Chicago Botanic Garden
A few more
Shelved for now.
New books
Gifts to self.
Bibliotherapy
These have been my companions over the last week or so of recuperation. Although I’m not sure I thought the Moore was as amazing as many reviewers did, it was a solid bit of entertainment. Most of the other books are familiar from my sidebar, but the Tolstoy is new… I joined Story Club with George Saunders, an absolute delight. And the Amado is part of the Brazilian literature mini-project on which my youngest and I have embarked.
Today, though, inspired by a talk I attended this week, I’m beginning The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store.
Not pictured is Pinter’s Betrayal, which I read in anticipation of this.
Recent acquisitions
Shelved for now.
Recovery
As I mentioned earlier this month, travel and “required maintenance” on this aging vehicle prompted me to rethink my obligations and pursuits for the first few months of 2025. Today, twenty-four hours after my most recent trip into the shop, I’m calling this stack my get-well gift to self.
Seen at the Wright
My images of detail from the following works at the Wright Museum:
✤ “Cartas” by Elizabeth Catlett
✤ “Faces of Picasso” by Margaret Burroughs
✤ “Sam Pool” by Paul Collins
Because books help
A few acquisitions.
It feels a bit like this looks.
”No. 2” by Jackson Pollock (1950) at Harvard Art Museums.
Today I am reading, among other things, Whale Fall by Daniel Krause. Yes, I am reading, watching the birds at my feeders, eating a couple of chocolate chip cookies, and thinking about a movie that concludes with a rogue planet seemingly bypassing Earth and then colliding with it.
Invincible
The MFA Boston plaque for this Fernando Botero sculpture (Venus, 1977-78) notes that he “takes icons of Western art — including Roman goddesses and female nudes — and inflates their proportions, an act of admiration as well as a veiled critique of the dominance of European culture in the Americas.”
Seeing her just delighted me.
Nerdishly 