First Titian Tour

Imbolc                                                                         Full Bridgit Moon First Titian tour today.  If I examine my own touring skills, as I try to from time to time, I find that I’m better touring old master’s of Western art and Asian art than I am art of the Americas.  The Thaw collection, which I admired, found me at my clunkiest, […]

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Camp Fire Girls

Lughnasa                                     Waning Grandchildren Moon Last night over edamame and potstickers I discussed gardening with a fellow docent who had just seen Ran.  We agreed it had been a peculiar gardening season with plants blooming two weeks to a month early.  We also agreed no one could care for our gardens like we do and produced […]

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S.A.D.S.

Spring                                        Waxing Flower Moon Shopped at the Wedge.  Boy, have co-ops changed.  They’re no longer like buying screws and nuts at a hardware store where you have to know the price and quantity.  Barcodes, scanners, conveyor belts.  The selection includes meats and many items found in other grocery stores as well as drop-dead gorgeous produce, […]

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Scarlett, the Young Korean

62  bar rises 29.99 0mph E  dew-point 42  sunrise 6:42  set 7:38   Lughnasa First Quarter of the Harvest Moon  rise 3:16  set 11:22 Back from the Korea tour.  We stayed mostly in Korea. I took the folks through the history of Korea, using objects in the MIA collection.  Scarlett, the young Korean, made excited noises […]

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An Appetite for Nutrient Fluid (not an alien)

56  bar steady 30.05 4mph N dew-point 43  Beltane, sunny and cool                           Waning Gibbous Hare Moons  “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Leonardo da Vinci Less is more -always; and explore constantly.  Mario Odegard, Viking Explorer and Woolly Mammoth Up earlier again this morning to take advantage of the cool temps.  Amended the […]

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Sayonara, Weber Collection

79!  bar steep fall  29.62 5mph WSW dewpoint 35  Beltane, sunny                        Waxing Gibbous Hare Moon The final Weber tours.  A Japanese language class from Kennedy HS in Bloomington and a small group of stunned ladies of a certain age.  Neither tour was a flop, neither an engaging and vital time.  The Kennedy group had […]

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He Who Dies with the Most Toys Wins?

62  bar falls 29.85  3mph NNW dewpoint 29 Beltane              Waxing Crescent of the Hare Moon  “The capitalist bookkeepers’ theoretician was German sociologist Max Weber, whose 1910 book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism argued that the key feature of capitalism was that making money becomes ‘a calling’, an end in itself. The bourgeois […]

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Something Famous, That They Might See in Books

57  bar steep fall 29.82 3mph SSW Dewpoint 31 Spring            Waning Crescent Moon of Winds A highlights tour today with kids from Hudson.  We saw Frank, the Chuck Close portrait, then the Promenade of Euclid by Magritte.  After that the teacher wanted to see “something famous, that they might see in books.”  That’s ok, […]

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An Everything-0-Meter

43  bar falls 30.27 0mph SSW dewpoint 12 Spring           Last Quarter Moon of Winds Had a great time with the two Weber (Japanese special exhibit) tours.  Grace Googin was there for the first one and I had about 15 on the other tour.  Folks seemed to be into it and thanked me a lot […]

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High-Tech, High-Touch

32  bar steady 30.37  4mph NNW dewpoint 27                     Full Moon of Winds Out of the bronze age.  This was a splendid tour and a testimony to the high tech-high touch maxim of Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock.  This was 7 people, four Chinese and three Caucasian, who met through the Meet-Up website.  They had all […]

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