Green Day: 17 March 2013

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My Funny Valentine 2013

without love life stinks

I hope you are all having a funny Valentine's Day!

Here's My Funny Valentine in many interpretations:
Micheal Bublè
Bjork
Frank Sinatra
Chaka Khan
Linda Ronstadt
Barbara Striesand
Miles Davis
Sara Vaughan
Angela McCluskey
Chet Baker
Etta James



 

My Funny Valentine Wish List: Kiss

gone with the wind


shakespeare in love

amelie

brokeback mountain


from here to eternity

the last emperor


la dolce vita


the tudors


girls


bridget jone's diary


casablanca

vicky christina barcelona


notorious

some like it hot

homeland

godfather ii

my little chickadee

how to steal a million

"A kiss is just a kiss," unless it's from Humphrey Bogart (or mygod!) Cary Grant or Javier Bardem or Clark Gable.

Everyone of these actors could win for best onscreen kiss, but it is Clark Gable that wins the prize for best film kiss.

What are your favorite film kisses?

My Funny Valentine Day Wish List: Hearts

erin dollar


robin barrett

suzanne talmadge

leeana provan

send a smooch

meredith moran


Valentine's Day is next week. I think we spend far too much time focusing only on our partners, lovers, spouses. I think it's a good idea to spread the love this year, so, what I want to do is give a Valentine's to my tribe - my lovely circle of friends and family.

I don't have unlimited funds, so I will have to be creative, as in hurry up and paint or make something to get it in the mail and out on time. 

The Day in Cartoons: Lincoln and M.L. King watch over Barack Obama's inauguration - David Horsey

david horsey


commemorative inaugural invitation

I like inaugurations, regardless of who, or which party is taking the oath of office.

Obama's speech, in its allusion to Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall, put the ALL in the inferred all of the original "all men are created equal."

I watched PBS's Freedom Riders last night and marveled at their courage and at the depravity of their opponents. I haven't experienced struggle or bigotry because of my skin color or sexuality, but I do know what it is to experience sexism. It's infuriating and humiliating and sometimes hilarious and sometimes demeaning, but, it makes me work harder and read more and do more and be more, and, let me tell you, it makes me strive to make the road easier for my daughter.

Men like Obama, and many of my colleagues, neighbors, friends and family, clear the road of rocks for the next generation of women, and by doing so, make the road that much easier to traverse, for all.

This was especially moving and important to hear, ...our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts.

Interesting Reading:
Los Angeles Times - Lincoln and M.L. King watch over Barack Obama's inauguration
--- Obama's speech: one for the "herstory" books
The Telegraph - Barack Obama inauguration: the highlights
U.S. News - For Obama's Inauguration, Echoes of Lincoln and Martin Luther King

 

Belated Holiday Card

card front

 

 card back

 

 envelope

I sent my holiday cards out very, very late, so I'm posting it late, as well.

This year I made both the envelope and card from collages. The envelope is traditional images of Mary. The card is my interpretation of the traditional Nativity narrative and poem Altars of Light, which serve as a theme for the year.

Altars of Light
Pierre Joris
If the light is the soul then soul is what's all around me. It is you, it is around you too, it is you. The darkness is inside me, the opaqueness of organs folded upon organs-- to make light in the house of the body-- thus to bring the outside in, the impossible job. And the only place to become the skin the border, the inbetween, where dark meets light, where I meets you. In the house of world the many darknesses are surrounded by light. To see the one, we need the other / it cuts both ways light on light is blind dark on dark is blind light through dark is not dark through light is movement dark through light becomes, is becoming, to move through light is becoming, is all we can know.

 

Resolutions 2013

declare

 emily mcdowell

This year I will let go of perfectionism & embrace finishing a shitty first draft of the novel. I will honor my own voice and love my imperfections. I will stand up & share my writing with the world.

believe

 sarah parker
This year I will believe I can.

release

allison s
This year I will let go of old grudges and grievances, untenable relationships and situations, and stuff I no longer use or need.

 

move

jan skácelík
This year I will swim, lift weights, walk stairs, dance, practice yoga, and keep moving.

 

socialize

rachel roelike

This year I will spend more time getting out, and on making and maintaining relationships in real time.  

 

risk

lola

 This year I will take the risks, make the changes, take the chances.

 

read

marianne
This year I will read widely and wildly.

 

be

katie rhoads 

This year I will just be the best me I can.

explore

mae chevrette

 This year I will get out in the world and see what it has to teach me.

 

create

 
talkingeyecharts
This year I will make my dream reality.

 

revel

julia dineen

This year I will enjoy the living hell out of life!

 

 

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

I'm staying in...and making my lucky rice & bean soup.

 

If you want a lucky 2013, eat rice and beans. I don't know where I got that superstition, but I didn't eat lucky soup last year, and let's just say, it wasn't my year.

So I'm making lucky soup, reading magazines, and writing in my journal listening to jazz (my new favorite music), feels like the perfect way to usher in 2013.

Whatever it is that you're doing, have a happy and safe New Year.

This year's soup is a Hyderabad Vegetable Biryani hybrid. Apropos of nothing, I'm pairing it with tempura shrimp roll and a ginger beer, followed by a red velvet cake bite and a glass of black currant honey wine from the The Hive winery.

 

(for the wee hours, it's croissants with Italian truffle butter).

 

After dinner it's magazine reading time, (first on my resolution list is to stop buying magazines!)

Tomorrow I'll work on my new year's collage and resolutions.

Happy New Year!

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