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...We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”
- C. JoyBell C.-
"The automatic writing project started out as an activity among friends and locals. I would write a line someone else would write a line and so on... Then people would overhear us and ask if they could participate and write something too (which surprised me) of course I said "yes!" At that point I realized that lots of people have something to say. I started asking strangers to add entries, then I graduated to offering people $1.00 to participate, some people do not accept the dollar and some pay me a $1.00 (paying it forward). It's becoming quite a lovely, surprising and compelling project. People from many walks of life are participating: homeless, a news reporter, academics, doctors, drug addicts, lawyers, tourists etc... People have written things in my journal that they'd never say out loud, not to anyone. Some of it's so sad, some intriguing, hilarious and so on... At the end of the day, every one of these people understand that their entries are being uploaded to the internet and are comforted in knowing that they will be heard. I have no idea where this is going, but it's going just fine! FYI: English is not everyone's first language here. I will be illustrating the book/journal after the text is done. I hope that everyone who reads these entries learns something about people, mostly that we never know what someone else is going through.
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“Cactus, flower, fuck-off, love, roses”, explores and celebrates female identity. The piece is a follow-up to "Flower Girl". The title of the project comes from “tags” listed on the website Goodreads, for the quote “Roses may say “I love you,” but the cactus says “Fuck-off”, by J. Kintz.
The project presents in 2 parts: a multi-channel video installation, and a live performance where the videos become both backdrop and dance partner. Mark your calendar, the performance takes place, in collaboration with MaZi Dance Chicago, this October.
As with “Flower Girl”, a key component of “cactus, flowers, fuck-off, love, roses” resides with the symbolic connection between flowers and women. The piece includes multiple videos of women (of various ages, body types and ethnicity) who respond to the symbolic meaning of a flower of their choosing. In the videos each participant performs 2 distinct movements: one surrendering to her flower’s motif, and a second passage rejecting its claim. Each woman owns her flower, becomes her, moving with or against her flower’s nature, while at least 1 foot remains immobile, like a stem imbedded in soil. In the live performance the women break free, but they continue to struggle with long imbedded ideologies, their movements raw and personal.
Flowers in the piece were chosen for their floriographic name, based on the Victorian Era practice of communicating through flowers. Flowers have been a symbol for femininity and womanhood since ancient times, but the Victorians created an elaborate code and system for non-verbal communication. The nuances of the language are mostly forgotten, but the implications for women still linger – the perfect woman must still be pure (Lotus) of body, innocent (Daisy) in spirit, and a wildcat (Dahlia) in bed.
Goodreads Description - As a teenager, Karena Jorge had always been the one to look out for her twin brother Charles, who suffers from bipolar disorder. But as Charles begins to refuse medication and his manic tendencies worsen, Karena finds herself caught between her loyalty to her brother and her fear for his life. Always obsessed with the weather-enraptured by its magical unpredictability that seemed to mirror his own impulses—Charles starts chasing storms, and his behavior grows increasingly erratic . . . until a terrifying storm chase with Karena ends with deadly consequences, tearing the twins apart and changing both of their lives forever.
Two decades later, Karena gets a call from a psychiatric ward in Wichita, Kansas, to come pick up her brother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for twenty years. She soon discovers that Charles has lied to the doctors, taken medication that could make him dangerously manic, and disappeared again. Having exhausted every resource to try and track him down, Karena realizes she has only one last chance of finding him: the storms. Wherever the tornadoes are, that's where he'll be. Karena joins a team of professional stormchasers-passionate adventurers who will transform her life and give her a chance at love and redemption—and embarks on an odyssey to find her brother before he reveals the violent secret from their past and does more damage to himself . . . or to someone else.
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My Review - I really think Jenna Blum did an outstanding job on this book despite many negative reviews I have read. Of course this is not like her first book, it doesn't have to be. I really wish people would quit trying to compare apples to oranges and just enjoy this for what it is.
Now that I go that out of my system, I really liked the story line. I loved all the characters despite their issues. When you are dealing with someone you love and their bi-polarism life can and will be very difficult at times. Kudos to Karena for the love and devotion that she showed to her twin brother Charles. She may not have always acted in the correct way, but the motivation behind her actions were understandable. All she wanted ever was to help her brother deal with his issues. I could never really fault Charles for the way that he sometimes dealt with his bi-polarism. It really sucks when the meds you are on that are supposed to help you make you sicker than a dog and do things to your personality that make you lose who you really are.
My only issue with the book was towards the very end when Kevin learns what happened when the twins were 18 and he cuts off contact with Kareena and then calls her right before the twins turn themselves in. Then the book jumps a year and they are married. Well what happened in between? What made Kevin forgive Karena? How did he do it? What happened during that year? I really feel like that should have been explored and written about. It feels like a whole chunk of information was left out.
- a selfie on 13-10-29... (monotype print on paper by me today). Learning feeling like this I've experienced recently - in a productive way :)
“When you don't know where to start,
just go to a place you miss so much.”
- Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident - www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/confused
<= ideally, that place for making confusing learning less unbearable - is your personal learning environment / space / ecosystem!
📚 That 5-STAR TRIPLE BAR READ ☝BBD "EVERYTHING IS MENTAL" the Very Fly Story of BELL BIV DEVOE told by Jai Davis👑 Amazon & Over the Edge Books "The best bio I've read since Rick James dropped his" -Tray D #bellbivdevoe #neweditionmovie #happymonday #books #biography #memoirs #bestseller #goodread #lit
Nature Of Alexander -- "The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great." -- from www.goodreads.com
I enjoyed reading and learning more about Alexander. Renault's style can be a little long winded and this book was incredibly dense -- a great deal of information was compacted into a relatively short book -- which made it a little overwhelming to read. Her sympathy for Alexander was obvious and, at times, made it seem more as if she were talking about a high school crush rather than an ancient military/political leader. Despite her bias, the book was well researched and full of interesting information.
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Dancer From Atlantis -- "An experiment in the future gone awry...and Duncan Reid, American architect of the 20th century, came out of unconciousness to find himself hopelessly marooned in the far distant past.
Bound to him were three of the strangest humans he had ever encountered... a medieval Russian, and a fourth-century Hun, and a sacred priestess who worshiped him as a god. And all shared the same fate--pulled through a hole in time to a present which was ancient history. Together the quartet formed a strange alliance which none dared break. For not only were their own futures at stake... but the very future of the world they had found..." -- from www.goodreads.com
I stumbled on this book by accident during an internet search about ancient greece, and I am very glad that I did. It was an interesting book, well-written and a different sort of story that I had assumed it would be. Most time travel stories seem to follow a formula of awkward out-of-time protagonist desperately searching for a way back to his/her own time. Whereas in this story, the out-of-place characters became very involved in the time period they landed in, giving the sense that they were meant to be there. An excellent book.
The Nature Of Alexander -- Started: May 19, 2013 Finished: June 3, 2013
The Dancer From Atlantis -- Started: May 23, 2013 Finished: May 27, 2013
25 Book Challenge 2013 Books #36 & #37
This week's quote is "Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century." attributed to Marshall McLuhan.
If you're wondering, the figures obtained temporary release from the boxes of three boardgames designed by the two Lamont brothers: Shear Panic, Hameln, and Spellbound.
Quote 38 of 40.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/18341648-kebnekaise
Kebnekaise är en lika personlig som fängslande skildring av vårt mäktiga fjällområde. Författaren känner detta massiv som få och låter oss i ord och bild uppleva det både vertikalt och horisontelt. Framställningen bygger på samspelet, motsatser och jämnvikten i alla de skiftningar, som årstidernas och dygnets växlingar erbjuder den som kan se, höra och lyssna till naturens eviga rytm, Hans språk blir lyriskt, nar han med sällsynt inlevelse skildrar de silvervita dagarna och de blonda nätterna, vars ljus "kan höras" och vars vind "smakar", eller den kala tystnaden i december, med "gryningsdager som en blåskimrande slöja, flor över stelnade bränningar". Ur hans fängslande färdberättelser, kompletterade av ett utsökt bildmaterial i färg och svartvitt, som ställer honom i främsta ledet av fjällfotografer, kan också utläsas väsentliga fakta om dalgångar, toppar, sjöar och jåkkar med deras fauna och flora. Härtill bidrager en specialkomponerad karat i ett nytt maner. Ett särskilt kapitel ägnas åt människan i Kebnekaise, vad man gjort där uppe och vad man bör göra i fratiden. Man behöver inte själv ha gått i Kebnekaisefjällen eller efter Kungsleden för att ha glädje av denna bok.- den vänder sig till varje fjäll- och naturvän
Spy... for Nobody!: Sixteen Years in the Syrian Intelligence "
by Basel Saneeb
(Goodreads Syrian Author)
Faber and Faber (UK) edition of Amos Tutuola’s “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” (1952).
See my GoodReads review of “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/303496.The_Palm_Wine_Drinkard...
9.5.2014: Definitely good advice from Bob Newhart via Goodreads Quote of the Day. ^_^
Galaxy s5, Photojojo lens: polarized, PicsArt
Happy Caturday!
Lilybelle - 4 months old
Whuli-Bear is finally up and running!! Yay!
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...and wait, and let it come.”
“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.”
“Have wisdom in your actions and faith in your merits.”
- Yogi Bhajan -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/349508.Yogi_Bhajan
" #15/30 in set: www.flickr.com/photos/connectirmeli/sets/72157632671954510/
"The purpose of life is to watch and experience living. To enjoy living every moment of it. And to live in environments, which are calm, quiet, slow, sophisticated, elegant. Just to be. Whether you are naked or you have a golden robe on you, that doesn’t make any difference. The ideal purpose of your life is that you are grateful - great and full - that you are alive, and you enjoy it.”
- Yogi Bhajan -
FBI Story, snagged from my regular coffee shop, which is selling its paperbacks for fifty cents. Twice the cover price, but I think I got a deal.
