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Being Curious and Being Caring
On On Browsing by Jason Guriel Leaning on his memory of physical locations, Guriel praises curation, laudsserendipity, and pays tribute to the affordances that assist one in slowingdown. By the end of the short book that sets browsing the physical … Continue reading
Prime Directive
William J. HigginsonThe Haiku Handbook Opener: The primary purpose of reading and writing haiku is sharing moments of our lives that have moved us, pieces of experience and perception that we offer or receive as gifts. Received. And so for … Continue reading
Art + Fact
Further to the meditations on ancestral objects and stories offered by Bonnie Devine … Artifacts may only be remnants left behind by the people who went before us, but to me, holding an artifact is like shaking hands with the … Continue reading
Eschew perfection. Strive for excellence.
Thomas Keller The French Laundry Cookbook When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, … Continue reading
For the Kid-at-Heart Who Banged Her Head
Dear W., I hope all is well with the concussion recuperation. As you know I have been concentrating on one sensory modality per week for the last little while. I meant to get the proprioception one out earlier — got … Continue reading
Eat Me Drink Me
Michael Pollan Food Rules # 36 < that piece after the hashtag is a strawberry Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. So this might mean — don’t eat milk with your cereal (eat a little … Continue reading
Images We Grow Into Through Rooted Imaginings
Sarah West, nature art therapist and good soul sketched this “little professor” or “wizard” bear meant to represent yours truly. Other examples of her art can be found at Rooted Imaginings. http://www.rootedimaginings.com/ Note the room in rooted imaginings for the … Continue reading
Random Access Stash
Jan Morris interviewed in The Guardian by Tim Adams Morris looks around her bookshelves, the thousands of books that line this long room floor to ceiling. “People always say: ‘Have you read them all?’” she says. “No. but I have … Continue reading
Tango Tangle
Thanks to the great restorer at ToTango who explains that we do when we dance. —————————- Original Message —————————- Subject: Re: Community, Audience, Public From: “Keith Elshaw” Date: Mon, April 2, 2001 5:40 pm To: “mcluhan-l” ————————————————————————– Francois; I’m a … Continue reading
After Alexandria Redux
Grayson James More keepsakes from the show at the Ryerson Image Centre: After Alexandria One muses that this show about books and the traces people leave in them could reference the Alexandria of history’s great library. Or something else. Recto … Continue reading