I do want to send congratulations to myself and Janice. We've made it this far! Thank you, Guy.
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I do want to send congratulations to myself and Janice. We've made it this far! Thank you, Guy.
It's been reported that Ayatollah Khamenei has been killed. Many Iranians are in the streets here, celebrating.
This Lowry interview with Angela Barratt #BBC2 has brought him to life for me like never before. Wonderful #LowryTapes #LSLowry
Poem by Marianne Moore 'Poetry'
Marianne Moore's ultimate lesson in redrafting. Several versions published over 50 years. The final cutting the original 31 lines to 3.
I think, rather than lines lost or meaning changed, they all speak to each other.
The 3 line version, though, is my favourite.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#amediting
The Canadian artist, Yam Lau, has made a beautiful book in braille for a school for the blind in Mexico City. It is a Spanish translation of the I Ching. The book is completely white. To the sighted, it looks completely blank at first glance.
Such music in this sonnet
The last line circles to the first & reminds me of the Ukrainian woman who gave seed packets to Russian soldiers so wildflowers will grow where they die
Remember today the courage that's needed to stand against those better armed
#poetry
#poemoftheday
#seamusheaneysunday
#OtD 18 Jan 1977 workers and poor people across Egypt rose up against the ending of state subsidies for basic goods. Despite the govt killing hundreds of people, strikes, demonstrations and riots forced them to back down in just two days. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e59-...
Russia is targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and residential buildings. People are sitting in -20°C without electricity, water, or heating.
Pipes are bursting. Homes are freezing.
Trump: “UKRAINE AND ZELENSKY DON’T WANT PEACE.”
What the actual f*ck.
Deeply cautionary, and actually useful, to realize that most people are essentially unaware of events of great stress and importance, locally, or sometimes globally.
Means, in part, that messaging needs to be better done, as many such people *would* be disturbed if they learned.
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
This is Laura Millard's work, "Crossing." She drove a snowmobile to make the "drawing." Then she used a drone to photograph it. Then she painstakingly filled in the poor quality photo with white paint and retouched the curves in the snow. Seen live, it's so strangely insistent.
#OtD 14 Jan 1914 Selahattin Ülkümen, Muslim Turkish official who helped Jews escape the holocaust was born. While consul general of Rhodes he saved the lives of 42 Jewish families. Later the Nazis bombed his home, killing his wife stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8567...
What Kind of Times Are These by Adrienne Rich There's a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted who disappeared into those shadows. I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods meeting the unmarked strip of light— ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise: I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear. And I won't tell you where it is, so why do I tell you anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these to have you listen at all, it's necessary to talk about trees.
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
... I cannot adequately explain how moving I found the first couple pages. I knew immediately you were an author I needed to read. I have, and your nuance is so special. Thank you for your words. Thank you for helping a boy not feel so alone during an unexplainably difficult time. Thank you, sir.
...I had just cleared out the room I knew that she would go on to pass in, so we could fit a hospital bed. Fittingly, a room we called the library room, because it had all our bookshelves. I had this feeling of my childhood slipping away...
@guygavrielkay.bsky.social
Mr. Kay -
In 2023, without context, I stumbled across a sample for All the Seas of the World one night as I was serving as my mother's sole, full-time caregiver during her decline with a harrowing struggle with cancer....
This is one of Ken Lum's "Necrology" works, in which he narrates the story of someone's life, using the fonts and design from more than century ago. The narrative is cobbled together from several lives: a fiction.
"From inside Iran: "This is probably my last message. The regime is going door to door, confiscating satelite dishes and Starlink. Just like in the early 2000s. Be our voice."
I can't verify this, until it until it's shown to be false, This likely is Renee Good multiplied by thousands.
This just in from Iran. ""This is probably my last message. The regime is going door to door, confiscating satelite dishes and Starlink. Just like in the early 2000s. Be our voice."
I have no idea whether this can be confirmed or not. I tend to believe it, though.
Cooper Hawk fans its feathers
#bird #photography #birdoftheday #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #canonphotography #nature #wildlife
It doesn't surprise me that Josh Allen could complete 28 of 25 passes. I'm only surprised (and disappointed) that you'd jump to the conclusion that it was a typo.
Didn't Pope Francis have a Messi jersey? slmedia.org/blog/pope-fr...
He was willing to utilize prayer OR force. It’s the Chicago way 😂
That is impeccable logic. I have to agree with you here.
Hi again: It's being reported that the Iranian regime has been trying to jam Starlink. Again, I haven't been able to confirm this.
But if true, then obviously Starlink is being used by those rising up against the mullahs.
Janice (artist and my wife) had taken Julian (scholar of Duchamp) to see the Uccello frescoes at Santa Maria Novella in Florence, 2016. They had been moved and restored.
Yesterday, you constructed an aqueduct of dreams
and stood at Gibraltar,
but you possess nothing.
-Arthur Sze, from the poem, "First Snow."
