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May 20, 2015
Survival Gear for Our Stories
A lot went wrong when my first child was born, most of it involving the loss of my mind, but there was also the fact of the loss of my hard drive when the baby was four weeks old. I lost everything on my computer, which was actually kind of liberating—this all happened on the day I turned 30, and I was intrigued by the idea of a fresh start, a clean slate as I embarked upon a brand new decade. The only thing we lost that I truly regretted were photos, unflattering ones taken soon after the birth, photos of us in the recovery room as we were learning to breastfeed for the very first time. These were the kind of photos one wouldn't post on Facebook, all bare boobs and double-chins, and besides, I was still then the kind of person who didn't want to put too many pictures of my child on Facebook. I didn't want to be one of those people.
The baby had only been around for four weeks, but those early weeks are such times of enormous change. At four weeks, she'd already amassed multitudinous selves, passed through several incarnations, and it was impossible to keep track of all them. And most of that was irrevocably lost when my hard drive went kaput, taking all my photos with it. Except, ironically, for the few photos I had posted on Facebook—an exercise I'd undertaken with remarkable restraint. And suddenly, those few photos were the only ones I had. Facebook was my saviour—who'd ever have imagined?
So I was converted by the time my second daughter was born four years later. There were going to be so so many pictures. We were also going to have her photographed immediately after her birth by ceasarean, all purple and gloopy and as foetal as she'd ever be again. I wanted to see it. I'd missed it before, when Harriet been all cleaned up and wrapped in a blanket before I saw her at all, her father by my side reporting that, "Our baby has so much hair." There had been a gap between her birth and her life that I was never able to get over, the medical screen never really coming down, and perhaps I'm just coming up with metaphors to explain my failure to process that this child was mine, but there it was. I wanted pictures this time. Of all of it. I didn't want to miss a single thing.
When Iris was a few weeks old, my computer began to fail again, laptops seeming to have a similar lifespan to the space between my children. But we'd learned our lesson and backed up our photos, so that all of them now live on a portable hard drive. Which means they're inconvenient to access, but they're there. And I pulled them out not long ago to prove my case in point
"Words and pictures—survival gear for our stories," writes Myrl Coulter in her memoir, A Year of Days, and I underlined that part. Survival gear indeed, for when I started looking at photos—hundreds of them—from the days after Iris's birth, I scarcely recognized any of the moments documented within. At least not at first, but then the memory of these moments started returning to me. Mundane things that would be of no interest to anyone but me, for whom they're unbearably precious—photos of me lying in bed at home with my children, who were discovering each other as sisters; crazy eyed bloated fat face photos from post-op; breastfeeding pics galore; and even a photo my incision just before the staples came out, because I couldn't actually see it and was unbelievably curious.
I'd forgotten all of it, which is natural, I suppose, and it's possible that it's unnatural to have so much documentation, that it may tax our minds to have so much evidence of… of what? Of life, I suppose. And these photos bring it all back so clearly. Having taken them certainly does not mean that I was any less in the moment (and really, being a mother is to be eternally in the moment no matter how you try to swing it). If it had only been about the moment and not its preservation, those memories would have been lost altogether.
There has been a lot of criticism thrown at my generation, and those younger, for oversharing, for selfies, for self-absorption, and toward mothers in particular for conspicuously mothering on social media. (This is a criticism I was responding to when I resisted baby photos on Facebook so many years ago). But the idea of survival gear frames it all in another way. In her book, Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood, May Friedman writes against criticisms that mommy blogs will cause harm to the children who later in life encounter their own childhoods documented online. She writes:
Children are silent witnesses to their own parenting, unable to recall the nuances of their own infancy and early childhood. Indeed, it is arguable that children can only remember parenting as it becomes combative. By reading not only about their mothers' struggles, but also about their mothers' obvious love and care, perhaps adult children may find their relationships with their mothers bolstered rather than damaged. Whether the outcomes are positive or negative, mommyblogs allow children to see their mothers as three-dimensional individuals…
This morning when I read of the sudden death of Today's Parent editor Tracy Chappell, I thought about her post from December, "Why I'm breaking up with my blog," which is one of the most thoughtful pieces on blogging I have ever encountered. I'm going to be using it in my course going forward. She writes about blogging makes you live your life in a more reflective way, see the world differently, and how blogs are such remarkable records of these lives we live.
