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Fever, in the morning

Fever, all through the night

this took all of 15 minutes whatever why am I so busyyy

Well I spent the afternoon with Curtis but we didn't actually get to go on a walk so the picture I had in mind didn't work out.

writingwithcolor: Before you say, Write your own! – let me tell you that we do. But this page is a resource for writers, so we thought writers might want to know what kinds of representation would make us more likely to get excited about your book. We don’t speak for everyone in our demographic, just ourselves, but we hope this post gives you some cool writing ideas. Note: This is additional info writers can keep in mind when writing characters of those backgrounds. We believe it’s a good thing to ask the people you’re including what they’d like to see. Actually hearing from misrepresented and underrepresented people and asking us what we’d like to see of ourselves is much better than unthinkingly tossing characters into tired tropes or reinforcing stereotypes that do us harm. Colette (Black): More Black people doing shit! Going on adventures, riding dragons, being magical! More Black characters in prominent roles in fantasy + sci-fi and historical settings and not always and only as slavess. These stories are important, but they’re NOT our only stories. We were kings and queens too. Let us wear the fancy dresses for a change instead of the chains, damn it! More Black girls being portrayed as lovely and treasured and worth protecting. More Black girls finding love. More Black girls in general who aren’t relegated to arc-less, cliche “Sassy best friends” and “strong black women.” More positive, dynamic roles of Black men (fathers, brothers, boys…) More positive, dynamic family roles of Black families as a whole, families that are loving and supportive and there. More Black people from all socioeconomic classes. More Black characters that don’t rely on the stereotypes that the media is currently going full force to reinforce. Yasmin (Arab, Turkish): More Arabs who aren’t token characters. I want to see Arabs normalised in literature. Arab teenagers in high school, Arab young adults behind on their taxes, Arab dads who cook amazing food, Arab moms who refuse to soften their tongue for others. Arabs who aren’t mystical fantasy creatures from another planet. Arabs in YAs and in dramas and nonfiction and comedies and children’s books. We are human just like everyone else, and I’d like to see that reflected in literature. Often we are boxed into very specific genres of literature and made to feel ostracised from the rest. Let’s see some change! Alice (Black, biracial): I’m hoping for more Black and biracial (mixed with Black) leading characters in all genres, but mainly in SF/F who fall outside of the stereotypes. Characters I can relate to who love, cry and fight for their ideals and dreams. It would be great if their race would play an active role in their identities (I don’t mean plot-related). Some intersectionality with sexuality and disability is also sorely missed, without it becoming a tragedy or it being seen as a character flaw. More mixed race characters who aren’t mixed with some kind of monster, fictional race or different species. Dystopias about problems usually faced by poc having actual poc protags, without all the racial ambiguity which always gets whitewashed. Shira (Jewish): More Jewish characters who feel positively about their Judaism and don’t carry it around as a burden or embarrassment. While the latter is definitely a real part of our experience due to anti-Semitism and all we’ve been through as a people, the fact that it overrepresents us in fiction is also due to anti-Semitism, even internalized. (Basically, Jews who don’t hate Judaism!) More brave, heroic characters who are openly Jewish instead of being inspired by the Jewish experience and created by Jews (like Superman) or played by Jews (Captain Kirk) but still not actually Jewish. I’m tired of always being Tolkien’s Dwarves; I’d like a chance to play Bard, Bilbo, or even Gandalf’s role in that kind of story. Elaney (Mexican): While we’re discussing what sort of representation we’d like to see, I am using the word “latinista” and I want to quickly address that since you may have not seen it before: “-ista” is a genderless suffix denoting someone is from an area (“Nortista”, a northerner), or who practices a belief (“Calvinista”, a calvinist), or a professsion (you’ve heard ‘barista’). I find it more intuitively pronounceable than “latinx” and also more friendly to Spanish, French, and Portugueze pronunciation (and thus more appropriate), personally, so I invite you to consider it as an alternative. If you don’t like it, well, at least I showed you. 1. I want legal Latinista immigrants. The darker your skin is down here, the more likely you are to be assumed to be illegal by your peers, and I want media to dilute this assumption so many have of us. 2. I want Latinistas who are well educated, not just smart, and I mean formally educated, with college degrees, professional skillsets, and trained expertise. Being in fields which do not require a formal degree is no less legitimate of a lifestyle than being in a field which requires a PhD, but I want you to consider when casting your Latinista character that We, as a people, are assumed to be little more than the drop-out and the janitor by our peers, and People Of Color in scientific fields are mistaken as assistant staff rather than the scientists that they are. I want media to dilute this assumption. 