Judith
@zanzibarsunset.bsky.social
Trained as an academic (PhD, Engl Lit, University of Louisville: Virginia Woolf); Have worked as freelance writer for a series of interesting jobs and adventures in remote places. A blue dot in the Bluegrass. Art, music, flowers, books. No DMs please
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Felix Nussbaum (German, 1904–1944)
[The Fear. Self-portrait with his niece Marianne], 1941
Oil on canvas
51 x 39.5 cm
Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
[The Fear. Self-portrait with his niece Marianne], 1941
Oil on canvas
51 x 39.5 cm
Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Felix Nussbaum (German, 1904–1944)
[The Fear. Self-portrait with his niece Marianne], 1941
Oil on canvas
51 x 39.5 cm
Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
[The Fear. Self-portrait with his niece Marianne], 1941
Oil on canvas
51 x 39.5 cm
Osnabrück, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Kamisaka Sekka, Snowstorm
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Kamisaka Sekka, Snowstorm
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
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Day 9 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 tang — a collective name for large, coarse seaweed growing above the low-water mark
As in the Tangie in Orkney & Shetland, a horse/man sea-spirit covered with seaweed, which haunts the seashore.
📸 Ryan Hodnett (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🌊 tang — a collective name for large, coarse seaweed growing above the low-water mark
As in the Tangie in Orkney & Shetland, a horse/man sea-spirit covered with seaweed, which haunts the seashore.
📸 Ryan Hodnett (CC BY-SA 4.0)
December 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Day 9 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is:
🌊 tang — a collective name for large, coarse seaweed growing above the low-water mark
As in the Tangie in Orkney & Shetland, a horse/man sea-spirit covered with seaweed, which haunts the seashore.
📸 Ryan Hodnett (CC BY-SA 4.0)
🌊 tang — a collective name for large, coarse seaweed growing above the low-water mark
As in the Tangie in Orkney & Shetland, a horse/man sea-spirit covered with seaweed, which haunts the seashore.
📸 Ryan Hodnett (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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"We must dare to be different, to point to ideals other than those of this world, testifying to the beauty of generosity, service, purity, perseverance, forgiveness, fidelity to our vocation, prayer, the pursuit of justice and the common good, love for the poor, and social friendship." #PopeFrancis
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"We must dare to be different, to point to ideals other than those of this world, testifying to the beauty of generosity, service, purity, perseverance, forgiveness, fidelity to our vocation, prayer, the pursuit of justice and the common good, love for the poor, and social friendship." #PopeFrancis
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Today's the feast of St Nicholas, 4th Century Bishop of Myra and traditionally associated with gift-giving and the working of miracles. He 'maketh the storm to cease' in glass by Burlison & Grylls, 1920 at Great Whelnetham, Suffolk, a detail of the war memorial window. 1/3
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Today's the feast of St Nicholas, 4th Century Bishop of Myra and traditionally associated with gift-giving and the working of miracles. He 'maketh the storm to cease' in glass by Burlison & Grylls, 1920 at Great Whelnetham, Suffolk, a detail of the war memorial window. 1/3
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The imaginative fauna from Vorja Sánchez's Abyssal Bestiarium.
Vorja Sánchez is a Barcelona-based, full-time artist renowned for his intricate, dreamlike compositions inspired by nature.
Each little creature is lifelike with a natural sense of melancholy.
#illustration #art #imaginative #fantasy
Vorja Sánchez is a Barcelona-based, full-time artist renowned for his intricate, dreamlike compositions inspired by nature.
Each little creature is lifelike with a natural sense of melancholy.
#illustration #art #imaginative #fantasy
December 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The imaginative fauna from Vorja Sánchez's Abyssal Bestiarium.
Vorja Sánchez is a Barcelona-based, full-time artist renowned for his intricate, dreamlike compositions inspired by nature.
Each little creature is lifelike with a natural sense of melancholy.
#illustration #art #imaginative #fantasy
Vorja Sánchez is a Barcelona-based, full-time artist renowned for his intricate, dreamlike compositions inspired by nature.
Each little creature is lifelike with a natural sense of melancholy.
#illustration #art #imaginative #fantasy
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Barcelona-born UK-based artist Miriam Escofet’s portrait of her mother, An Angel at my Table. winner of the prestigious 2018 BP Portrait Award. At R, a close-up / a joint viewing by mother & daughter © Miriam Escofet
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Barcelona-born UK-based artist Miriam Escofet’s portrait of her mother, An Angel at my Table. winner of the prestigious 2018 BP Portrait Award. At R, a close-up / a joint viewing by mother & daughter © Miriam Escofet
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NEW: "The American people can accept honest mistakes. They can accept fog-of-war judgment calls. What we as a nation should not accept is moral drift at the top of the chain of command." From @markhertling.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...
www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...
Pete Hegseth, Moral Failure, and the Erosion of Military Legitimacy
Congress needs to find out if any laws were broken and who is responsible.
www.thebulwark.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
NEW: "The American people can accept honest mistakes. They can accept fog-of-war judgment calls. What we as a nation should not accept is moral drift at the top of the chain of command." From @markhertling.bsky.social
www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...
www.thebulwark.com/p/pete-hegse...
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When a poem becomes a prayer.
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
When a poem becomes a prayer.
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
Siegfried Sassoon (1934)
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At Gioto dumpsite on the outskirts of Nakuru, Rahab Njeri and her colleagues bend over a mound of waste. They are sorting through a bale of discarded items in search of old VHS cassettes. The women are weavers who will make kiondos from the black magnetic tape in the cassettes.
