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FiftyFive ~ # 55
We don't collect art so much as have pieces that accumulated through the years. I particularly like this piece which was made by my neighbour Kate. It is called Private View and is made out of metal. Isn't it great - it hangs in the front room. I might commission some miniature Picasso pics so I can have an alternative exhibition. I could have my own private viewing too - its a thought. At the moment I am still researching the Fear of Flying, Falling and Laughter paper I am to give in Australia. At the moment I am looking for the Freud essay, 'Thoughts for the Times on War and Death'. When he wrote, "Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life may not be risked." This idea on risk taking does just address the Icarus effect, it addresses the whole idea of creativity and being creative and risk taking and I am matching it with the Adam Phillips question I posted before, "...what is the fear of being laughed at a fear of?" But enough of all that - spring has sprung, the leaves are turning green, the plum, damson, apple and assorted other blossoms are popping out all over the garden. I was doing some work on Anne Tyler (novelist) the other day and suddenly realised that she and Lori McKenna (songwriter) could be soul mates - I wonder if there is something about Quakerism in them both. Anne writes these wonderful wimin stories - not feminism (as such) but about wimin who spend a long time saying nothing (in that Quaker circle idea), then change their lives, even though they almost always return home to do so and Lori, now a mother of five who never wrote song until she was 27, always writes positively about her relationship#, - how romantic is that and while I have been a fan of her's for a long time (see Kitchen Tapes - literally recorded in her kitchen) this is the first time I have heard this particular song - though I couldn't decide whether to post How Romantic is That, which is a sunny side up song or the sunny side down, Make Every Word Hurt - perhaps next time. # on scanning more of her most recent stuff I might have to re-visit that positively idea - if you get a chance check out Make Every Word Hurt and Drinkin' Problem. What I like is how (like Anne Tyler) she takes snapshots of small town stories and sings them straight.
We don't collect art so much as have pieces that accumulated through the years. I particularly like this piece which was made by my neighbour Kate. It is called Private View and is made out of metal. Isn't it great - it hangs in the front room. I might commission some miniature Picasso pics so I can have an alternative exhibition. I could have my own private viewing too - its a thought. At the moment I am still researching the Fear of Flying, Falling and Laughter paper I am to give in Australia. At the moment I am looking for the Freud essay, 'Thoughts for the Times on War and Death'. When he wrote, "Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life may not be risked." This idea on risk taking does just address the Icarus effect, it addresses the whole idea of creativity and being creative and risk taking and I am matching it with the Adam Phillips question I posted before, "...what is the fear of being laughed at a fear of?" But enough of all that - spring has sprung, the leaves are turning green, the plum, damson, apple and assorted other blossoms are popping out all over the garden. I was doing some work on Anne Tyler (novelist) the other day and suddenly realised that she and Lori McKenna (songwriter) could be soul mates - I wonder if there is something about Quakerism in them both. Anne writes these wonderful wimin stories - not feminism (as such) but about wimin who spend a long time saying nothing (in that Quaker circle idea), then change their lives, even though they almost always return home to do so and Lori, now a mother of five who never wrote song until she was 27, always writes positively about her relationship#, - how romantic is that and while I have been a fan of her's for a long time (see Kitchen Tapes - literally recorded in her kitchen) this is the first time I have heard this particular song - though I couldn't decide whether to post How Romantic is That, which is a sunny side up song or the sunny side down, Make Every Word Hurt - perhaps next time. # on scanning more of her most recent stuff I might have to re-visit that positively idea - if you get a chance check out Make Every Word Hurt and Drinkin' Problem. What I like is how (like Anne Tyler) she takes snapshots of small town stories and sings them straight.