3. I want Latnistas who are not marketed as “Latin American” but as their actual country of origin, because “Latin America” is a conglomerate of individual entities with their own, distinct cultures and if you are, for example, Cuban, then Mexican characters may appeal to you but they don’t have the same relatability as fellow Cuban characters. Wouldn’t you be a little more interested, too, to pick up a book that’s about a character who lives where you do rather than about a character who lives somewhere in general? 4. I want rich or well-to-do Latinistas. Looking back, I notice that several of the character concepts that have been bounced off of us with regards to Latinista characters incorporate poverty despite an astronomical and diligent work ethic. I don’t think this is on purpose but I do think that it is internalized because so often the stereotype of us is poor and uneducated in a vicious cycle (uneducated because we’re poor, poor because we’re uneducated) and I think that there should be more media to dilute this. Lastly, I personally do not want these tropes to be explored and subverted by people, I want them to be avoided entirely because I feel that normalizing positive representation rather than commenting on negative representation is far more beneficial and validating to the people these works are supposed to help and represent. We don’t need sympathy, we need empathy! Jess (Chinese, Taiwanese): Stories that don’t center around the identity of being Chinese-American. That doesn’t mean “erase any references to protag’s Chinese identity” but I’d definitely like stories that have us go on awesome adventures every now and then and don’t have the Chinese character being all “I AM CHINESE” from beginning to end. Please round out the Chinese migrant parents instead of keeping them as strict and/or traditional. PLEASE. I could go into how my parents and the Chinese aunties and uncles here are so awesome, seriously, and we need more older Chinese migrant characters who are awesome and supportive and just people. Also! EAST ASIAN GIRLS WHO AREN’T SKINNY AND/OR PETITE. Please. PLEEEEEASE. And more stories about Taiwanese and Chinese folks who aren’t in bicoastal regions (the Midwest, the Plains, etc.) WE EXIST. More Chinese-Americans who aren’t necessarily Christian. Maybe it’s because of the books I’ve wound up reading, but there seems to be this narrative of Chinese migrants joining churches and converting when they’re in the US. This doesn’t mean I want less Chinese-American Christians in fiction, mind: I’d also just like to see more Chinese families in the US who are Buddhist or who still keep up with the traditions they learned from their homelands, like me, without having it considered in the narrative as ~old fashioned~ or ~ancient~ or ~mystical~. Tangentially, when writing non-Christian Chinese families, I’d rather people keep the assumption of Communism being the underlying reason why far, far away. I have been asked in the past if Communism was why my family didn’t go to church, and needless to say, it’s really, really offensive. Stella (Korean): I’d love to see more Korean (and Asian-American) characters that don’t perpetuate the super-overachieving, stressed-out, only-cares-about-succeeding Asian stereotype. These Koreans exist (I would know; I went to school with quite a few of them) but they don’t represent all of us. I want to see more Korean characters solving mysteries, saving the world and having fun. More Koreans that aren’t pale, petite, and a size 2. Not all of us have perfect skin or straight black hair or monolids. And some of us love our short legs, round faces and small eyes! And fewer stoic&strict Korean parents, please. So many of us grew up with loud, wacky, so-embarrassing-but-endearing parents! Recently, there’s been quite a few novels with Korean American female protags (particularly in the YA section) that deal with being in high school, dealing with strict parents, getting into college, and boys. Lots of boys! I think it’s awesome that there are more books with KA protags, and I’m so so so glad they’re out there. But I also recognize that those are definitely not the kind of books I would have read as a teenager, and it’s not the kind of book I want to read now. I want to see more Korean characters that are queer, trans, ace, bisexual. More Korean characters that are disabled or autistic or have mental illnesses. More Korean characters in fantasy, SFF, mystery! Heck, space operas and steampunk Westerns. I want it all! :DDDD A lot of Korean-Americans struggle with their identity. It’s hard to balance things sometimes! But I’d love to see more stories that *aren’t* overtly about Korean-Americans dealing with their racial identity or sexual orientation, but stories about Koreans saving