Be kind, unwind: VHS tapes are weaving magic
Discarded video cassettes can be woven into something beautiful. The same can’t be said for memory sticks.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
At Gioto dumpsite on the outskirts of Nakuru, Rahab Njeri and her colleagues bend over a mound of waste. They are sorting through a bale of discarded items in search of old VHS cassettes. The women are weavers who will make kiondos from the black magnetic tape in the cassettes.
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The poet William Cowper was born #OTD 26 November 1731. His dog Beau and his hares Tiney and Puss in his memorial window at Dereham, Norfolk.
'Old Tiney, surliest of his kind,
Who, nursed with tender care,
And to domesticate bounds confined,
Was still a wild jack-hare.'
More: tinyurl.com/bdz8dvvv
'Old Tiney, surliest of his kind,
Who, nursed with tender care,
And to domesticate bounds confined,
Was still a wild jack-hare.'
More: tinyurl.com/bdz8dvvv
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The poet William Cowper was born #OTD 26 November 1731. His dog Beau and his hares Tiney and Puss in his memorial window at Dereham, Norfolk.
'Old Tiney, surliest of his kind,
Who, nursed with tender care,
And to domesticate bounds confined,
Was still a wild jack-hare.'
More: tinyurl.com/bdz8dvvv
'Old Tiney, surliest of his kind,
Who, nursed with tender care,
And to domesticate bounds confined,
Was still a wild jack-hare.'
More: tinyurl.com/bdz8dvvv
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🍂NENBUTSU FALL🍁
Even the stoniest of hearts cannot help but enjoy autumn in Arashiyama.
#otaginenbutsuji #愛宕念仏寺 #arashiyama #嵐山 #Kyoto #京都 #羅漢 #rakan #nenbutsuji #mtatago #愛宕山 #autumn #紅葉
Even the stoniest of hearts cannot help but enjoy autumn in Arashiyama.
#otaginenbutsuji #愛宕念仏寺 #arashiyama #嵐山 #Kyoto #京都 #羅漢 #rakan #nenbutsuji #mtatago #愛宕山 #autumn #紅葉
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
🍂NENBUTSU FALL🍁
Even the stoniest of hearts cannot help but enjoy autumn in Arashiyama.
#otaginenbutsuji #愛宕念仏寺 #arashiyama #嵐山 #Kyoto #京都 #羅漢 #rakan #nenbutsuji #mtatago #愛宕山 #autumn #紅葉
Even the stoniest of hearts cannot help but enjoy autumn in Arashiyama.
#otaginenbutsuji #愛宕念仏寺 #arashiyama #嵐山 #Kyoto #京都 #羅漢 #rakan #nenbutsuji #mtatago #愛宕山 #autumn #紅葉
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“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Baruch Spinoza, born on this day in 1632
Baruch Spinoza, born on this day in 1632
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.”
Baruch Spinoza, born on this day in 1632
Baruch Spinoza, born on this day in 1632
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Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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"Ragtime was my lullaby."
Hoagy Carmichael, born on this day in 1899
rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/11/some...
Hoagy Carmichael, born on this day in 1899
rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/11/some...
Sometimes I Wonder: Hoagy Carmichael
On a lazy, hot day in 1927, a young West Palm Peach, Florida, law clerk far from his Indiana home and bored with his chosen profession heard...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Ragtime was my lullaby."
Hoagy Carmichael, born on this day in 1899
rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/11/some...
Hoagy Carmichael, born on this day in 1899
rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/11/some...
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
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Tolstoy died on this day in 1910, having outlived his era's life expectancy by decades. At the very end, he looked back to reflect on what makes life worth living: www.themarginalian.org/2016/06/03/t...
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Tolstoy died on this day in 1910, having outlived his era's life expectancy by decades. At the very end, he looked back to reflect on what makes life worth living: www.themarginalian.org/2016/06/03/t...
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Max Ginsberg (American, b.1931)
"The Friends," 1981
Oil on canvas
40 x 22 in
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"The Friends," 1981
Oil on canvas
40 x 22 in
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Max Ginsberg (American, b.1931)
"The Friends," 1981
Oil on canvas
40 x 22 in
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"The Friends," 1981
Oil on canvas
40 x 22 in
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, USA
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
Shame
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Shame
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Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Wonderful tribute to a teacher: young Sofonisba Anguissola paints herself being created by Bernardino Campi -- yet at same time, she is of course creating him! Today is her day.
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Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967)
"Night on the El Train", 1918.
Etching, 18.7 × 19.9 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Night on the El Train", 1918.
Etching, 18.7 × 19.9 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
November 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Edward Hopper (American, 1882–1967)
"Night on the El Train", 1918.
Etching, 18.7 × 19.9 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
"Night on the El Train", 1918.
Etching, 18.7 × 19.9 cm.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt
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Autumn and winter flowers are painted across this screen by the samurai artist Watanabe Shikō.
This screen shows the artist's mastery of tarashikomi, the dripping of ink or paint onto areas of wet colour to produce an effect of diffusion – ideal for depicting leaves or petals.
This screen shows the artist's mastery of tarashikomi, the dripping of ink or paint onto areas of wet colour to produce an effect of diffusion – ideal for depicting leaves or petals.
November 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Autumn and winter flowers are painted across this screen by the samurai artist Watanabe Shikō.
This screen shows the artist's mastery of tarashikomi, the dripping of ink or paint onto areas of wet colour to produce an effect of diffusion – ideal for depicting leaves or petals.
This screen shows the artist's mastery of tarashikomi, the dripping of ink or paint onto areas of wet colour to produce an effect of diffusion – ideal for depicting leaves or petals.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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#MARKSTRAND ON THE PRIMACY OF BEARING WITNESS
"We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
"We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#MARKSTRAND ON THE PRIMACY OF BEARING WITNESS
"We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.
"We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.