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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 107%;">What Michelangelo can teach us about true Love.
Almost 500 years later, there’s more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> we can learn from the young artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">For
centuries, Michelangelo has been synonymous with the pinnacle of fine
Renaissance art. Because Michelangelo achieved wide renown while still a young
man, at least two biographies were written about him while he was alive; a rare
occurrence for someone from the lower middle-class. Yet this is how we know
intimate details about the artist who preferred to work alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">What
was the source of his inspiration? What motivated him to work on the same
projects for decades? Michelangelo answered </span></span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha"; font-size: xx-small; letter-spacing: inherit;">these questions</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: xx-small; letter-spacing: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha"; font-size: xx-small; letter-spacing: inherit;"><a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michelangelo" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">in an
authorized biography by his assistant Ascanio Condivi</span></a>.
Unsurprisingly, his answer was love. In her book,</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: xx-small; letter-spacing: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha"; font-size: xx-small; letter-spacing: inherit;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DjnpM0MNrXoC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22I+work+out+of+love+for+God+and+I+put+all+my+hope+in+Him%22&source=bl&ots=xrDFGyQ2bK&sig=ACfU3U0EQAlfbv5bfnWvIlPxua3ga391_A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjS8oD0n57gAhUOA6wKHUBlBvYQ6AEwBnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22I%20work%20out%20of%20love%20for%20God%20and%20I%20put%20all%20my%20hope%20in%20Him%22&f=false" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">Michelangelo: Sculptor and Painter</span></i></a>, Barbara
A. Somervill relays what Michelangelo wrote to his nephew Leonardo, “I work out
of love for God and put all my hope in him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Not
only is he known for his masterpieces the “Pieta,” “David”, and frescoes in the
Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo was also a celebrated architect and poet. Here are
10 truths we can still learn from Michelangelo about true love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">01. It’s not just about romantic love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">At 17,
Michelangelo created the</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="http://www.michelangelo.net/madonna-of-the-stairs/" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">“Madonna of
the Stairs”</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">which portrays the
virgin protecting her child in a gentle embrace as he nestles into the folds of
her clothing. At age 25, it took him less than a year to complete the</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="http://www.michelangelo.net/pieta/" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">“Pieta”</span></a>—a
sculpture of the grieving mother holding her dead son. Five years later, he
sculpted the</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="http://www.michelangelo.net/madonna-of-bruges/" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">“Madonna of
Bruges,”</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">the first depiction
of the Christ child standing near his mother rather than in her arms as
typically portrayed by artists before him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Interestingly,
he never married. Michelangelo’s own mother died when he was only 6-years old.
This loss could be one reason why Mary, the mother of God, is an evident and
recurring theme in many of his works. Whatever the reason, Michelangelo's
beautiful depictions of the relationship between mother and child are a
striking reminder of the importance and beauty of many different relationships
we have in our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">02. It causes suffering.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It’s a
well-known fact that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel over the course of
four years entirely while lying on his back, inevitably causing him a great
deal of pain. His impetus, however, was to inspire others to become better
versions of themselves which, as a deeply devout person, he believed required
pain that comes with the emptying of oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">03. It’s not perfect, and it’s not always nice.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">His
perfectionism is apparent in his figures and colors down to the very last
details. But Michelangelo’s personality was far from perfect. He was infamously
difficult to work with and had a habit of making others angry. He was also an
introvert and preferred solitary living, which resulted in fraught personal and
professional relationships.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">04. It’s procreative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It
took Michelangelo four years to complete the Sistine Chapel alone after he
fired all of his assistants–he strove for perfection and wouldn’t make
compromises. His imagination burgeoned as his original plan for painting the 12
apostles transformed into more than 300 figures, many of them modeled after
people and nature, which he deeply respected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">05. It brings others closer to divine love.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">Michelangelo
was also an accomplished poet, and more than 300 of his poems are still extant.
In many of his poems, Michelangelo expresses</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/renaissance/michelangelo" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">his philosophy</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">that the soul,
moved by a love beyond reason, can be reunited with an almighty God. Divine
love was also masterfully captured and expressed in his painting and
sculptures. As</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="http://www.academia.edu/33491570/The_Love_Poems_of_Michelangelo._Translated_and_Introduced_by_James_Cowan" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">James Cowan</span></a>, translator of “<a href="http://www.academia.edu/33491570/The_Love_Poems_of_Michelangelo._Translated_and_Introduced_by_James_Cowan" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">The Love Poems of Michelangelo</span></a>,” observes, “Even in his well
known Pietas...he does not address human love but the theme of divine love
itself.” .<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">06. It doesn’t compare itself to others.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">While
other artists like</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="https://100swallows.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/michelangelo-and-raphael/" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">Raphael</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">tried to “emulate
and surpass” his work, Michelangelo didn’t try to compete with his predecessors
and contemporaries; rather, he developed his own style and created against the
grain. “The ambitions of Michelangelo were insatiable, not so much owing to his
desire for renown, as to his almost gigantic striving after the absolute ideal
of art,” Gerhard Gietmann explains in the</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03059b.htm" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">Catholic Encyclopedia</span></i></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">07. It constantly reflects on and reexamines itself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">He was
harsh on himself and his work, always striving for what he believed to be the
pinnacle of ideal art. In one of his many letters about his work on the Sistine
Chapel Michelangelo famously wrote, “I am not a painter.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">08. One can’t grow and survive without it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">Among
his numerous skills, sculpture remained Michelangelo’s true love. Michelangelo
continued to create sculptures with extraordinary skill</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-michelangelo" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">until he died at nearly 89-years old</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">09. It doesn’t lose sight of its purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">Michelangelo
continued painting and sculpting throughout his life but turned his focus to
architecture, eventually becoming chief architect of St. Peter’s Basilica.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DjnpM0MNrXoC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&dq=%22Many+believe+-+and+I+believe+-+that+I+have+been+designated+for+this+work+by+God.+In+spite+of+my+old+age,+I+do+not+want+to+give+it+up;%22&source=bl&ots=xrDFGyV_iK&sig=ACfU3U1gFqOQuP9-zV6IkzdszAzzCDGmPw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjJiIGnsZ7gAhUCXa0KHeojAC8Q6AEwAnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Many%20believe%20-%20and%20I%20believe%20-%20that%20I%20have%20been%20designated%20for%20this%20work%20by%20God.%20In%20spite%20of%20my%20old%20age%2C%20I%20do%20not%20want%20to%20give%20it%20up%3B%22&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">Somerville</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">writes how towards the end of his life, Michelangelo thought St.