Chappell writes, similarly to Friedman:
I hope that, through this blog, they will learn to see me as not just "Mom" but as a woman who had her own things going on—a career, relationships, dreams, struggles, goals—as I was wiping bums and making dinner and gently (oh-so-gently) brushing knots out of hair. I hope they'll see the value in taking lots of pictures and marking special moments. I hope they'll understand that parenting is really hard and also has great rewards. I hope they'll see how much fun we had. I hope they'll see that I recognized and appreciated their many beautiful, individual gifts, even if they thought I wasn't paying enough attention at the time. I hope they'll see how hard I tried. I hope they'll see how much they were loved. I hope they'll see how proud I've always been to be their mom.
These would be poignant words anyway, but mean so much more now with their writer's death. What a legacy for her girls, all those posts, which will provide them answers to those questions all of us have about our childhoods, answers that are forever lost to time, confusion, blurry brains. How they will still have this remarkable access to their mother's voice, even now that she is gone. It will never make up for their loss, but what a gift too, to be able to know who she was. And how profound her love was for them.
All of which underlines my sense that these acts of documentation are some of the most important things we'll ever do.
March 25, 2015
Pickle Me This: The Digest
You'll see up in the top of the right-hand column that I've started a Pickle Me This newsletter, which will be referred to with the far more literary title of "Digest." The Pickle Me This Digest will be the best of the blog delivered each month to your inbox with a smattering of book reviews, picture book reviews, and other features. I know that fewer people are visiting blogs on a regular basis these days, and instead come to specific posts via social media links, which is all fine and well, but I thought the Digest might be a great resource for anyone who'd like to stay better in touch on a regular basis.
Even better? Anyone who signs up for The Pickle Me This Digest in the next month will have their name entered in a draw to win a copy of the essay anthology I edited, The M Word: Conversations About Motherhood, which was published last year by Goose Lane Editions. Mother's Day is coming up soon, so the book is timely. And if you have a copy already? Well, why not pass your extra copy along to a friend? As Deborah Ostrovsky wrote in the Fall 2014 issue of Herizons magazine, "… You won't keep this book; you'll pass it on to friends whose current vocation is changing diapers, or to friends who want a child, and those who don't."
If you've already signed up for the newsletter, I'll add your name to the draw. And as ever, thank you for your support of Pickle Me This!
December 10, 2014
Great New Blogs in the Neighbourhood
Teaching The Art of Blogging at UofT's School of Continuing Studies this fall was an incredibly inspiring, enjoyable, and educational experience. I was pleased to be teaching the course again after a hiatus, and to be changing my approach based upon the blogging workshops I'd done over the past two years. Our class turned out to be a group of wonderful, generous and intelligent writers whose approaches and backgrounds were so diverse and complementary. Our class readings ranged from blog posts on tech by Mathew Ingram and Navneet Alang, to a Rebecca Solnit essay, posts by Bonnie Stewart, Kyran Pittman, and Shawna Lemay, and my own blog post of preservation and the work of Mary Pratt. I was also tremendously inspired by having just read May Friedman's book on Mommyblogs, which really gave me the confidence to follow my own instincts about what blogging is and can be, and to celebrate the form as Friedman approaches it: "It is precisely because it is impossible to say anything generalizable about the mamasphere as a whole that it is a radical maternal space; not as a result of the activism of individual mothers, but because of the implications of all these narratives coexisting, and the endless unspooling dialogue that therefore emerges."
And now with the course completed, I am really pleased to share with you some of the blogs that have emerged from it. I hope you will add them to your bookmarks.
- Check out gem city, a literary blog with a singular point of view, a wonderful and wondrous take on books and reading, and such haunting kazoo solos like you won't believe. I'm excited that this excellent writer has recently settled in Toronto and look forward to seeing where her blog takes her to.
- Peas and Honey is the most curious hybrid, about aging parents and old houses, grief and memory, and full of really good story telling, and the most surprising connections, which is what the best blogs do.
