Category: Pensées
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Everything we bought at the grocery store today
Memorial Day, 2023. may melted like a sliver of ice under beneath my tongue / the crepe myrtles are blooming / already, it is hot
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Chez nous, à ce moment
Barely visible: the miniature salt and pepper shakers A. and I lifted from the room service breakfast cart the morning of our wedding; souvenir (to remember).
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Thankful For: Mom’s Old Shears
I VERY BRAVELY (READ: SHAKING, TERRIFIED) CUT MYSELF A NEW SET OF BANGS Excerpt from my techo, 11/24/22
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August’s Objets D’art
The Leg, the Frog and the Highball Glasses With my precious sister, K., visiting and a pocketful of spending money from my recent bridal shower, I had all the justification I needed this month to hit the antique stores of Dallas and add a few purely fun pieces to my collection of belongings. The Leg…
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Tanukichan: Sundays
Summer So Far The unbroken string of triple-digit temperatures in Texas this summer has had me longing for music better matched to the delirious heat: Tanukichan’s Sundays has turned out to be just that. This album is chock-full of all the crunchy, fuzzy, shoe-gazey guitar sounds you could ever want, but what makes it all…
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Women Painting Women
Highlights from The Modern Among my very favorite kinds of places to spend time (and money) are restaurants and Modern art museums, so when A. told me his dad wanted us to meet at the Café Modern in Ft. Worth for Father’s Day brunch, I was happy to come along. Better than the meal itself…
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My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Returning to Ghibli It hasn’t been until my adult life that I’ve begun to watch (and inevitably fall in love with) Studio Ghibli’s collection of animated films. The only one I saw as a child was Spirited Away (2001), and although I think it’s a masterpiece now, I distinctly remember being nothing short of traumatized…
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My Blueberry Nights (2007)
One Thing Leads to Another In terms of discovering art, I think there’s a lot to be said for following your nose. The logic follows: if you like one book by an author, it’s worth reading another. If there’s a director who makes great movies, why not watch them all? Even better is to find…
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Radiohead: In Rainbows
It’s lyrically sophisticated, emotionally driven, and still feels new almost 15 years after its initial release.
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An Ode to Public Transport
In a Station of the Metro A. took this photo when he came to visit me during the weeklong vacation I had for Toussaint. It’s a photo I return to often: not only because it is beautiful—the ceiling wet with colored light, the compositional spiral, the long, leading lines—but also because there is a love…