This year I finished a book. I went to a graduation in Davidson, North Carolina in the spring, and learned a little about the guy that Duke University is named for. He left a lot of money to Davidson College as well. Davidson College is near Lake Norman, the largest freshwater lake in North Carolina. [...]
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Post Thanksgiving, still thankful
Some eye candy.
No Messy Soup
A mysterious kitchen tool that I was given. The box says "terbuat dari bahan stainless steel". I believe it means "made from stainless steel" in Indonesian. I couldn't get a readable picture of the instructions so I have transcribed them. Multi-functionStainless Steel Pressure Surface MachineThank you very much for choosing our products to serve you [...]
Dark skies and great inventions
Two amazing articles crossed paths with me this week. The author of the first piece has a tagline that says, “String is far more important than the wheel in the pantheon of inventions." https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-long-knotty-world-spanning-story-of-string/ As a spinner myself, I am very open to this idea. I do admit that I have never thought of string [...]
Happy Feast of the Assumption!
From Dayton museum, Art of O-Sek Bang. "Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea" (2006). https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=ml_exhibitsummaries