Archive for June, 2015

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings “Im Abendrot” – Vier Letzte Lieder – Richard Strauss | Georg Solti conducting

Kindling Stone – “Orchard”

~ for Sabine and her violet enso, always again 

Sample poems « Acorn

sea otter . . .
the moon opens
on a stone

     Debbie Strange

 

 

until
I am earth again
rain moving through the bluestem

     Chad Lee Robinson

Crab apple blossoms
A shovel full.

     Alexis Rotella

 

 

Sample poems « Acorn.

Why Are So Many Female Writers Turning Their Novels Into Diaries? | The New Republic

Why Are So Many Female Writers Turning Their Novels Into Diaries? | The New Republic.

Art in the Anthropocene | FOP

Cover Art, © Mary Mattingly, House and Universe, 2013

Art in the Anthropocene | FOP.

‘Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century’ – The New York Times

Francis Picabia, (1879-1953); “Tableau Rastadada,” 1920; cut-and-pasted printed paper on paper with ink.Credit

The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA, via Art Resource, NY, via 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, via ADAGP, Paris

‘Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century’ – The New York Times.

Live Updates on #LoveWins: The Supreme Court Rules that Gay and Lesbian Couples Can Marry | The White House

Live Updates on #LoveWins: The Supreme Court Rules that Gay and Lesbian Couples Can Marry | The White House.

Highlights from the Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage – The New York Times

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. — from page 33 of the full document

Highlights from the Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage – The New York Times.

Still Life with Invisible Canoe by Idra Novey

Still Life with Invisible Canoe

Idra Novey

Levinas asked if we have the right
To be        the way I ask my sons
If they’d like to be trees

The way the word tree
Makes them a little animal
Dancing up and down
Like bears in movies

Bears I have to say
Pretend we are children 

At a river one of them says
So we sip it    pivot in the hallway
Call it a canoe

It is noon in the living room
We are rowing through a blue
That is a feeling mostly

The way drifting greenly
Under real trees
Is a feeling near holy

Oslo creates world’s first ‘highway’ to protect endangered bees | Environment | The Guardian.

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Bees entering the beehive of accounting expert and amateur beekeeper Marie Skjelbred on the 12th floor of a modern building in Oslo. Photograph: PIERRE-HENRY DESHAYES/AFP/Getty Images

“We are constantly reshaping our environment to meet our needs, forgetting that other species also live in it,” Agnes Lyche Melvaer, head of the Bybi, an environmental group supporting urban bees, which is leading the project.

“To correct that we need to return places to them to live and feed,” she explained, sitting on a bench in a lush city centre square bursting with early Nordic summer growth.

Oslo creates world’s first ‘highway’ to protect endangered bees | Environment | The Guardian.