princesses and slaying trolls and commandeering spaceships. I want a plot that doesn’t center on Korean-American identity, but on a Korean-American character discovering themselves. White characters get to do it all the time; I want Korean characters to have a turn. And honestly, I just want to see more Asians in media, period. South Asians, Southeast Asians, Central Asians! Thai, Hmong, Tibetan, Filipino, Vietnamese characters. Indian characters! There’s so much diversity in Asia and among Asian diaspora. I want us to be more than just ~~mystical~~ characters with ancient wisdom and a generic Asian accent. We’ve got boundless oceans of stories within ourselves and our communities, and I can’t wait for them to be told. I would also love to see more multiethnic Asian characters that are *not* half white. It seems to be the default mixed-race Asian character: East Asian and white. But so many of my friends have multiethnic backgrounds like Chinese/Persian, Thai/Chinese or Korean/Mexican. I have Korean friends who grew up in places like Brazil, Singapore and Russia. Did you know that the country with the largest population of Koreans (outside of Korea) is actually China? And while I’m at it, I’d love to see more well-translated works from Asia in the US. Like, how awesome would it be to have more science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels from Asia that are easily accessible in English? SUPER awesome!! Kaye (Muslim): I am so hungry for Muslim representation, because there is so little of it. You can see one or two (YA) titles I currently think or have heard are good representation on the shelves - notably, Aisha Saeed’s Written in the Stars - on an AMA I did the other day for /r/YAwriters. However, I’d just love to see stories where Muslim characters go on adventures like everyone else! I’ve been saying recently that I’d LOVE to see a cozy mystery. Or a series of Muslim historical romances a la Georgette Heyer (there are a LOT of Muslim girls who love romances, and I’m just starting to get into the genre myself!). I’d love to see Muslim middle grade readers get girls who find secret passages, solve mysteries, tumble through the neighborhood with their dozen or so cousins. I have a lot of cousins and thus I always have a soft spot for cousins. And siblings. I’m looking forward to Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham because Jen is writing Scarlett as a detective a la Veronica Mars. And she’s Somali-American. How cool is that?! Let’s see some classic road trip YA with Muslims. Let’s see comedies with quirky characters - for instance, I know one or two tween Muslim girls who are driving their moms MAD by suddenly turning vegetarian and refusing to touch the celebratory biryani at family Eid parties, who join relevant societies at their schools and start preaching to their extended families about the benefits of going vegetarian and all the funny little interactions that are involved with that. Let’s have a story with some wise-cracking African American Muslim girls. My cousin is a niqaabi who loves YA and hates that she doesn’t see herself in it. Let’s see some stories with teen niqaabis! Let’s explore the full, joyful spectrum of diversity in Islam. Let’s have stories where we talk about how one word in Bengali is totally different in another language, and one friend is hilariously horrified and the other friend doesn’t know what he/she said. (True story.) I want to see joy. I want to see happiness. Being a woman of color and a hijaabi often means facing so many daily, disheartening scenarios and prejudice and hatefulness. So many of the suggested tropes recently in the inbox focus on trying to force Muslim characters into beastly or haraam or just sad and stereotypical scenarios. I know that writers are better and have bigger imaginations than that. You want angst? Push aside the cold, unkind, abusive Muslim parents trope. Let’s talk about the Muslim girls I know who have struggled with eating disorders. Let’s talk about Islamophobia and how that is a REAL, horrible experience that Muslim kids have to fear and combat every day. Let’s approach contemporary angst without the glasses of the Western gaze and assumptions about people of the Islamic faith on. We can have Muslim novels that focus on growing pains like Sarah Dessen and Judy Blume (and speaking of that, my “auntie” who used to teach in a madrasah used to press Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret on the Muslim girls she knew because of how Margaret approached growing up and had concerns about her faith and her relationships, etc.) Having Shia friends, I would like to see more stories that aren’t just assumed to be Sunni. How about stories about Su-Shi kids, too? (Sunni and Shia - the name always surprises me!) Let’s see some Muslim-Jewish friendships. Because they exist. And of course, I always, always hunger for Muslim voices first. Because it’s so important to have these voices there, from the source, and some of the issues with answering here at WWC is how people seem to be approaching certain tropes that a Muslim writer could explore with the nuance and lived experience of their faith behind it.

