one stripey feather
It’s funny the pretty little things one notices while trying not to watch the dogs poop.
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Still Life with Apples and a Pomegranate by Gustave Courbet
Oh, I love this one. Amazing. The National Gallery (the UK one, not Canada) has more details and a zoomable version, which I highly recommend.
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UnDo It! How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases by Dean Ornish MD and Anne Ornish
I don’t have a chronic disease – as far as I know, dun dun DUNNN – and hopefully I never will since I already follow most of the advice in UnDo It!
For anyone living the standard North American lifestyle (heavy on the animal products, light on the exercise), however, this might be able to convince them to change their ways.
The early chapters on the science were good, but after that, there was a little too much advertisement of their workshops and weird insistence that group therapy would be helpful for everyone. Frankly, I’d rather have the chronic disease.
books
a socially distanced 80th
Standing around in the yard on a damp November afternoon doesn’t seem fitting for an 80th birthday celebration, but desperate times call for desperate measures. The kids, Evie (who has the energy of a thousand wolverines) and I (with my energy of a dead wolverine) harassed my dad for a while yesterday in honour of his eightieth trip around the sun. Hopefully by next year we’ll be able to actually go inside.
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and you think you’re having a rough day
Okay, so maybe this is a bit of an unlikely story, but the true highlight here is that someone thought to name a duck Rhadamanthus. I love it. Rhadamanthus – son of Zeus, king of Crete and one of the judges in the underworld. That’s a bad-ass duck.
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Victoria by Daisy Goodwin
Audiobook, narrated by Anna Wilson-Jones
A fictional account of the brief period between Victoria’s ascension to the throne and her engagement to Albert. It’s a light, easy, inoffensive story (except for Albert and Victoria being cousins, gross, but that isn’t the author’s fault) with a couple very mild social scandals, a doomed crush on an older man, and lots of talk about fancy hairstyles, dresses and balls. For an audience who craves this kind of thing, I bet it’s amazing. Personally, I found it a little underwhelming.
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yes, I’m still taking pictures of leaves
But I mean, come on. Look at this Japanese maple. A third of the way through November and it’s still going strong.
