Ursula Dubrick (Melbourne, FL) with “Three Little Bears” via Newthom
T.G.I.F.: Where’s Goldilocks?
March 16, 2018 by 22 Comments
T.G.I.F.: It’s Been a Long Week
December 22, 2017 by 19 Comments
T.G.I.F.: It’s Been a Long Week
December 8, 2017 by 17 Comments
Photo: The passenger ship ‘Soderarm’ slides in a channel through the ice made by an icebreaker for the daily journey to the island Husaro in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden on April 5, 2013. (Anders Wiklund, Scanpix, AFP, Getty Images) (via Newthom)
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call
September 25, 2017 by 33 Comments
I think much of decency. How to pass a plate. Not to shout from one room to another. Not to open a closed door without knocking. Let a lady pass. The aim of these endless simple rules is to make life better. I pay close attention to my manners. Etiquette matters. It’s a simple and comprehensible language of mutual respect.
~ Jack Nicholson
Notes:
- Inspired by: “The more powerful you are,” the pope said earlier this year, “the more responsible you are to act humbly.” Quick, Mr. President, to the dictionary. Humble, humbly, humility.” By: Timothy Egan, In Rome, a Visit With the Anti-Trump (NY Times, September 22, 2017)
- Photo: Lynette Mcneill Studio;
- Quote: via seemoreandmore
Tuesday Morning Wake-Up Call
September 4, 2017 by 4 Comments
“People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you never see the headlines say, ‘Six billion people got along rather well today.’ You’ll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.”
~ John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich, 59, was born in Christopher, Illinois. His paternal grandparents were Croatian. He is an American actor, producer, director, and fashion designer. Over the last 30 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, and RED, and has produced numerous films, including Juno and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Image Source: m.antena.ro portrait of John Malkovich
T.G.I.F.: It’s been a long week
August 11, 2017 by 20 Comments
Source: Keystone-France via Getty Images – Car Break-Down 1964. A little boy pushing his father’s broken down 2 CV on the French Riviera on July 23, 1964. (via Newthom)
Saturday Morning
July 15, 2017 by 13 Comments
Grand Central Terminal. You choose: 1954 or Today?
May 23, 2017 by 28 Comments
Sunlight streams through the windows in the concourse at Grand Central Terminal in New York City in 1954. [Read more…]
Unglove Yourself. Can you feel this?
April 22, 2017 by 16 Comments
Anne Bancroft at a school for the deaf and blind in Spring Valley, NY, preparing for her role in The Miracle Worker photographed by Nina Leen (1959)
Notes:
- Photo Source: Annebancrofts
- Post Title Inspired by: It’s like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real. Our challenge each day is not to get dressed to face the world but to unglove ourselves so that the doorknob feels cold and the car handle feels wet and the kiss goodbye feels like the lips of another being, soft and unrepeatable. ― Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
April 19, 2017 by 22 Comments
Notes:
- Photo: Rashed Saeed with a day with camels
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
Everyone knows this. Everyone knows what it looks like.
March 28, 2017 by 34 Comments
Everyone knows this. Everyone knows what it looks like. I can’t count how many pieces I’ve read about how alienated we’ve become, tethered to our devices, leery of real contact; how we are heading for a crisis of intimacy, as our ability to socialise withers and atrophies. But this is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. We haven’t just become alienated because we’ve subcontracted so many elements of our social and emotional lives to machines. It’s no doubt a self-perpetuating cycle, but part of the impetus for inventing as well as buying these things is that contact is difficult, frightening, sometimes intolerably dangerous Your favourite part of having a smartphone is never having to call anyone again, the source of the gadget’s pernicious appeal is not that it will absolve its owner of the need for people but that it will provide connection to them –connection, furthermore, of a risk-free kind, in which the communicator need never be rejected, misunderstood or overwhelmed, asked to supply more attention, closeness or time than they are willing to offer up.
~ Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Photo: Luca Pietrobono with smartphone
Monday Morning Wake-Up Call: Rise!
February 6, 2017 by 8 Comments
Running. Grounded by Stillness.
January 8, 2017 by 25 Comments
15° F, feels like 5° F. Winter.
Gazing out the window with Haight: “How is it that the snow amplifies the silence…”
Fox, with its long bushy tail, glances right furtively, tip toes through the snow and disappears.
Finches flutter to the feeders, feed, then flit away. Seeds darken the fresh snow below.
A shovel scrapes a driveway down the street, scarring the silence of the morning. Plows awaken in the distance, cold steel to asphalt, teeth on tin foil.
Oil heat courses through the veins of the house, warming. (Families, less than 50 miles away in the boroughs, huddle to warm, thermostats turned down, working to make budget.) [Read more…]
Sunday Morning
October 30, 2016 by 13 Comments
To be on the level with the dust of the earth,
this is the mysterious virtue.
~ Marion Milner, A Life of One’s Own (1934)
Notes:
- Inspired by another passage by Marion Milner:
I thought: this ‘inner fact’ – is it really so mystical? Isn’t it just the astonishing fact of being alive – but felt from the inside not looked at from the outside – and relating oneself to whatever it is?
~ Marion Milner, A Life of One’s Own
- Photo Source: aberrantbeauty
- Related Posts: Marion Milner
T.G.I.T.: 5:00 Bell!
August 25, 2016 by 25 Comments
I said, I like my life.
August 10, 2016 by 29 Comments
I said, I like my life. If I
have to give it back, if they
take it from me, let me
not feel I wasted any, let me
not feel…that I forgot
to give what I held in my hands,
that I forgot to do some little
piece of the work that wanted
to come through…
~ Marge Piercy, excerpt from “If They Come in the Night”, Circles on the Water: Selected Poems
Notes: Poem – Thank you Beth at Alive on all Channels, Photo: Adeline Spengler, The Jump Touch the Sky, 2013 (via newthom)
Saturday
August 6, 2016 by 8 Comments
Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
July 20, 2016 by 17 Comments
Notes:
- Don’t miss other fantastic shots by Frank Machalowski at feature shoot: A Dark and Majestic Fairy Tale of Animals Lost in the Forest Mist. “Frank Machalowski’s Tierwald hangs heavy with mystery. In the apparent silence of the forest, rendered in delicate greys, great beasts hulk, meeting the gaze of the viewer with apparent lack of concern. The effect is magical realist in character: it evokes tranquility as much as it surprises with its subject matter. Machalowski provokes questions: are these beasts really present? And how? He seems to frame a private moment of magic, crystallising it and passing it forward for the viewer to see. Having lived near Germany’s famous forest, Teutoburger Wald, for years, Machalowski had spent plenty of time photographing there in the mist. He was “fascinated by the silence and the peaceful atmosphere” and, whilst watching a deer there on one occasion, decided to recreate the splendour of the moment artificially, with more exotic species.”
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
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