I love love LOVE that Derek lets me embrace my crone powers here! Gotta have some of us out front with that! Even Xander grew a mane for it.
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Derek Croucher @dcroucherThis is @LindaEisenstein09:26 AM - Jan 19, 2024![Picture]()
09:30 AM - Jan 19, 2024
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#DailyArtSpout #AfricaAndByzantium
This pectoral with gold, coins, & a pseudo-medallion is from the Byzantine Empire (Egypt), 539-550. It was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by J. P
Morgan in 1917, & lent to the Cleveland Museum of Art for this exhibition, which runs through July 21.
This pectoral with gold, coins, & a pseudo-medallion is from the Byzantine Empire (Egypt), 539-550. It was donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by J. P
Morgan in 1917, & lent to the Cleveland Museum of Art for this exhibition, which runs through July 21.
09:02 AM - Apr 28, 2024
Xander has literally been up with the birds. It is a 70° day with the front door open & the chatter has had him crouched at the door watching live "Bird TV" for hours, until he's pooped and on my lap. My 2nd cup of coffee will have to wait, I guess. #CatsOfSpoutible
08:48 AM - Apr 28, 2024
#DailyPictureTheme #tear
This photo brought me tears of joy for all the couples I know who could now legally marry. The PRIDE flag waves atop Cleveland's City Hall on the day of the SCOTUS decision to affirm LGBT marriage, 6/26/2015. Our city began issuing licenses immediately.
This photo brought me tears of joy for all the couples I know who could now legally marry. The PRIDE flag waves atop Cleveland's City Hall on the day of the SCOTUS decision to affirm LGBT marriage, 6/26/2015. Our city began issuing licenses immediately.
01:30 AM - Apr 28, 2024
This photo of Bob in our local RiteAid never fails to make me LOL when it cycles in memories because it is exactly where he was standing when he asked "Where are the cotton balls?"
09:13 PM - Apr 27, 2024
Every now & then a high school teacher finds me & asks permission to mount my play "A Rustle of Wings" (a metaphor for embracing your inner beauty-queerness-specialness). Here is a photo one sent me from Salem HS, NH a year ago today.
08:26 PM - Apr 27, 2024
#DailyArtSpout #AfricaAndByzantium
Diptych of St. George with Virgin & Child, Empire of Ethiopia, Late 1400's-1500's.
Panel paintings became popular in Ethiopia at this time, responding to the expansion of the Cult of Mary, championed by Emperor Zär'ä Ya'eqob.
Diptych of St. George with Virgin & Child, Empire of Ethiopia, Late 1400's-1500's.
Panel paintings became popular in Ethiopia at this time, responding to the expansion of the Cult of Mary, championed by Emperor Zär'ä Ya'eqob.
06:51 PM - Apr 27, 2024
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As usual Aaron is articulate about the needs of his community. I have learned more about autism on this platform thanks to @beec4240 & others than anywhere else.
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aaron @beec4240On the social media platform where I've been spending most of my time, we were discussing this podcast.
One person remarked "What stuck with me is the phrase “if you know one autistic person, you know ONE autistic person.” I think it really encapsulates the complexities of autism."
I hate it lol01:56 PM - Apr 27, 2024
03:48 PM - Apr 27, 2024
This kind of exchange couldn't happen without our local #BuyNothing group. Selena is an organizer & everything she does epitomizes the ethos that it is about community connecting, not stuff.
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Linda Eisenstein @LindaEisensteinMy neighbor Selena came to my porch to pick up mugs & a jewelry pliers & I agreed to have her organize a "hop" sometime in June in my backyard pavilion: a 2 hour event with a craft activity & a neighborhood acoustic house duo Rabbit & Dragon. Summer fun!03:12 PM - Apr 27, 2024![The woman guitarist of Rabbit & Dragon sits with guitar in a lawn chair in a tie-dye dress, decorated cap, & sunglasses at a Neighborhood Hop some months ago.]()
03:28 PM - Apr 27, 2024
Now that Selena & her dog are off the porch, Xander is enjoying the breeze at the screened front door as salsa music wafts in from La Playa Seafood across my driveway. #Caturday #CatsOfSpoutible
03:17 PM - Apr 27, 2024
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My neighbor Selena came to my porch to pick up mugs & a jewelry pliers & I agreed to have her organize a "hop" sometime in June in my backyard pavilion: a 2 hour event with a craft activity & a neighborhood acoustic house duo Rabbit & Dragon. Summer fun!
