Not sure about a French court fantasy, but the seamstress work and dress is beautiful.
This is the Itzl Alert Network. (Itzl is the name of the dog in the picture.) We publish
a diary here every day, just before midnight. This group is here for us to check in with each other, to let people know we are alive, and doing OK.
We have split up the publishing duties, but we welcome everyone in IAN to do daily diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news! If you would like to write a diary, let us know in a comment.
We would love it if you joined our list of writers. You can sometimes alternate with someone. New voices are always good for a group.
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Monday: Crimson Quillfeather. Occasionally: ZenTrainer. Tuesday: ejoanna. Wednesday: Pam from California.Thursday: art ah zen Friday: FloridaSNMOM. Saturday: Gwennedd. Sunday: loggersbrat.
Great read in the link above —
Few of America’s citizens have believed more fervently or optimistically in its promise than Madison, and yet he fell prey to the same divisiveness and petty grievance that have dogged the country and its stewards since the founding. Such knowledge may sound disheartening, but on the page the effect is somehow the opposite: if America’s abiding weaknesses appear steady, so do its strengths. Every generation fears a President, a war, a financial crisis, or a fundamental shift in society will usher in the country’s downfall, and yet we’re still here. That doesn’t make any of these moments less ghastly to live through, or activism any less necessary. But what Madison’s life suggests is that crisis is an inevitable, maybe even fundamental part of the Constitution, and sustaining its ideals has never been easy. We arguably have yet to do so.
From link above. I encourage you all to read the whole thing.
In Kara Walker’s exhibition of twenty-three new works, mostly on unframed paper, at the Sikkema Jenkins gallery in New York, it is as though she has drawn her images of antebellum violence from the nation’s hindbrain. Walker has been creating her historical narratives of disquiet for a while, and they are always a surprise: the inherited image is sitting around, secure in its associations, but on closer inspection something deeply untoward is happening between an unlikely pair, or suddenly the landscape is going berserk in a corner. It has been noted in connection with Walker’s cutouts what a feminine and domestic form the silhouette was in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and that because of its ability to capture the likeness of a person in profile it was also a kind of pre-photography.
There are some wonderful viddies attached to the link below. Please, check it out.
An IAN hideout —
Monday Morning Quiz —
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