Like a Holy Face

The Sower, by Vincent van Gogh

Only as a child am I awake
and able to trust
that in every fear and every night
I will behold you again.

However often I get lost,
however far my thinking strays,
I know you will be here, right here,
untouched by time.

To me it is as if I were at once
infant, boy, man and more.
I feel that only as it circles
is abundance found.

I thank you, deep power
that works me ever more lightly
in ways I can't make out.
The day's labor grows simple now,
and like a holy face
held in my dark hands.

Daily Thoughts 8/25/2011

Wagner & McGuigan's Steam Lithographic Print Establishment, No. 4 Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place, Philadelphia Print shows printing plant, printers at work, and symbols of the printing trade and the United States to advertise the firm. Date Created/Published: [between 1850 and 1857]

Daily Thoughts 8/25/2011

This morning, I read a little bit more of Make It Stick.  They are writing about how to catch peoples attention and surprise people.

I also checekd the Twitter account and the Facebook account and made sure the displays were in order.
Today was a busy day, I ended up writing two reports for the library for the web committee.  There are a lot of things which should be changing soon.

Some donations came in.  I added some manga, specifically Deathnote and Claymore as well as a whole bunch of science fiction paperbacks based on the Xbox game Halo.

We are having the second part of the Women's Enterprise Development Center session for First Steps which is an introduction to entrepreneurship.  It runs from 5:30-7:30 p.m. tonight.  I think it will go well.  There were so many people in the room that we had to pull out an extra table for people to sit at.

I am also going to ACBAW Association of Community Based Arts of Westchester tonight for the Mount Vernon Writers Network group. http://www.acbaw.org/

The meeting went quite well.  We had a chance to discuss an event that was going to happen at Lola's Tea House in Pelham, New York on September 29, 2011 in the evening where everyone would read a few pieces of their work, give a brief biography, and discuss why they write. 

A Conference on A Digital Public Library of America
http://unabashedlibrarian.com/ul-conferences/2011-conference

On the way home, I read some more of Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick.  The book is very interesting because of how obviously wrong the hacker, Kevin Mitnick acts.  He pulls exploits then can't stop and get away or plan for more long term actions.  He gets caught repeatedly and often does not come across as being very lucid or cool headed in his actions. It is often an object lession in how not to do these things.

Another fascinating thing about the book is how people are described as too trusting with personal information. Kevin Mitnick hacks into the social security office, the FBI, various phone companies, the Departement of Vehicles, and many other places.  The book reveals how little privacy we have with so much of our personal information.

I have to get a biography of Abraham Lincoln for a Biography Book Club which we are planning for September 20, 4-5 p.m.

Web Bits

20 Celebrities With Stunning Home Libraries
http://www.accreditedonlinecolleges.com/blog/2011/20-celebrities-with-stunning-home-libraries

Kickstarter Project American Commons Photographing Libraries Across the Nation
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1370597130/american-commons-photographing-libraries-across-th

The Press of Time

Blossoming Almond Branch

in a Glass with a Book

by Vincent van Gogh

We set the pace,
But this press of time—
take it as a little thing
next to what endures.

All this hurrying
soon will be over.
Only when we tarry
do we touch the holy.

Young ones, don't waste your courage
racing so fast,
flying so high.

See how all things are at rest—
darkness and morning light,
blossom and book.

Sonnets to Orpheus I, 22

Daily Thoughts 8/24/2011

A Chinese revolving typecase from the agricultural book Nong Shu, written by the Chinese official and agronomist Wang Zhen, published in the year 1313 CE during the Yuan Dynasty.

Daily Thoughts 8/24/2011

This morning, I read a little bit more of Ghost in the Wire.  It becomes clear when the reading the book, that Kevin Mitnick was absolutely absorbed with computers and telephones to the point where little else mattered.  I also read some more of Make It Stick which is describing how to simplify and focus your message.

This morning, I took some time to update the displays, check the gifts, and put together a flyer for a biography book club.  The Friends of the Library had asked for the club as well as some of the people from the Adult Summer Reading program.

I also spent some time checking the Facebook and Twitter accounts.

