July 17, 2020 at 8:05 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: art, causes, news, politics, Protests, Redwood City
As self told one young man on Twitter: This is your moment. Better not waste it.
I won’t, he said.
(In his very next tweet he called Joe Biden an “Andrew Jackson Democrat” and she was so confused but didn’t have time to figure out what he meant so she blocked him)
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
July 3, 2020 at 6:46 pm (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, fpj-photo-challenge, Surprises)
Tags: art, Fridays, Garden, happiness, memories, summer
Whew, where would self’s head be right now if she weren’t doing a Photo Challenge? These Photo Challenges are really helping self stay positive during the pandemic.
The latest Lens-Artists Photo Challenge is: SURPRISE.
Would you like to know your future? If your answer is yes, think again. Not knowing is the greatest life motivator. So enjoy, endure, survive each moment as it comes to you in its proper sequence, a surprise.
Do joing the fun!
Here are self’s recent surprises:
These cherries from a tree in self’s backyard were so unexpectedly sweet!
Picking more cherries!
Her friend Jacinta O’Reilly, a painter in Ireland, sent her this beautiful card that she made herself. What a beautiful surprise to get in the mail!
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
July 2, 2020 at 9:28 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, art, artists residency, Dublin, happiness, Ireland, memories, museums, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
— A Quiet Moment, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 102, P. A. Moed
Last fall, self was in Ireland. What a different place the world was then!
During her visits to Ireland, she always finds calm and inspiration. These pictures reflect that mood.
from a cottage at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
Just Outside IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin
This beautiful avenue leads from IMMA straight to . . . the Dublin Castle? It is a wonderful walk.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
June 12, 2020 at 7:06 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Niece, Relatives)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, exhibits, Fridays, magical realism, memories, museums, San Diego, San Francisco, summer
Bless Cee Neuner for keeping Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge so FUN!
For this week’s Fun Foto Challenge, HATS, self found a couple of pictures from her archives.
Self’s baseball-cap wearing niece, Angela, an undergrad at the University of Michigan, spent a summer as an intern at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. Self had a lot of fun hanging with her:
The Martian is son’s favorite novel (after the Dune novels; son is an avid science fiction reader). He met the cap-wearing author at SDCC 2018:
Finally, one of Magritte’s most iconic images, the man in the bowler hat, at an exhibit in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 2018:
Other hats:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
June 6, 2020 at 4:10 am (Artists and Writers, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, Fridays, London, memories
Self loves this week’s Fun Foto Challenge because there is so much raw energy in street art; graffiti has always fascinated.
All photos: Shoreditch, East London, November 2019
Here are a few other graffiti galleries to sample:
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
April 27, 2020 at 6:37 am (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Movies, Personal Bookshelf, short story collections, Sundays)
Tags: art, elections, exhibits, Just published, politics, Readings, science fiction
March 13, 2020 at 11:33 pm (destinations, Family, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, Traveling)
Tags: art, British Museum, Fridays, London, memories, museums, Redwood City
For the first time in over 10 years, self went to the supermarket and bought a bottle of vodka. In the back of her mind was something a friend had told her: that alcohol contains a natural anti-viral agent. The vodka was set out right at the end of the liquor aisle, an open invitation: Smirnoff, Ketel One, Grey Goose, Belvedere. She nearly picked up the Smirnoff then decided that if she was going to self-isolate, she deserved the best.
In the meantime, she’s cleaning out the closets in son’s room. And found a whole bunch of Lego figures. She scattered them on the floor and took pictures. VOILA! Scale!
For contrast, a picture she took in the Antiquities gallery of the British Museum, May 2019:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
February 6, 2020 at 4:59 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, fpj-photo-challenge, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Weather)
Tags: art, California, exhibits, Garden, museums, Redwood City
Self loves the idea of REST.
REST is crucial to her creativity.
Recently, she had an opportunity to see an amazing exhibit at the Bakersfield Museum of Art:
Night. Rest. Nocturnes. What a beautiful theme.
Not to mention: The paintings she saw were otherworldy, powerful in their depictions of this special and mysterious time of day.
For instance, Jessica Dunne’s, which showed a San Francisco street in fog:
Just after she drove down to Bakersfield, the Bay Area had a brief string of sunny days. Gorgeous! Self went to the backyard, for the first time in weeks, and saw an eight-foot-high bush completely covered in bright, yellow flowers. So many flowers, she could barely see the green.
What is the reason for such a ridiculous display, flowers? She never fertilizes and barely waters. This is a common euryops, which is the landscape plant of choice for new subdivisions. But she’s never seen them throw out flowers in a display so in-your-face! That’s the ony way she can think to describe it. It is so overpoweringly extra. She took this picture early in the morning:
Euryops, February 2020
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 2, 2020 at 5:58 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, fpj-photo-challenge, Holidays, Links, Lists, Niece, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: art, Bacolod, Christmas, Cork, Cornwall, Events, Filipino food, Fowey, Ireland, London, memories, Menlo Park, Oxford, Prague, Redwood City, restaurants, The Philippines, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Great theme!
In 2019, self traveled the world. Her life triangulated between home in Redwood City, California, to England and Ireland, to the Philippines. Side trip to Prague with her niece, Irene!
Here goes, all the images that mattered most to self in 2019, arranged from most recent — December 2019 — to the earliest, January 2019: Starting with her home in Redwood City in early December; to London’s Blackfriar station; to Manggapuri Villa in Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, Philippines; to Prague; to Oxford University’s Exam School for Alice Oswald’s first reading as Oxford’s first woman Poet in Residence; to Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park; to the Main House of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig; to the fire pit in Manggapuri Villas; to the Daku Balay in Bacolod City, the Philippines; to self’s bedroom; to the Blue Room in Café Paradiso in Cork, Ireland; to Fowey in Cornwall; to Courthouse Square, Redwood City; to the cover of last winter’s issue of Prairie Schooner, which included her story Things She Can Take
Stay tuned.
December 9, 2019 at 12:38 am (Artists and Writers, Memoirs, Publishers, Recommended, Sundays, Women Writers)
Tags: art, literary awards, Literary Magazines, nonfiction
Look at this beauty!
Featuring the 2018 Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing, Michelle Cristiani’s Blessed Are the Breathing.
From Senior Editor Brenna Crotty:
It isn’t just the words, though. The featured visual art is stunning as well.
Submissions are open through Dec. 31.
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