- a dainty dish is a blog that owns my heart already, a baking blog whose recipes are inspired by beautiful picture books by writers (so far) including Sara O'Leary, Julie Morstad, Cybele Young, and Jon Klassen. It's so gorgeous and original, and I'm finding that I'm always hungry for her next post.
- For those of you who like to gaze upon beautiful things, here is Barbara Ishwerwood's blog, whose short and perfect posts offer insight into art and art history. Check out the links to Barbara's courses too!
- And you've never had a friend like Marina Hasson, whose own stories and experiences have powered her remarkable approach to life. She's inspiring, lovely and hilarious, and there is such a generous spirit to everything she does. You can befriend her here—and lucky you!
The Art of Blogging will be offered next in September 2015.
November 19, 2014
Happy to Be Affiliated
We're getting toward the end of my blogging course, which has been the most wonderful, inspiring experience. I have enjoyed it so much, and look forward to following my students' blogs as they grow. Though next week is the lesson I know the least about—the business of blogging. Even though my blog is ideal for an affiliation with an online bookseller, but I've never done this because I don't like the predatory practices of the big online booksellers, and don't want to profit off their gains (which tend to come at a loss for literary culture on the whole).
But it recently occurred to me that there was another option. Indeed, Canada's largest online bookstore, McNally Robinson, does online orders and has an affiliates program, and I'm pleased to announce that Pickle Me This is now a part of it. When you purchase a book by McNally Robinson via a link from Pickle Me This, I will receive a cut of the profits. You can learn more about McNally Robinson's Affiliate Program here. I will be adding links to my archived book reviews, and links will appear on all posts in the future.
I am pleased to be affiliated with McNally Robinson because I recently used their online ordering system to send a gift to a friend in Vancouver, and was really impressed with their customer service. (The book was not in stock, an actual person emailed to tell me so, and to give me the option of cancelling my order; when the book came in stock a few days later, the person emailed me to let me know.) I will be sending Christmas gifts to my sister's family in Alberta via McNally Robinson this year for sure now, a nice alternative to Amazon. They don't have the same discounts, but I'd gladly pay a higher price for the Amazon behemoth not to devour the entire literary world.
And books cost money because books have value anyway.
I am also pleased to be affiliated with McNally Robinson because we had such a good time there last spring when they hosted The M Word. The Winnipeg location is an incredible bookstore, a magical space, and we need more spaces like it in the world. So I'm happy to be directing some business their way, and also pleased to be leveraging this blog as a channel to my becoming a billionaire. When I make my first fortune, I promise to buy you a cup of tea.
Thank you for supporting independent bookstores, and book bloggers too.
November 6, 2014
Five Star
Today I was quite thrilled to find my recent post, "On Uncertainty, Mistakes and Accidental Cake" included on Elan Morgan's Five Star Blog Roundup. I was thrilled because this was some great company, writing-wise, but also because of how the Five Star Roundup reminds us that we are all readers online, as well as writers, and that there is a whole world of thoughtful writing out there to explore. So do check out the roundup, this week and every week, and many thanks to Elan for including me, and for all her work fostering community and action online.
September 29, 2014
May Friedman on Mommyblogs and uncertainty as a valuable critical end
"In trying to form conclusions about mommybloggers—and about mothers—I am reminded of my children attempting to jump upon their own shadows: I am attempting to trap an essentially untrappable form of knowledge. After the initial discomfort and frustration that this inconclusive conclusion elicits, however, I have found that there is much to gained, as a researcher in general and as a motherhood researcher in particular, in looking instead at uncertainty as a valuable critical lens." –May Friedman, Introduction, Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood
This is a kind of criticism that does not pit the critic against the text, does not seek authority. It seeks instead to travel with the work and its ideas, invite it to blossom and invite others into a conversation that might have previously seemed impenetrable, to draw out relationships that might have been unseen and open doors that might have been locked." —Rebecca Solnit, "Woolf's Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable"
It pains me to link to this smug and stupid post I wrote in May 2009, just 11 days before my first child was born. When I purported to understand anything in Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work, because I really didn't. And when I tried to pin down mommybloggers, detailing my discomfort with the form, and my discomfort with that discomfort. I thought I had it all sewed up, because I was surer of things then, and I had no idea of the seas of uncertainty I'd be wading into when it came to mothering, motherhood, and issues around motherhood. Five years later, The M Word was to be partly my means of coming to terms with the beauty of the mess of it all—when in doubt, make an anthology.