We have two programs running this evening.  The Womens Enterprise Development Center is running a program called Is Small Business Right For You today and tomorrow from 5:30-7:30 p.m..  We also have Arts Westchester tonight which is doing a program on a grant for local artists from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Jonathan Lethem has a new book coming out in November called The Ecstasy of Influence.  I rather enjoyed his science fiction writing, especially Gun, With Occassional Music.

Web Bits


52 Ways to Use Your Library Card
http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ALA_print_layout_1_229857_229857.cfm

The Knight

Winter Garden, by Vincent van Gogh

The knight rides forth in coal-black steel
into the teeming world.

Outside his armor everything is there: sunlight and valley,
friend and foe and feast,
May, maiden, forest and grail,
and God himself in a thousand forms
to be found along every road.

But inside the armor darkly enclosing him
crouches death. And the thought comes
and comes again:
When will the blade
pierce this iron sheath,
the undeserved and liberating blade
that will fetch me from my hiding place
where I've been so long compressed—

so that, at last, I may stretch my limbs
and hear my full voice.

Book of Images

Daily Thoughts 8/23/2011

Carl Spitzweig, 1880 Der Schreiber

 Daily Thoughts 8/23/2011

This morning, I read some of Make It Stick.  It is about why stories are memorable and hard to forget.  It sets a series of ideas on how to make what you are saying interesting.

We had a very nice donation of manga in the donations this morning.  There were copies of Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Black Cat, GTO, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and other titles which were all in excellent shape.

I took some time to update the Twitter account and the Facebook account.  I learned that I can post as my page if I change my account setting in the Accounts setting of the Facebook page.  This is quite interesting.  I also checked the displays and updated the current events display.

I sent in my planned programs for the month.  I will have to print up flyers for the programs as well today.

Three books came in for me to read, Kevin Mitnick with William L. Simon, Ghost in the Wires, My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker, Hard Magic by Laryy Correia, and The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan.

I also spent a little time reading Library Journal and Publishers Weekly today as well as making some flyers for upcoming programs.


I tried reading some more of Made to Stick on the way home on train, but got bored.  The information is useful, but it becomes repetitive.  I decided to read Ghost In The Wires by Kevin Mitnick.  It is quite interesting.  Kevin Mitnick comes across as being obsessed with computers and hacking and lacking in common sense or caution.  This makes for an excellent story.  He can's stop doing what he is doing even when he is caught repeatedly.

I watched half an hour more of the CS 5 Indesign class which is about half way through the class.  I still have an hour to go.  I'll probably then read InDesign CS5 for Windows and Macintosh by Sandee Cohen.  I also finished watching the Lynda.com session on Facebook.

A arte de cozinhar: Isso pode ser prático e rápido

Depois de ver as dicas da Wlad, achei que valia à pena fazer um post sobre como a nossa vida na cozinha pode ser facilitada.
Eu normalmente não cozinho durante a semana (santa Ivanete, secretária do lar e protetora dos horários corretos para as refeições), mas já tive que encarar a dura rotina de trabalhar fora, cuidar da casa e dos filhos, o que inclui cozinhar. E aprendi algumas coisas para facilitar a minha vida na cozinha:
 
- Mantenha a cozinha organizada e a despensa abastecida.
- Organize o cardápio. Escolha pratos que não precisam de muitos acompanhamentos. Risoto, feijoada, bacalhoada (e mais todos os ada)... De quebra, você ainda irá sujar menos panelas.
- Deixe todos os temperos prontos: alho socado, cebola, cebolinha e salsa picados, cada um em um vidro na geladeira. (Nada de plástico, peloamordedeus!) Tenha também todos os temperos possíveis, o bom uso de temperos faz com que a comida, por mais simples, se torne muito saborosa.
- Deixe pronto um bom molho de tomates. Na hora do aperto, é ele que vai fazer a diferença!
- Cozinhe feijão para a semana toda, e congele em potes com a quantidade certa para cada dia.
- Faça o mesmo com a carne: Tempere e separe nas quantidades certas para cada dia. Quer ver a melhor forma de congelar bifes? Então clique aqui.
- Deixe as verduras lavadas e, se for o caso, picadas. Cada uma em uma vasilha (de vidro, please!)
- Torre arroz para mais de um dia. Depois, é só acrescentar água e pronto!
- Deixe sempre um prato já pronto, congelado, para algum dia que você se atrasar.
- E sempre vá lavando as vasilhas enquanto cozinha!

