October 3, 2021 at 9:47 pm (destinations, Links, Lists, postaday, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: A Photo a Week, Dublin, England, Events, Ireland, Liverpool, memories, museums, Nancy Merrill, photo challenge
What a great theme for this week’s Photo a Week Challenge: Vanishing Point! Thank you to host Nancy Merrill!
Self loves looking back at her travel photos, and looking for Vanishing Points was fun.
The last time she was in Ireland and England was Fall 2019. She happened to arrive in Dublin on the day of the Dublin Marathon. The route was right in front of her B & B, so she was able to catch a few stragglers:
Dublin Marathon, October 2019
She visited IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art) and walked from there to Dublin Castle, through a gorgeous tree-lined avenue.
Walking from IMMA to Dublin Castle, October 2019
From Dublin she flew to Manchester to stay with an old classmate from the Philippines. She introduced self to Liverpool!
Museum of Liverpool, Albert Dock, November 2019
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September 13, 2021 at 8:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, plans, postaday, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: Cal Shakes, Events, favorites, happiness, lens-artists photo challenge, photo challenge, praise, Shakespeare
LOOOOVE this prompt. Simply love.
Thank you, P.A. Moed.
Yesterday, self was at Cal Shakes’ only production for 2021: The Winter’s Tale. Last year they were forced to cancel their entire season. Wanted to weep.
But whoa, what a way to make a comeback: The Winter’s Tale is ace.
Picnic Grove Next to Bruns Amphitheatre in Orinda
Cal Shakes’s Resident Dramaturg Philippa Kelly leading the post-play discussion.
The Thrill of Anticipation! Audience files into Bruns Amphitheatre to see Cal Shakes’s first production in two years!
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September 11, 2021 at 3:04 pm (Places, television)
Tags: 9/11, Events, grief, heroes, history, inspirations, memorial, Saturday, US history
As a nation, our adjustments have been profound.
In the weeks after 9/11, I was proud to lead a united, resilient people. So much of our politics has become an . . . appeal to worry, anger, and resentment. I can only tell you that on our day of trial and grief, I saw people reach for their neighbor’s hands and rally to the cause of one another. That is the America I know.
I saw people reject prejudice, and accept people of the Muslim faith. That is the America I know.
This is not mere nostalgia. this is the truest version of ourselves. This is what we have been, and what we can be again.
On 9/11, the terrorists discovered that a random group of Americans is a remarkable group of people . . . They shocked the terrorists. This is the America I know.
Self found it significant that in his speech, 43 mentioned that we “have seen evidence that” we continue to see terrorism today, but on a new front, at home: “In their determination to defile national symbols, they are children of the same foul spirit, and they must be confronted.”
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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August 17, 2021 at 8:35 pm (Books, Links, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: concerts, COVID Reading, Events, lens-artists photo challenge, music, nonfiction, reading lists, Redwood City, summer
Wow, this is such an interesting challenge. FEET AND SHOES! Self hasn’t taken any pictures of feet and shoes lately, has she?
Nevertheless, she obligingly starts going through her archives and here is what she found:
Wednesday Music Concert, Stafford Park, Redwood City
Instead of a Picnic Blanket, Banig (Woven Mat from the Philippines)!
One of her Favorite Reads, So Far 2021
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July 4, 2021 at 11:28 pm (Artists and Writers, Holidays, Links, Recommended, Sayings, Sundays)
Tags: Events, Fourth of July, inspirations, lithub, summer, US history
On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the 600-odd members of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Central New York and delivered what would become one of his most famous speeches, best known today as “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
— Lithub.com, July 4 – July 10
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June 15, 2021 at 2:06 am (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, Flowers, Links, Pianos)
Tags: Cee Neuner, concerts, Events, memorial, memories, Mondays, music, New York, transitions
A friend brought these from her garden when she heard about Dearest Mum.
I’m also posting for Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge.
Three years after her first appearance in Carnegie Hall, Dearest Mum played there again, for the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert, Main Hall, 5 January 1952. She was just 16.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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June 10, 2021 at 10:13 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Lists, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: anticipation, book lists, causes, COVID Reading, environment, Events, favorites, novel, reading lists, science fiction, US history
Finished reading Oak Flat: The Fight for Sacred Land in the American West, by Lauren Redniss, early this morning. Wow. Blown away by the polyphonic voices. And by the simple yet so-moving illustrations (by the author herself).
It joins two other books as self’s five-star reads of the 2021 reading year:
- Ice Walker: A Polar Bear’s Journey Through the Frozen Arctic, by James Raffan (nonfiction)
- The Relentless Moon, by Mary Robinette Kowal (science fiction)
Mary Robinette Kowal is one of the authors participating in this year’s SiliCon, which will be happening this August at the San Jose Convention Center. Self rushed out and got her tickets. She can’t waaaaait for August.
Have a great summer, dear blog readers.
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April 15, 2021 at 9:57 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, Links, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Black writers, essays, Events
A Conversation with Emily Bernard
Author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine
Moderated by Edvige Giunta and Meilli Ellis-Tingle
Tuesday, April 20, 6 p.m.
Emily Bernard is the author of Black is the Body: Stories from My Mother’s Time and Mine, which was named one of the best books of 2019 by Kirkus Reviews and National Public Radio. Black is the Body won the 2020 Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose. Emily’s previous works include: Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendship, which was chosen by the New York Public Library as a Book for the Teen Age; and, with Deborah Willis, Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs, which received a 2010 NAACP Image Award. Her work has appeared in: O the Oprah Magazine, Harper’s, The New Republic, newyorker.com, Best American Essays, Best African American Essays, and Best of Creative Nonfiction. She has received fellowships from the Alphonse A. Fletcher Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Arts Council, and the W. E. B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. Emily was the James Weldon Johnson Senior Research Fellow in African American Studies at Yale University. She is the Julian Lindsay Green and Gold Professor of English at the University of Vermont, and a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Emily lives in South Burlington, Vermont with her husband and twin daughters.
Free with RSVP.
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March 23, 2021 at 6:41 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: causes, complaints, Events, grief, news, politics, Protests, sadness
WILL WE EVER LEARN?
March for Our Lives, March 2108: Courthouse Square, Redwood City, California:
This generation of kids has been through the wringer. How many of them, self wonders, had to start college on zoom?
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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February 17, 2021 at 6:09 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Conversations, Family, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, COVID Reading, Events, Literary Magazines, opportunities, poetry, Readings
Angela Narciso Torres is the author of Blood Orange (Willow Books) and What Happens Is Neither (Four Way Books); and winner of the 2019 Yeats Poetry Prize. Her recent work appears in Poetry, Missouri Review, and PANK.
Angela and two other Four Way Books poets, Andrea Cohen and Rodney Terich, are reading tonight online at an event hosted by Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, NY. Reading starts at 7 p.m. EST (that’s 4 p.m. PST) You can find out more from the Canio’s Books Calendar of Events.
SUNDOWNING (An excerpt)
for my mother, Carmen
The sweetest meat clings to the bone,
my mother says, knifing her steak.
Carmen. Silver spade on my tongue.
Mahjong nights, her father and mother gone,
she cried herself to sleep. Blamed in the morning
for her mother’s losing hand. Unlucky tears!
The sweetest meat — she begins
at dinner, tearing off a chicken leg.
What will she recall by morning?
Named for Our Lady of Mount Carmel,
she pinned brown scapulars under our shirts,
wet stamps that cleaved to our skin.
— from To The Bone, by Angela Narciso Torres (Sundress Publications, 2019)
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