May 24, 2019 at 3:12 pm (Books, Conversations, Food and Drink, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: favorites, Fridays, Henry Tilney, inspiration, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, novel, Prague, reading lists, wisdom
It’s been a long day walking around Prague. Finally back in the hotel, self finds herself thirsting for Henry Tilney. A wine bar across the street says:
Henry Tilney, p. 246:
The wisdom of a 23-year-old man! He is so kind to our heroine.
Stay tuned.
April 14, 2019 at 4:16 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Sayings, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: happiness, inspiration, seasons, travel
Self travels the world.
And does her best to be happy.
That is all.
April 11, 2019 at 7:20 pm (Artists and Writers, The Economist)
Tags: art, inspiration, museum
An article on Artemisia Gentileschi is in the Books section.
Illustration: Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes
“Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as St. Catherine of Alexandria was acquired last year by the National Gallery in London, becoming only the 21st work by a woman in a 2,300-piece collection.”
Artemisia Gentileschi was the “first female artist to be admitted to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence.” She was raped by Agostino Tassi, who her father had hired “to teach her perspective.” Her father “petitioned the pope for compensation. His daughter was considered damaged goods.” The case went to trial. Tassi, found guilty, “was exiled from Rome,” but continued to receive commissions from successive popes.
Gentileschi was “married off to a mediocre artist” but “nevertheless set up her own studio . . . She worked in Naples and London. She became the great artist she always wanted to be.”
“A play about Gentileschi’s travails that won awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, transferred to London and will soon be staged elsewhere.”
“Roughly 60 paintings by Gentileschi survive . . . ”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
March 25, 2019 at 2:01 pm (Books, Memoirs, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: biographies, causes, history, inspiration, Mondays, reading lists, wisdom
Lyndon B. Johnson speaking at a Civil Rights Symposium in the LBJ Library on Dec. 11, 1972:
“Of all the records that are housed in this library, 31 million papers over a 40-year period of public life” . . . the records relating to civil rights “holds the most of myself within it, and holds for me the most intimate meanings . . . ” Until “blacks stand on level and equal ground,” we cannot rest.
— Leadership in Troubled Times, p. 351
March 13, 2019 at 11:39 pm (Books, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: biographies, history, inspiration, reading lists
Leadership During Turbulent Times, Chapter 1 (Abraham), p. 6:
— Nathaniel Grigsby, a childhood friend of Abraham Lincoln
March 13, 2019 at 7:28 pm (Books, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: biographies, history, inspiration
My mind is like a piece of steel — very hard to scratch anything on it, and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
February 26, 2019 at 7:46 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Movies, Surprises)
Tags: fashion, illness, inspiration, Oscars, Vanity Fair
Went to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party! YES! Look at that gown — beautiful and ethereal. Who was the designer?
This actress is so beautiful and so fierce.
She told Vanity Fair that she realized, finally, that what she really wanted to do was to act. “But I don’t know if it’s too late.”
SELMA, YOU CAN ACT.
Stay tuned.
January 29, 2019 at 5:54 pm (Links, plans, Surprises)
Tags: Cee Neuner, inspiration, teaching
Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is BLACK AND WHITE.
Self did an earlier post for this challenge, but today she was cleaning closets. And she pulled out these two lovely objects, which are feather dusters. And she thought huh and what if — ?
So she brought the feather dusters to the light and started taking pictures.
Voila! Black and White 2! Even though the feathers are more Black and Grey!
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Since she is preparing to teach a class at the Mendocino Art Center called One Story, Six Ways, she might ask her students to look at this set of photos for one of the exercises.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 27, 2019 at 9:05 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Writing)
Tags: inspiration, Mendocino, teaching
A deep examination of process.
A workshop that is as much about reflection as it is about writing.
A workshop about doing it over. And over. Until you get it right.
ONE STORY, SIX WAYS: Feb. 8 – 10, 2019
Instructor: Marianne Villanueva
42500 Little Lake Street
Mendocino, CA
January 4, 2019 at 11:48 pm (destinations, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, California, Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, inspiration, Ireland, photography, Redwood City
Cee Neuner has very interesting prompts. This week’s is MONOTONES. Love it.
Lake Annagmakerrig: 4:30 a.m., 8 November 2018 (Just realized that it’s too light in the photograph for 4:30 a.m. DUH! The photo is time-stamped for California time, which is eight hours ahead of Ireland. The actual time in Ireland when self took the picture was 12:30 p.m.)
It amuses self to think about how the first color that usually comes to mind when one thinks of Ireland is green.
Clouds, Annaghmakerrig: 7:30 a.m. (California time, which means 3:30 p.m. in Ireland), 7 November 2018
Fatsia, Backyard, Redwood City: 11 a.m., 26 September 2018
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