Week 49-22 - Curiosities

It’s been a week! Links are a little sparser than usual. I blame it on holiday madness, even though it has nothing to do with the holiday season.

ESSAYS

"Essays in Idleness" 1-10
Yoshida Kenko
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-timeless-wisdom-of-kenko-159972347/

"On Going a Journey" by William Hazlitt
https://sites.ualberta.ca/dmiall/Travel/hazlitt.htm

PERSONAL ESSAYS

I’m continually impressed by the posts at Oldster, and the stories of others that she shares. This one was especially good.

Heart Failure…at 29? by Evette Dionne
https://oldster.substack.com/p/heart-failureat-29

Robin Sloan posits about where we go next with the Internet, the old ways are slowly disintegrating, what will take their place?

“A Year of New Avenues” by Robin Sloan
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/

POEMS

For Tony by  Diana Solis
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/159050/for-tony

"Ghost-Ship" by Christine Garren
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/42031/ghost-ship

SHORT STORY

"Shift" by Nalo Hopkinson
https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/shift/

SONGS

"Whats Wrong" by Half.Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyhuxgok3ek

"Power" by Joy Oladokun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Q6cGqCKc

ART

Michaelina Wautier
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/design/michaelina-wautier-artist-boston.html

Uli KNÖRZER (Germany) - Colored Pencil Portraits
http://www.uliknoerzer.com/
https://www.instagram.com/uliknoerzer/?hl=en
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/08/uli-knorzer-portraits/