Peter’s Basilica might be his final work. It was anything but pleasant. “Too
many political groups made for very slow progress,” and factions within the
Church “became hostile,” Somerville reports. But in writing about this last
achievement, Michelangelo tells his nephew, “Many believe—and I believe—that I
have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not
want to give it up.” His final plan included a dome so brilliant it “has been
copied many times throughout the world,” writes Somerville—including the dome
of the U.S. Capitol.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">10. It is humble.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/573374/the-watercolour-world-online-painting-archive" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">The “Pieta” is the only artwork Michelangelo ever signed</span></a>,
supposedly after hearing his work being attributed to another artist. The</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/02_february/05/divine_michelangelo_overview.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color: cadetblue; text-decoration-line: none;">BBC</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Ke Aloha";">reports, “He later
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-41058330161057929262018-05-16T13:05:00.000-07:002018-05-16T13:05:26.315-07:00Inappropriate Advertisements From the Past<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Here are just a few really weird and inappropriate advertisements I have come across over the last couple of years as I troll the internet for vintage images.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">You can not make this stuff up...</span></i><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-65860380567534123382015-06-23T11:55:00.003-07:002015-06-23T12:05:01.552-07:00A Few Facts About Greeting Cards — From All Of Us At NPR
With Father's Day this weekend, many Americans are bound to make last-minute trips to find that perfect humorous card for good ol' Dad.
Not my roommate. She has a stockpile of greeting cards that she buys not for a specific occasion, not to send to a particular person. She purchases cards just because.
Or maybe you buy cards like my mother. "Remind me to get a card for Aunt Tracy," she'd say as we strolled into the mall when I was a kid. Then she would spend what felt like hours perusing the shelves, looking for a card with the perfect touch of corny.
But whatever your card-choosing strategy, here are five things you may not have known about greeting cards.
1. Americans buy a ton of greeting cards
While greeting card sales have gradually declined since the advent of e-cards and other digital modes of communication, Americans still buy about 6.5 billion cards each year. The most popular card-giving occasions are for birthdays and Christmas, according to the Greeting Card Association. Women buy 80 percent of all greeting cards.
2. Pets' names often appear on cards
You've probably received many cards with messages like this: Happy birthday! Love, Mark, Joan, Bobby, Susie and Taffy. Many people view their pets as if they were part of the family, so it makes sense they would include pet names on cards. An American Animal Hospital Association survey found that 70 percent of people include their pet's name on greeting cards.
3. The name "Hallmark" was inspired by goldsmiths
The ancient Chinese would send cards to celebrate the New Year, as did the Egyptians, who would mark papyrus scrolls with messages. In Europe, people began giving handmade paper cards for Valentine's Day around the early 1400s. But cards really took off in the 1850s as the printing press made card production quicker and cheaper.
And that little company called Hallmark? The Hall Brothers card company was founded in 1910 by Joyce Clyde Hall and his brother in Kansas City, Mo. They crafted picture postcards for about five years until sales declined, and they began making greeting cards in response to people's desire for more private communication. The word "hallmark" was used by goldsmiths to describe a "mark of quality." It fit perfectly, and the company name was changed in 1928. Hallmark was also the first to display cards on shelves standing up. Before that they were placed in drawers.
4. The Louie Awards recognize the best cards annually
The International Greeting Cards Award Competition, or the Louies, have recognized the best cards each year since 1988. The Louies are named after Louis Prang, a German immigrant who is credited with producing one of the first lines of Christmas cards in the U.S., in 1875. Submissions to the Louies are blind-judged on originality, impact, design excellence, sendability and value, and winners are announced in May during the National Stationery Show (yes, that's a thing) in New York City. The Card of the Year in 2014 featured a picture of a dog with a red velvet cupcake wrapper in its mouth.
5. Millennials reject greeting card technology
Millennials are also eschewing e-cards and seeking a feeling of nostalgia in card-giving. As a result, fancy, often pricey cards from sites such as Etsy are gaining popularity, perhaps in response to digital communication exhaustion. Older generations, however, seem content to send e-cards. Or if you're like my roommate, you love a spontaneous trip to Papyrus.
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/19/415801900/a-few-facts-about-greeting-cards-from-all-of-us-at-npr
Samantha Raphelson
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It's a wonderful old french Birthday card.<br />
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While looking on the internet to make sure "bonne fete" also means Happy Birthday in french, I sidetracked and found an interesting website, called "Mille Baiseurs" - referencing the note written on the Birthday card.<br />
<a href="https://millebaisers.wordpress.com/">https://millebaisers.wordpress.com/</a><br />
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It literally translates as "a thousand kisses", but is a traditional way to sign a letter "Lots of love" or "XOXO" in French.<br />
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It also refers to a particular genre of postcard - French (usually) postcards from the 1920's, usually of a romantic nature, but they can also be found for a variety of other occasions - New Year's, Christmas, Easter and "come hither" looks! Today they look (in my opinion) pretty kitschy, but they are fun!!<br />
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Jack Fogarty and John MacDonald served with the Army’s 98th Evacuation Hospital in World War II’s Pacific Theater from 1944 to 1945, where they spent “many an hour sitting around in a jungle clearing,” according to Fogarty, who is now 92 and living in Teaneck, New Jersey. The two soldiers developed a tight friendship as they worked and relaxed together.<br /></div>
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While stationed in the Pacific Theater in the 1940s, Jack Fogarty wrote letters to his best friend’s wife in Queens, NY, and illustrated the envelopes. All photos courtesy of the National Postal Museum<br /></div>
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Fogarty became close friends, too, with John’s wife, Mary MacDonald, who remained home in Queens, New York. Fogarty had met her before he and John shipped out, and he struck up a correspondence with her that lasted until he and John returned home. An amateur artist, Fogarty illustrated his envelopes to show Mary daily life around the camp—jungle hikes, beach swims, evenings in tents under gaslight.<br />
“My drawings were an expression of love for the MacDonalds,” says Fogarty. “I loved them and they loved me in the best of terms.”<br />
The letters sealed a lifelong friendship between Fogarty and the MacDonald family. Mary MacDonald died in 2003; her husband in 2007.<br />
Meg MacDonald, one of the couple’s four daughters, recently donated 33 illustrated envelopes, eight letters and a watercolor made by Fogarty to the <a href="http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/">National Postal Museum</a>, which is currently exhibiting them <a href="http://arago.si.edu/flash/?s1=5%7Csq=fogarty%7Csf=0" target="_blank" title="Arago">online</a>.<br />
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Many of Fogarty’s illustrations depict daily life around the evacuation hospital.<br /></div>
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We spoke with Fogarty recently about his time in the War, his art and his enduring friendship. An excerpt of our conversation follows.<br /></div>
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<strong>When did you first meet Mary?</strong><br />
