hello kitty

Sharpshooter heron on the toppled tree.
humid. what is this?
Curtis reports finding young raccoon curled up in trash barrel. Sleepy eyed.
Library lecture last night. Keyword: Empire.
Curse of drinking class calls.
Distract with trivia, enrich with trivia.
Obsess with celebrity, cherish celebrity.
Fascination with the fertile couple. Fascination with life.

Her Eminence Teresa Arana

    Thursday evening, we were given the opportunity to attend a book signing by Reading, Pennsylvania author Teresa Arana, a lovely young lady who has put together a dual collection of heartfelt poems in their original English (front) with Spanish translations (atrás.)
   The Meet and Greet to announce the publication of  Did You Ever Know Love? [...]

Bookmark It

 
 
 
Dear Free Library of Philadelphia  and friends,
Thank you very much for the delightful festival and
for opening up some of the more private nether
regions of the Parkway Central Library.
 It could not have been a more perfect day.
Yours truly,
Seraglio and Lions

Real Artists Ship

    Mantra from Organizing Genius: Real Artists Ship. Book by Bennis and Biederman.
 
Can you believe the cutest pink bib remains on the trail?  Terry cloth construction with applique kitty and pink leopard print accents. Sunday in the Park with… relic. 
Other ingredients peppering the trail or viewed from it: a bit of branch bent in a zig-zag formation, one [...]

Rabbit Rests

  ):< Brewer mourns loss of native son.  Kingdom for an Angstrom. >:(

“Fuck the utility

    It’s all futility.”
 
A quote from My Favorite Things.

A little night reading

   Question for pondering, posed in the book The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel:

Water Skiing

   All you need are sturdy legs and some coordination, according to Norman Phillips, author of All About Houseboats.
This photo is from a souvenir booklet: do not try this at home.

From the Office of the Vice President

   I have been sent another book in the mail, upon which are written the letters OVP. It is a paperback in Erin Hunter’s cat tales series, called Forest of Secrets. OPV.  Text messages are three letter words.
   OVP. Office of the vice-president. Also a something something venture partners. Ohio Valley.
This may be an initial Rohrshach [...]

Color Imperative

 
 
    Have you read the book about great groups, Organizing Genius by Bennis and Biederman?  One of the chapters describes Black Mountain and Josef Albers, the color theorist, who is said to have said and taught that regarding an object, one looks at three aspects: its inner qualities, external appearance and how it relates to other objects.
   In Albers’ own [...]