September 27, 2016 at 2:21 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Links, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: AWP, fairy tales, Los Angeles, postaday, postaweek, Spanish writers, translation, writing conferences
All books are quests of one kind or another. To self, they represent explorations of new experiences.
New Edition of Don Quixote, at the AWP 2016 Bookfair in Los Angeles
From the Europa booth at the 2016 AWP Los Angeles Book Fair
from self’s own copy of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans, retold by Amy Ehrlich, illustrated by Susan Jeffers
This is how the fairy tale begins:
Far, far away, in a warm and pleasant land, there once lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter. The princes wore stars on their shirts and swords at their sides, and their sister, Elise, sat on a footstool made of glass. These children were happy from the time they woke in the morning until they went to their beds at night. They never imagined another life.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 24, 2016 at 2:52 pm (destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, praise, Saturdays, travel, websites, Wordpress
Liking these WordPress bloggers’ takes on this week’s Photo Challenge: QUEST
Check them out!
Stay tuned.
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September 24, 2016 at 1:45 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Philippine History, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Doreen Fernandez, Filipino food, San Francisco, Saturdays
Does our taste for asim come from our sour green landscape? From the proliferation of sour-towards-sweet tastes in our fruits and vegetables? Certainly we Filipinos have a tongue, a taste, a temper for sour notes, which is one of our chief flavor principles. We not only sour our soups (sinigang) and cook sundry dishes in vinegar (paksiw, adobo); we also use vinegars (nipa, coconut) and citrus (calamansi, dayap) as dips and marinades.
— Palayok: Philippine Food Through Time, On Site, In the Pot, by Doreen Fernandez
P.S. Señor Sigig, a Filipino food truck, was just featured on Bay Area food program Check, Please! Owner says everything is marinated for at least 48 hours. But the lines!
It’s Filipino/Mexican — there are burritos and nachos. Open every day for lunch and dinner. Average price of a meal: $12.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 21, 2016 at 6:16 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, exhibits, Golden Gate Park, museums, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
Several weeks ago, self spent a day at the de Young, to see an Ed Ruscha exhibit.
My goodness, it was amazing.
She took a break for coffee in the sculpture garden. Here’s the pedestrian walkway over the café’s outdoor seating. VERY edgy:
Pedestrian Walkway, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park
Entrance lobby of the de Young: Everything is edgy.
Looking down at the Main Lobby from the second floor: You really see edges!
Finally, an “End” is an EDGE. Of sorts:
Ed Ruscha’s “The End,” Viewed in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, August 2016
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 17, 2016 at 6:32 pm (Family, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Bacolod, England, memories, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, The Philippines, websites, Wordpress
Edge of Family’s Fields: Negros Occidental, the Philippines
Path cleared for a tractor.
And one more:
Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental
Check out a few more WordPress bloggers who posted on EDGE:
- Yamanashi Kei’s blog, for the picture of Oklahoma City skyscrapers and foliage
- ilargia64, for the pictures of Antelope Canyon in Monument Valley, Arizona
- Chris Brebart’s What’s (In) the Picture?, for the shot of the Norfolk dunes
- NIVS24, for her shot of a beach in Virginia
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 17, 2016 at 3:33 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: inspiration, poetry, Saturdays
I’m Feeling Fabulous, Possibly Too Much So. But I Love It.
It’s spring and Mockingbird is teaching himself
new ways to celebrate.
If you can imagine that — that gutsy talker.
And the sky is painting itself a brand-new
robust blue
plenty of which is spilling onto the pond.
I don’t weigh very much, but right now
I weigh nothing.
And my mind is, I guess you would say, compounded.
Our voice is saying, Ah, it’s Mockingbird.
Another voice is saying, the pond never looked
this blue before.
Another voice says, there couldn’t be a more
splendid world, and here I am
existing in it.
I think, just for the joy of it, I’ll fly.
I believe I could.
And yet another voice says, Can we come down
from the clouds now?
And some other voice answers, Okay.
But only for a while.
Mary Oliver has received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her poetry.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 15, 2016 at 6:50 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Filipino food, flash fiction, indulgences, Literary Magazines, The Philippines
Bakery, Kanlaon City, Negros Occidental, The Philippines
- When she was a toddler, cook cut everything into tiny morsels so that the girl’s mouth would not stretch and become wide and ugly. The girl ate only the sweetest pastries, only the smallest and most tender eggplants. Cook herself grew these in a corner of the garden, which every summer sprouted with little trees with purple-tinged leaves.
— “Appetites,” published in The Café Irreal, Issue 31
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September 14, 2016 at 9:25 pm (Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: destinations, England, London, New York, postaday, postaweek, praise, websites, Wordpress
In which self pays homage to other WordPress blogs whose interpretations of The Daily Post Photo Challenge (EDGE) are inspiring:
- Ain’t Mine No More, for her photograph of penguins in Prague
- The Armchair Sommelier, for that shot of a stormy sky over the Brooklyn Bridge
- Still Thinking, for that shot looking down at the Urubamba River from the heights of Machu Picchu
- Roaming About, for the shots of The Precipice Trail and Champlain Mountain in Maine’s Acadia National Park
- The Storyteller’s Abode, for her dramatic pictures of people on the edge of a cliff in Tintagel, Cornwall, United Kingdom (King Uther Pendragon — name sound familiar? If not, you need to brush up on your King Arthur lore!)
- Netdancer’s Musings, for the photograph of London’s Tower Bridge on a rainy night
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 13, 2016 at 7:52 am (Artists and Writers, Links, Philippine History, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: essay, experimental, Literary Magazines, memoir, The Philippines, TransGenre
Filipinos once had an ancient written language. If I were to show you what the marks look like on a piece of paper,they would look like a series of waves. Like the eye of the Pharaoh I saw in my old high school history books.
— from self’s hybrid essay/memoir/short story The Lost Language, published in Isotope
Isotope was a literary journal based in Utah State. When that university began to make steep budget cuts, the magazine lost the heart of its funding. In 2009, editor Chris Cokinos issued an appeal for support. Terrain.org posted it.
Alas, Isotope lost the fight. Self mourned. It was the only literary journal of its kind, combining science writing and creative writing, a place that joined physicists and playwrights, biologists and memoir writers, and created an exciting new kind of community.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 12, 2016 at 6:31 pm (Links, Places, postaday)
Tags: Bacolod, Golden Gate Park, memories, museum, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, The Philippines, Wordpress
Give me a wide-open landscape, and I feel unmoored (and my iPhone camera, inadequate). Throw in some demarcating line between me and what I see, and things start to fall into place.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Front Courtyard, de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Returning to Bacolod on the Ferry From Iloilo, in the central Philippines
Night descends on a Philippine Sea.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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