I met Mary in 1943 when John and I were stationed in an evacuation hospital in the Yuma, Arizona desert. She came to visit John in the first few months we were there. All the soldiers went into town whenever we had time off, so I bumped into John with Mary in town one day. John introduced us and that began our friendship. I started corresponding with her after we went overseas, and she was very loyal, a very good friend. Since I was so close with her husband, she liked hearing about my relationship with him and our time in the service.<br />
<strong>What made you decide to illustrate the envelopes you sent her?</strong><br />
I’ve always drawn—all my life I’ve had a talent to paint. I had another dear friend from high school, a cartoonist, and he and I exchanged letters when we both joined the service. He would illustrate his envelopes, so I would do the same. That started it. Then when I was in the South Pacific Islands in World War II, John started a weekly bulletin just for the 217 men in the evacuation hospital. He did the editorials, and I did the artwork on a mimeograph machine. That got me doing more illustrations, so I started drawing on the envelopes to Mary.<br />
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<strong>Tell us about the illustrations.</strong><br />
They illustrated what was happening at the time. They showed the places we were at, the fantasies we had. They were an outlet, and I had the talent to make them. And they meant so much to Mary, because they showed her husband’s life while they were separated, and she loved him so much. It’s funny, too, because a lot of the drawings would be considered chauvinistic now—you know, jokes about women and so forth.<br />
<strong>What was your relationship like with the MacDonalds back then?</strong><br />
It’s difficult to describe, because it’s such an important part of my life. It’s a love relationship. John and Mary were just wonderful, wonderful people. They were friends, and friendship is very important to me. We had the same values, as far as our faith and our family. And John was a mentor to me. I’m a little slow in my growing up, shall we say—I’m still a little naïve. John was a married man, and worldly. He had been a reporter before he joined the service. We would just discuss everything, discuss all the topics that young men would discuss at the time. It was an exchange of values and thoughts and experiences.<br />
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I was completely flabbergasted that Mary kept them. But I was flattered. It was a very warm feeling to know that Mary had kept them all these years. It’s strange reading the letters now, looking back on the past. It happened, and yet it’s incredible that it did happen.</div>
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My niece is a teacher, and a while ago she has a fellow teacher who invited me in to talk about World War II. I brought souvenirs from the war, my patch, and cap, and pictures, and things from Japan. It was the most rewarding experience. The children were so attentive and interested. They have no idea of the world as I knew it, and yet they were so excited to realize a world they didn’t know. They were learning about something other than Lady Gaga or all these things they need to have today, iPads and so forth. I hope these letters do the same for others.</div>
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On Valentine’s Day a few years ago my friend Sally received a card. She was pretty sure it was from the man she’d been dating for six months or so but she couldn’t be certain because, she realised, in all that time she’d never actually seen his handwriting.<br />
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Their communication had all been technological and, she now reflected, less than romantic on account of that. Instead of a bundle of love letters, she had nothing but an intangible collection of texts on her iPhone and a few (entirely lower case) emails. By sending the Valentine card the boyfriend confirmed how remiss he’d been.<br />
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Mind you, Sally wasn’t quite Virginia Woolf herself. Searching for writing implements at home she found just a stubby pencil that had fallen into her pocket on a trip to Ikea. “The only thing I actually write by hand now is my shopping list,” she lamented. “When I had to write a really long list at Christmas I practically got RSI from the strain of it.”<br />
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Sally resolved to re-engage with the joys of putting pen to paper instead of fingers to keypad. And she’s not alone. It’s a welcome irony of the digital age that as technology advances many seem to be reverting to more old-fashioned methods of communication and record-keeping.<br />
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It’s also why Smythson has reported annual profits of almost £2.5 million. Even costing £200 a pop, that adds up to an awful lot of calf leather-bound Portobello diaries they’re selling.<br />
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The reason? Perhaps it’s relatively guilt-free retail therapy we get from buying things that are actually useful. Perhaps it’s the primitive sensory pleasure induced by choosing and using beautiful things. Or maybe it’s more the potential that new stationery seems to hold – the new Moleskine notebook, which promises to inspire the great novel within us, the empty box files that we tell ourselves will turn us into an organisational genius, the deckle-edged writing paper that will make our letters read more like poetry.<br />
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The power we invest in these creative tools can border on the superstitious. “For some reason, I much prefer writing with a black pen than a blue one, and in a perfect world I’d always use ‘narrow feint’ writing paper,” says JK Rowling.<br />
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And let’s face it, it seems to work for her.<br />
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Perhaps it’s also the fact that so much of our personal history is evident in our stationery. My father died 10 years ago but I still feel moved when I see his address book – the leather cover, pages filled with his backward-slanting italics and crossings out where friends predeceased him.<br />
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My introduction to correspondence was the thank-you letter. These were written on my mum’s watermarked Azure Basildon Bond. This came in A5 pads with a ruled sheet to place beneath each page as a guideline. The spacing of the lines was mercifully wide so it was easy to cover a couple of pages which, once folded into their matching envelopes, made a satisfyingly thick missive.<br />
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My career as a writer continued when I secured a couple of pen friends via the ads in magazines such as Jackie. Both of my pen friends lived within driving distance, but that wasn’t the point. I’d discovered a range of stationery called Hunkydory with paper in a mouthwatering range of suitably 70s colours – tangerine, crème de menthe, banana yellow – so vibrant that its brightness made up for what I wrote.<br />
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I remember the stationery at school better than most of what I learnt there. The shelves in the art room filled with sugar paper that set one’s teeth on edge and which we cut using the enormous guillotine. The ink station where the girls who used proper Parker fountain (as opposed to Paper Mate cartridge) pens filled them up with Quink.<br />
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Thirty years on I still receive Christmas cards from a particularly classy school friend, who still uses the latter. Her envelopes are immediately recognisable and it’s become a Christmas highlight when “Emma’s card” arrives. Which is what it’s all about, isn’t it? Being tweeted is never going to make us feel like a million dollars.<br />
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We’re unlikely ever to flick back through the pages of our online iCalendars and reminisce about years gone by. So maybe it’s time to invest in that personalised writing set. Smythson here I come.</section>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-31477253512772417772015-04-28T17:02:00.001-07:002015-04-28T17:02:32.970-07:00interesting stuff found on different branches in a family tree<a href="http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/07/27/everybodys-doing-what-the-turkey-trot-irving-berlins-song-and-latest-dance-craze-too-much-for-newport-news/#.VUAfXcCV6_Y.blogger">Everybody’s Doing What? The Turkey Trot!: Irving Berlin’s Song and Latest Dance Craze Too Much For Newport News.</a>: Blog post from Out of the Box: Notes from the Archives at the Library of VirginiaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-54723938326709662782015-04-24T09:18:00.001-07:002015-04-24T12:30:47.539-07:00<h2 class="entry-title">
