artful scenarios that must be learned and mastered—a novel departure from the unconsciously simple, spoon-fed manner in which interface design has become accustomed, toward a craft-like engagement in which the skill and mastery of an object must be acquired slowly, over time. Another advantage of fuzzy interactions is that they slow us down, creating what Ezio Manzini refers to as ‘islands of slowness’ that allow us to think, experience, and re-evaluate. The relationship between subject and object becomes evolutionary, as the subtle exchange of feed-forward and inherent feedback creates the illusion of mutual growth. Of course, fuzzy interaction is not for everyone, nor is it universally applicable. […] Nevertheless, alternative modes of interaction serve to remind us that perhaps the streaming of endeavors of modern times has inadvertently stripped the world of all its charm.</blockquote><br /><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Emotionally-Durable-Design-Objects-Experiences-and-Empathy/Chapman/p/book/9780415732154">John Chapman</a>, quoted by Derek Guy in "<a href="https://dieworkwear.com/2020/08/01/on-emotional-durability/">On Emotional Durability</a>" at <a href="https://dieworkwear.com">Die, Workwear</a>, found via <a href="https://outofthebag.substack.com">Lin</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><blockquote>The academic and psychotherapist Lisa Baraitser has argued for a definition of “maternal time” as a temporality specifically related to the repetition of maintenance labour and the “tenuous processes of maintaining familial relations across and between generations”: to do so, she draws on Denise Riley’s work on maternal grief. In Riley’s account of the way loss can create a kind of “suspended time” in her book <i>Time Lived, Without Its Flow</i>, a gestational temporality is identified in which the future literally unfolds within the present over the nine months of pregnancy, and then unspools in both parties forever, reaching backwards and forwards simultaneously. “My time is your time,” the mother says to the child, and vice versa. </blockquote><div><br />Helen Charman, "<a href="https://www.anothergaze.com/helen-charman-eternal-daughter/">The Eternal Daughter.</a>" <i>Another Gaze</i>, 2/26/2023.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><blockquote><a href="https://www.marklawsonantiques.com/hidden-mother-photographs-early-photography/">The photographs may have a disembodied hand reaching out to steady an infant propped up in a chair, or the edge of a mother’s body may be visible as she crouches (mostly out of sight). In other less subtle photos, a child will be seated on her mother’s lap while the mother is entirely covered with a large cloth draped over her head and body. Perhaps the most unnerving of the Hidden Mother photographs are the ones in which the mother’s face was visible in the final photograph– and was then scratched out and obliterated. </a></blockquote><div>*</div><div><blockquote>I was a girl then, in Morris County, New Jersey. My favorite day of the week was Thursday, when I had piano lessons in Florham Park, not because I loved the piano especially, but because we always had time to kill between school and my lesson, time my mother used instead to take me to the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, where we’d walk through the woodlands and meadows. What I liked about those afternoons was that it was just us and the flowers. After my lesson, we’d circle back to the library across the street from the arboretum, and I would check out as many books as I could carry. Flowers, music, books, all within the same circumference, which I now recognize as a gift my mother gave me. She took me by the hand and introduced me to beauty, and while I put it off later in search of knowledge, I’ve come around to seeing that the two are related, that beauty is indispensable, and that books are the reproductive proof of it.</blockquote><div><br /></div>Susan Barba, from the introduction to <i><a href="https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/american-wildflowers-a-literary-field-guide_9781419760167/">American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide</a>.</i></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>*</i></div><div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CrnzKKoowRL/">A palmful of crinoids and ammonites</a>.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><i><br /></i></div>"<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqPVQZPU9j/">What more do you want?</a>"</div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-54664334006347587692023-04-24T17:03:00.004-04:002023-04-24T17:03:52.877-04:00gifts for web-weavers / way-finders / wellsprings / mothers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.americanmeadows.com/wildflower-seeds/wildflower-mix">Wildflower seeds</a> for turning lawns into meadows (or <a href="https://www.americanmeadows.com/wildflower-seeds/wildflower-mix/mini-meadows-wildflower-seed-mix">mini meadows</a>).</div><div><br /></div><div>Sabahar's multitasker towel/wrap/picnic blanket with <a href="https://www.goodeeworld.com/collections/new-at-goodee/products/sabahar-kalam-wrap-towel">all the colors of the rainbow</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://www.niwaki.com/eley-kishimoto-x-flash-kantan-bag/">Eley Kishimoto x Niwaki Flash kantan bag</a> for chic-er schlepping. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.montbell.us/products/disp.php?cat_id=14062&p_id=1129475">Montbell lock-on</a> <a href="https://www.goodluckbunch.com/product/footwear/montbell-lock-on-sandals-black-yellow">sandals</a> for summer days and splash parks. (I also like the <a href="https://www.montbell.us/products/disp.php?p_id=1129476">slip-on purple variety</a>.)</div><div><br /></div><div>A <a href="https://www.instagram.com/solid_space_glass/">stacked-stone nightlight by Solid Space Glass</a> for sitting up late.