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elenabella: Photos from the May Day Parade from In the Heart of the Beast
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The poetics of daily life. Monday, May 3, 2010. Photos from the May Day Parade from In the Heart of the Beast. Living uproariously large, sometimes on stilts: a few photos of the May Day Parade and Festival yesterday in Minneapolis, with thanks to the photographer, Jeanne Lakso. They capture much of the heart, and the beastiness, of this wonderful, ephemeral event. (I want a version the "breathe" sign for my wall.). What do they look like, and where do they go? May Day Festival and Parade. Takes aim at s...
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elenabella: Declan Kiberd on the Lure of Books: (Re)reading with Eileen Battersby
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The poetics of daily life. Saturday, January 16, 2010. Declan Kiberd on the Lure of Books: (Re)reading with Eileen Battersby. Everyone should have at least one friend who vigorously resists contemporary modes of communication, yet remains connected in profound and genuine ways. For me, that friend is Declan Kiberd, professor of English at University College Dublin. He doesn't have email, certainly doesn't twitter, and (according to his daughter Amy) "will NEVER submit to a mobile! By Eileen Battersby (Li...
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elenabella: Ramp it up for local greens
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The poetics of daily life. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Ramp it up for local greens. Participated in No Impact Week. Last week, a project of Colin Beavan. Author of No Impact Man. Described as a "one week carbon cleanse." She wrote about trash, energy use, local food, water conservation, and transportation, warning that it could be TMI week at her blog: the sustainable, like the political, has its highly personal dimension. Wednesday, April 21, was Local Food Day. Book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. You are s...
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elenabella: Tomato? Potato? Calling for a Real Food Revolution
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The poetics of daily life. Saturday, April 17, 2010. Calling for a Real Food Revolution. This video hints at why I so appreciate "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution". We all have to eat. (Oh, and economics, too.). Every March, I serve Fruits of the World to fourth graders at the Lotus Blossoms Bazaar. In a booth sponsored by my food co-op. I think children have a craving for real food. We use their so-called aversion to new tastes as an excuse for under-nourishing them, and it's just laziness (and selfis...
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elenabella: "Better City, Better Life"? Expo 2010 opens while housing activists remain in detention
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The poetics of daily life. Saturday, May 1, 2010. Better City, Better Life"? Expo 2010 opens while housing activists remain in detention. It's the opening day for Expo 2010. The largest world's fair ever, with a logo from the Chinese character 世 ('world', Chinese "shì") modified to represent three people, with the 2010 date at their feet. You can see images of the rather ingenious pavilions at Design Boom. This building is wrapped with a double-layer glass membrane, with fluorescent screens on its outer ...
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elenabella: Sunrise Desert Meditation
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The poetics of daily life. Tuesday, April 20, 2010. We walked out into the desert this morning, past the grazing longhorns, to meditate as the sun rose, and to hear some flute music. Peace. Just a couple of photos from yesterday, then I am under orders to power down. It promises to be a beautiful day here in the desert. Dialogue in the Desert. Wow, those are some beautiful photos. Glad you are having a peaceful time. April 20, 2010 at 9:05 PM. I feel so grateful to have this. April 21, 2010 at 2:08 PM.
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elenabella: Seamus Heaney at Indiana University
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The poetics of daily life. Sunday, April 25, 2010. Seamus Heaney at Indiana University. Seamus Heaney visited Indiana University on April 15th. With conversation and poetry. "Famous Seamus! The rhyme in time: the same words repeated, loaded, downloaded, delivered to new ears. The familiar cadence of his voice. His wit, humility. The aging process doing its work on an enduring specimen. White hair now. A right hardy specimen of a man. I hope there is one, somehow. April 25, 2010 at 8:14 PM. Call for the r...
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elenabella: Desert Sculpture
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The poetics of daily life. Sunday, April 18, 2010. Time and space travel: I've relocated for six days to a dude ranch outside of Tuscon, home of extraordinary natural sculpture. I'll let the photos speak for themselves. Dialogue in the Desert. The photos speak for themselves. Now you speak for yourself tell us what you are doing in Tucson in your time and space travel! April 18, 2010 at 6:18 PM. Reflection and restoration, and now – the first bird call. April 20, 2010 at 5:17 AM. Makes food issues visible.
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elenabella: Maggie's painting anticipates May
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The poetics of daily life. Friday, April 30, 2010. Maggie's painting anticipates May. April is drawing to a close, and on this glorious day I felt little desire to dig with either squat pen or fraught pixel. Instead, after dinner I planted ramps in the vicinity of our oak savanna, at the suggestion the other day of Daughter Number Three. Those, and a rose bush, and lots of onion sets. A chokecherry, and a red oak, given away today by Sycamore Land Trust. At all of the Bloomingfoods. May Day Parade 2010.
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elenabella: Seamus Heaney's 'Mint': snippets for the eager parts of the mind
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The poetics of daily life. Monday, April 26, 2010. Seamus Heaney's 'Mint': snippets for the eager parts of the mind. On request, prompted by a question, the last poem Seamus Heaney read here on April 15th. Was "Mint," from The Spirit Level. It looked like a clump of small dusty nettles. Growing wild at the gable of the house. Beyond where we dumped our refuse and old bottles:. Unverdant ever, almost beneath notice. But, to be fair, it also spelled promise. And newness in the back yard of our life. The gi...