When, three months after that embarrassing 2009 blog post, I reviewed the book Mothering and Blogging: The Radical Act of the Mommy Blog by May Friedman and Shana Calixte, my thinking had evolved somewhat, but I was still pretty stupid. (This is the curse of any blogger: you are forever presented with undeniable evidence that you were pretty stupid. And that mostly likely you still are.) But I was getting a sense of things—that motherhood and any ideas surrounding motherhood refused to stay put in my tidy pat conclusions, and that there were many women who didn't want even them to.
May Friedman's new book, Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood, occurs at a pivotal intersection in my writing life. Outside of my blog, it is my writing about motherhood and my mothering life that has found most resonance with readers, so much so that when a recent published story contained nary a reference to mothers anywhere, I was a bit relieved. And I've also been blogging for 14 years this October, which has led to the opportunity to teach the course, The Art of Blogging, at the University of Toronto (whose latest session starts a week from tonight!). In my blog teaching, I embrace and celebrate the messy chaos of the blog form, as unpindownable as mothers are. (You can read my posts with thoughts on blogging here.) I welcomed the reflections, revelations and insights of Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood not just for what they had to say about mothers and mommyblogs, but for the perspective the book provided on the history and implications of the blogosphere with a lens on women (who, as in any history, are so often left out of the story).
True confession: I have an allergy to Foucault, and once they start referencing Bahktin, they've already lost me. As an academic text, Friedman's book stands apart from others that I've encountered in that her critical framework serves to transform the familiar into something altogether new, rather than rendering it intelligible. In Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood, she examines mommyblogs in the frameworks of hybridity (as a form, of the identities of blog authors, of the experiences of readers), cyborgs (of the author and her text via technology, and also of the complex and nuanced networks created through blogging communities, how mothering is reworked away from being an individuated task) and Queer theory (a movement away from the patriarchal institution of motherhood toward an otherness) to show that mommyblogging is indeed a radical act that has already changed the way motherhood is regarded in the public sphere, and whose further implications are still before us, rich with possibility.
It is as applicable to that mythic blogosphere as a whole what Friedman has to say about "the mamasphere": "It is precisely because it is impossible to say anything generalizable about the mamasphere as a whole that it is a radical maternal space; not as a result of the activism of individual mothers, but because of the implications of all these narratives coexisting, and the endless unspooling dialogue that therefore emerges." That lack of generalization doesn't freak me out anymore, and I appreciate Friedman's excellent book for reminding me why certainty is anathema to everything I like best about the world, both online and off.
See also: "Mary Pratt, On Blogging, and Preserving Light and Time"
August 24, 2014
Discover The Art of Blogging at UofT
It has been ages since I taught The Art of Blogging at the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies, but I'm so pleased that the course is being offered this fall. Online is such a fast world that blogging has changed a lot since I last taught the course, and so has some of my thinking about blogging. Moreover, teaching small blogging workshops (like at the Wild Writers Festival in Waterloo!) has taught me a lot about the best way to present this kind of material and get students engaged. And so all of this will really culminate in a fresh and exciting class, I think. I've revised the course outline significantly (you can view it here!). We're going to focus on learning to love the unpolished nature of the blogging, and embrace its work-in-progress-ness, and there will be lots of writing exercises to get students used to blogging efficiently. We're going to explore using blogging in a way that fits neatly into your life, and even how blogging can make you live your life a bit better. I look forward to good discussion, sharing of experiences, lots of inspiring blog reading, and delving into the history of this fascinating medium as we all move forward as part of its future.
June 11, 2014
Well-known blogger is an oxymoron
"The Andrew Sullivan era of journalism is over. Blogs — defined as "an eclectic, scattered" reverse-chronological journal, "covering everything from foreign policy to TV to religion," often in the first-person — are all but dead." (This was actually posted on a blog. Alas).
