Tierra del Pedro

Austin, Texas

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Mom's thrift find, 1940 quilt squares.

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The digital divide in the post-Snowden era

Ian Clark

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First reading assignment, INF392K.

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First assignment, LAS386.

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Reading through grief.

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‘Hermit of the Jungle’ Guards a Brazilian Ghost City Rich in History

Shigeru Nakayama looks after Airão Velho, once the site of an Amazon rain forest rubber boom, which now lies in ruins.

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Not that grief vanishes--far from it--but that it begins in time to coexist with pleasure; sorrow sits right beside the rediscovery of what is to be cherished in experience.

Mark Doty Still Life with Oysters and Lemon

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“A pseudonymic work is, except for the name with which it is signed, the work of an author writing as himself; a heteronymic work is by an author writing outside his own personality: it is the work of a complete individuality made up by him, just as the utterances of some character in a drama would be.” 

Pessôa on Pessôa via poets.org

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Oscar Niemeyer’s Cathedral under construction. via The New York Times

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The heart is a repository of vanished things…

Mark Doty from Still Life With Oysters and Lemon

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That description is an inexact, loving art, and a reflexive one; when we describe the world we come closer to saying what we are.

Mark Doty from Still Life With Oysters and Lemon

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Consuelo Kanaga via The Brooklyn Museum

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"In play, whether it is the idyllic play we most like to envision or the play described by Eisen, children bring the realities of their world into a fictional context, where it is safe to confront them, to experience them, and to practice ways of dealing with them. Some people fear that violent play creates violent adults, but in reality the opposite is true. Violence in the adult world leads children, quite properly, to play at violence. How else can they prepare themselves emotionally, intellectually, and physically for reality? It is wrong to think that somehow we can reform the world for the future by controlling children's play and controlling what they learn. If we want to reform the world, we have to reform the world; children will follow suit. The children must, and will, prepare themselves for the real world to which they must adapt to survive."

-Peter Gray  Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life

via kottke.org

http://kottke.org/15/01/kids-the-holocaust-and-inappropriate-play

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Love is never wasted; otherwise it is not love.

Emily Rapp

From her essay on parenting after the loss of her son Ronan.

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“That’s why it takes courage / To get out of bed in the morning / And climb into the day.”

Edward Hirsch

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I find the best way to gain momentum is to think of the worst possible way to tackle the project. Quality may be elusive, but stupidity is always easily accessible; absurdity is fine, maybe even desired.

Frank Chimero