Self went around her backyard today, taking pictures of her garden (in close-up), selecting subjects that matched Cee’s current Fun Foto Challenge: Vibrant Colors.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
More Vibrant Colors for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
September 19, 2018 at 8:36 pm (Flowers, Links, Places)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Garden, photography, Redwood City
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Any Kind of Red
September 16, 2018 at 4:11 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Links, Sundays)
Tags: birthday, Cee Neuner, Events, exhibits, Game of Thrones, happiness, museums, Readings, Redwood City, San Francisco
Thank you to Cee Neuner for the Fun Foto Challenge: RED
Red is a particular favorite of self’s.
- Aug. 14, Redwood City’s Fox Theatre: George R. R. Martin read for a Locus Magazine fundraiser.
Fox Theatre, Redwood City: 14 August 2018
- One of self’s handbags: a friend made it for her, using material self brought with her from the Philippines.
- Self’s birthday was July 14. Son and his wife, Jennie, flew up from southern CA and we spent the day in the City. Stopped at the Museum of Modern Art to see the Magritte exhibit, then had a snack in the sculpture garden. GREAT DAY! BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden: 14 July 2018
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Lime or Light Green
September 4, 2018 at 5:59 pm (Links)
Tags: Cee Neuner, Gardens, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Self loves color prompts. And in particular, this week’s Cee Neuner Fun Foto Challenge color: LIME.
There is something so refreshing about LIME or LIGHT GREEN.
Here are three pictures where this color takes pride of place:
Living Wall, San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
What Has Happened to Oleg Sentsov?
August 31, 2018 at 10:40 pm (Calls, Links, Lists, The Economist, The Guardian)
Tags: causes, Fridays, news, politics, The New Yorker
In two years, Trump has arranged two of the most bizarre summits in the world:
- with Kim Jong Un, a brutal dictator, who he made seem, according to The Economist (10 June 2018) “warm, jovial, and eminently reasonable.” The Economist maintains Kim Jong Un “ought to be at The Hague.”
- with Putin in Helsinki, a “one-on-one” which offered Putin “the chance to be seen as a global statesman, an equal with the President of the United States, the leader of a country whose participation was needed to solve just about every pressing world problem.” (Joshua Yaffa in The New Yorker, 16 July 2018)
In the meantime, what has happened to Oleg Sentsov, who was jailed as a “terrorist” for “protesting against Vladimir Putin’s illegal annexation of Crimea and the war Russia’s president unleashed in eastern Ukraine four years ago” (The Economist, 10 June 2018)? No one knows. Here’s the latest article self found about him; it was almost a month ago, in The Guardian.
Trump instead calls for Russia to be allowed back into the G7, which expelled it “for the seizure of Crimea.” According to Trump, that “happened a while ago.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: TEAL
August 29, 2018 at 2:30 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Family, Filipino Writers, Links, short story collections, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, Cee Neuner, India, memories
Love this prompt from Cee Neuner!
A collection of short stories by the great Wakako Yamauchi who passed away recently. Her own art is on the cover. Edited by Lillian Howan, published by Hawai’i University Press.
Bought from a Tibetan vendor in Dharamsala: “This will make you strong like _____!” said the vendor to me. Forget which Hindu god has the lightning bolt.
College-age self and Dear Departed Dad
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
George Orwell, Visionary?
August 27, 2018 at 8:37 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Recommended)
Tags: causes, English writers, essay, George Orwell, Mondays, politics, wisdom
If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it . . . If public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.
— George Orwell, “Freedom of the Park” (published Dec. 7, 1945)
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge Week 5: Coffee
August 22, 2018 at 3:34 pm (Family, Food and Drink, Links)
Tags: Cee Neuner, coffee, happiness, summer
“Coffee, you complete me.”
That pretty much sums up what self feels about coffee.
So glad she can participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week.
Self has two coffee makers: a red and a white.
The white is a 10-cup, and the red is a four-cup.
She also has a favorite coffee mug, which she bought from a wee little store in North Beach.
The other side of the mug has a picture of Han Solo.
Which reminds her: this time next week, son and his wife will be back in the Bay Area. He accepted an offer from a high-tech company in the area. Self is so happy to have them close by!
She only learned the news about two weeks ago.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Poetry Sunday: Luisa A. Igloria
August 5, 2018 at 6:05 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino poetry, Filipino Writers, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Sundays, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, Just published, literary awards, poetry, praise
Cascade
What I want is immediacy, the nub
of the moment processed without doubt
into my side, the tremor that comes
sometimes before sight, before taste
or touch. Whatever might be lost, don’t
take that away from me: stars pouring
out of the firmament, not ever holding
back the flood over my small ladle.
— included in the collection The Buddha Wonders If She Is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Montreal: Phoenicia Publishing, 2018)
Luisa A. Igloria is a poet, a creative writing professor (Old Dominion University), a 2014 winner of the May Swenson Prize and, most recently, the 2018 winner of the Center for Book Arts’ Letterpress Chapbook Competition.
Cost of Paper, vol. 5 (published by 1888 Center, Orange, CA)
August 5, 2018 at 4:12 am (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, Filipino Writers, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Publishers, Recommended, short story collections, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: dystopia, fantasy, Just published, Literary Magazines, Saturday, short story, space fantasy
Sadly, both the AWP2019 panel proposals self was included in were rejected. One was a mixed-genre panel, the brainchild of Philadelphia poet Anne-Adele Wight. The other was a Quarterly West panel on experimental fiction.
Nevertheless, self still has much to celebrate. Such as, her story This Is End being in The Cost of Paper, vol. 5 (It’s the last story in the anthology). The anthology’s editor was Julianne Berokoff.
Self just had another story picked up for the Winter 2018 issue of Prairie Schooner, due out this December. And the two stories couldn’t be more different: the one in The Cost of Paper is space fantasy, the Prairie Schooner story is straight-up realism.
This Is End is the third story in a cycle about a boy named Dragon, a missing girl named Her, a teacher named Fire Lizard, a bully named Big, the bully’s friend Drinker, and a new student named Knot.
Dragon saw Big knock Her out cold (in the middle of a class, why). Her never came back to class, but sometimes Dragon thinks he sees her waving to him from a window of an abandoned space station called the Kobayashi Maru. Ever since then, he’s been itching for revenge.
Big doesn’t show up to class one day, Knot asks Dragon:
“Is it true? Tumor he had?”
We spot-check each other for tumors. We’re so afraid of it.
“Ecchymosis?” Knot persists.
Here’s a link to 1888 Center’s Bookstore.
Stay tuned.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: WOOD
July 29, 2018 at 4:46 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Niece, Places, Relatives)
Tags: Cee Neuner, desserts, San Francisco, Saturday, weekends
Another Cee Neuner Fun Foto Challenge! For the next few weeks, Cee asks us to take inspiration from a photograph. Here is the photograph for Week 3.
Self got to spend time in the City yesterday. She was with her niece Angela, who introduced self to the wonder of Tea Bear Café, whose walls were either real or synthetic wood. And self has no idea what the dice were meant to represent:
Saturday, 28 July 2018: Tea Bear Café, San Francisco Chinatown
And there’s an adorable picture of the bear in Tea Bear!
The Bear Has Its Close-up
And here’s the view just outside the café: Washington Park, where a Chinese dance performance was happening.
Washington Square, Chinatown, San Francisco
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
