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== Hudson River Zen ==

From a recent visit to the Met!

Asher Brown Durand, 𝘚𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯, oil on canvas, 1865, Met: Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Summer landscape with a river on the left and cattle on the right under a grove of trees along the river bank. From the April 1915 Bulletin of the Met: "One of the latest of his pictures is called a 'Summer Afternoon,' and epresents a quiet landscape, with water, meadow, trees, and cattle, all bathed in the soft, calm, and mellow light of a warm day, after the fierce heat of noon has subsided, and before the breeze of evening stirs the foliage. The sky and atmosphere, the vegetation, and especially the noble groups of trees, all breathe an air of quiet, brooding warmth and repose. All Durand's rare faculty appears in the latter [the trees], which are full of local character; the details of the scene are exquisitely true, but the surpassing charm is that delicate and deep feeling which revives, as we gaze, the absolute sensation, and above all the sentiment of nature, under this aspect--a quality and a distinction which none of our scenic artists possess in so high a degree as the venerable friend of Cole, and, with him, the founder of an American school of landscape which has, at home and abroad, shed a peculiar renown upon the art of this country. We rejoice to find that Durand's powers of execution and tone of feeling are as vivid and pure as ever; this picture has all his most endeared characteristics." Detail of two cows at water's edge and another approaching from behind a gentle rise in the land. Trees and horizon form the background. Detail of tree branches and leaves with sky in the background. Yours truly posing in front of the painting in visible storage at the Met.
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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One positive development already!

Apparently old straight white men aren’t good at not molesting girls.
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Okay, it’s not an Asher Durand painting, but it almost seems like having one in our home after a Herculean effort to clean years of grime off a window that’s 20 feet off the ground.

Bring on the winter. We’ll grab as much light as we can from these upstate NY skies!
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Unclear why “girls lack innate capacity for math” didn’t destroy this ass.
lilianasegura.bsky.social Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 5d
"Mr. Summers added that he would continue teaching as an economics professor at Harvard" Wow really okay
Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Asher Brown Durand, 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦, oil on canvas, 1855, St. Louis Art Museum, www.slam.org/collection/o...
Composition with birch trees in the center and right of the canvas, seeming to mark the entrance to a forest. Blue sky and distant bluish mountains. Rocks, roots, and leaves in the foreground.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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🇪🇹 Ethiopian Cooking 🇪🇹

Kik Alicha | ክክ አልጫ

Yellow split peas, but the real yellow is from the turmeric! Crucial: fresh garlic and ginger--i.e. from cloves and roots, not convenient little bottles. 😊

Cheers to the Toronto Star @thestar.com for the easy recipe.
Close-up photo of a bright yellow stew with identifiable split peas.
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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🇪🇹Ethiopian Cooking 🇪🇹

Azifa | አዚፋ

Second effort. Better seasoned. Recipe looks easy but getting the balance right is tricky.

Tried sautéed onions and jalapeños initially, but decided uncooked with more crunch and flavor are better, esp. the red onions.

Next time: less lentil-mashing!
Close-up photograph of the salad. Olive-colored lentils dominate with bits of minced red onion and jalapeño. Glistens from lemon juice and olive oil.
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Statement from the Unitarian Universalist Association and 8 other denominations:
“…our faiths call on us to proclaim that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people deserve respect, love, and equal rights.… our beloveds are created in the image of God – Holy and whole.”
www.uua.org/pressroom/pr...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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ORIGINAL ANTI-FASCIST!

Here’s to my late grandfather: 2nd Infantry Division machine gunner (😳). Normandy, Battle of the Bulge, invasion of Germany, liberation of camps, and on to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia before returning to train for the invasion of Japan.
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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ቲማቲም ሰላጣ 🇪🇹

Timatim Salata

Not hard to make, but the ginger and (if one likes) berbere give it a different profile than salsa.
Overhead view of a newly made bowl of Ethiopian Tomato Salad. Bits of diced Roma tomato, red onion, and jalapeño glisten with lemon juice and olive oil. Less visible but not lost in the taste: finely minced ginger.
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Squirrel!