It's on a regular cycle that I come across articles about news outlets shutting down their blogs, this offered as proof that the blog is dead. All the while, I sit here typing at my blog, which I've been writing for fourteen years, with every intention to keep on writing my blog, first because I can't stop and also because it's done me a world of good professionally and in terms of general well-being. As I sit here typing at my blog, momentarily distracted by the blogs of others (who am I reading lately? I love how Sarah from edge of evening and I have such serendipitous reading habits; I'm a new reader of Alice Zorn's blog; longtime fan of Matilda Magtree; I've been reading Making It Lovely since we both had daughters around the same time 5 years ago; I've been checking in with DoveGreyReader forever; I'm devoted to Girls Gone Child; I've learned so much from Rohan Maitzen's Novel Readings; Shawna Lemary's Calm Things; and I am so so overjoyed that Nathalie Foy is blogging books again. Oh, and you. I read your blog too. Likely, this is really so.)
So while the Andrew Sullivan era of journalism may be over, let this not be a statement about the state of the blog. First, because blogging is not journalism, and it was never meant to be. Blogging was always going to be on the fringes, so Sullivan's new venture's failure (in that only five pages on his site have received 100,000 page visits) is actually a statement that the blog is, um, bloggier than ever. Let it also not be a statement on the state of the blog because for many of us, the Andrew Sullivan era never registered. All the while that bloggers were making forays into mainstream media (and supposedly changing its face… until blogging died), most of us were sitting at home with our typepads, blogspots and wordpress sites. Content to be independent operators, doing our own thing, learning and growing, and pointing our modest traffic, our readers, in the direction of the world and saying, "Hey, look at this."
It is amazing to me the way that women's blogs have been ignored by those seeking to chronicle the history of the form. (I wrote about this three years ago in a post called, "The Womanly Art of Blogging") Crucially, it is always the habits of male bloggers that are heralding blogging's demise, and these are almost always political bloggers (as though political blogs are somehow blogs entire, as though politics were somehow the world—can you imagine?) but once it was a book blogger, and that too was ridiculous and wrong. It seems that everyone thinks that blogging is dead just around the same time he stops doing it. But.
All the while, the rest of us keep blogging, toiling away in semi-obscurity, and this is unfailingly true. Even well-known bloggers are semi-obscure–even those with enough ad revenue to pay the bills. Well-known blogger is an oxymoron. If it gets to be otherwise, well, maybe you've made it, but you're also not really a blogger anymore.
September 27, 2013
I used to wade into fracas all the time.
I write about my children here more than I write about the wider world, the wider literary world in particular. And sometimes I feel bad about this, about the disconnect, my insularity. I don't seem to have my finger on the button. It hasn't always been like this either–I used to wade into fracas all the time. But then it got to the point where I could set my calendar by it–brouhaha about women writers, the Orange Prize as ghetto or goldmine, Canada Reads outrage, Giller Prize moroseness. I was writing the same blog posts all over again, in the beginning fervently hoping to bring change, hoping that if I could just explain the way things ought to be, everyone would finally understand. And then eventually despondently, as it began to become clear to me that these arguments were futile, all of us hashing out the same lines over and over again. It was even boring, and I was really tired, and there are oh so many books to read, books to write about instead. And yes, my children, who are never ever the same, even two days in a row. So now I cease to wade, for the most part, which I fear might suggest I don't have opinions anymore, except about out-of-date encyclopedias. Because I do have opinions, and they're even works in progress too, but it's progress that interests me more than opinions themselves, so I don't bother to wade anymore.
August 25, 2013
Mary Pratt: On Blogging, and Preserving Light and Time
It is not a huge leap to look at Mary Pratt's paintings and have thoughts turn to ideas about the containment and preservation of time. Not least of all because of her paintings of preserves, jams and jellies. Or because she shows that jam jars are containers of not only condiments, but also of light. In the essay "A Woman's Life" by Sarah Milroy, part of the Mary Pratt book, Pratt recalls early inspiration in her mother's jars of jelly: "Oh they were gorgeous… she would arrange them along the window-ledge–they were west-facing windows with the light coming through–red currant jelly, highbush cranberry jelly, raspberry jelly, blackberry jelly–all as clear as glass."
