Doing Research

    (notes that I wrote to myself three months ago about Hölderlin's elegy "Menon's Lament for Diotima")

summer style, smoking stripes and elastic hearts

 With summer travel plans looming, I am getting ready for hot-weather dressing and fun prints in Berlin. (via the Sartorialist)

 

More than the quote, it's the ombre hair that I'm still not over. More blonde soon, I think. 

 A heart that can stretch and stretch. Time and distance has nothing on this kind of strength. (via Colossal)

Number one style icon. Guarding Klimt's incendiary sketches at the Belvedere Summer Palace in Vienna.

toronto literary magazine seeks submissions!

When I lived in Toronto, I had the pleasure of getting to know the MA in Creative Writing students (because they took classes with all us regular MA students) and have been keeping up with their successes ever since. In fact, some of the people who really rescued me from the black hole of a crazy one-year MA were those vibrant Creative Writing students whose priorities--being creative, being inspired, getting to know the literary community in Toronto--were in line from the beginning.  So, I am happy to promote this competition from the literary magazine The Puritan. Not only have I been a reader for them, but I have seen the care that Spencer Gordon takes with this magazine, and am confident that sending him your best and brightest is like eating truffles for breakfast: it's the best decision you'll ever make.

left my heart in Salzburg...(found it later in Vienna)

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Lovers engrave their names or initials on locks, which are clasped forever on a foot-bridge over the Salzach River. The outlook of this chained heart is a beautiful view of the castle atop the old city, which you can see below.

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We planned for sun in Austria (having been rained out in Konstanz and snowed out in the Bavarian Alps), and the powers that be definitely delivered... the clouds floated west and I got out my big, floppy hat.

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Sachertorte. 

At Hotel Sacher.

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These hearts are made of dried lavender, and with the warm sun on the canopy above their aroma filled the air in front of a cathedral.

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Next stop: Vienna, mein Lieblingsstadt, whose gifts to the world I have recently learned include both brioche and Klimt's famous painting "The Kiss."

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5 objets d'art: May Daze

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This is my new reading spot. Private alpine meadow with vineyard ...mountains flowers trees...














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Piñata Anatomy by Minneapolis artist Carmichael Lynch. (via colossal).












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Read this funny satire I wrote about one of the first novels ever written, Samuel Richardson's Pamela.

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NO YES NO... YES.

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It's not often that you're trolling the old blogosphere and come across a comment that is this super kind and inspiring. This was posted on the jealous curator, and it comes from artist Elizabeth Mayville (and Ira Glass, of course!)

This is definitely something I must keep in mind while mired in the writing process of my *first ever* dissertation chapter...exciting/daunting!

little fox/swiss alps

trampolines are dangerous all by themselves

they don't need help from your stupidity

So I'm going for a run, decide to take a new route, and discover this *funhouse of death*. Remember, parents (!) and kids, backyard tramps are always-already unsafe. And as for my little gymnasts: if you hurt yourself on your backyard tramp and have to miss training you will be able to sense the intensity of displeasure all the way from Germany...  be safe this summer! 

Below are some pics from the same house... their treehouse looks haunted.