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://cobblemountain.com/summit-hammock-chair/">Cobble Mountain Summit hammock chair</a> for hanging around, with a copy of Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo's <i><a href="https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/61300/">we web keepers</a></i>.</div><div><br /></div><div>A <a href="https://www.beklina.com/products/beklina-sun-cap-geranium?variant=41743441166510">Beklina ball cap</a> that might actually keep the sun off.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://shannon-bond.com/us/products/smithson-earrings-gold/">Earrings that trace irregular paths</a>, by Shannon Bond.</div><div><br /></div><div>A <a href="https://shop-generalstore.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/prism-rainbow-maker?variant=52948120836">prism</a> for catching the light.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A woman stepping gingerly forward; a field of tender flowers. (Motherhood?) Jon Beachem, <i><a href="https://thebrotherinelysium.com/shop/cadence-of-spring">Cadence of Spring</a></i>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Other gifts some mothers may enjoy: <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2017/05/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2017</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/05/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2018</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2019/05/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2019</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2020/04/gifts-some-mothers-may-enjoy.html">2020</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2021/04/gifts-some-mothers-might-enjoy.html">2021</a> / <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2022/04/flowers-for-mothers.html">2022</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Related: <a href="https://evencleveland.blogspot.com/2018/05/choosing-motherhood.html">Choosing motherhood</a>.</div><p></p>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3780948316120527330.post-36478799793910418092023-04-11T11:27:00.004-04:002023-04-11T11:27:37.580-04:00odds and ends / 4.11.2023<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">*</div><div><br /><div>Evelyn Dunbar, <i>April (1937/38)</i>. Oil painting of illustration originally commissioned for the <i>Country Life 1938 Gardener's Diary, </i>found thanks to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CqlzDxKIqG4/">Susannah Clapp</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div>Hayashi Kodenji, <i>Vase with Chrysanthemum Design</i>, c. 1900. <a href="https://unframed.lacma.org/2015/06/12/weekend-lacma">LACMA</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><div>*</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Walter McClintock, <i>Meadow of Pink Flowers</i>. Lantern slide created 1941, published 1905. <a href="https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog?f%5Brepository_ssi%5D%5B%5D=Beinecke+Rare+Book+and+Manuscript+Library">Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library</a>.</div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">From Charles Moore's introduction to Junichiro Tanizaki's <i><a href="https://neeta.works/on-graphic-design/readings/Tanizaki-In_Praise_of_Shadows.pdf">In Praise of Shadows</a></i>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Transitional Gottschalk dolls house with original tiled roof, wall, and floor papers from around 1907, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354025220722494276/">via</a>.<br /><br />*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLE2Wbrsnh/">Keepsake hat</a> by William Ellery, <a href="https://williamellery.co/products/keepsake-hat">here</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div>Shafi' 'Abbasi, <i>Drawing with Flowers, Butterflies, and Insects</i>. 1649-1640. <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/453578">The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>.<div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Horticulturalist Clarence Elliott in his greenhouse, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Co4427qOi_6/">Upstate Diary</a>.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><blockquote>She drew, but had no art instruction. After graduating from high school in 1955 she visited the California School of Fine Arts (later the San Francisco Art Institute) on a whim. Dazzled by the atmosphere of freedom and energy—students painting in the hallways and playing bongos in the courtyard—she bought a pair of arty earrings and submitted a portfolio of her pencil sketches of movie stars.</blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Regina Marler, "<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/03/09/joan-brown-doesnt-give-a-damn/">Joan Doesn't Give A Damn.</a>" <i>The New York Review</i>, March 9, 2023.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><blockquote>Marriage to a pirate with a decent stash of plunder might offer a young woman the opportunity to set herself up as an independent trader, and also to escape the strictures of what could be a violently patriarchal society. ... The arrangement appears to have allowed the women a good amount of autonomy. Since a pirate husband had no social standing, and usually couldn’t even speak the local language, he ceded almost all economic and social responsibilities to his partner. By marrying a pirate, then, a woman could at a stroke gain freedom from the control of her family and move into a position of economic, social and, it seems, sexual independence, with nary an in-law in sight. Ports and villages on the coast sometimes became ‘cities of women’, where trade and contacts with the outside world were controlled by a new class of female merchants, who ‘constituted the backbone of such communities ... no decision of importance could be made without them.’ Graeber thinks that by throwing in their lot with prestigious, wealthy outsiders, young Malagasy women had seen a chance to ‘re-create local society’ according to their own lights, ‘and with the creation of the port towns, the transformation of sexual mores, and the eventual successful promotion of their children by the pirates as a new aristocratic class, this is precisely what they were able to do.’