Early Autumn, 13th century,
by Song loyalist painter Qian Xuan.
The decaying lotus leaves and dragonflies hovering over stagnant water are probably a veiled criticism of Mongol rule.
Qian Xuan - http://www.dia.org/the_collection/overview/viewobject.asp?objectid=57885
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Commentary
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Why don’t I have time to take myself to the MFA more often?
Pretty amazing that a retired guy can’t find the time.
Who by all rights of law and nature should be free to head over there right now.
Who’s stopping me?
What’s stopping me?
And yet I haven’t been there for a month.
Since the installation of the last major exhibit, Toulouse Lautrec, late April.
Art from China.
Japan.
Egypt.
Europe.
America, North and South.
There for the drinking in.
And yet tomorrow I’ll take the time to accompany a nine-year-old to a hands-on art class at the museum.
It’s two hours long.
I’ll wait for her.
If she likes it her mother will sign her up for future classes.
Who knows where it may lead?
So I have no issue committing the time to developing her talents.
But for myself?
Why can’t I take the time for myself?
While I’m at the museum waiting, I could visit.
But I won’t.
I will get my blog done.
That’s always the first chore after my early morning coffee, toilet, emails, planning, etc.
I admit to having learned a bit about blogging; each day taking me a little less time while penetrating deeper and deeper into the social media.
And it has freed up a little more ‘leisure’ time for me.
And with that time?
Lots of little jobs have backed up on me during this past year of learning, like organizing my coffee-making and wine-service and storage space.
And twenty others like that.
But after a year of slippage, I could let them go for another little bit while I indulge in something else that I love doing.
But I don’t.
I want to.
But I don’t.
But
The next few days will feature varying but seasonal temperatures, seventies to eighties with a lot of sun.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Our 442nd consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 442 posts we’re at the 8.84 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
We are racing to the 10% mark.
Now there’s a mark, 10%. Only 9 more such marks in front of us.
Time of posting is 12.01am on Friday.
On this day Boston will enjoy warm temperatures, with a high of 81* and a feels-like of 84* with a chance of thunderstorms.
Dinner Thursday was skirt steak, nicely cooked but not an overwhelming cut of meat.
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Chuckle of the Day:
Saturday, June 22, 2019
A man asks a farmer, “Sir, may I cross your field instead of going around it? I have to catch the 4:23 train."
Farmer, "Sure, go right ahead. And if my bull sees you, you'll even catch the 4:11."
4:11?
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Saturday, June 22, 2019
This referencing Fridays commentary from Kali L, from Sally C, a published author and an accomplished editor.
So, Dom, when will Kali collect and publish her work (other than here in your blog) to bless the rest of the world? Her poems are astonishing!
Sally
Web Meister Responds: When she feels the time is right she’ll have a lot of support, including you and I.
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Today’s Topic
Saturday, June 22, 2019
Ukiyo-e[a] is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.
The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as "picture[s] of the floating world".
ukiyo-e Beauty Looking Back, Moronobu, late 17th century
Beauty looking back
Hishikawa Moronobu - Tokyo National Museum
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
Hiroshige - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID jpd.01320.
Asian art is glorious.
You should see the matchbook I kept as a memento from a great Hong Kong restaurant.
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Good Morning on this Saturday, the twenty-second day of June, 2019
We posted a picture of Early Autumn, seven hundred years old.
Today’s commentary dealt with finding time to indulge ourselves in a trip to the museum, never seeming to find it for ourselves, but somehow finding it for others.
We posted the Boston weather report, the ticking calendar, and the growing number of posts as a time marker. And a complaint of skirt steak as a genre.
And we posted a chuckle.
We ended with a couple of ukiyo-e prints.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.