"Although my aunt warned me that he would get me in trouble, I could hear a new call and see a new horizon, and believe it at my young age; and a little bit of trouble or even Dean’s eventual rejection of me as a buddy, putting me down, as he would later, on starving sidewalks and sickbeds – what did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off."

Writing postcard that comes with Moleskine notebooks.

A strange work of art, tacked to a door that someone took literally

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I love handwritten old letters, postcards, books, journals and the like because they, not only last, but the energy of the person(s) who wrote and/or touched the paper still lingers. So, I, here in their future, connect with the energy of that person or persons of the past.

The past, present, and future come together as one. It gives me chills.

That makes them live on. Not so with electronics.

Plus, I love the feel and smell of the past…touching the paper and smelling the ink and the aging. It sets my mind to imagining and wandering.

I have never smelled my computer. Okay, once… and that was because it smelled as if it was burning. Ha!

Isn’t the handwriting on this postcard glorious? Such zeal and confidence.

For my Flickr groups…

The fountain at the cloister of Domkerk in Utrecht is decorated by a 1923 bronze statue of the 14th century canon Hugo Wstinc, a work by Jan Hendrik Brom of Edelsmidse Brom, a local company that was specialized in making ironworks for the Roman Catholic Church.

This woman was sitting at the edge of a patch of shade, in the outdoor section of a small deli/restaurant called Arte around the corner, on Columbus between 72nd and 73rd St.

I couldn't tell whether she was writing a journal entry, a short story, or a letter to a friend; but she seemed very peaceful and relaxed...

Note: this photo was published in a Dec 8, 2008 blog article entitled "How You Can Write For Magazines - Part Two." It was also published in a Jul 29, 2009 blog titled "Consejos para escribir cada vez mejor." And it was published in a Linux Gazette blog titled "autorzy tłumaczeń." More recently, it was published in an Aug 23, 2009 blog titled "How to Work Around Writer's Block." And it was published in a Sep 1, 2009 blog titled "Matador Members Reach Semi-Final in Trazzler’s NYCGO Writing Contest." More recently, it was published in an Oct 2, 2009 blog titled "‘Novel’ workshop affords journalism students inside look." And it was published in an Oct 19, 2009 blog titled "I Wanna Write like Nora Roberts: 7 Tips for Prolific Writers." Moving on: it was also published in a Dec 10, 2009 blog titled "Creative Writers, See How Much You Know on This Quiz."

Moving into 2010, the photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Feb 2010) Squidoo blog titled "Who Is Nora Roberts?." And it was published in a Mar 21, 2010 blog titled "La base científica (2ª parte): estudio de la Universidad de Texas sobre el poder curativo de la escritura." It was also published in an Apr 6, 2010 blog titled "Writer's Back!" and an Apr 22, 2010 blog titled "Why Do You Write?" And it was published in a May 29, 2010 blog titled "Guest Post: How to handle multiple priorities," by Luc Reid. It was also published in a Jul 11, 2010 blog titled "The Secret to Success."

Moving into 2011, the photo was published in an undated (mid-Jan 2011) blog titled "8 Tips for Writing a Killer SEO Cover Letter." It was also published in a Jan 15, 2011 blog titled "Learning SEO to help your Website succeed online." And it was published in a Jan 30, 2011 blog titled "7 Tricks to Write Faster, Better, And More Insightful Articles … Right Now."

The photo was also published in a Feb 1, 2011 blog titled "Power Thinking vs. Positive Thinking." It was also published in a Feb 9, 2011 blog titled "10 Ways to Build Your Blog Readership." And it was published in a Mar 1, 2011 blog titled " The (semi-)mobile workspace." It was also published in an Apr 12, 2011 blog titled "5 "Tries" That Get Writers Stuck." And it was published in an Oct 13, 2011 blog titled "Skrivprocessen - vad ska man tänka på?" It was also published in a Nov 21, 2011 blog titled "Five Online Aids for the Serious Writer." And it was published in a Dec 4, 2011 blog titled, simply, "Writing."