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Many countries’ postal systems have a type of “dead letter office” which handles mail that has been inappropriately addressed and could not be sent. In most cases, if the sender cannot be found the messages are destroyed in order to maintain privacy.<br />
The Missing Post Office, on the other hand, <strong>welcomes unaddressed post cards and keeps them for eternity if need be until they end up with the rightful owner</strong> even if they aren’t alive. The unusual post office opened on the island of Awashima on 5 October and welcome all to come and read their discarded messages of humanity.<br />
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<strong><strong><b><strong><strong><strong><strong>■</strong></strong></strong></strong></b></strong> A work of art</strong><br />
The Missing Post Office was created by artist Saya Kubota as a part of the Setouchi Art Festival around the Islands of the Seto Inland Sea in Kagawa Prefecture. It’s actually a renovated post office which closed down in 1991.<br />
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Much of the office remains intact aside from the addition of some art pieces and changes to the sign. The standard 〒<b> </b>symbol which identifies post offices was stylized into a wavy version symbolizing the ocean which carries messages in a bottle – a central theme to the Missing Post Office. The symbol can be seen all around the place including the uniforms of its staff.<br />
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<strong><b><strong><strong><strong><strong>■</strong></strong></strong></strong></b></strong> <strong>Meet the staff</strong><br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Director – Katsuhisa Nakata</span><br />
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Mr. Nakata was the director of the Awashima Post Office for 45 years until retiring. After serving his community for most of his life he was asked to return as acting director of the Missing Post Office, a post which he accepted with pride.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Clerk – Saya Kubota</span><br />
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The creator of the Missing Post Office, Ms. Kubota wanted a place where human thoughts and emotions could accumulate like flotsam on a beach. Only instead of tossing a message in a bottle and possibly losing it to the depths of the ocean (an act which she compares to posting on the internet), the Missing Post Office will protect it and allow it to be found by its rightful owner and anyone else who needs to share that same feeling.<br />
<strong><b><strong><strong><strong><strong>■</strong></strong></strong></strong></b></strong> <strong>Inside the office</strong><br />
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The main piece of the Missing Post Office is the Drifting P.O. Box. Tin boxes are suspended on standing piano wire all atop a revolving wooden table. Visitors are encouraged to reach into a box and pull out a message. <strong>The messages are anonymous but 100% real</strong>. They might be written to deceased relatives, unborn children, or even a traffic light. Whatever people were motivated to write down or needed to get off their chest can be found in these boxes.<br />
The following are some sample messages from the Drifting P.O. Box:<br />
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<em>“Mother,</em><br />
<em>When you died last summer I didn’t cry. When you were alive it was like we only said horrible and spiteful things to each other… I<em>f we met</em> now <em>I think we still</em> would… But a year has passed and I have only loving memories from childhood left.</em><br />
<em>I have when we made pudding together.</em><br />
<em>I have when we read books.</em><br />
<em>I have when you bought me my piano. That was the happiest.”</em><br />
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<em>“To my future grandchild,</em><br />
<em>When will you arrive? The sooner the better, come on and be born! I can’t wait to finally do for you everything I couldn’t do for my own kids.”</em><br />
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<em>“Actually, I was hoping to do the folk dance at school with you. My heart was pounding with excitement as our turn together was coming around soon but… just before it happened, the song cut off.</em><br />
<em>Since then several autumns have gone by. What might have happened to you by now?”</em></blockquote>
<strong><b><strong><strong><strong><strong>■</strong></strong></strong></strong></b></strong> <strong>How to send to the Missing Post Office</strong><br />
If you’d like to send a message to the Missing Post Office, just write it on a post card and send it to the address listed below without including the name of the recipient, your own name or address. Only post cards though. They will not open envelopes since the message is not meant for them.<br />
In the case that your message is too long to fit on a post card, then they encourage you to use several. Whoever it’s meant for should be able to piece it together. Also, in the event that the person who the message is intended for appears at the Missing Post Office, they will be able to leave with it.<br />
Although the Setouchi Art Festival will come to an end on 4 November, it looks as if the Missing Post Office will live on. The 79-year-old Mr. Nakata said he will continue to serve as its acting director.<br />
The autumn is a very nice time to visit the islands of Kagawa Prefecture, and even if conceptual art is not your thing, it’s hard to ignore the raw humanity that can be felt in the Missing Post Office.<br />
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<em>Missing Post Office (Hyoryu Yubinkyoku)</em><br />
<em>〒769-1108</em><br />
<em>Hyoryu Yubinkyoku Dome</em><br />
<em>Awashima 1317-2, Takuma Town, Miyoto City, Kagawa Prefecture</em><br />
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Please Write Some Letters To Your Biographer Before You Go To The Big Archive In The Sky</h1>
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<!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.11 --> <!-- [leadin: Empty adText: 1 of 3] --> I am begging you to write at least one letter before you leave this earthly plane. You may never have written a letter in your life, or at least not since your second grade teacher decided, as a Learning Experience, you should write to your parents, or Santa Claus, or something equally dweeby. With the disappearance of personal letters, a biographer will not be able to write a book about you.<br />
I have been reading biographies, and in each famous person’s case, letters enlighten the biographer, and are carefully preserved in a library somewhere in the midwest as insights into the subject’s life. These letters are saved for scholars and the idle curious who appear to have nothing better to do than read a stranger’s letters, when all they have to do is wait for the book to come out.<br />
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The biographer will tell us in the foreword about the hard work that went into the book; that he or she flew to Indiana to search through dusty archives, sneezing all the while, or they tromped across North America searching basements or attics for boxes of letters from the Civil War. Often, the biographer is writing from jail, because they did not have permission to go tromping through people’s basements and attics. The boxes of letters they found are, get this, <em>perfectly preserved</em>.<br />
Before you bring on an asthma attack looking through your attic, you should know your boxes probably do not contain interesting old letters, and are most likely full of rodent droppings and mildewed potholders. But, assuming you actually have a box of wonderfully preserved letters that have survived numerous moves, and rainstorms that flooded the basement, will a biographer be able to decipher the faded, flourished handwriting depicting homey events from the Civil War?<br />
Old letters from a bygone, gentler era, which are beautifully emoted and carefully composed, from people long dead, about battles or day-to-day military life, are gold mines of information. The loved ones at home wanted to know how their dear son was doing in camp. These letters serve to show us that we can still relate to people in other eras:<br />
