It’s not all politics all the time at my house, although for today’s meal I managed to find a political angle to describe even the preparation of vegetables. After my success with re-plumbing the kitchen sink this afternoon, I decided to do something vaguely creative with the beet and the cauliflower in my fridge. Naturally, […]
I went a bit quiet during the last few days… My navigational instruments are seriously compromised. It’s all too easy to go – even if only by increments, which are nonetheless steady and dreadfully cumulative – down the off ramp. Inch by inch by inch. And before you know it, you’ve landed yourself in a […]
When respect dies, contempt takes its place. That’s a theme taken up by, say, movies, which analyze the relationship between lovers (when, for example, the relationship is breaking down). But having fallen more or less out of love with a non-human entity – let’s call it a place – I’ve noticed that the horrible alchemy […]
As a child, I loved salted licorice. I frequently pestered my mother to get me some (although I don’t recall how well I succeeded – or failed). When I was around five years old, she gave me some coins and pointed me at the store. “Go in there and buy it yourself,” she said. “I […]
Not sure what’s in the air, but I feel an immense quietude settling around me: everyone seems either muted or not saying anything I’m hearing, and I feel the same way about my own voice. (Is anyone reading this? Listening? I doubt it… I feel entirely erased somehow. And island-bound.) I could write a diatribe […]
The other day, we had an interesting conversation around the dinner table about development and asynchronicity. Asynchronicity is a familiar idea around here, because, as homeschoolers of asynchronous kids, we learned a decade ago (and had to address the fact) that development happens on several levels and usually not in lockstep. The intellectual, physical, and […]
I’ve been putting off a visit to my ophthalmologist for several years. I realize that’s not a good strategy at my age, but there are other bills to pay, and this one was “ignorable.” But now it happened: I broke my glasses over the weekend and need a new pair. So I’m going to try […]
Interesting article by Judy Berman on Flavorwire about Laurie Anderson‘s latest project, Delusion <–this link goes to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). See a review of the show in the SFGate here. There’s a video interview with Anderson (on both the Flavorwire page as well as BAM’s) in which Anderson observes that almost every artist […]
Just juxtaposing a few things tonight, a couple of quotes that struck me… For example… I’m still reading Erve Chambers’ book, Native Tours; The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism, and in the section on “Tourism and Culture” came across this passage (pp.96-97) about tradition and authenticity: Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (1983) argue, for example, […]