Moving into 2012, the photo was published in a Feb 19, 2012 blog titled "7 Tricks to Write Faster, Better, And More Insightful Articles … Right Now." And it was published in an undated (early Jun 2012) blog titled "Self-Improvement." It was also published in an undated (late Jun 2012) blog titled "Novel Writing Project: The Quiet Cambodian," as well as a Jun 22,2012 blog titled "How to Successfully Set your Blog up for Guest Posting." And it was published in a Sep 27, 2012 blog titled "Huffington Post: blogger open source vs l'ipocrisia del sig. Gubitosa," as well as a Sep 29, 2012 blog titled "How To Get Your Guest Posts Accepted By Top Blogs," and an Oct 22, 2012 blog titled "Ask the Survival Mom: Answers to some of your questions." It was also published in an undated (mid-Nov 2012) blog titled "10 Stvari Koje Svaka Mama Treba da Ima na Umu."

Moving into 2013, the photo was published in an Apr 8, 2013 blog titled "Flex Your Abdominal Muscles: Top 10 Ways to Score Sexy Abs." It was also published in an Apr 11, 2013 blog titled "Fitness Scholarships: Acquiring And Keeping These people."

Moving into 2015, the photo was published in a Jan 21, 2015 blog titled "4 Easy Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block." And it was published in an Aug 2, 2015 blog titled "On Maintaining Personal Brand as a Software Engineer."

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On Oct 3, 2009 I made some editing improvements to the photo. Primarily, I reduced the extent of shadows in the area behind the writer-woman. I also made a slight increase to the saturation of the skin tones in her face (and the other woman's back), as well as the overall "vibrancy" of the non-skin-tone colors in the picture. Not a huge change, but I think it's a little better this way... of course, I should have done all of this when I first took the photo, but at that point (a year ago), I didn't know how. Things get better, little by little...

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This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.

I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me.

I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject.

For the most part, I've deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ...

The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, *far* more people who are *not* so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.

I thought this one safe to share now that the days are finally starting to get a bit longer again.

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We're Here - Hand Writing

This is the entry on Aug. 20 of my grandfather's 1913 diary. And as I'm posting it now, after having put the diary away, etc., I see that today is actually the 21st. So you get what was happening 100-years-plus-one-day ago. LOL

Front of the diary is in comments. Oops DeeMac beat me to first place. :)

The oak table it is resting on also belonged to my grandrather.

Put some zing into your 365! Join We're Here!

1784 English book on writing, illustrated by engravings. Charters ancient and modern writing and the origin and progress of printing. By Thomas Astle. Printed in London, sold by T. Payne and son. Chapter One.

Call Number: Z105 .A85 1784 Q

Location: Milton S. Eisenhower Library (Contact Special Collections for use)

It was a toss up between this and simply the letter 'T' - which is technically 'The beginning of time!!!'...here's to another week and another MM Challenge..

Maker: Edouard Baldus (1813-1889)

Born: Germany

Active: France

Medium: heliogravure

Size: 12 5/8 in x 18 in

Location: Paris

Object No. 2016.1135a

Shelf: J-42

Publication: Palais de Versailles, grand et petit Trianon, motifs de decoration interieure et exterieure, Paris, A. Morel et Cie, Libraires editeurs. 1876

Other Collections:

Provenance: Hotel des Ventes d'Enghein, Photographies, Autographes, Fond Max Nordau, November 16, 2016, Lot 13