This thing is wonderfully, insanely, beautifully, propaganda for the FBI and the good ol' US of A, with just a touch of smut to make it gold.
I am in love with this cover, PS.
...you will be at the beginning of what you should sense”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beginnings-and-endings
MS Zuiderdam heading for Stockholm. Her last stop was St. Petersburg. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Zuiderdam
...inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
“Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a ‘dream’ is going crazy.”
- R.D. Laing -
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/awakening
Boyce - Turner prize winner and Mackintosh have a connection with Glasgow, go Contemporary or show us some Mackintosh, post it then Tag it with #TP30
...has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...”
- John Geddes, A Familiar Rain -
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”
- Marcus Aurelius -
www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17212.Marcus_Aurelius
Free Art Friday - simple find some FREE art or artwork take a photograph and share with us, post it then Tag it with #TP346
Do you LOVE to Read? Do love knowing reviews before you buy a book? Do you love things that are awesome and not stupid? Then you need to check out goodreads.com
It's amazing! I was on it all day messing around.
Now I have two loves in my life that I can devote all my attention to, Good reads and my beautiful Flickr....
sure I love my wife but flickr or goodreads never cry because we're out of pickles, blame my mother for raising me wrong and then tell me she loves me and shes going to bed in all one sentence!!!
Nope, Flickr nor goodreads never becomes crazy when they get pregnant...
anyways,
go find me and be my friend..
The Summer Reading Club 2014 held by Burnaby Public Library was over. Time to summarize. My 5-year-old read 245 books during the period of June 16th - September 5th. He only missed one day not reading, the day we returned from China. The goodreads stats showed that he had completed reading 501 books/40540 pages. I've set this year's reading challenge as 600 books, he's at 84%. His recent interests are world atlas encyclopedia, "Weird but True" series and some random history reads. Good job, Hanno, keep it up!
Do you need a spider web? Do you need this photo?
This week's quote is "An Artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have." attributed to Andy Warhol. It appears from WikiQuote with a bit more context:
"I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
Aside from the assumption that artists are male, Warhol does seem interested in space. Spider webs are really just space — progressively wrapped up as they age, gathering dust and detritus.
I’ve gathered some of my previous images in Rolling along….
Quote 37 of 40.
Goodreads Description - After Paul Stutzman lost his wife to breast cancer, he sensed a tug on his heart--the call to a challenge, the call to pursue a dream. Paul left his stable career, traveled to Georgia, and took his first steps on the Appalachian Trail. What he learned during the next four and a half months changed his life--and will change readers' lives as well.
In "Hiking Through," readers will join Paul on his remarkable 2,176-mile hike through fourteen states in search of peace and a renewed sense of purpose, meeting fascinating and funny people along the way. They'll discover that every choice we make along the path has consequences for the journey and will come away with a new understanding of God's grace and guidance. Nature-lovers, armchair adventurers, and those grieving a loss may not be able to hike the AT themselves, but they can go on this spiritual pilgrimage with a truly humble and sympathetic guide
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My review - Wow...Despite the obvious religious overtones of the book I really loved it. I understood what the author was doing, what he was saying, and it was wonderful. I hated for the book to end, I just wanted to keep hanging on to his every word. Paul was funny, insightful, and a great speaker. I felt like I was right out there with him on the trail. I'm happy he was able to find what he was looking for on the trail.
Today was our first book club meeting of the new year. with The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey as the pick. I found it a slow starter, and pretty tough to read at times for this mom who's experienced two miscarriages, but I ended up falling in love with it.
My favorite quote: "You do not have to understand miracles to believe in them, and in fact Mabel had come to suspect the opposite. To believe, perhaps you had to cease looking for explanations and instead hold the little thing in your hands as long as you were able before it slipped like water between your fingers."
Submitted for March's TMSH # 15 - Old Time
Goodreads Description - Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America's heartland would never be the same.
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My Review - This is one of the saddest books I have ever encountered. I could not imagine what these people went through during that blizzard in 1888. I cried when reading parts of it. This is definatly a must read if you are intrested in Amaerican history. The only reason I gave it 3 stars was because several chapters talked about meterology. I thought that without some sort of flow chart or map it's very hard to understand the conditions in how the blizzard started unless you are a student of meterology. It was a lot of information to try and understand.
Books:
Didache 2013 (Daily Bible Reflections for Catholics) by Bo Sanchez
Take Charge, Give All by Bo Sanchez
I Declare by Joel Osteen
The Greatest Miracle in the World by Og Mandino
The Greatest Secret in the World by Og Mandino
Hello new books! I got myself new best friends for 2013 from my fave authors Bo Sanchez, Joel Osteen and Og Mandino ;)
I'm up for the reading challenge at Goodreads, my target is 100 books in 2013 and of course I'm praying that I will be able to reach my target.
Note-to-self:
Finish Project 365
Read 100 books this year 2013
10 trips for the year 2013
Let's do this 2013! :)