In her work, Pratt also includes more prosaic containers, such as tupperware, and ketchup bottles, as well as preservation agents that capture light with a different kind of beauty–tin foil, saran wrap. Underlining this idea of preservation is that Pratt's paintings themselves have been painted from photographs, that with a camera Pratt has been able to stop time and preserve a moment in the whirl of domesticity–a supper table that will soon be cleared away, for example. In Sarah Fillmore's essay "Vanitas", Pratt notes that "The camera was my instrument of liberation. Now that I no longer had to paint on the run, I would pay each gut reaction its proper homage. I could paint anything that appealed to me… I could use the slide to establish the drawing and concentrate on the light, and the content and the symbolism."
Whilst reading the Mary Pratt book, which has been created to complement the exhibition of Pratt's work that will be moving across the country in the coming months, I kept drawing parallels between her work and the womanly art of blogging. This precludes any arguments about amateurism of course, however much some may insist that "blogger" and "amateur" are in fact synonyms. Because Pratt is no amateur, and neither are the bloggers who make art of the form, who craft their posts themselves in order to "pay each gut reaction its proper homage."
"…it comes from a longing to hold truth in your hands, to feel something of your own existence–a longing to feel alive… The painting of the jelly jar is really about the way that light shines through the glass, the way that light is preserved, like jelly, for all time." -Sarah Fillmore, "Vanitas"
Pratt captures the domestic, the seemingly mundane. And yet behind her rich but also simple and familiar images lie deeper stories. Her painting "Kitchen Table", the first she created from a photograph in 1969, is at first a quiet scene, a table at once empty and yet crowded with the remains of a meal–a ketchup bottle with its cap off, a hotdog left uneaten, crumbs on a plate, drinking glasses in varying states of emptiness (or fullness, perhaps?). And yet, as Catherine M. Mastin points out in her essay "Base, Place, Location and the Early Paintings", "Pratt's postwar-era family table is a site of constant labour, meal after meal–which all fell to Mary, with no foreseeable end." On a more personal note, Pratt's "Eggs in an Egg Crate" was the first work she completed after the deaths of her infant twins, a painting whose symbolism wasn't clear to her until somebody else had pointed it out–that the eggs in the carton were empty.
For all their luminosity and the domestic focus, Pratt's paintings are also wonderfully subversive. Her eggs are usually broken, is what I mean, the cake half-eaten and cut with a big sharp knife, the bananas in the fruit bowl are just a little too ripe. The meat in her "Roast Beef" is a charred hunk (and Pratt recounts in Milroy's essay, "I can remember when I first showed it in a gallery [and] I heard a woman say, 'Well, I guess she can paint, but do you think she can cook?'"). Milroy is correct that "In this day of highly stylized food photography…, Mary Pratt's work seems ahead of the curve," and yet Pratt's food paintings are always just a little "off"–the leftovers from a supper of hotdogs, for example, or the casserole dish in the microwave. This is food that people eat, instead of a lacquered sandwich intended for a magazine cover. Hers is a messy, imperfect domestic scene, and yet there is beauty in these scenes that are captured precisely as they are.
Her images of meat and animal carcasses suggest something basic and bodily about domestic life, a suggestion echoed vaguely in the images of her model "Donna". "That's what women do," Pratt recounts in Milroy's essay. "They wrap things up, or unwrap them, or cut them open, or chop them, ready for the oven." Fish are also a recurring image in her work, not surprising considering she's based in Atlantic Canada, but here is the rarely seen flip-side of maritime life–"Salmon on Saran", "Trout in a Ziploc Bag" or "Fish Head in Steel Sink". They don't write shanties about this kind of sea. And then there is the fire, Pratt's burning dishcloth on her "Dishcloth on Line" paintings. That same agent used to wipe down the table of dinner-after-dinner is annihilated into a glorious flame which captures the light as intriguingly (and eternally, now that Pratt has preserved the image) as do the far more innocuous jars of jam on the window sill.