‘Dearest Loved Ones,’ a letter from a soldier may start, “OMG. Life in camp can be quite entertaining. Today, Cook has told us that weevils were found in the flour, but that they have become delightful crunchy additions to the hardtack. LOL! All of us were ROTFL. General Lee was quite astonished at the sight.” Biographers often spend <strong>months </strong>trying to decipher what the soldier meant by the strange Civil War initials.<br />
Lucy Maud Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables, wrote dozens of letters to two friends over the years, one of them <strong><em>74 pages long</em></strong>, full of scrapbook items. Scrapbook items were very important during the Great Letter Writing Era. These items were the digital equivalent of the picture you just posted of your dinner. After delivering Lucy’s letters, Wells Fargo had to retire their ponies, and institute limits on the number of scrapbook items people could send in regular mail. For instance, you could no longer mail your child to its grandparents, at least not without extra postage.<br />
<img alt="" class=" aligncenter" src="http://187hrynv8uv1zp0cw32838b1aoz.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/GuidedByHistory/images/ThePonyExpress.jpg" />Lucy preserved her letters in boxes pending the day the biographer arrived. She knew that one day someone would want to see her letters. How did her recipients know that these letters would be important later on? Were they just pack rats, and hoped one day to be featured on the show Hoarders? Did Lucy tell them they had better save her letters as she planned to be important someday? And, when she did, did they write her a 74 page letter back telling her what they thought of that?<br />
Letters from Louisa May Alcott’s <em>mother</em> written in the 1800s to other people were considered interesting enough to make a book titled ‘My Heart Is Boundless’, which was probably something she’d written in a letter. When was the last time you wrote a line like that? Was it in an email, explaining why you need an appointment asap with your cardiologist?<br />
Maybe you wrote something similar in the note you left for the UPS driver, telling him where to leave a package. ‘The places you can leave the package are boundless’, you might tell him. ‘Please choose one in this zip code, perhaps even at this address.’ Save this note for posterity, after first removing the UPS driver’s chewed wad of gum, and put it in a box in your attic. Your biographer will appreciate your thoughtfulness in not making him remove the gum. <a href="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/letter.jpg"><img alt="letter" class="aligncenter wp-image-6594" src="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/letter.jpg" height="320" width="239" /></a>Biographers also tell us that the famous person was compiling their papers to be donated to a library well before they died. They did not start when they were on their deathbeds; no, they began well in advance of the papers being needed. For instance, Julia Child’s husband donated all his papers to an archive in a university library, and yet who thinks of him when they think of Julia Child?<br />
Let that be a lesson to you: You too could be insignificant and un-famous, just as you are right now, and someday someone may want your letters. (Not infamous; that word is reserved for people who do something so naughty, they wouldn’t commit it to paper.) Someone may want your letters just to point out what a horrendous speller you were, but still. They may even want one of your relative’s letters, like Louisa’s mother. I’d advise you to make sure they are not writing negative things about you. Just because you stole your cousin’s doll when you were six, that is no reason to be reviled in history books.<br />
I am constantly battling piles of papers, and frequently dump any number of them into wastebaskets, and feel smug and virtuous when I am done. My recent letters are usually to the CEO at some business whose representative has been really dense or snotty, and I am threatening to take him to court in Las Vegas. These letters revealed my passionate and fair-minded nature, besides also revealing my knowledge of naughty words, but my biographer will never see them, because I threw them away.<br />
None of those papers that I threw away were letters from an articulate and intelligent friend who is on the road to being legendary. Not that I don’t have any of those, it’s just that they don’t write letters. I can scarcely get them to answer emails. <a href="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/letter2.jpg"><img alt="letter2" class="aligncenter wp-image-6595" src="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/letter2.jpg" height="282" width="354" /></a>Letters have been the subject of our thoughts and songs for many decades. I could compile quite a list of songs with the word ‘letter’ in the title and every one contains references to someone holding a letter, crying over a letter, dreaming over a letter, kissing the signature, saving bundles of letters tied up in ribbons, or tucked under their pillow, perhaps teardrops blurring the the inky words. <a href="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/girl-writing-letter.jpg"><img alt="girl writing letter" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6596" src="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/girl-writing-letter.jpg" height="229" width="300" /></a>Do you have bundles of old computers tied up with ribbons and stored in a box in your attic to dream over, so that later, all your emails can be included in a book about your life? And do just a few of these computers in boxes take up space the size of the British Museum?<br />
<!-- Easy Plugin for AdSense V8.11 --> <!-- [midtext: Empty adText: 2 of 3] --> It is difficult to be romantic and reveal your deepest thoughts and emotions to a person in an email, knowing your heartthrob will share it on social media when the two of you break up. And if someone wants to include them in your biography, they will have to boot up all those computers in dusty attics, presuming you haven’t deleted all your emails. In which case, why are you saving all those faded computers?<br />
There is no need to save all your electronic messages. You’ve probably shared every intimate detail of your life on your ‘wall’. The computer generation doesn’t care about privacy. Privacy has taken its rightful place beside the touch tone telephone and the cassette tape deck as Things That Are Vintage. There will be nothing left to discover about you, much less about a celebrity. We are already subjected 24/7 to their marital disputes, preliminary hearings, and sonograms.<br />
<a href="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/employment-letter.jpg"><img alt="employment-letter" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6624" src="http://www.chezgigi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/employment-letter.jpg" height="327" width="334" /></a>I used to write a letter to my guy every day, as I sat down at my desk before starting work. They weren’t handwritten, which isn’t required for famous person letters, or even for ordinary person letters, but were printed out from the computer. Those letters have disappeared, and my biographer will be the poorer without them.<br />
I wrote and received dozens of letters when I was a girl, up until I was in my early twenties. I have saved some of them, but I threw many away. I would rack my brain trying to find different ways to write letters to my friends when I was in middle and high school. Once I even used toilet paper. It was unused, and was easily flushed so that sensitive information could not be shared.<br />
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I am not sure whether I could find my friends now after all these years, so how is a biographer going to find them and tromp through their attics? Whether they have dusty attics or not is an entirely different matter. In Julia’s case, she apparently kept everything. Her biographer found some diaries she’d written as a young woman stored away in the basement. You must begin now to write letters, so that there will be a reason your biographer was arrested for trespassing and is in jail.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-12129912618408946282015-03-03T18:02:00.000-08:002015-03-03T18:05:57.226-08:00Vintage Easter Greeting Cards - Bizarre and StrangeI sell updated and embellished greeting cards on Etsy. The name of my shop is the Reimagined Past.