E isso serve até para uma festa!
Para o aniversário do meu filho, no sábado, abusei de receitas práticas e saborosas. Preparei tudo no sábado de manhã e, quando cheguei na casa da minha mãe à tarde já estava com tudo pronto para servir.
Fizemos uma reunião sem qualquer frescura, do jeito que a gente gosta: mesa no quintal, família e aquela meia dúzia de amigos que parece até já fazer parte da família, churrasco e petiscos e muita risada.
O que tinha neste cardápio?

- Churrasco (carne comprada já temperada)
- Empadas e pastel assado (que encontrei prontinhas na geladeira da minha mãe)
- Cebolas ao vinho
- Pasta de alho
- Pães (francês, pão de forma comum e pão de forma integral trigo e linho)
- Patê de atum
- Patê de milho
- Batata Ruffles, palmito, ovos de codorna, azeitonas, queijos
- Bolo (comprado na padaria, mas com sabor de feito em casa, divino!)
- Brigadeiro tradicional
- Brigadeiro de laranja
- Paçoquinha de colher
- Bombocado
Tudo simples e prático. Fiquei na cozinha de 8:00 às 11:00, preparei tudo, embalei e ainda deu tempo de terminar de fazer o meu tomate seco.


E você, tem algum truque para facilitar a vida na cozinha?
Beijos

The Blooming of One Flower

daylily photo by Ruth

Never, not for a single day, do we let
the space before us be so unbounded
that the blooming of one flower is forever.

From the Eighth Duino Elegy

Daily Thoughts 8/22/2011

Ларионов Михаил Федорович. Портрет поэта Велимира Хлебникова. 1910
 Daily Thoughts 8/22/2011

 I finished reading The Non-Designers Web Book 2nd Edition written by Robin Williams and John Tollett this morning. I plan on handing it off to a colleague tomorrow.  I thought it was quite interesting.  It helped me make a  few decisions about this site.I still have quite a bit to look at.

This morning, I spent a bit of time looking at Facebook and Twitter.  People are steadily adding themselves to the Facebook site.

I also spent some time on http://www.searchenginewatch.com

I also started reading Make It Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath.   

There is a webinar on Introduction to InDesign CS5 which I have started watching. http://connectpro13726942.adobeconnect.com/p36131980/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal

The Abundance of Being

Karnak, Egypt

wikipedia

In spite of Fate, the marvelous abundance
of being, like the brimming land
or like stone figures
built into gateways, bearing up balconies.

Or a bronze bell, lifting its voice
over and over against the dullness of our days.
Or that single column in Karnak, standing
long after the temple fell.

Today this extravagance flashes by
in the blur of our haste,
out of the wide yellow day into the vaulted night.

In that rush it dissolves, leaving nothing behind,
just as a plane overhead makes no mark on the sky.
Only our minds see the curve of its flight.

Sonnets to Orpheus II, 22

El mundo, nuestro mundo

"El mundo, y esto también incluye nuestro mundo interior, es un lugar muy especial. Los triunfos externos no significan nada si no se triunfa también interiormente. Hay una gran diferencia entre el bienestar y la riqueza. ...He aprendido que controlarse y tener cuidado de la mente, el cuerpo y alma es esencial para encontrar lo mejor de uno mismo y vivir la vida que habiamos soñado. ¿cómo podemos atender a los demás si no lo hacemos con nosotros mismos? ¿como puedes hacer el bien si ni siquiera te sientes bien? ¿A quien quieres amar si no puedes amarte a ti mismo?"

"El monjo que es va vendre el ferrari"

Daily Thoughts 8/21/2011

An update of the logo to the header.  I wanted to be consistent with my buttons in various places around the internet.

Daily Thoughts 8/21/2011

I spent some time on Facebook this morning.  I also read some more of The Non-Designer's Web Book.

