I went look for beautiful cat pictures and the Art Institute of Chicago had several prints of Japanese woman playing with cats. Cats were brought in to help control rats and mice at some point during the 1700's. As a result the silk industry, under the control of women, grew tremendously. So, art! Courtesan and [...]
After all kinds of events, including simply celebrating Easter, I'm trying to return to a normal schedule of exercise. This led me to the entirely motionless activity of finding beautiful pictures of walkways on the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC website. All pictures are in the public domain. I just want to walk into [...]
I went to a memorial service Monday for a woman who lived an amazing life and died at 103 years old. All by itself, that is astonishing. The memorial was lovely, the reception that followed was also very sweet, and I saw people that I haven’t seen for years. The event was being held in [...]
My post is quite late today! On my vacation I read a book about Texas history called Adelsverein: The Gathering by Celia Hayes. It’s part one of a trilogy she wrote describing a German immigrant scheme from the 1840’s. The scheme, named the Adelsverein or Mainzer Verein, was arranged by various German nobility to relieve [...]
Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift, 2021, Harper Collins, New York was one of my Christmas presents. The subtitle, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, makes clear what the book is about. The author writes, in a discussion of the Apollo 14 mission, "the moon played tricks on them. [...]
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