I scan cards that I have purchased at flea markets, ebay or some that were sent to my Mom in the late 1930's, and decorate them. Hate to admit it, but I am a glitter convert.
I also spend hours every week scouring the internet. What a fascinating thing to do.
Anyway, I have come across some interesting vintage Easter cards...that "stopped me in my tracks" and ask myself - what in god's name were they thinking?
Below are some of my favorites:
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"Besides awesome old black and white photos, one of my favorite things to find in used books at The Strand is love notes. Sure, some of these couples may have broken up long ago, but at least at the moment the picture was snapped or the sentiments were inked, there was something there. There was love, excitement, intrigue, and hope.
Here's a selection of Strand Tumblr posts that celebrate a variety of loves (platonic, romantic, familial, fraternal) to help get you in the mood for Valentine's Day or at very least, to provide a bit of warmth to your cold, cold heart.
Besides awesome old black and white photos, one of my favorite things to find in used books at The Strand is love notes. Sure, some of these couples may have broken up long ago, but at least at the moment the picture was snapped or the sentiments were inked, there was something there. There was love, excitement, intrigue, and hope."
Rachel Kowal
Associate Managing Editor, Soho Press
www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-kowal/used-books-love-notes"
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-41683298725538497692015-02-08T14:07:00.000-08:002015-02-08T14:38:45.641-08:00Really liked this post on re: Valentine's Daysimple but kinda clever
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...found on homesthetics.net
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-23737197889503249212015-01-30T13:28:00.001-08:002015-01-30T13:29:58.890-08:00Do you remember how to use a pen/pencil? My handwriting sucks
I have read, with disbelief, that a number of elementary schools have ceased to teach cursive handwriting. WHAT????
I hope not to be too "old school" with this notion of teaching keyboarding instead of handwriting.
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The workbook makes me shudder, and obviously I think I failed the "Q" test.
When my husband was being taught the Palmer Method in the 4th grade at a Catholic school, he wouldn't follow the lessons. When the nuns told him it shows weak character his response was that it shows strong character that he didn't write like all of the other kids. Yes - that's the man I married.
And so I happened upon this article <a href="http://mashable.com/2015/01/19/handwriting-brain-benefits/">and thought, well at least it's good for something! </a>
Write a letter today - make someone feel special!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-75594343811876513642015-01-24T18:04:00.001-08:002015-01-24T18:04:43.575-08:00<h2 class="entry-title" itemprop="name">
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Personal Letters From Great Artists to Their Friends and Family </h2>
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Here at Flavorpill, we’re great fans of artistic ephemera, endlessly fascinated by everything from the <a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/293994/a-peek-inside-the-notebooks-of-famous-authors-artists-and-visionaries?all=1" target="_blank">journals of creative geniuses</a> to <a href="http://www.flavorwire.com/338465/15-postcards-from-famous-authors?all=1" target="_blank">postcards from famous authors</a>. After all, once you’re famous, there’s just no way to keep your private papers out of the hands of the curious masses — not that we’re complaining: sometimes, the best way to learn about someone is to see the way they correspond to those closest to them. To that end, we’ve collected a few beautiful letters from great artists to their friends and family, each one as visually evocative as you’d expect. Take a look after the jump, and if we’ve missed a stellar letter, send it our way in the comments!<br />
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From Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo, 1888. Courtesy Vincent van Gogh Foundation. [<a href="http://arttattler.com/archivevangogh.html" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Pablo Picasso to his dear friend Gertrude Stein. <br />
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From Henri Matisse to Francoise Gilot, as seen in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matisse-Picasso-Francoise-Gilot/dp/0385422415/flavorpill0e-20" target="_blank">Matisse and Picasso: A Friendship in Art</a></em>. [<a href="http://alovelybeing.com/journal/a-letter-from-matisse.html" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Eugene Delacroix to Mr. Haro, his paint dealer. [<a href="http://likeafieldmouse.tumblr.com/post/33343441694/private-letters-from-great-artists-to-their" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Frida Kahlo to a friend, with lipstick kisses for everyone. [<a href="http://likeafieldmouse.tumblr.com/post/33343441694/private-letters-from-great-artists-to-their" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Rockwell Kent to Frances Kent, 1929. [<a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/rockwell-kent-to-frances-kent-1893" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Alexander Calder to Agnes Rindge Claflin, an illustrated list of the sculptures of his he wants her to see in New York, c. 1942. [<a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/images/detail/alexander-calder-letter-to-agnes-rindge-claflin-10127" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Paul Gauguin to Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. [<a href="http://patrishka.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/complete-letters-of-vincent-van-gogh-photos/letter-from-paul-gauguin/" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From René Magritte to Paul Colinet. [<a href="http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/arts/economist/magrittes-missives" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Gustav Klimt to his life-long friend Emilie Flöge, 1897. Courtesy Leopold Museum. [<a href="http://www.viennareview.net/on-the-town/on-display/the-artist-unrevealed" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Georgia O’Keeffe to Alfred Stieglitz, 1929. [<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/01/letters-from-georgia-okeeffe-alfred-stieglitz-ernest-hemingway-and-more/251522/" target="_blank">via</a>]<br />
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From Salvador Dalí to Tom Honeyman, 1932. [<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/salvador_dalis_letter_to_dr_honeyman.shtml" target="_blank">via</a>]</div>
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-87681962638046247022014-10-04T20:48:00.000-07:002014-10-04T20:48:52.634-07:00WPA (Works Projects Administration) Posters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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During the Great Depression the Works Project Administration (WPA) became the New Deal's largest employment agency - hiring millions of unemployed Americans to carry out public work projects. <br />
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One of the small projects was one called the FEDERAL PROJECT NUMBER ONE. This group consisted of five areas of employment: 1) the Federal Art Project, 2) the Federal Music Project, 3) the Federal Theatre Project, 4) the Federal Writer's Project and 5) the Historical Records Survey.<br />
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The Federal Art Project was run under the direction of Holger Cahill, a museum curator and authority of American and Central American folk art. At one point Cahill was acting director of the newly formed Museum of Modern Art in New York City from 1922-1923.<br />
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The peak employment year - 1936 - over 5,300 artists were working on over 100,000 easel paintings, 17,700 sculptures, 11,200 print designs and 2,500 murals. In addition the Farm Security Administration hired photographers (among them Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans) to document life in rural areas across the country. They produced 122,000 b&w negatives, 66,000 b&w prints and 650 color transparencies.*<br />