This is a reminder that September is National Library Card Sign Up Month.  Please get a library card if you do not have one, or encourage people to sign up for one.  http://www.mountvernonpubliclibrary.org/PSACard  

I spent a few minutes looking at the Open Font Library today.  It is a set of fonts available for noncommercial use. http://openfontlibrary.org

At the laundromat, I read some more of the Non-Designer's Web Book 2nd Edition.  There are some changes it is suggesting that would require me to restructure all the posts.  I am not sure that this would work.  I did make some changes to the color scheme and fonts.

I didn't write any reviews today.  I relaxed a bit and read two graphic novels.  The first was The Sons of Liberty Death and Taxes which is a superhero story set during the American revolution  
The second was Feynman, a graphic novel about Richard Feynman, the nobel prize winning physicist.  It was quite relaxing.

Web Bits

Mount Vernon Public Library to Provide Sony Ereader Training for Westchester County Librarians
 http://www.mvinquirer.com/ereader_training_for_westchester.htm

The Carousel (II)

Le Carrousel au Jardin du Luxembourg

by Jean Latour

It goes on and hurries to some end,
just circling and turning without a goal.
Flashes of red, of green, of grey whirl past,
solid shapes barely glimpsed.

Sometimes a smile comes toward us,
and, like a blessing, shines and is gone
in this dizzying parade with no destination.

New Poems

Daily Thoughts 8/20/2011

Imagen del funcionamiento de la tecnologia eInk

Daily Thoughts 8/20/2011

As always, I checked my Twitter and Facebook accounts. I also spent a bit of time thinking about a training session for librarians on Ereaders which is happening on September 7, 2011.

This afternoon, I replaced my old printer.  I could not buy ink cartridges for my old computer.  Now, I can scan and make copies with the new one.  Printers have dropped in price an incredible amount.  I got an HP 4500.  I could fax if I wanted to, but I don't have an extra phone line.

I also finished reading Make Yourself Unforgettable.  It was a bit uncomfortable reading at points.  The book touched on some of my personal flaws.

I started reading The Non-Designers Web Book, 2nd Edition today.

Web Bits

Boys and Reading Is There Any Hope?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/boys-and-reading-is-there-any-hope.html?_r=1

The Carousel (I)

Jardin du Luxembourg Carousel

found here

Under its canopy, in the shade it casts,
turns a world with painted horses,
all from a land that lingers a while
before it disappears.
Some, it's true, are harnessed to a wagon,
but all have valor in their eyes.
A fierce red lion leaps among them,
and here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.

Even a stag appears, straight from the forest,
except for the saddle he wears, and,
buckled on it, a small boy in blue.

And a boy in white rides the lion,
gripping it with small clenched hands,
while the lion flashes teeth and tongue.

And here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.

And riding past on charging horses come girls,
bright-eyed, almost too old now for this children's play.
With the horses rising under them,
they are looking up and off to what awaits.

And here comes 'round a snow-white elephant.

New Poems

Daily Thoughts 8/19/2011

Don Quichotte bei der Lektüre. Bleistift auf Velin. Ca. 23,5 : 16 cm. Rechts unten monogrammiert "AF".

Daily Thoughts 8/19/2011

I stopped by briefly at work.  We spent some time discussing business cards and the library logo.  I was also asked to read a book The Non-Designers Web Book, 2nd Edition by Robin Williams and John Tollett.  It is supposed to be an excellent book for web design.  I also turned in some Photo/Video/Audio releases for the Mount Vernon Writers Network so we can post images on our website of the event.

I also spent some time looking over my Facebook and Twitter accounts.

On the way home, I read some more of Make Yourself Unforgettable.  The book is describing ways to be more patient and empathic.

Web Bits

When "Library" is not an Action but an Old Building by Dr. Troy Swanson
http://tametheweb.com/2011/08/15/when-%E2%80%9Clibrary%E2%80%9D-is-not-an-action-but-an-old-building-a-ttw-guest-post-by-dr-troy-swanson/

Mostrando defeitos

Olá meninas!
Hoje é sexta-feira, dia de repensar o projeto do fim de semana, e para isso nada melhor que ver os defeitos nas decorações alheias. Aquelas fotos, que parecem tão perfeitinhas, e de repente... a gente vê que não funciona!
Então vamos lá:

 

Esse fim de semana estarei fora, vou para a casa da mamis comemorar o aniversário do filhote.
E hoje será dia de investir na cozinha e preparar tudo pra levar.
Segunda tô de volta.
Beijos e bom fim de semana!

