For me, this is what the entrance to heaven would look like. If I am right, color me happy.
When women vote, women win!
Vote! unless you want Roe v. Wade overturned and other atrocities. Whose body is it anyway, ladies? Tell politicians to get their rosaries off your ovaries! We won’t go backwards. Tell ’em!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for gelato!
Wise Mark Twain
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. ― Mark Twain
Call me maybe?…only in Italian.
Carnevale in venezia!
Ever wonder what the Venetian Carnevale looks lik? Check out this fun video!
P.S., did you know? Carnevale takes place the week before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins. The word carnevale means farewell to meat: Latin carne (meat) and vale (farewell).
Ciao!
First impressions are everything.
When I landed at the Delhi airport last January, I was instantly ready to love with India!
My feeling was based simply upon this stunning first impression of contemporary art which represents timeless Indian culture in a simple, modern fashion.
First impressions ARE everything!
Nameste! See more after the jump.
I knew I had come to the right place! I was jet-lagged into next week, but I noticed this artwork! When a work of art can speak to me through the fog of severe jet-lag, I know I’ve hit the motherlode. India did not disappoint!
Arriving at the Indira Gandhi International Airport’s brand-new Terminal 3, filled me with a sense of awe. The incredible visual experience of this series of giant gesticulating hands, jutting from a wall of what look like copper discs, made me stop in my tracks in wonder. I like anything that has that power. It’s why I travel. It’s why I read. It’s why I study art and culture. It’s why I live.
Jaipur-based artist, Ayush Kasliwal, was commissioned to produce these giant, expressive hands. The builders of the new concourse of the truly modern airport were keen to give the terminal an Indian context, to infuse it with Indian values. The idea of the hands emerged as the winning concept, for all forms of Indian classical dance use hand gestures called mudras. Thus, mudras are a both a distinctly Indian and common vocabulary. The writer of this blog heartily adds her compliments to the designers. It really works!
If you’d like to know more about this stunning installation, please go to
Click to access DIALmudras.pdf
and
http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/friendly-gestures/638563/0
Art imitates life, over and over, ad infinitum
Do you see what I see?
You thought Florence was only for pansies?
Ha! I think not!
What is this madness, you ask:
History of Calcio Fiorentino,
Calcio Fiorentino is like a rugby death match played with hands and feet, but mostly fists. It may have begun as early as the first century A.D., as some believe, but it can definitely be traced to the early 16th century, when these basic rules were established: two teams of 27 members each are allowed to throw the ball over the goal in 50 minutes.
Each major Florentine neighborhood has a team as follows:
Santa Croce: Blue team or Azzurri
Santa Maria Novella: Red team or Rossi
Santo Spirito: White team or Bianchi
San Giovanni: Green team or Verdi
update: November 13, 2014, see this article for updated rules:
For those who prefer Italian.
Seattle Japanese Garden in autumn
Here’s how the garden looked today. Pretty awesome. I don’t think many words are necessary!
White camellias in bloom!
The pictures of the glossy green leaves above are a camellia shrub. You can see the flower buds swelling. They’ll open this winter.
Espaliered cotoneaster.
I think the red berries are a viburnum, judging from the leaves.
See the rock to the right of the lantern in the water? Two turtles sunning.
They were ready for their close-up shots.
This plant is this red…these are not flowers, they are leaves!
get back, lauretta! 
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