The color of theis bicycle tire rim is just amazing… reminds me of watermelon…
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-1…
Civil War history lesson…
“Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish,” he said.
“And the war came.”
… are we in a moment where history repeats itself?…
Did you know? That the iPhone photo app automatically identifies plants and flowers? Not people though.
“Gravity is the root of lightness; stillness, the ruler of movement.”
— Tao Te Ching (Coterie Classics) by Lao Tzu a.co/6GY2HoF
… in yoga, there is grounding, out of which grows the lightness of a pose, and the stillness between poses out of which a new pose materializes…
Hmmm… $10 bag of potato chips… imported from Spain… i asked what distinguishes them… they’re from Spain, cooked in Spanish olive oil… i am tempted… but decide not to… but only because i will eat the whole bag in one sitting if i open it…
One more colander view, this one near 93% totality, which is as good as it gets where we are. I was able to get a set of interval shots with my Nikon.
April 7, 2024 (Sunday) - by Heather Cox Richardson
… the struggle over the use of public lands continues, and now the Republicans are standing on the opposite side from their position of a century ago. Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump presidency, demands significant increases in drilling for oil and gas. … But it takes that advice even further.
It says a second Trump administration “must seek repeal of the Antiquities Act of 1906.”
Inspired by Guido Guidi’s book, Lunario, I made these images today while thinking about the solar eclipse that will happen later today. It will be about 93% total for us. Will try to get some pictures to share…
My monthly Studio MBK newsletter. This month I write a few words about Gudio Guidi’s book Lunario in anticipation of the eclipse.
April 3, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
I am more and more confident that Biden will win the election outright. I am also more and more concerned about what he and MAGAs will do to overthrow the government. 45 is increasingly desperate. MAGA’s are passionately perusing Gilead. This is the moment in time where they will or wont succeed.
While Trump is hedging about his stance on abortion–after bragging repeatedly that he was the person responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade–MAGA Republicans have made their unpopular abortion stance even stronger..
After Low Attendance, Whitney Biennial Releases Open Call for “Controversial” Artwork
Posted on the museum’s Instagram page yesterday, March 31, the call explained that an unspecified “dwindling number of biennial attendees” indicated “an urgent need for measured controversy, neither too inflammatory nor too trite.”
… hummm… what a flaccid way to do a call for entry… seems unlikely that the results will save the day…
March 31, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
A good remembrance of Ruth Bader Ginsberg…
March 29, 2024 - by Heather Cox Richardson
The attempt to create a false reality–whether by foreign operatives or homegrown ones–seems increasingly obvious in perceptions of the 2024 election. There has been much chatter, for example, about polls showing Trump ahead of Biden. But the 2022 polls were badly skewed rightward by partisan actors, and Democrat Marilyn Lands’s overwhelming victory over her Republican opponent in an Alabama House election this week suggests those errors have not yet been fully addressed.
… wow, the full throttle response of the MSNBC on air personalities to the NBC hiring of Ronna McDaniels has been breathtaking…
This is why it’s seriously possible 45 will become 47. It’s like discussing the weather while the house is burning down. It normalizes what is beyond abnormal.
March 20, 2024 (Wednesday) - by Heather Cox Richardson
This sent chills down my spine…
Today the Institute for the Study of War, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group, assessed that “[s]everal Russian financial, economic, and military indicators suggest that Russia is preparing for a large-scale conventional conflict with NATO, not imminently but likely on a shorter timeline than what some Western analysts have initially posited,” within a matter of years.
Really like this photo I made this morning. It suggests much without saying it directly. One could write a short story out of this image.