Oh, it occurs to me to mention that I've already gone to the latest Burke musuem exhibits, (while my parents were visiting) so if you were waiting for me to announce a time to go see it, I, uh, already have. I do highly recommend it, especially the fusing tradition collection; even if you are not a huge fan of Native art, the pieces presented are ( Read more... )

Paper I thought was due on Monday isn't due until Wednesday, which means.... More Procrastinating! YAY!

From a link posted at the Art Nouveau community:
Pretties!

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Saturday, November 19, 2005 to Sunday, November 20, 2005 At the Nordic Heritage Museum.

I will be attending.

This Is My Life, RatedLife:

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http://www.medievalwomenschoir.org/concerts.html

How much do cell phones cost?

The tree, cut down this morning,
is already chainsawed and quartered, stripped
of its branches, transported and stacked.
Not an instant too early, its girl slipped away.
She is singing now, a small figure
glimpsed in the surface of a pond.
As the wood, if taken too quickly, will sing
a little in the stove, still remembering her.
-Jane Hirshfield, ( Read more... )

It is easy to be fascinated with death.
We pretend to prepare,
trying on the oversized high heels,
the string of pearls,
the perfumed throw of another life.
Yet we trust that we are not truly going to dinner:
our hands-we claim-to small,
too clumsy to properly lift the long-stemmed glass.
-Jane Hirshfield, Of Gravity and AngelsA random book of ( Read more... )