In Margaret Wise Brown’s children’s book, Goodnight Moon, a little bunny says goodnight to all the objects in its great green bedroom before falling peacefully to sleep.  It’s pretty much the ultimate in plotlessness, which has not historically detracted from its appeal.  Published in 1947 and illustrated by Clement Hurd, it has become a widely beloved American bedtime story.  Not coincidentally, it has also been parodied many, many times.  Emily Temple  Find 17 parodies plus graphics at https://lithub.com/almost-all-the-goodnight-moon-parodies-ranked/ 

Clement Gazzam Hurd (1908–1988) was an American artist.  He is known for illustrations of children's picture books, especially collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942).  He was educated at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, then studied architecture at Yale University and painting with Fernand Léger in Paris.  Hurd returned to New York in 1933 to work as a commercial artist.  There Margaret Wise Brown was an editor at W. R. Scott, as well as a writer of picture book texts.  On seeing two of his paintings, she asked him if he would consider illustrating children's books.  She wrote a text herself, for what became Bumble Bugs and Elephants (1938)—"perhaps the first modern board book for babies."  Hurd's next collaboration with Brown, The Runaway Bunny, has been in print continuously since its 1942 publication.  Their next book, Goodnight Moon (1947), is considered classic children's literature in North America; by 1990, the total number of copies sold was more than 4 million.  In 2007, the National Education Association listed Goodnight Moon as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children".  In 2012 it was ranked number four among the "Top 100 Picture Books" in a survey published by School Library Journal.  Hurd also illustrated over fifty books written by his wife Edith Thacher Hurd (a friend of Brown's) as well as a children's book written by Gertrude Stein, The World Is Round.  Hurd wrote and illustrated the book Run, Run, Run.  His son Thacher Hurd is also a children's book author and illustrator, and referred in an interview to the "wonderful aura of creativity" surrounding his father and the Vermont farm that was their home.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Hurd 

Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her op art paintings.  She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.  At the beginning of World War II, her father, a member of the Territorial Army, was mobilised, and Riley, together with her mother and sister Sally, moved to a cottage in Cornwall.  The cottage, not far from the sea near Padstow, was shared with an aunt who was a former student at Goldsmiths' College, London.  Primary education came in the form of irregular talks and lectures by non-qualified or retired teachers.  She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College (1946–1948) and then studied art at Goldsmiths' College (1949–52), and later at the Royal College of Art (1952–55).   She eventually joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, as an illustrator, where she worked part-time until 1962.  The Whitechapel Gallery exhibition of Jackson Pollock in the winter of 1958 had an impact on her.  Her early work was figurative and semi-impressionist. Between 1958 and 1959, her work at the advertising agency showed her adoption of a style of painting based on the pointillist technique.  Around 1960, she began to develop her signature Op Art style consisting of black and white geometric patterns that explore the dynamism of sight and produce a disorienting effect on the eye and produces movement and colour.  See graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley  

Tips for making the bets overnight oats:  Make inside of a jar or a mason jar (with measurement lines on the side). This way you can measure, mix, chill, carry and eat the overnight oats all in one convenient container.  Use plain old fashioned rolled oats, not quick oats.  Quick oats will get too soggy when soaked with milk.  And do not use steel cut oats because they won’t soften enough to eat just with milk unfortunately.  Warm it up if you prefer warm oats in the morning.  Although overnight oatmeal is typically served cold, you can definitely eat them warm.  Just place them in the microwave for one minute and be sure to use a microwave-safe jar.  Make a bunch for the week.  Because overnight oats typically stay good in the fridge for up to 5 days, try making a batch on Sunday and having it on hand in the fridge for the whole week.  Be careful if you’re adding fruit beforehand because they will typically not remain fresh for more than a couple days.  Yymna Jawad  https://feelgoodfoodie.net/recipe/overnight-oats/ 

Hilary Mantel, the British author who twice won the Booker Prize, died at the age of 70 on September 22, 2022.  It wasn't until the publication of her 10th novel, "Wolf Hall," in 2009 that Mantel became a household name.  Set in Tudor England and centered on the life and times of statesman and chief minister to Henry VIII Thomas Cromwell, "Wolf Hall" won the 2009 Booker Prize.  In 2020, eight years after the publication of "Bring up the Bodies," the much-anticipated final part in the "Wolf Hall" trilogy, "The Mirror and the Light," was published.  Lianne Kolirin and Leah Dolan  https://www.cnn.com/style/article/hilary-mantel-dies-scli-gbr-intl/index.html

timeserver  (TYM-suhr-vuhr)  noun  1.  One who makes little effort at work, such as while waiting to retire or find another job.  2.  One who changes views to conform to prevailing circumstances.  3.A computer that transmits precise time information on a network.  From time, from Old English tima (time) + server, from Latin servire (to serve), from servus (slave).  Earliest documented use:  1566.  NOTES:  Imagine a time when a human did the job of giving correct time (what a computer does now).  In this job, instead of being a conscientious worker, this person was lackadaisical.  What would you call them?  A timeserver in more ways than one.  A timeserver timeserver.  A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.  They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. -T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)  

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