doing nothing in nola
Love this writer: Jenny Odell In her how to do nothing article, she writes about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, whose Maintenance Manifesto, 1969 is familiar to me from earlier aimless Internet browsing. We bicycled past a...
Category: Travel
2019
Yes, it’s a new year. I feel unsettled. Still cloudy-minded, striving for what, I don’t know. To recapture what can’t be recaptured, to move to an imagined place of deeper meaning. Still making. It’s...
Germaine Wells, Mardi Gras queen
We heard there was a museum upstairs at Arnaud’s on Bienville Street in New Orleans. The restaurant and bar were closed, but the hostess readily brought us upstairs to take a look. Spectacular costumes...
walls
Viewing the exuberant walls of New Orleans, mostly in the Bywater neighborhood, was a great way to bring in the New Year. Some photos:
parade
We watched the Sugar Bowl Parade. The faces of the young people were quite beautiful.
party, valladolid
Last day of my 50’s. Interested in tomorrow. A breakthrough, but what will be its nature? These two party-goers from Valladolid make me happy. Christopher Columbus died in Valladolid (Spain) in 1506.
Rückkehrunruhe
The mysteries of Mexico, December 29 through January 5, 2016. A place to start the new year. Photos – Yucatán Rückkehrunruhe from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: n. the feeling of returning home after...