Notes: Beginning in the mid 1860s, and lasting until the early 1880s, Baldus primary commercial activity centered on the production of photogravures, a process he first explored in 1854. This plate is part of his first major publication in gravure form, a series of 100 heliogravures published in 1866 reproducing ornamental engravings of past masters, including Aldegrever, Master IB, Beham, Boyvin, de Bry, Delanne, Durer, Ducerceau, Holbein, Jansz, Lepaurtre, van Leyden, Marot, Solis, Vico and Woeiriot. This work had nothing to do with promoting artistic photography or his own photographic work; instead it was an industrial application of photography that brough credit and financial gain to Baldus as an inventor and entrepreneur rather than an artist. Printed by Delatre. Originally trained as a painter and having also worked as a draughtsman and lithographer before switching to photography in 1849, Édouard Baldus (1813–1889), became a central figure in the early development of French photography and acknowledged in his day as a pioneer in the still-experimental field, was widely acclaimed both for his aesthetic sensitivity and for his technical prowess. Establishing a new mode of representing architecture and describing the emerging modern landscape with magnificent authority, he enjoyed high patronage in the 1850s and 1860s. Yet, despite the artist's renown during his lifetime, his name is all but unknown today, his work savored only by connoisseurs. Baldus made his reputation with views of the monuments of Paris and the south of France, with dramatic landscapes of the Auvergne, with photographs of the New Louvre, and with a poignant record of the devastating floods of 1856. But it is his two railroad albums—the first commissioned in 1855 by Baron James de Rothschild for presentation to Queen Victoria, the second in 1861 by the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranee railroad company—that are his greatest achievement. Here he brought together his earlier architectural and scenic images with bold geometric views of the modern landscape—railroad tracks, stations, bridges, viaducts, and tunnels—to address the influence of technology (of which both the railroad and the camera are prime examples). In so doing, Baldus anticipated the concerns of Impressionist painters a decade later and those of many artists of our own day, meeting his task with a clarity and directness not since surpassed. (source: MET).

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New Haven, CT '22

Timothy Ahearn Memorial

Reverse of postcard at 2003.409a.

Reads: "Kind regards to all Emma Mees [?] are ? up soon when I get a new leg. Yours Chas"

The postcard is addressed to Mrs J. M. Hall of Deseronto, Ontario and was written on February 14th, 1911. It was mailed in Deseronto on February 15th.

frontside

this pen was a gift from a dear friend years ago when I finished a course of study. we have lost touch,and I am more of a Bic and sharpie person, but the pen reminds me of her.

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Descripción bibliográfica: Biblia Latina. - [Moguntiae : Tip. epónima (=Johannes Gutenberg),(c. 1454- agosto, 1456]) . - 128 h.; fol. - Sin sign. ni fol. - L. gót. --2 col. --42 lín. --Esp. p. inic. --Tinta roja y negra.

Impresor: Gutenberg, Johannes, imp.

Lugar de impresión: Alemania. Mainz

Procedencia: Jesuitas. Casa Profesa de Sevilla.

Otro título: Biblia de las 42 líneas

Otro título: Biblia de Gutenberg

Localización: http://fama.us.es/record=b1523605~S5*spi

Libro completo: fondosdigitales.us.es/fondos/libros/9070/

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When in high school in suburban Maryland, I had a neighbor, Walter Williams, who was Project Director for NASA's Mercury Program. He gave me this small scrap of paper with autographs of the original seven astronauts which I've treasured ever since. John Glenn is the last of the original seven to pass away. RIP, John Glenn.

Alla faccia del pensiero debole.

Words are written by me on paper from the book "The True and The Questions" by Sabrina Ward Harrison.

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While creating the "stamp" for my sister, using the words she so lovingly put in the summer house journal, I also came up with this design. Deb mentions the "peeling desktop" . . . and here is evidence of that.

“I must write it all out, at any cost.

Writing is thinking.

It is more than living,

for it is being conscious of living.”

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass,

you live more richly those moments.”

“If one is out of touch with oneself,

then one cannot touch others.”

“Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.”

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient.

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~

I'd really like it if you filled this out. -  Say hello? - Fill this out.    I have a book for sale.

03.01.12

I started writing again.

Okay, ticket stub from The Smiths, SFX, Dublin, first of two nights that they would play on their debut album tour, Friday, 18 May 1984. Number 036, costing £6.00. That's the basic facts out of the way. Not quite yet at their prime, they were touring an underwhelming debut album, albeit with some earthshatering singles and hidden away was some deep and meaningful melacholic tunes.

But they were relaxed and beginning to get on top of their game.. Yada, yada... it was obvious that they were destined for greatness. Shortly after, in fact less than a month, they went into the studio and recorded How Soon Is Now. Met up with them afterwards... but thats a story for another day.

Setlist:

1. Hand In Glove

2. Sill Ill

3. This Charming Man

4. This Night Has Opened My Eyes

5. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

6. Miserable Lie

7. I Don't Owe You Anything

8. Barbarism Begins At Home

9. Reel Around The Fountain

10 What Difference Does It Make?

Encore:

11 These Things Take Time

12.Hand In Glove

13.You've Got Everything Now

14.Handsome Devil

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