03:12 PM - Apr 27, 2024
#Spoutories #accuse
I used to accuse myself of being lazy when I'd spend 2-3 days hanging out in a recliner, playing games. I've learned that I'm wired for spurts of intense activity, some of it emotionally draining, and my batteries need recharging through solitude. If I don't? I get sick, 100%.
I used to accuse myself of being lazy when I'd spend 2-3 days hanging out in a recliner, playing games. I've learned that I'm wired for spurts of intense activity, some of it emotionally draining, and my batteries need recharging through solitude. If I don't? I get sick, 100%.
01:34 PM - Apr 27, 2024
#DailyPictureTheme #storm
My urban neighborhood right on Lake Erie usually doesn't get much snow, but an occasional storm will blast us. This one in March 2015 had a snowfall so heavy it twisted off part of our driveway gutter & downspout.
My urban neighborhood right on Lake Erie usually doesn't get much snow, but an occasional storm will blast us. This one in March 2015 had a snowfall so heavy it twisted off part of our driveway gutter & downspout.
01:24 PM - Apr 27, 2024
#CatsOfSpoutible #Caturday
Xander must have known how emotionally blasted I was after last night's concert, because he let me sleep in until 11 am & has snuggled with me since, often with his head next to my heart.
Xander must have known how emotionally blasted I was after last night's concert, because he let me sleep in until 11 am & has snuggled with me since, often with his head next to my heart.
01:19 PM - Apr 27, 2024
Unsuk Chin's virtuosic miniature "subita con forza", written in response to Beethoven's Conversation Books, would be a perfect score to a 5-minute magical realist animation of a deaf Beethoven being assailed & seduced by fragments of his music that swirl around him.
10:18 PM - Apr 26, 2024
Bartok went from Hungary's hero to zero when he emigrated to the US until Koussevitsky rescued him from penury by commissioning this work. There's Vaso, my poker dealer, once conductor of the Albanian Symphony & my Romanian neighbors with music PhDs working in day care & as a handyman. #Immigrants
10:11 PM - Apr 26, 2024
I was unprepared for the psychic voodoo Beatrice Rana would perform in her rendition of Rachmaninoff 2, where she seemed to be discovering passages. It was deeply tragic, a landscape of grief & loss, with the Orchestra a helping Spirit slowly coaxing you to live again. Wept, then sobbed through it.
08:30 PM - Apr 26, 2024
It takes experience, planning, & fortitude to allot just enough time to park, swipe my card, play 12 free slot spins, cash out $8, play 1 free hand of blackjack, eat my buffet, & deal with traffic snarls to get from casino to Orchestra on time without giving back any money except for tips.
07:29 PM - Apr 26, 2024
I don't know when I switched to eating salad after my main course - probably after a trip to Europe - but I prefer it as a palate cleanser that often substitutes for dessert. In this case, it is between my catfish, shrimp, & pierogi extravaganza & cornbread dessert on my free pre-concert buffet.
06:16 PM - Apr 26, 2024
#SpoutingClassics #Sondheim
I've been thinking about this song, and how as an artist it moves me more than the other love songs in this musical. Iain Armitage was a little boy whose parents took him to lots of musical theater & this is his version & I love it more than I can tell you.
I've been thinking about this song, and how as an artist it moves me more than the other love songs in this musical. Iain Armitage was a little boy whose parents took him to lots of musical theater & this is his version & I love it more than I can tell you.
Finishing the Hat 8/24/14 - YouTube
This is Iain's performance of Finishing the Hat. He is still thinking about the production of Sunday in the Park with George that he saw last weekend at www....
04:45 PM - Apr 26, 2024
#SpoutingClassics
Bartok is also on the Cleveland Orchestra program tonight with his Concerto for Orchestra. Here's a piano Sonatina by him that I used to enjoy playing now & then.
Bartok is also on the Cleveland Orchestra program tonight with his Concerto for Orchestra. Here's a piano Sonatina by him that I used to enjoy playing now & then.
