Along with the amazing colors of Autumn, I am loving this 80 degree October weather. It’s perfect. No bugs, or mosquitoes. A nice warm breeze. Perfect to practice some dancing moves outdoors. It’s amazing to me that we are a week into the month and it’s so hot outside ya can take off your shirt. …
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List by Lynn Truss they are older they know more than you do they know less than you do they got here first they have educational qualifications in the subject under discussion you are in their house they once helped you financially they have been good to you all your life they are less fortunate …
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Watering the Tulips Spent the Autumn afternoon potting Tulip bulbs. Hoping that In seven months, they’ll bloom. I mixed the pots so they each have a blend of colors. Hot pink & blazing orange. I am trying out potting them instead of putting them into the ground. I like that they are movable that way. …
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At the family estate, summer 1917. Paul Wittgenstein is second from left; his philosopher brother Ludwig Wittgenstein is at right. Photo by Michael Nedo After having his right arm amputated in WWI, stubborn pianist Paul Wittgenstein kept playing using only his left hand. The Beauty of the Music Makes My Heart Swell I came across his life …
After the several block walk with an illiterate woman getting her cigarettes today, I walked on feeling like I had one of the most amazing abilities in the world. She had approached me at the bus stop and asked me to walk with her to read the bus detour signs directing pedestrians through the mile …
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Today a gal on the bus was swooning over a guy. He proceeded to tell her that he’d date if she’d help him buy a few things. Then he glances at me and says “ya know how it is.” I shook my head NO, and said “That’s not dating, that’s being a bum. Let’s be …
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Technology empowering paralyzed to create art using only their eye movement. EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower graffiti writers and artists suffering from ALS. An insightful innovation that captures eye movement and lets people express themselves in real time. To know more about The EyeWriter, log on to eyewriter.org. Read more: …
Beautiful. 2,000 people videoed themselves singing alone, and they were all put together to make a virtual choir. Voices from 58 countries. I ♥ this. Here’s what a single voice sounded like: And here’s what it sounds like when he put the virtual choir all together:
Saw this sculpture “Panda” by Takashi Murakami while visiting the MIA art museum. It makes me happy. It’s made of fiberglass with an antique Louis Vuitton trunk and wooden pedestal. It measures 100 1/2 by 65 by 43 inches. It’s tall! Was executed in 2003. It sold for $385,600
Opening the post office box and fishing out letters with stickers from places like “Luftpost” & “Deutsche Post” makes me want to tear into my mail while standing in front of the walls of locked PO Boxes. But I don’t. There’s something delectable about waiting until I am back home and sitting at my writing …
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