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Evans and Lange produced two of the most iconic images of the Depression "Allie Mae Burroughs" and "Migrant Mother."<br />
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Any list of artists employed by the Federal Art Project features such recognizable names as Thomas Hart Benton, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Ferdinand Leger, Louise Nevelson, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, John Sloan and Grant Wood.<br />
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My interest is centered on the wonderful posters created for the various sections of the Federal Art Project encompassing an eclectic range of subjects. Printmaking was revived during this era by FAP artists, and the development of different techniques (particularly silkscreen) enabled mass production of these posters.<br />
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None of the New Deal programs succeeded in convincing the representatives of the American people that federal art <a href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Pas.html#anchor1312158"><span style="color: #000070;">patronage</span></a> was such an important activity that it should be considered as a proper function of government, and therefore be continued. All New Deal art programs died with the arrival of World War II. In the prosperity that followed the war, the objective of supporting artists during a crisis could not be maintained. Not until the arrival of the <a href="http://arts.endow.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000070;">National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)</span></a> and the flourishing of various <a href="http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/publicart.html"><span style="color: #000070;">public art</span></a> programs have U.S. government monies funded artists' works, though not to the degree that the New Deal programs did.<br />
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The General Services Administration (GSA) is now responsible for all of the artwork produced by the WPA and the Federal Art Project. They are trying to recover artwork from this era, and have produced a short documentary "Returning America's Art to America." The link to the film:<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-74378728121177547592014-09-24T09:27:00.001-07:002014-09-24T09:27:59.810-07:00Snail MailI came across this wonderful blog "THIMBLE", and loved the post about snail mail - one of my interests.<br />
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I have a shop on Etsy called the REIMAGINED PAST, in which I sell greeting cards that have vintage images which I have embellished.<br />
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<img alt="Great Scott - it's a dancing scottish terrier on this birthday card" height="320" src="https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/6605878/il_570xN.343387620.jpg" width="245" /> this is the most popular card that I sell!<br />
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To get a card or letter in the mail is something really special. You know that the sender put the effort into saying "hey, you're great...I'm going to take the time and show this person I care about them."<br />
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And to receive a letter in the post...when was the last time you were lucky enough to get something?????<br />
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this is a post from Thimble:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Few things make me happier than sending snail mail. Below are some hand painted watercolour envelopes I sent out :-)</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700662003051424641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4542289244028004121.post-77389102289362563022014-09-20T13:15:00.000-07:002014-09-20T13:15:46.144-07:00good food - Food Nasty BlogMy daughter and her boyfriend have been working on their blog: foodnasty.BlogSpot.com<br />
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She's an artist and he's a chef and they love coming up with new recipes and posting them on their blog - along with beautiful food photography - which is pretty tough to do. (doesn't hurt that she has used our beautiful ceramics from Deruta, Italy!)<br />
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Here are a couple of my favorite recipies:<br />
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<a href="http://foodnasty.blogspot.com/2014/09/stone-fruit-summer-roast.html"><span style="color: #2288bb;">Stone Fruit Summer Roast</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Summer is about to end, though here in Los Angeles it feels as if it never will. If I could get some rain we will be happy campers, so will LA! The end of summer brings some amazing stone fruits, especially at this time when it is so warm, they get so juicy and delicious. There is no better way to honor the summer than creating a simple roasted fruit dessert. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We roasted some wonderful pluots, peaches, and nectarines, topped it with some sweet goodness and sprinkled some fresh mint! If you don’t want to use these specific fruits, you can use whatever large stone fruit you like. Delish!!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">¼ cup heavy whipping cream<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 teaspoon almond extract<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">5 -7 mint leaves<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 cup water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a4z3KAxJp6w/VBToCXPJ2II/AAAAAAAAB6c/cGkPmaSKZ1E/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a4z3KAxJp6w/VBToCXPJ2II/AAAAAAAAB6c/cGkPmaSKZ1E/s200/2.jpg" height="158" width="200" /></a></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Wash and cut fruit in half, removing the center stone. Place fruit cut side down. Bake in oven for 20 minutes, flipping fruit oven half way through. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">While in the oven, make simple syrup, boil water and sugar for 5 -7 minutes. You want the syrup to start to become sticky and a bit gel like, not super gooey though. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Next make whip cream by combining heavy cream and almond extract and whipping with an electric mixer until it starts to form peaks. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Lastly chiffonade mint by rinsing the leaves, then roll up and slicing in small strips. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">To create the beauty that is this dish, loosely arrange fruit cut side up, pour some simple syrup over but not too much! Plop some dollops of whip cream on, and then sprinkle the mint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a guaranteed dish to wow anyone, and is so simple to make. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br />