Erect No Gravestone

Roses and mimosa

by Marc Chagall

Erect no gravestone. Just let the rose
bloom every year for him.
For this is Orpheus: metamorphosis
into one thing, then another.

We need not search for other names.
It is Orpheus in the singing, once and for all time.
He comes and goes. Is it not enough
that sometimes he outlasts a bowl of roses?

Oh, if you could understand—he has no choice but to disappear,
even should he long to stay. As his song
exceeds the present moment,

so is he already gone where we cannot follow.
The lyre's strings do not hold back his hands.
It is in moving farther on that he obeys.

Sonnets to Orpheus I, V

Uma cozinha acolhedora

Quando vi essa cozinha aqui me encantei. Achei super acolhedora e, mesmo com tantos detalhes, dá aquela impressão de que as coisas foram achando seu lugar, de forma despretenciosa...

Vai dizer que você não sente uma vontade louca de sentar nessa mesa?
Beijos

Daily Thoughts 8/18/2011

John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: Reading, 1911, Watercolor On Paper 

Daily Thoughts 8/18/2011

I finished reading Stand and Deliver.  There is an excellent reminder that people go nowhere without specific goals in their life.   I also updated the Twitter account and checked on the Facebook account. We are having the Mount Vernon Writers Network, 8/18/2011 from 6:00-8:00 p.m..  I think it will go very well because there is a little bit more networking and preparation put into the program itself.  The Mount Vernon Writers Network is on Facebook.  I am rather enjoying it being held at the library.

I also spent some time looking at the databases.

The Writers Networking Event went very well.  We are planning for an outing to Pelham, New York to Lola's Tea House which has a writers group as well.  We are going to discuss why we write.  I read two poems including:

Blue Sky Thinking

Sky blue thinking is as vast as open fields

where we touch the earth.

Blue sky thinking is wide as the blue sky

where we touch the heavens

Sky blue thinking is moving past hills

rolling on a slow train

Blue sky is endless open vistas

flying on a fast plane

Sky blue thinking is like a robins egg

solidifying our reality

Blue sky thinking is an indstrial diamond

the world of tomorrow

Sky blue thinking promises the new

Blue sky thinking lives in the now

Blue sky and sky blue are the same color.

I read some more of Make Yourself Unforgettable.  There are some interesting sections on listening and being relaxed.  Right now, I am reading about patience.

Dread and Mystery

Lovers in Gray, by Marc Chagall

More than once I have mentioned to you how my life and work have been guided by the effort to overcome the old pressures that rob us of mystery, the mystery essential to our capacity to love from fullness. Humanity has been terrified and beset by dread; but is there anything noble and gracious that has not, from time to time, worn the mask of dread?

Letter to Countess Margot Sizzo-Noris-Crouy

April 12, 1923

Daily Thoughts 8/17/2011

Part of the collection: Bookplates. Inscription on bookplate: "Lionel Lindsay ex libris". Handwritten in pencil on bookplate: "Proof". "1933"--on album page. Title supplied by cataloguer

Daily Thoughts 8/17/2011

This morning I read a little bit more of Stand And Deliver.  Right now the book is writing about persuasion and emotion.  It reminds us that everyone is interested in themselves.

I spent some time getting raffle tickets ready for the Adult Summer Reading Tea.  I also checked the displays, and looked over the Facebook page.  I also checked on Twitter.  I bought some tea this morning and cookies.  We are also going to have some small sandwiches. 

I spent some time in the computer lab from 2:00-3:00 p.m. helping a few people with job searching.

We had the Adult Summer Reading Tea today from 4:00-6:00 p.m.  We raffled off a bag of books for people who participated in the Adult Summer Reading program.  We also served tea, coffee,  and cookies and discussed the library.  Part of the discussion centered around creating a Biography book club in September.  Quite a few of the attendees were from the Friends of the Mount Vernon Public Library.  They are going to have a meeting soon.

