i woke up feeling rested. i know that i had long, involved dreams (something about trying to drive a vehicle up steep cliffs of very loose sand), but it feels like they worked out whatever it was that was going on in my head and i'm feeling calm, relaxed and, dare i say, hopeful. something shifted. a good night's sleep will do that for you.
i had some fun playing with my new little friends motorcycle with sidecar last evening. the sun peeked out for a few minutes at the very end of the day, but the air is disturbingly autumnal for july. we haven't had much of a summer at all and i fear that i will really miss it once autumn starts in earnest. it seems the climate really is changing. it grows harder and harder for meteorologists to predict, at least our danish ones, who have reached new levels (depths?) of sucking at their jobs. i swear they can't predict the weather more than about 5 minutes ahead and even then i have my doubts that they ever take a look out the window. seriously, if we all were that bad at our work, the whole world would grind to a halt.
in my zen, peaceful state of mind, i allowed myself a wander around on freunde von freunden, the marvelous berlin-based lifestyle website. and i find myself wanting to live a more artful, creative life. like these so-called urban nomads in hamburg. i wonder, can you be a rural nomad? don't forget to set one of their mixtapes playing in the background while you browse. it'll help keep that zen feeling...
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| modigliani's 1911 sketch of anna akhmatova |
"And a lady who calls a great painter a suckling pig can hardly enlighten anyone." - from a marvelous 1975 piece (written originally in 1958 & 1964) on modigliani by the great russian poet anna akhmatova. oh, to have lived then, in those heady, artistic, experimental, avant-garde times of the 1910s.
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some good came of all that wind last week - danish wind farms produced 140% of our electricity needs.
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interesting thoughts on the adult coloring book phenomenon.
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must go back to hamburg before the photography triennial ends.
i especially want to see this satellite exhibition.
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reading this makes me want to go back to seattle. soon.
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interesting thoughts on the adult coloring book phenomenon.
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must go back to hamburg before the photography triennial ends.
i especially want to see this satellite exhibition.
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reading this makes me want to go back to seattle. soon.
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