19\u00a0 74% 20%\u00a0 0mph SSW\u00a0 bar29.93 rises\u00a0 windchill19\u00a0 Winter<\/p>\n
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Another workout in the past.\u00a0 Another pre-trip prep formats my workouts for outside aerobics and a few in the gym activities.<\/p>\n
Started rewatching the Emperor and the Assassin, the first of two relatively recent films that feature Qin Shi Huang-Di, the first emperor of China.\u00a0 He unified the warring states and created Qin-A, or China.\u00a0 There were dynasties before him, but they had kings, not emperors.\u00a0 During the Warring States Period, which immediately preceded Qin Shi Huang-Di’s feat of unification, several different philosophical systems arose in an attempt to find a way toward peace.\u00a0 This was the era of Kong, the creator of Confucian thought, the legendary Lao-Tze, to whom the Tao Te Ching is attributed and the founders of the Legalist school of governance.\u00a0 Many more systems arose, but these three\u00a0had lasting impact.<\/p>\n
In the Frederick Scheel photography exhibit I went to Henri Cartier-Bresson’s image of Piet Mondrian’s glasses.\u00a0 Sure enough, they look like the ones I wear now, not surprising, perhaps, since mine are of German manufacture.\u00a0 Michelle Yates suggested I look at it.\u00a0 I also spent some time in the\u00a0Islamic gallery.\u00a0 The Koran pages and the miniatures that illustrated Persian books reminded me that the illustrated manuscripts of the Middle Ages also marry word and image.\u00a0 They represent yet another instance in which literary analysis can abet art history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
19\u00a0 74% 20%\u00a0 0mph SSW\u00a0 bar29.93 rises\u00a0 windchill19\u00a0 Winter \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Gibbous Winter Moon Another workout in the past.\u00a0 Another pre-trip prep formats my workouts for outside aerobics and a few in the gym activities. Started rewatching the Emperor and the Assassin, the first of two relatively recent films that feature Qin Shi Huang-Di, the … Continue reading Mondrian’s Glasses<\/span>