Béla Bartók: Sonatina (1915) - YouTube
A miniature masterpiece composed by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók in 1915.Teaching website: https://www.chopinois.comArtistic website: https://www.stephenle...
03:12 PM - Apr 26, 2024
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#SpoutingClassics #Sinatra
Because I'm going to hear the Rachmaninoff 2nd tonight at the Cleveland Orchestra, thought I'd share this 1945 pop version of the theme adapted by Buddy Kaye & Ted Mossman, sung by Old Blue Eyes.
Because I'm going to hear the Rachmaninoff 2nd tonight at the Cleveland Orchestra, thought I'd share this 1945 pop version of the theme adapted by Buddy Kaye & Ted Mossman, sung by Old Blue Eyes.
FRANK SINATRA - Full Moon and Empty Arms 1945 - YouTube
A 1945 popular song by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. Frank Sinatra's version is the best-known recording ...
02:48 PM - Apr 26, 2024
#DailyArtSpout #AfricaAndByzantium
Mosaic, Date Palm, 500's, Synagogue of Naro, Byzantine Empire (now Tunisia)
Different Mediterranean cultures used this symbol. Here, 2 mosaics of palms flanked the Gates of Paradise. In Jewish iconography palms also symbolized the Tree of Life from Genesis.
Mosaic, Date Palm, 500's, Synagogue of Naro, Byzantine Empire (now Tunisia)
Different Mediterranean cultures used this symbol. Here, 2 mosaics of palms flanked the Gates of Paradise. In Jewish iconography palms also symbolized the Tree of Life from Genesis.
02:12 PM - Apr 26, 2024
Mom put her old Xmas letters in her address book, giving a snapshot of when things occurred. This came just before she was diagnosed with polymyositis, a rare immune disorder that attacks core muscles. She fought it for 14 years, doing 100's of crunches & butt lifts daily - starting at 82.
01:58 PM - Apr 26, 2024
Going through Mom's address book to compare with my contacts, and phew. I had to be in a serene mood, because there are so few people in there still alive.
GIF: I see dead people. From The Sixth Sense.
GIF: I see dead people. From The Sixth Sense.
12:43 PM - Apr 26, 2024
12:23 PM - Apr 26, 2024
#Spoutories #cringe
I cringe when I see myself in photos from my teen years. I hated so many things about my body then. One pic shows me stooping in a weird way. One day a lightbulb went off: "You were trying to fit a 5'8" 150 lb. young woman into the space of a 5'2" 100 lb. cheerleader." OMG.
I cringe when I see myself in photos from my teen years. I hated so many things about my body then. One pic shows me stooping in a weird way. One day a lightbulb went off: "You were trying to fit a 5'8" 150 lb. young woman into the space of a 5'2" 100 lb. cheerleader." OMG.
12:10 PM - Apr 26, 2024
I loved these 2 zen-like poems today. Thanks, @jamesleejobe
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James Lee-Jobe @jamesleejobe09:19 AM - Apr 26, 2024
09:21 AM - Apr 26, 2024
#DailyPictureTheme #pace
When you're hiking with kids, you learn to vary your pace. My brother & nephew on the Mist Trail, Vernal Falls, one long-ago summer in Yosemite.
When you're hiking with kids, you learn to vary your pace. My brother & nephew on the Mist Trail, Vernal Falls, one long-ago summer in Yosemite.
09:07 AM - Apr 26, 2024
#SpoutibleScavengerHunt #cut
I bought these cheap electric clippers when Bob asked me to start giving him buzzcuts after his favorite barber shop closed. Also used to cut each other's hair through 2+ years of pandemic. I still give Dave a summer cut when he wants everything gone.
I bought these cheap electric clippers when Bob asked me to start giving him buzzcuts after his favorite barber shop closed. Also used to cut each other's hair through 2+ years of pandemic. I still give Dave a summer cut when he wants everything gone.
08:53 AM - Apr 26, 2024
First time in a while that I chopped a poker tournament heads-up after being the chip leader for a time. It was a hard-fought 8-hour battle & we decided to split the prize pool evenly as we were near even in chips.
~$4000 profit isn't bad for a day's work, and it gives me more leaderboard points.
~$4000 profit isn't bad for a day's work, and it gives me more leaderboard points.
01:05 AM - Apr 26, 2024
