Illustration Friday : Hoard

An accidental hoard of museum postcards, which need to be sent.



From the Ashmolean, Oxford


From the MoMA, New York City


From the MoMA, New York City


From the British Museum, London

detail from Lacoon and His Sons

Flowers

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From exhibit about Milton at the NY Public Library

Copied from an old dictionary

Flower, mirror, filbert

Cufflinks

Distractions while cooking

The Plan

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The Result

From the garden, last summer

The Plan

The Result

Last summer, at Pangaea

www.wolverinefarmpublishing.org

Sketch from an old postcard

May is Mary's Month

excerpt from "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

WILD air, world-mothering air,
Nestling me everywhere,
That each eyelash or hair
Girdles; goes home betwixt
The fleeciest, frailest-flixed
Snowflake; that ’s fairly mixed
With, riddles, and is rife
In every least thing’s life;
This needful, never spent,
And nursing element;
My more than meat and drink,
My meal at every wink;
This air, which, by life’s law,
My lung must draw and draw
Now but to breathe its praise,
Minds me in many ways
Of her who not only
Gave God’s infinity
Dwindled to infancy
Welcome in womb and breast,
Birth, milk, and all the rest
But mothers each new grace
That does now reach our race—
Mary Immaculate,
Merely a woman, yet
Whose presence, power is
Great as no goddess’s
Was deemèd, dreamèd; who
This one work has to do—
Let all God’s glory through,
God’s glory which would go
Through her and from her flow
Off, and no way but so.

(Read the rest HERE.)

Oh no, not funny--it's WITTY, or CLEVER.

Happiest of birthdays to Dorothy Parker!

"Dorothy Parker's Poetic Sneakers"

Life Stories, Books, and Links

A Class I'm Hoping to Take

COS 109 Computers in Our World

Computers are all around us. How does this affect the world we live in? This course is a broad introduction to computing technology for humanities and social sciences students. Topics will be drawn from current issues and events, and will include discussion of how computers work; what programming is and why it is hard; how the Internet and the Web work; security and privacy.

Prerequisites and Restrictions: Not intended for science/engineering/mathematics students.

"The Perfect Secretary"

"The perfect secretary should forget that she is a human being, and be the most completely efficient aid at all times and on all subjects. Her object is to coordinate with her employer's endeavor, and not make any intrusions which would be more likely to affect him as hurdles than as helps.
She should respond to his requirements exactly as a machine responds to the touch of a lever or accelerator . . ."

Emily Post's Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage; copyright 1945

Some subtitles from Emily Post's Etiquette

The Kitchen Finds Itself in Society
To You Who Are Mrs. Three-in-One
But No Shutters That Bang!
Bacon
Fashion and Fat
Have Silver That Shines or None
Favors Too Much Taken for Granted