We also discussed a variety of books which we had been reading.  Some of them were The Reader by Bernhardt Schlink, Happy All the Time by Laurie Colwin which is a romantic comedy of manners, No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy, and American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

This was the finish for the Adult Summer Reading Program.  It is the second Adult Summer Reading program which we have run.  It went better than last year.  We had more people who were interested in the program.  It also had more involvement with the Mount Vernon Public Library Friends of the LIbrary.

The graphic novel, Feynman written by Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Myrick, and coloring by Hilary Sycamore came in for me to read.  

Verdade que se pôe na mesa - e agradecimentos

Olá meninas,
Durante as Olimpíadas de Inverno, ouvi uma frase da Ana Paula Padrão que nunca mais me saiu da mente. Falava sobre o limite. Pintar um móvel foi para mim, uma superação. E nada melhor que a frase da Ana Paula Padrão para registrar o que sinto vendo esta mesa, e também para que eu nunca me esqueça desta grnade verdade:

E na minha gaveta, eu guardo o que é importante:

E você, o que deixaria escrito na sua mesa?


Quero agradeccer, de coração,  a todos que rezaram por Ana Flávia, e peço que continuem lembrando dela em suas orações. Apesar de parecer começar a reagir, ela continua na UTI e seu estado ainda é muito preocupante. 

Beijos!

Confession

Landscape at Moonrise, by Vincent van Gogh

I always wish to tell someone (I don't know who) "Don't be sad." And it seems to me that this is so trusting a confession that I must express it softly and delicately and in the dimness of twilight.

Early Journals

Por favor, façam uma oração para Ana Flávia

Quem acompanha o blog talvez se lembre da primeira vez que pedi que rezassem por ela.

Ana Flávia lutou corajosamente contra um câncer e ainda continua em tratamento.
Hoje ela está na UTI, com uma infecção.
E é por isso que peço, mais uma vez, que tirem um minuto do dia de vocês e façam uma oração por ela, e por sua família, que sofre ao seu lado.

Perdoem minha ausência, mas não farei visitas ou responderei comentários hoje. Estou por demais triste.

Obrigada a todos!

Beijos

Daily Thoughts 8/16/2011

Portrait of Father, Bruno Liljefors, 1884, Oil on Canvas

Daily Thoughts 8/16/2011

This morning, I read some of Stand and Deliver.  I am reading about humor in speeches and stage fright.  I am enjoying reading the book.

This morning I checked the displays, checked the gift books, updated the Twitter and Facebook pages.  I a  I have been adding some pictures from events to the Facebook page.  I also did some weeding today as well.

I also plan on reading The Sons of Liberty Death and Taxes which is a superhero graphic novel set during the American revolution.  The two heros are escaped slaves with superpowers.

I watched part of a webinar called Branding Through Custom Typography.  It was kind of interesting.  The presenter talked about creating custom type faces for Xbox and Google Android.

Tonight, I have the website committee to go to.

We also have the Computer Class today from 6-7 p.m. in the computer lab.

The Man Watching (I)

Wheat Fields in a Storm, by Vincent van Gogh

How small is what we wrestle with,
and what wrestles with us, how immense.

If we could overcome, as things are,
in a great storm,
we would grow vast and need no names.

The Book of Images

Daily Thoughts 8/15/2011

Корин А.М. "За книгой", 1900, холст, масло, Дальневосточный художественный музей
Daily Thoughts 8/15/2011

I checked the displays, picked out some young adult titles to be added from the gift books,  updated the Twitter and Facebook accounts, and checked the gift books.  I am also spending some time working on Bookletters today.  I called people for the Writers Networking Event on August 18, 2011 from 6-8 p.m., and the End of Summer Reading Tea on Wednesday, August 17, from 4-6 p.m.  I also spent some time setting up the bag of books which will be raffled off for the participants in the Adult Summer Reading Program.

I wrote a poem for the Writers Networking Event as well as put down five reasons why I write.  We are going to do an exercise as a group explaining reasons why we write.  

I spent a small amount of time updating the Bookletters page today.  It has been a while since I did this.
http://library.booksite.com/7273/nl/?list=CNL7  I also spent some time looking at the website statistics.  I am on a committee for the website.  People are coming to use our online research links.

