Saturday, August 20, 2005STILL LOVING DEGASAt the age of 11 or 12 I first recognized artistic greatness and it was in the paintings of Degas. By the age of 13 I was copying him. I can't remember if I bought them myself or if my mother gave them to me as a Christmas gift, but I had a set of oil paints and bristle brushes in a professional... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 6:10 PM Comments (6) (link) Wednesday, August 17, 2005PEOPLE AND THEIR STUFFMy boss, John Marshall, spent a lifetime as a documentary maker shooting film in the Kalahari desert of Namibia. In between his long sojourns to Africa he shot film for NBC news during the war between the Greeks and Turks on Cyprus, in Haverhill Massachusetts profiling a dying industrial town, in... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 4:40 PM Comments (7) (link) Sunday, August 14, 2005HOW GOOD CAN IT GET?This is the second time in the past few days that there's been a really good news story in the papers that I can relate to. My last post about garbage was the first, and right on the front page of yesterdays Boston Globe was the second. Those editors at the Globe sure do know how to sell papers. Now... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 7:40 AM Comments (6) (link) Friday, August 12, 2005GARBAGE GOES DOWNEver been in Manhattan on a hot August day during a waste haulers strike? Nothing else comes as close (perhaps out side of being in the middle of a war zone) to reminding me of our vulnerability as humans occupying this finite space we call our earthly home. In one day, the huge mountains of... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 7:58 AM Comments (6) (link) Wednesday, August 10, 2005BODY CONSCIOUSThere were many benefits to living in a third floor converted karate studio over an Irish pub in downtown Boston. One of them was the gang shower that could comfortably accommodate a basketball team, another was the dance studio where they taught ballet on the floor below me. Even though I... Sign in to see full entry.posted by Cynthia at 5:15 AM Comments (11) (link) |
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