No-Cook One-Minute
Soup Mix pesto and whole milk. Add buttered toast and let soften. Serve cold or hot. Add finely diced vegetables, if desired.
Ice Breakers and Team
Builder: includes games (Name Game, Solemn
and Silent), tips (use rituals like raising hands to indicate game is over),
resources (books and websites).
A solstice is an astronomical event that happens twice a
year. During the solstice, the tilt of
the Earth’s axis is most inclined towards the Sun, causing it to reach its
highest point visually in the sky. This means it takes the most amount of time
to cross the sky. The word solstice is
derived from the Latin sol (sun)
and sistere (to
stand still).
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/summer-solstice-five-big-questions/
Equinox noun 1: either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the
celestial equator intersects the ecliptic 2: either of the two times each year (as about March 21 and September
23) when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are everywhere on earth
of approximately equal length. Equinox descends from aequus, the Latin
word for "equal," and nox, the Latin word
for "night"—a fitting history for a word that describes days of the
year when the daytime and nighttime are equal in length. In the northern hemisphere, the vernal equinox
marks the first day of spring and occurs when the sun moves north across the
equator. (Vernal comes
from the Latin word ver, meaning
"spring.") The autumnal
equinox marks the first day of autumn in the northern hemisphere and occurs
when the sun crosses the equator going south. In contrast, a solstice is either of the two
moments in the year when the sun's apparent path is farthest north or south
from the equator. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equinox
January 28, 2020 Nicci French on the greatest long shot in film history, and what
novelists can learn from building tension in a single take. |
CrimeReads Jerry Craft’s
New Kid won this year’s Newbery Medal—the highest honor for
children’s literature in the US—becoming the first graphic novel to win the
prize. | The New York Times https://lithub.com/
Yoshitomo
Nara (born 5 December 1959 in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese
artist. He lives and works in Tokyo,
though his artwork has been exhibited worldwide. Nara has had nearly 40 solo exhibitions since
1984. His art work has been housed at the MoMA and
the Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). His most well-known and repeated subject is a
young girl with piercing eyes. "Nara
first came to the fore of the art world during Japan's Pop art movement in the 1990s. The subject matter of his sculptures and
paintings is deceptively simple: most
works depict one seemingly innocuous subject (often pastel-hued children and
animals drawn with confident, cartoonish lines) with little or no
background. But these children, who
appear at first to be cute and even vulnerable, sometimes brandish weapons like
knives and saws. Their wide eyes often
hold accusatory looks that could be sleepy-eyed irritation at being awoken from
a nap—or that could be undiluted expressions of hate." Nara, however, does not see his
weapon-wielding subjects as aggressors.
"Look at them, they [the weapons] are so small, like toys. Do you think they could fight with
those?" he says. "I don't
think so. Rather, I kind of see the
children among other, bigger, bad people all around them, who are holding
bigger knives . . . " Lauded by art critics, Nara's bizarrely
intriguing works have gained him a cult following around the world. Large
original paintings regularly sell for millions of dollars.
Libbey,
Inc., (formerly Libbey Glass
Company and New England Glass Company) is a glass production company headquartered
in Toledo, Ohio. It was originally founded 201 years ago
in Cambridge,
Massachusetts as the New England Glass Company in
1818, before relocating to Ohio in 1888 and renaming to Libbey
Glass Co. After it was purchased in
1935, it operated as part of the Libbey-Owens-Ford company and as a
division of the Owens-Illinois glass
company until 1993, when it was separated back into an independent
company. The company manufactures a
number of glassware products,
primarily tableware, drinkware and stemware.
Historically, it was also involved in producing other types of glass
products, such as automotive glass, glass drinking bottles, and light
bulbs. Read more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libbey_Incorporated See also Holy Toledo! Ohio’s ‘Glass City’ is worth a trip by Alan
Solomon at https://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/ct-trav-toledo-ohio-1022-story.html
and The New England Glass Companies by Bill Lockhart, Beau Schriever, Bill
Lindsey and Carol Serr at https://sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/NewEnglandGlass.pdf
January 27, 2020 Best procrastination ever: Did Tolkien write The Lord of the
Rings because he was avoiding his
academic work? | Lit Hub The
bad news is that the machines are coming; the good news is that they
still haven’t mastered metaphor, as evidenced by these poems. | Lit
Hub Tech Most peculiar! The Nancy Drew series celebrates the heroine’s 90th anniversary by killing
her off—and putting the Hardy Boys on the case. | Polygon https://lithub.com/
Sculptor Peter
Barstow Rockwell, the youngest son of iconic artist Norman Rockwell, died February
13, 2020 in Danvers, a suburb of Boston, spending his last weeks visited by
children and grandchildren. He was 83. News of his death was shared by the Norman
Rockwell Museum, which reported that, at his death, he was wearing his favorite
shirt, painted by his son, John, with his whimsical clay monsters and
sketchbook by his side. The family plans
a memorial gathering in May at St. Paul's Within the Walls Church in Rome,
where his work is displayed. Sites
housing his sculptures include the Rockwell Museum, the National Cathedral in
Washington, D.C., his alma mater, Haverford (Pa.) College, a convent in
Chioggia, Italy, and the Women's Memorial Bell Tower at the Cathedral of the
Pines, an open-air installation in Rindge, N.H., built as a memorial to American
war dead. Peter Rockwell is known for
his playful monsters, soaring acrobats, climbing sculptures, humorous terra
cottas, bronze work and his deeply spiritual religious iconography, according
to the statement released by the museum.
The largest assemblages of Peter's sculpture is in the permanent
collection of the Norman Rockwell Museum, including his climbing acrobats, a
massive stone carving named Grendel, and a cherished collection of sculptures
he had given to his father. His works
are found on the museum grounds, in front of his father's studio and along the
walking paths. Many videos and
interviews with Peter are available on the museum's YouTube channel. In 2009, curated by Stephanie Plunkett, a
comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work and career, "The Fantastical
Faces of Peter Rockwell: A Sculptor's
Retrospective," was organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum. After its initial installation in Stockbridge,
it traveled to the Butler Museum in Youngstown, Ohio. In 2014, the Norman Rockwell Museum brought
its major Norman Rockwell exhibition, "American Chronicles," to the
Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei at the Palazzo Cipolla in Rome. There, Peter greeted museum trustees, patrons,
staff and officials, providing tours with local insight for many of the
travelers. Last summer, he offered
visitors to the Norman Rockwell Museum a tour of his sculptures on the grounds. As an expert on sculpting techniques, Peter
is the author of several rare books on stone carving in Italy and India,
including "The Art of Stoneworking," "The Unfinished: Stone
Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent" and "The Compleat Marble
Sleuth." Clarence Fanto https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/rockwell-son-peter-who-wielded-ebullient-creative-force-as-sculptor-dies-at-83,596992
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Time
is the fairest and toughest judge. - Edgar Quinet, historian (17 Feb 1803-1875)
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2225
February 17, 2020
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