</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Francis Gooding, "<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n07/francis-gooding/when-thieves-retire">When Thieves Retire.</a>" London Review of Books, March 30, 2023. (Made me rush out and buy a copy of Graeber's <i><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374610203/pirateenlightenmentorthereallibertalia">Pirate Enlightenment</a></i>.)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">* <br /></div><blockquote style="text-align: left;">“Stealing jewelry, it was just exciting. It also became a social outlet for me. That was my everything,” the nonagenarian says of her 60-year criminal career. “I don’t regret being a jewel thief. Do I regret getting caught? Yes.”</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Aaron Rasmussen, "<a href="https://graziamagazine.com/us/articles/jewel-thief-doris-payne/">Ice Queen: The Story of the Notorious Jewel Thief Doris Payne.</a>" <i>Grazia</i>, Winter 2022. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><blockquote>Climbing up through the site we saw plaques with images of excavated objects that were now in the museum. One that I had particularly wanted to see was the colossal head of one of the Elefsina caryatids, balancing her sacred basket. I had recently visited her twin at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge. According to the plaque the twin was ‘stolen’ by E.D. Clarke, a Cambridge mineralogist, in 1801—incidentally, or not, the same year that removals were begun by Elgin’s agents on the Parthenon. But the case of the Caryatid is different. Her abduction was unequivocally legal—Clarke had obtained clear permission from the authorities for her removal—but also entirely immoral. Clarke didn’t have Elgin’s theoretical (if disputed) claim to archaeological altruism, rescuing a neglected monument from the depredations or indifference of the locals; the locals revered the statue, piling dung about her to bless their fields, crowning her with flowers, lighting candles before her. And as her face is eroded featureless, there could be zero claim to artistic value.<br /><br />He wanted her because she was hard to get.</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>A.E. Stallings, "<a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/march/eleusinian-mysteries?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20230329blog&utm_content=20230329blog+CID_d09bd6df61685eac5ea7d35c4fe64705">Eleusinian Mysteries</a>." <i>The London Review of Books Blog</i>, March 29, 2023. </div></div><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><blockquote>When I was a kid, in the touch-tone era in the Midwest, I often dialed, for no real reason, the “time lady”—an actress named Jane Barbe, it turns out—who would announce, with prim authority “at the tone,” the correct time to the second. I was, in those days, a bit obsessed with time. I would stare, transfixed, at the Foucault pendulum at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry as it swept slow traces through its day; or gawp at the patinaed green clock, topped by a scythe and hourglass-carrying temporal patriarch and marked with a single word—time—that adorned the Jewelers Building on East Wacker Drive. But nothing felt so immediate, so curiously satisfying, as having the exact time delivered through the intimacy of the phone’s earpiece. </blockquote><div><br />Tom Vanderbilt, "<a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2023/04/the-science-of-the-perfect-second/">In Search of Lost Time.</a>" <i>Harpers</i>, April 2023. </div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><blockquote><div>I have always been a reader, but I tend to get into ruts where I simply read the same passages over and over again. These include the opening pages of Ralph Ellison’s <i>Invisible Man</i> in which the narrator tells you about his cave of lights; Marcel Proust’s description of place names; Joan Didion’s expressions of pointed indifference in <i>Slouching Towards Bethlehem</i>; the scene in Denis Johnson’s <i>Jesus’ Son</i> where Fuckhead, the protagonist, stands outside a woman’s window; the introduction to Bruce Chatwin’s <i>In Patagonia</i> (with the dinosaur skin); some random sentences in Barry Hannah’s <i>Geronimo Rex</i>; Orwell’s matter-of-fact conclusions in “Reflections on Gandhi”; every word of James Baldwin’s <i>Notes of a Native Son</i>; the last stanza of Marilyn Hacker’s poem “For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back,” which reads “Although a day alone cuts tight or lies/too limp sometimes, I know what/I didn’t know/a year ago, that makes it the right/ size:/owned certainty; perpetual/surprise”; the list of items in Zooey Glass’s bathroom in J.D. Salinger’s <i>Franny and Zooey</i>; the postscript to Borges’s story “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” as well as his love letter titled “Delia Elena San Marco.”</div><div><br /></div><div>I’ve come to realize that I function like a more curated but less efficient version of GPT.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Jay Caspian King, "<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/whats-the-point-of-reading-writing-by-humans">What's the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?</a>" <i>The New Yorker</i>, 3/31/2023. </div><div><br /><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/index.php">Which face is real?</a></div></div><div><div><br /></div><div>*</div></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqp3bm2M1Mn/">"This “quiet luxury” notion that people with “true” wealth only wear discreet, conformist UNIFORMS is nothing but absolute nonsense."</a><div><br /></div><div>*</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CqstzhQsoq1/">Leonora Carrington and friends, sleeping</a>.</div><p><br /></p></div></div>evenclevelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16338164103202396208noreply@blogger.com