Two books by the Dale Carnegie Training Institute came in for me to read Stand and Deliver How to Become a Masterful Communicator and Public Speaker and Make Yourself Unforgettable How to Become the Person Everyone Remembers and No One Can Resist.  Right now, I am reading Stand and Deliver which is about how to communicate with people both in person and in front of large crowds.  It is very much a motivational book.  I read a bit of Make Yourself Unforgettable which is about how to have poise and class.  Make yourself Unforgettable is very much a book about how to show confidence.  Neither of the book is a formal work, there are no references and they have strong opinions.

The Ancient Night of Your Name

The End of the Day, by Vincent van Gogh

A thousand theologians were immersed
in the ancient night
of your name.
Virgins awoke to you
and lads in silver shimmered
in you, you battleground.

In your cloistered walkways
poets would meet.
Gentle, deep, and masterful,
they were kings and queens of sound.

You are the tender evening hour
that all poets equally love.
You are the darkness pressing within them
and the treasure each discovers,
in surrounding you with endless praise.

A hundred thousand harps lift
and swing you out of silence.
And your primordial winds are bringing
to all things and needs
the breath of your majesty.

The Book of Hours I, 54

Daily Thoughts 8/14/2011

Set of Books with Cherry Blossoms, Chosui Yabu, Between 1858-1862, Woodblock Print


Daily Thoughts 8/14/2011


I spent some time on http://www.wearemedia.org which is a social media for nonprofits tutorial site.  I also spent some time updating my Facebook page.  It is a learning experience.

I also worked a bit on an online training module from Lynda.com which Westchester Library System provides for two months for employees that are part of member libraries.  I watched a training video on Facebook and am starting another training video on Social Media Marketing with Facebook and Twitter.  I rather like the sound of one idea, "Word of keyboard".

I also have got a new printer today.  They no longer sell ink cartridges for my current printer, so I had to go out and get a new one.  This time, I got a new one with fax, copy, and scan in addition to printing.  Hopefully, this will come in useful.

This afternoon, I went to Barnes and Noble and picked up some magnetic clip bookmarks for the Bag of Books which will be raffled off to a participant in the Adult Summer Reading Tea which is on August 17, 4-6 p.m., as well as picked up some wafer cookies and tea biscuits from the local produce market.

In addition, I read some more of Heartless by Gail Carriger in the laundromat.

I Am Sometimes Like a Tree

Churchyard at Tara, Ireland

photo by Ruth

So I am sometimes like a tree
rustling over a gravesite
and making real the dream
of the one its living roots
embrace:

a dream once lost
among sorrows and songs.

From The Book of Hours I, 5

Daily Thoughts 8/13/2011

Reading Aloud, oil painting by Charles W. Bartlett, 1892
Daily Thoughts 8/13/2011

I read some more of Heartless by Gail Carriger this morning.  I also started doing some of the writing exercises in Six-Week Start-Up by Rhonda Abrams.  A lot of the beginning is about clarifying your ideas.

I spent a bit more time on Facebook this morning trying to figure out what needed to be done.  The pages and groups are new to me.

If Something of the Ancestors Lives On

Rilke in Meudon

Rodin's studio and residence

Photographer: anonymous

Even the next era has no right to judge anything if it lacks the ability to contemplate the past without hatred or envy. But even that judgment would be one-sided, for every subsequent era is the fruit of previous periods and carries much of the past within it. It is fortunate if something of the ancestors lives on in it and continues to be loved and protected; only then does the past become fruitful and effective.

Early Journals

Mostrando defeitos

Depois de pintar as minhas mesinhas, que ainda não estão totalmente prontas, eu fiquei mega feliz e muito, muito inspirada! E, com toda essa alegria, nada melhor que um post especial, com nada menos que 15 belas fotos para serem criticadas...
Isso mesmo, o Mostrando Defeitos de hoje terá 15 fotos! Então aproveite, se acomode na cadeira e seja chata à vontade!

Esta última foto foi indicada pela Lia Glória. Obrigada Lia, amei sua participação!



E se você se deparar com alguma coisa do tipo por aí, manda a dica. Adoro quando encontro implicantes por aí, e mais ainda mais quando vejo que vocês estão realmente gostando disso!
Beijos e bom fim de semana!