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Valentines Day Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup! <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to spend every day like it is Valentine’s Day, telling Michael how much I love him, loving my family, my friends, my dogs, and always being kind to others. What are your Valentine’s Day plans this year?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">When I think of what makes me happy when it comes to food, it isn’t something incredibly fancy or highly intricate, it is the simple comfort food that melts in your mouth and makes you feel good. We have created an elevated grilled cheese and tomato soup combo for you, a more decadent version of a loved classic. So enjoy our heirloom creamed tomato soup with a Swiss Gruyere Emmentaler grilled cheese sandwich!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">*It helps to have a blender, sieve, and food brush handy, and if you cannot find a bag of grated cheese, just buy blocks and grate equal amounts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Ingredients: serves 4<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Soup:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">6 large heirloom tomatoes<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 large can whole peeled tomatoes<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">¼ cup heavy cream<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">2 Tablespoons unsalted butter<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Yellow onion<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Tablespoon olive oil<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3 cloves garlic<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Parmesan rind<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">3 sprigs fresh thyme<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pinch of salt<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grilled Cheese Sandwich:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Block of soft baby Swiss cheese<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Grated bag of Emmentaler and Gruyere cheese (they will be under fondue cheeses)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Sliced sourdough bread<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">1 Tablespoon melted butter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7ZF-N-t_FY/Uvwe9clLAJI/AAAAAAAAByE/Fp8Go5WdECk/s1600/6.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y7ZF-N-t_FY/Uvwe9clLAJI/AAAAAAAAByE/Fp8Go5WdECk/s200/6.JPG" height="133" width="200" /></a></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Start by assembling your mise en place by dicing the onion and garlic and setting aside, and then chopping the heirloom tomatoes and canned tomatoes. In a large sauce pan heat oil, then add onion and garlic and cook about 5 minutes until translucent.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Add tomatoes, then parmesan rind, thyme sprigs. When you add the rind make sure that there is no paper stuck to it. Put to medium heat and let cook 25 minutes. Remove the rind and the thyme. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">In small batches (if it is too large you may burn yourself), puree the tomato soup. Pour the mix into a sieve over a bowl, and using a spoon push through the sieve until you are only left with the fiber and no liquid. Discard of the fiber. Do this until all of the soup has been strained.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Pour the soup back into the sauce pan, turn to medium heat. Add butter, pinch of salt, and cream. Stir. Return to medium low to keep warm. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To make the sandwich melt a Tablespoon of butter in a bowl, then brush both sides of bread with butter, not so much that the bread will be soggy. Heat a pan to medium high heat.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Place first piece of bread in the pan. Let heat for 3 minutes, then add Emmentaler and Gruyere, then Baby Swiss. Let cook for 2 more minutes. Add next slice of bread then flip, cooking the next side for about 3-4 minutes. You just want the bread to brown and crisp, but not burn. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To serve, slice sandwiches in half, and serve with small bowl of soup and a kiss!<o:p></o:p></span> </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>And the last recipe I'm posting is my <u><em>favorite!</em></u></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oYRrLAcpHgI/UGONWTfAcrI/AAAAAAAAAhM/6QdDfVN76LQ/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oYRrLAcpHgI/UGONWTfAcrI/AAAAAAAAAhM/6QdDfVN76LQ/s200/3.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p>Cinnamon crumble apple muffin</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Instead of giving your teacher (or kid’s teacher) an apple, give some crumbled apple muffins. There is a specific smell that comes along with fall cooking, its warm, comforting, a little spicy, and always a savory and sweet sense at the same time. These muffins start to fill your house with a wonderful smell the second you place them in the oven. We wanted to combine an apple pie, with an apple strudel, with a muffin, and we were left with this fabulous thing! So enjoy this recipe, make it for the family, the neighbors, anyone you like, because it is sure to bring a smile to everyone’s face. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">*brown sugar is a huge part of this recipe, so pretty much just have a cup of it set aside. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Ingredients:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Muffin:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2 cups flour<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">½ tsp baking soda<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 tsp baking powder<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 tsp salt<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">½ cup butter (at room temperature)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 cup sugar<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2 eggs<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 ¼ tsp vanilla<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 ½ cup chopped apples (we prefer honey crisps, or pink ladies)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Crumbs:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1/3 cup brown sugar<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 Tlb. flour<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">¼ tsp ground cinnamon<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">1 Tlb butter<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Icing:<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">3 Tlb powdered sugar<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">2 Tlb milk (give or take)<br /><o:p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_oeSJYo3WU0/UGONOoNuoSI/AAAAAAAAAhE/edvKlzcDArI/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_oeSJYo3WU0/UGONOoNuoSI/AAAAAAAAAhE/edvKlzcDArI/s200/6.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a></o:p></span></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When baking the best thing to do is to measure out all of your ingredients and set them aside. In cooking this is called mise en place, this will make it so easy to just put your ingredients together, not have to search around for stuff, and alleviate a potential headache. So measure everything out, preheat oven to 375, grease and line a muffin tray with 12 muffin papers, and fill each one with a spoonful of brown sugar to hold it down and to create a bit of crust by patting down with your finger. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In a sauce pan heat and slightly soften a mix of your very small chopped apples and a few spoons of brown sugar, then set aside. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In a medium sized bowl mix together your dry mix: flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a larger bowl mix together butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla, and then stir in apples, leaving as much of the melted sugar to the side. Once they are mixed in, slowly mix in flour, small portions at a time. The mix will seem pretty thick and dry, but when it bakes it will be the perfect consistency, and the apples will moisten the cake as well. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In a separate small bowl, mix the 1/3 cup of brown sugar, 1 Tlb of flour, ¼ tsp of cinnamon, and 1 Tlb of butter. Beat together until it starts to create small balls of sand like looking things. This is where a lot of the tasty is! <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Now using a large spoon load it up with batter, and fill each cup about ¾ of the way, and then sprinkle with your crumble. Once all are loaded, place in oven, and set for 20 minutes (at the half way point turn the muffins around in the oven). <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">While the muffins are cooking, make the icing by pouring a little bit of milk at a time into your sugar, until you reach the consistency that you desire. <o:p></o:p></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">When muffins are done, remove from the oven, let cool for 10 minutes, and then drizzle icing on, and eat up! Damn they are good!!!</span></o:p></span></o:p></span><br />
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