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photo by Amber Ivey
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Hopeful, happy thoughts
photo by Amber Ivey
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Exploration
Monday, January 22, 2018
Pancakes
Meredith Novak wrote:
The first time I made pancakes with white flour he thought they were the best pancakes he'd ever eaten.
Here's an interesting tidbit, though: after a few weeks of being allowed to have all the cakes and cokes he could eat at our house he out-and-out said "You know what, now that I can have all the sugar I want, I don't want nearly as much of it."
—Meredith
photo by Sandra Dodd, of pancakes designed by Devyn, 8
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Sunday, January 21, 2018
"Sculpture" and other words
This photo is from a Chinese Lantern Festival event.
What is a Chinese lantern? What is "a lantern"? These have wire frames with cloth, and electric light inside. There are many other kinds of lanterns, both more traditional and modern.
In Albuquerque, balloonists sometimes get together to inflate their balloons at night. They stay on the ground, and the fire from the hot-air-creating burner will light the huge balloon up from the inside beautifully.
Back to the photo, though. It'a a monkey. It's a Chinese zodiac symbol. Geometry and technology were involved, with some traditional ideas about connecting pieces of cloth to create three-dimensional forms. It is a tool of cultural exchange, of good will, from a country at odds with our own. It is a propaganda monkey, and an art monkey. It was a happy light in darkness.
One thing is many things.
The flow of words
photo by Sandra Dodd, of other people's art
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What is a Chinese lantern? What is "a lantern"? These have wire frames with cloth, and electric light inside. There are many other kinds of lanterns, both more traditional and modern.
In Albuquerque, balloonists sometimes get together to inflate their balloons at night. They stay on the ground, and the fire from the hot-air-creating burner will light the huge balloon up from the inside beautifully.
Back to the photo, though. It'a a monkey. It's a Chinese zodiac symbol. Geometry and technology were involved, with some traditional ideas about connecting pieces of cloth to create three-dimensional forms. It is a tool of cultural exchange, of good will, from a country at odds with our own. It is a propaganda monkey, and an art monkey. It was a happy light in darkness.
One thing is many things.
photo by Sandra Dodd, of other people's art
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Saturday, January 20, 2018
New combinations
There are random factors in the world around us. This tree was never blown down before. That horse never lay down near a downed tree that way.
Things happen in new combinations, without warning, and we make choices about how to see and respond to those things. I'm glad Cathy took a beautiful photo. It's good that the tree didn't fall on the shed, nor on the horses. It didn't break a fence.
Next year, it will be firewood.
Life will bring more surprises.
photo by Cathy Koetsier
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Friday, January 19, 2018
Resting
Rests can be short or long.
Resting isn't always sleeping.
Sleeping doesn't always last long.
SandraDodd.com/sleep/outside
SandraDodd.com/peace/
photo by Cátia Maciel
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Resting isn't always sleeping.
Sleeping doesn't always last long.
SandraDodd.com/peace/
photo by Cátia Maciel
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Thursday, January 18, 2018
Rows of colors
"It is what it is." Sometimes.
"It" depends what "it" is.
Usually, it is what one uses it for. Sometimes something is what one imagines it to be.
photo by Amber Ivey
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