August in October . . . Some Titles and Pages for You

Now that I’ve got some of you coming around to see the shelf-culling and the redecorating, I should catch you up with jottings from the handwritten Reading Journal I’ve been keeping this year. The last…

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How To Visit an Art Gallery . . . .And Make Connections. . . Early Steps. . .

First, let me tell you that I posted myhalf-year reading listover on my Reading Blog, if you’re looking for new titles . . Last post here, I mentioned some on-site sketching with a Ten as…

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Art and Architecture to lift your Monday Spirits

As I begin preparing for another trip (countdown has begun for when I will get to hear a certain Four roll her Italian Rrrrs in person rather than on a Facetime screen), I realize how…

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Back to Edinburgh, a Retrospective Visit . . .

Still dark outside as I put the last touches on this post and get ready to publish it. I’m sitting on the couch, a wool blanket tucked over my legs as the room gradually warms…

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Art in Paris — Contemplative Discovery

I’m always surprised and gratified and fascinated and ever so grateful to this community when I post something tentative and somewhat vulnerable, when I’m thinking out loud, as it were — and then, as with…

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