Winchester R&R.
Spring comes to the running route....
(This one's for you, Mary.)
April 28, 2009
April 23, 2009
proximate issue
Looking forward to the release of issue #4 of Proximity, "The Remedies Issue." Here's a short article I wrote about Printed Matter (the New York-based artist book wonderland) for issue #3, "The New Issue."
April 22, 2009
we tell ourselves stories in order to live
Virtual book club is currently the highlight of my inbox. Besides reading, we also take photos of reading or photos of certain things we read or photos of ceramic cats perched atop books. I suspect it'll transition into a virtual cat club soon.
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Today Chicago's all springtime wonderful, and I am so into it. You can tell it's spring f'real cause impromptu Old Town School of Folk Music jam sessions start happening around the Square. The park becomes a practice room for beginner banjoists and intermediate guitarists and maybe even a seasoned dulcimerist or two to mix things up. "This Land is Your Land" forever now.
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Today Chicago's all springtime wonderful, and I am so into it. You can tell it's spring f'real cause impromptu Old Town School of Folk Music jam sessions start happening around the Square. The park becomes a practice room for beginner banjoists and intermediate guitarists and maybe even a seasoned dulcimerist or two to mix things up. "This Land is Your Land" forever now.
April 18, 2009
holding half an acre
Home last wkend to hang out with the mini-Reids.
Brooklyn turned 5...kind of an old lady.
She is way into covering her body with stickers these days.
And drawing princess pictures (ad infinitum).
Banner tried ice cream and found it a bit too cold.
Kale sucks his index finger, like I did. Must be a middle child thing. Dare to be different!
Back in Chicago, Kim had a BD and Sara hosted Potato Night. Here's a photo of what I think would be a really cute catering company.
Brooklyn turned 5...kind of an old lady.
She is way into covering her body with stickers these days.
And drawing princess pictures (ad infinitum).
Banner tried ice cream and found it a bit too cold.
Kale sucks his index finger, like I did. Must be a middle child thing. Dare to be different!
Back in Chicago, Kim had a BD and Sara hosted Potato Night. Here's a photo of what I think would be a really cute catering company.
April 17, 2009
25 years of mary
Happy Birthday to my sister-soulmate.
Hope your day is a celebratory mix of...
...reflection...
...confection...
...affection...
...backyard hang sessions...
...and sun-sponsored R&R.
…I once again revert to my covenant with Mystery, and respond to the emergence of Life not with a search for its Design or Purpose but instead with outrageous celebration that it occured at all. (—a little extistential insight poured straight from the pitcher o' Sacred D.)
Hope your day is a celebratory mix of...
...reflection...
...confection...
...affection...
...backyard hang sessions...
...and sun-sponsored R&R.
…I once again revert to my covenant with Mystery, and respond to the emergence of Life not with a search for its Design or Purpose but instead with outrageous celebration that it occured at all. (—a little extistential insight poured straight from the pitcher o' Sacred D.)
April 2, 2009
the picnic near the lakeside in chicago...
...gets tiny tiny!
Haven't seen this since college, since my totally-kids'-stuff freshman math class ("Math for Public Discourse"). Oh man, it ruuules!
Haven't seen this since college, since my totally-kids'-stuff freshman math class ("Math for Public Discourse"). Oh man, it ruuules!
April 1, 2009
city of feeling, city of fact
Hello, April. Where did you come from? Since I last updated this thing: Story Wk. (Etgar Keret!), 30th birthday parties, digging out the bike, progressive sunshine, regressive snow, catching up with ppl, springing forward, fake computer crash, story starts, the North Side, the wee hours, missing Mary, the wonder of completion. March went fast! Other ppl took pictures of it:
As pictured by Amanda:
Chicago River dyed green as the Emerald Isle.
By leprechauns, I presume.
Courtney and Shep!
Can't seem to get enough of Alice's. (With KJs like this, it's hard to stay away.)
"Africa," replete with lion hands.
From Jennifer Brandel:
AEM at The Slides of March, a benefit for...
...826 Chicago.
A presentation about Anne of Green Gables.
By David Sampson:
(I just like this one.)
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Been researching Chicago writers for a PIL Armchair Reader and am eager to read more of their wks. Stumbled upon these literary images of the city. Just saw there's a previously unpublished Algren story in this week's Reader. WORD.
Lucy carried in her mind a very individual map of Chicago: a blur of smoke and wind and noise, with flashes of blue water, and certain clear outlines rising from the confusion. ... This city of feeling rose out of the city of fact like a definite composition,—beautiful because the rest was blotted out. (Willa Cather)
As pictured by Amanda:
Chicago River dyed green as the Emerald Isle.
By leprechauns, I presume.
Courtney and Shep!
Can't seem to get enough of Alice's. (With KJs like this, it's hard to stay away.)
"Africa," replete with lion hands.
From Jennifer Brandel:
AEM at The Slides of March, a benefit for...
...826 Chicago.
A presentation about Anne of Green Gables.
By David Sampson:
(I just like this one.)
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Been researching Chicago writers for a PIL Armchair Reader and am eager to read more of their wks. Stumbled upon these literary images of the city. Just saw there's a previously unpublished Algren story in this week's Reader. WORD.
Lucy carried in her mind a very individual map of Chicago: a blur of smoke and wind and noise, with flashes of blue water, and certain clear outlines rising from the confusion. ... This city of feeling rose out of the city of fact like a definite composition,—beautiful because the rest was blotted out. (Willa Cather)
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