tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527249508675423548.post4788051695198031403..comments2024-01-10T01:32:59.285-08:00Comments on Circles Of Rain: Reading and PaintingSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15941415622199071141noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527249508675423548.post-1513854182461565562021-02-13T09:49:23.353-08:002021-02-13T09:49:23.353-08:00Your sketches of faces are brilliant and I like th...Your sketches of faces are brilliant and I like the left handed versions a lot. I had never heard of using your nondominant hand for painting, it works great. I like your stack of books, I am always looking for more good books and have big TBR stacks. Nice to meet you here.Terra https://www.blogger.com/profile/04396481049075747940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527249508675423548.post-74658835980443825382021-01-19T17:11:40.370-08:002021-01-19T17:11:40.370-08:00I just saw your comment about your mom. It is so w...I just saw your comment about your mom. It is so wonderful she got to see Nat King Cole live and in concert. It is beautiful you played The Sand and The sea at your mom's funeral. I know she was smiling above hearing it played. Thank you for sharing those memories with me, Sarah.Shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11807876444563019161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527249508675423548.post-47441330471513320762021-01-17T06:52:50.695-08:002021-01-17T06:52:50.695-08:00"RUMMAGE"?
What?!?!?
How does this book ..."RUMMAGE"?<br />What?!?!?<br />How does this book exist... (and <i>I didn't write it</i>!).<br /><br /><br />I was going to order it, but it's still in hardback ($$$)---and there's a pile of holds at the library--<br />I will wait.<br />But it looks fabulous---thanks for alerting me to it.<br /><br />And, oh, dear, <i>Rag and Bone</i> too...?<br />Pang of envy and longing.<br /><br />Several people've been talking to me about "Caste", <br />so I feel I can also wait to read that (till I'm feeling up for it).<br />I'd be interested to hear your thoughts...<br /><br /> I've been wishing we had a different name for "race/racism" that didn't trigger such obfuscating emotional reactions (self-defense, guilt, anger, etc.)---<br />And I think Wilkerson is brilliant simply in her choice of words here--<br />for (white) Americans, anyway, "caste" is not a trigger word.<br />If anything, it sounds like some remote category from a world that the US doesn't have much direct history with (India)--<br />I imagine it rings quite differently in Brit-English.<br /><br /><br />Gaming is like chess, I'd say---an entire world, perhaps, but not a sport.<br /><br />"Hobby"---it seems that word has become an insult--something trivial?<br />Looked up the etymology--delightful!<br />From "Robin"/dobbin for a horse...<br />late Middle English hobyn, hoby, from pet forms of the given name Robin (compare with dobbin), it later came to denote a toy horse or hobby horse, hence ‘an activity done for pleasure’.<br /><br />And now I have gone on long enough here!<br /><br />MOST IMPORTANTLY:<br />I love your paint-sketches of faces!Frescahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323129046492056942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527249508675423548.post-65976543535726643762021-01-16T09:59:45.797-08:002021-01-16T09:59:45.797-08:00Your faces never fail to please. It is curious tha...Your faces never fail to please. It is curious that your faces have lovely proportions with wide set eyes making them highly attractive self portraits really. Mine generally less so, with narrow close set eyes, looking suspiciously mentally compromised. Like a banjo player. <br />Ambitious book stack there! I hope that you have glasses for all of that reading. Small print is my undoing. Linda Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070050388987072100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527249508675423548.post-10451985458802599292021-01-16T07:30:22.493-08:002021-01-16T07:30:22.493-08:00It probably IS good for our brains to work with ou...It probably IS good for our brains to work with our non-dominant hand from time to time. I don't think I've tried in many, many years. Of course I rarely write anything by hand anymore!<br /><br />I read "The Coming Plague" back in the '90s (when I was a medical reporter) and I LOVED it. Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone" is also very good.Steve Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11684120060438252945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2527249508675423548.post-40366152616646753032021-01-15T20:22:29.198-08:002021-01-15T20:22:29.198-08:00Both of your hands are equally talented :)Both of your hands are equally talented :)Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.com