Winter Waning Moon of Long Nights
One of the reasons the web continues to fascinate me, and it does, lies in its capacity to surprise me. I read an article in the Economist about Internet Archives. This is an astonishing effort spearheaded by one man to make the worlds information available on the web. You may have heard of the Wayback machine, a way of finding lost or neglected websites, but this project has so much more. It has a lot of live music, an especially active Grateful Dead collection. It has moving images, including commercials, a quick entre to marketing and cultural cues of the near past. It also has an incredible number of texts, complete and free. Worth a look.
I’ve not had a tour since mid-December. While I enjoy the down time, I do feel disconnected from the museum. There’s a tendency, living this far out, to hunker down, particularly in bad weather. I’m not as comfortable as I used to be heading out in snowy, icy conditions and that contributes to the hibernation. As I’ve written before, this all helps the writing, getting into a rhythm, focus. That’s true, but I miss the connection with both the art and my fellow docents. They have become an important part of my life, one of the social pillars for me. So, I look forward to getting back at it in February.