Asher Brown Durand, 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴, oil on canvas, 1855, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
In this monumental painting, based on outdoor sketches made in New York’s Catskill Mountains during the summer of 1854, Durand focused on rendering the shadowy solitude of the deep woods. While the painting was on view at the National Academy of Design in 1855, the artist published his acclaimed "Letters on Landscape Painting." He wrote in evocative terms: "That is a fine picture which at once takes possession of you—draws you into it—you traverse it—breathe its atmosphere—feel its sunshine, and you repose in its shade without thinking of its design or execution, effect or color." Detail of the woods Detail of the sky, mountain, and river visible at the far opening through the forest like a tunnel Detail of the squirrel sitting on a fallen tree trunk
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Has @schumer.senate.gov realized yet how much he and other triangulating centrists are going to regret repudiating the principle of party unity and forfeiting their credibility ever to urge it on anyone else again?
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Who’s going to tell Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Gavin Newsom that anti-trans ads failed tonight?
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Cause > Effect

Time for a batch of Aunt Virginia’s chili!
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🎃 Hudson River Zen 🎃

Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘯, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘵., 51-120, 1819, New York: C.S. Van Winkle, archive.org/details/irvi...

John Quidor, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘥 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘦, 1858, Smithsonian, americanart.si.edu/artwork/head...
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Face-to-Leaf!

Asher Brown Durand, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴, oil on canvas, 1845, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti....
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Great time watching the great Krakowski tonight!
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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🇪🇹Ethiopian Cooking 🇪🇹

Azifa | አዚፋ

Chilled Green Lentil Salad 😊

Note to self: Don’t fear the ground mustard and jalapeños
Small bowl of Azifa, a chilled green lentil salad with red onion, jalapeños, olive oil, ground mustard, and lemon juice.
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Asher Brown Durand, 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴' 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳, oil on canvas, 1864, Yale University Art Gallery, artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...

#art #painting #zen
October 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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I’ve never felt a need for a rainbow flag in my office. But now federal workers are being fired for pride displays, with the cult cheering it on. So I decided to dedicate a new pride flag to Trumpers, deliberately positioned in my Zoom background next to my faculty awards for teaching and service. 🏳️‍🌈
October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Autumn Arrival

Asher Brown Durand, [𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦,] 𝘏𝘢𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯, 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵, oil on canvas, 1852, San Antonio Museum of Art, sanantonio.emuseum.com/objects/1202...

#art #painting #zen
From the Museum: Part of the Green Mountain Range, Haystack Mountain is located near Wilmington, in the far southern center of Vermont. The highly precise sense of draftsmanship with which Asher B. Durand renders the foliage surrounding his lone hiker and dog, as well as the texture of the mountain in the distance, is a legacy of the artist’s first career. Before turning to easel painting, Durand originally worked as an engraver, who produced not only banknotes, but also translated other artists’ paintings into works on paper. This forever left him with a highly detailed sense of line and detail, which is readily apparent in this peaceful scene. (William Keyse Rudolph, 2014)
October 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Summer Sunset

Asher Brown Durand, 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦, 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘵 [a.k.a. 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘳], oil on canvas, 1849, R.W. Norton Art Gallery, www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...

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66" x 48" painting. "In the foreground is a pile of rocks, upon which is a bear; beyond are hills, among which is a winding river. In the distance are mountains, and behind them the sun is setting." (TERRA Foundation for American Art) From Knickerbocker magazine, May 1849: "Look at this glorious picture before us; gaze with hand protected eye over that range of dim and sun-powdered mountains, until you catch, just over the last range, the setting orb day. The middle-distance lies in shadow, and the foreground, made up of rocks and waving pines, gleams and glitters in the last rays of the sun. To add to the lonely desolation of the scene, a bear is introduced in the foreground, sole occupant of the vast solitudes that lie beneath and around him."
October 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Lost and Found!

Albert Bierstadt, 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦, oil on canvas, ca. 1858, National Gallery of Art, www.nga.gov/artworks/715...

#art #painting #zen
September 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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== Hudson River Zen ==

Foiled at Smithsonian American Art Museum! 😳

#art #painting #zen
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM