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100 Bits of Happiness 70/100
It may seem silly/vain/narcissistic, but you know what makes me happy? Looking at photos of me as a child. I was pretty awesome, for one thing, and generally super adorable except for some unfortunate haircuts in 2nd and 3rd grade.
This is me, aged 8 and 1/2.
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100 Bits of Happiness 69/100
This self-portrait by Marianne Breslauer is behind a cut because it does have nudity. It's an absolutely gorgeous picture. One of her photographs won the Photo of the Year award at the Salon International d’art Photographique in 1934.
[Self-portrait]
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100 Bits of Happiness 68/100
The first book for my non-fiction book club was The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. It focused on a papal scribe, who, in the 15th century, rediscovered the poem On the Nature of Things by Lucretius, written in the 1st century BC. The poem has the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy and also just... science. The book focused mostly on the ( Read more... ) -
100 Bits of Happiness 67/100
"Imagine being in Frida Kahlo's childhood home and opening up a closet that has been locked for decades. Inside are hundreds of personal items - personal photographs, love letters, medications, jewelry, shoes, and clothing that still hold the smell of perfume and the last cigarette she smoked." --article from ABC/UnivisionI would absolutely love ( Read more... ) -
100 Bits of Happiness 64/100
This is the oldest piece of substantially complete annotated music that we have. It's known as Hurrian Hymn No. 6 (because it's a Hurrian hymn), and was a hymn to their goddess Nikkal. She was apparently a goddess of orchards and wife of the moon god.
From Wikipedia (but it does have a citation):
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Books read in 2012
Here's the usual drill, all the books I read this year. I've bolded my absolute favorite/s each month and struck out anything awful. I've read a few more awful things this year due to taking part in LibraryThing's Early Reviewer program, where I'm sent advanced readers.
[Books read in 2012]
January:
The Guns of August by Barbara TuchmanThe Peril at End House by ( Read more... ) -
100 Bits of Happiness 62/100
I have a deep and abiding love for installation art, fostered by numerous trips to the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh.
This is a piece by Spencer Finch - 366, Emily Dickinson’s Miraculous Year (2009)
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