The Shy Museum Goer, Diane Tucker, has a new post about the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer in abstract painting. The included pictures are all quite different and surprising. I fell in love with the painting Riding Couple which is very different from the pictures that Kandinsky is best known for. I fell in [...]
It’s February and I can’t believe it. If I blink I expect that February will be gone, seeing that it is a short month anyway. I think part of my trouble is that we don’t actually have a 2026 calendar on the wall. Normally, both my husband and I grab calendars from church and then [...]
Like many people I’m shivering inside my house these days and doing things that seem suitable for this — much colder than necessary — weather. (And I’m not an AI. I hear that AI is fond of dashes but sometimes they are the right punctuation!) For instance, I’m cooking special things. Years ago, when my [...]
I find this picture fascinating. Actually I find the original on my back porch fascinating. The heap of snow on the table shows something odd about how much frozen water fell from the sky. The table has a pyramid of snow that is around eight or nine inches deep some inches in from the edge. [...]
I read an article about someone else's process for writing a book. That person has written twenty or thirty books minimum so it was kind of interesting. Unfortunately what it really showed was that writing is very individual. The way that author brought a book into being has nothing in common with how I write. [...]
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