July 2011
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Girl Riding a Horse in a Field of Sunflowers
By David Allen Evans
Sitting perfectly upright, contented and pensive, she holds in one hand, loosely, the reins of summer:
the green of trees and bushes; the blue of lake water; the red of her jacket and open collar; the brown of her pinned-up hair, and her horse, deep in the yellow of sunflowers.
When she stops to rest, summer rests. When she decides to leave,
there goes summer
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Morning Glory Diptych
Outside
Inside
In the Waterlily House at Kew.
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Us vs. Them in Columbia County
I do not usually agree with most of what Sam Pratt says on his eponymous blog, but this post he wrote in response to a particularly tone deaf article on the “fight” between “Weekenders” and “Locals” in the Berkshires is 100% right on.
Either/Or-ism
vs.
The Second Home Economy (I fixed their lack of proper headline capitalization)
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New York and the Planes →
I remember stumbling upon this passage from E.B. White’s “Here Is New York” shortly after 9/11 and wondering why it didnt’t hold more resonance in the face of what had happened. White’s essay is so long and the first stanza so compelling that I think a lot of people just stop there. They should read on. It is still a profound and resonant work.
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Pronouncing the Unpronounceable →
I never would have guessed that Goethals should be pronounced as if an owl were saying it “hooot-huls.” Love it!
