On a fury scale from 1-10, I’d give the bizarre literary media conversation this week about the optimal number of children to writing success ratio for women writers a 25. WTF? Do you even hear yourselves, people starting these conversations? Do you? No one ever worries about male writers and…
An expressive therapy that uses an individual’s relationship to the content of books and poetry as therapy.
WHOA. flashback to college, when i had the pleasure of getting to know the flesh-and-blood young woman this little girl had become. i can only imagine what it is like to be in your late 20s/early 30s, and still be captured in this iconic print. (insert something about multiple selves, souls, the two VW golfs on the road earlier today.)
the end of the semester has gotten to me. i’ll form a coherent thought about that stuff at some point. anyhow, i love this photo.
Maureen Corrigan on Gail Godwin’s new novel, Flora:
“Children are like bombs that will one day go off.” That’s a line that Gail Godwin says also served as inspiration for her novel, Flora. Godwin wrote the line in one of her journals, which she started keeping at the age of 12. Godwin is still writing in her journals and drawing upon them to explore the more out-of-the-way reaches of women’s interior lives.
When I read that line about children as unexploded bombs, this iconic Sally Mann (my favorite photographer) popped immediately to mind, so I couldn’t not post it here.
-samuel johnson, “death,” 1759
i’m sure all of my students will agree…. and now i’m just going to re-post everything from this tumblr.
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HEY FALL 2012 UC-ers! remember discover dc?
nybg:
Victoria amazonica has been a long-running inspiration even beyond its botanical “wow” factor, not only for its structure but for its instant recognizability. Read more on it here, and check out the NYBG in summer when ours will be on display! —MN
Apparently Sir Joseph Paxton’s structural ideas for the Crystal Palace came from plants - and more specifically the Victoria Regia Lily pictured, which were later cultivated inside the palace.
This image comes from Delamotte’s Crystal Palace: A Victorian Pleasure Dome Revealed by Ian Leith.
we should have a reunion at the kenilworth aquatic gardens next fall when the giant lilies bloom next!
Morning everyone!
I don’t know about you guys, but it’s still feeling gloomy and cold over here on the east coast. Here’s to keeping our spirits up and our minds on warmer and drier days.
- Heidi
Marco Pece, “Umbrella.”
love this!
(Source: octavineillustration)
