ParkCityGlisse

Lenley Hensarling's Blog on Park City and all things about the mountains.

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Epic fail at SLC Airport

All of the gates to get out of the airport are shut down and the won’t let us out. Epic malfunction 30 minutes and they have no idea when we will get out.

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The weather for Asher’s first week. It snowed. I liked that. 

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Asher is 4 now, he soon will have a brother and a sister.

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“For me, language is a freedom. As soon as you have found the words with which to express something, you are no longer incoherent, you are no longer trapped by your own emotions, by your own experiences; you can describe them, you can tell them, you can bring them out of yourself and give them to somebody else. That is an enormously liberating experience, and it worries me that more and more people are learning not to use language; they’re giving in to the banalities of the television media and shrinking their vocabulary, shrinking their own way of using this fabulous tool that human beings have refined over so many centuries into this extremely sensitive instrument. I don’t want to make it crude, I don’t want to make it into shopping-list language, I don’t want to make it into simply an exchange of information: I want to make it into the subtle, emotional, intellectual, freeing thing that it is and that it can be.”

— Jeanette Winterson  +

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“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”

— Mark Rothko, born on this day in 1903

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“I love subversive humour, freckles, knees, the long hair of women, the laugh of young children at liberty, a young girl running in the street. I wish for real love, the impossible and the utopian. I fear knowledge of my exact limits.”

— René Magritte

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...there could be no complete sentence save one which it would take all time to pronounce...

Fenollosa

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Feb 2017 I want to live in that expanse.

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city cabin ~ olson kundig | photos © aaron leitz

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“I think there’s a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there’s still time. I think that’s a social role, don’t you? … We keep expressing our anger and our love, and we hope, hopelessly perhaps, that it will have some effect. But I certainly have moved beyond the despair, or the searing, dumb vision that I felt after writing The Lice; one can’t live only in despair and anger without eventually destroying the thing one is angry in defense of. The world is still here, and there are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don’t pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.”

— W.S. Merwin, on poetry

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Late season turns in the Wasatch

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Britta Marakatt-Labba, Historja (2003–07); Embroidery, print, appliqué, and wool on linen

Britta Marakatt-Labba was born in Idivuoma, outside of Kiruna in northern Sweden, Growing up with a deep knowledge of the collective practice of reindeer husbandry (her parents and her husband are rein-deer herders), this sense of movement and migration permeates her textile works. A defining feature of Historja is its undulating horizon line. A procession of animals emerges from the woods in a procession; first foxes, then bears, then ungulates (all holy for Sámi), then the first people emerge following the reindeer, first on foot and then on sleds. An entire history is on view, one that begins and ends with Sámi cosmology, in between are different formations of people, who are herding animals, tending to crops and cattle, drying fish. Yet they are also engaged in other Important activities as well: revolting against oppressive authorities (the 1851 Kautokeino uprising) as well as gathering together for political self-determination (marked by the first assembly in Sámi Parliament). This is not a linear history, there are deliberate breaks, shifts in style and content It can be read from right to left or left to right, the storyline generatively shifting with each subsequent view.(via shihlun)

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“Personal circumstance may prompt art, but the actual making of art is a revenge on circumstance.”

– Louise Glück, from Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry; “The Idea of Courage,”

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Bear spray, water, Spey rods and the Dean

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The courage to be something other than what one is, to give birth to oneself, and to leave one’s former body on the ground. And without having answered to anyone about whether it was worthwhile.

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Katrina Dodson, from The Complete Short Stories; “The Foreign Legion,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees.

Mark Rothko, born today in 1903. (via whitneymuseum)

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I recorded this on my iPhone at this reading because they walked onstage and it just felt like A MOMENT