Our first microgreens harvest, just in time for Thanksgiving dinner.
Category: Living
Arrival of Winter
Winter arrived overnight. It’s a good day to cocoon.
Oblivious to a Changing World
Spotted these at the Andersen Library, University of Minnesota. Also on display was a thoughtful letter from a 19-year-old to the author (both female). The author’s response was condescending, rude, and oblivious to the changing world of the 1970’s.
Imagining Art
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Imagining Art
Getting rid of stuff before we moved into our present home has given me a new appreciation of uncluttered visual, mental, temporal, and aural space. I’ve gained capacity to think and imagine with fewer distractions; I can prize the space between things rather than the things. The Japanese have a term for this: ma, negative…… Continue reading Imagining Art
Walking Past Annie’s Parlor
An advertisement for Newcastle Brown Ale peered out between brush below Annie’s Parlour in Dinkytown, Minneapolis. Managed to walk past Annie’s without popping in for one of the huge hot fudge sundaes they’ve been serving for fifty years.
Jogging Under a Bridge
Jogged slowly under Hennepin Avenue Bridge.
Flat-Bottomed Wok
The nonstick was wearing thin on my favorite pan, a flat-bottomed wok, so I replaced it today. We could live well with just this one pan and a bamboo steamer.
Seeing the Invisible
On my walk, stopped at a small gallery I’d never visited, Midway Contemporary Art, to introduce myself to some of the work of Yutaka Matsuzawa. He seeks to express the invisible invisibly making the viewer part of the creative process. Some of his work is in MoMA’s collection.
Unlearned Lessons
Spent the morning at the Minneapolis Institute of Art seeing the Vietnam War through the eyes of artists opposed to the war at the time. There’s too many lessons still to be learned.