Whoever thought the kitchen was a scene of mundanity probably wasn't looking…
In her essay "Look Here", Mireille Eagan writes that "Ultimately, [Pratt] asks the viewer to see; she tells us: "Look, here." Which is what the very best bloggers do too, instead of "Look at me!" using their blogs to implore their readers to, "Look at this!" The result of this being the "sideways autobiography" that Eagan refers to of Pratt's work. There is no over-arching narrative here, and instead we come to understand the depth of these writers' lives from the objects, moments and stories they choose to include in their blogs, each individual post its own still-life. Like Pratt, these bloggers are curating their lives, crafting something permanent out of the whirl of the ephemeral. As Eagan writes of Pratt: "Her images reveal a pattern of privacies, of things half-visible, half-said–but articulated, nonetheless. They represent a lifetime of looking closely, an intimation of the buzzing pause before one turns and continues."
Mary Pratt is available from Goose Lane Editions. Read more about this stunning book here.


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|Henry Lee Myers
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March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1923
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October 9, 1862
Boonville, Missouri, U.S.
|November 11, 1943
(aged 81)
Billings, Montana, U.S.
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Henry Lee Myers (October 9, 1862 – November 11, 1943) was a United States Senator from Montana.
Born near Boonville, Missouri, he attended Cooper Institute and Boonville Academy, both private schools. He studied law and was admitted to the Missouri Bar Association in 1884, commencing practice in Boonville. He moved to Hamilton, Montana in 1893, and was prosecuting attorney of Ravalli County, Montana from 1895 to 1899. He was a member of the Montana Senate from 1899 to 1903, and was a district judge of the fourth judicial district of Montana from 1907 to 1911.
Myers was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1910 and reelected in 1916, serving from March 4, 1911, until March 4, 1923. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1922. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands (Sixty-third Congress) and a member of the Committees on Public Lands (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), and Indian Depredations (Sixty-sixth Congress). In 1923, he moved to Billings, Montana and continued the practice of his profession. He was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of Montana in 1927 and once again resumed the practice of law in 1929.
He died in Billings, Montana in 1943 and was interred in Riverview Cemetery in Hamilton, Montana.
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After a two-month hiatus due to a contract termination, the Veterans Affairs and Defense departments have resumed work on their integrated Electronic Health Record system with a new contract.
The two departments committed last year to create a seamless record for each service member from enlistment through retirement based on a joint platform.
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So here's a test for all the "real Republicans" -- and for McCain: President Bush is determined to force the Senate to vote on a "free trade" agreement with Colombia. Both Clinton and Obama plan to vote against it; not just because key Democratic constituencies support it, but also because polling shows that with the price of consumer items going up, many Republicans and conservatives aren't wild about "globalism" either.
McCain already has taken the party line on the trade pact, and will undoubtedly support Bush with a vote for it in the Senate. In my opinion, that would endanger his chances of winning the presidential election in November, if for no other reason than he's on the same side as Bush.
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I am not allowed to support anyone for president and don't. But that does not mean I have amnesia. If you are a Republican and don't believe that John McCain is "Republican" enough for you, then take note of the GOP bullet he will be taking for you when he casts this upcoming vote.
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It's not easy watching someone else do a job that you once had, but that's exactly what happened to Arizona Cardinals right tackle Bobby Massie last season.
After Massie started every game during his rookie campaign in 2012, the Cardinals brought in Eric Winston, who beat him out at right tackle in 2013.
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The Cardinals fourth-round draft pick in 2012, Massie is a specimen at 6-foot-6 and 316 pounds. Cardinals general manager Steve Keim believes the Lynchburg, Virginia, native has what it takes to succeed.
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Marvel and DC competed for supremacy at the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend. Marvel, through sheer force of films, won. The Avengers, Thor and X-Men appeared with their full casts. DC's Superman caused a stir by announcing the Man of Steel sequel will feature Batman.
Marvel dominated the San Diego Comic-Con with their X-Men and Avenger's panels. DC's Superman announced the 2015 sequel to Man of Steel, starring Henry Cavill, would feature Batman.
Henry Cavill at the New York premiere of Superman: Man of Steel.
The X-Men panel certainly had the most impressive cast turnout. Actors from across the X-Men films appeared to promote X-Men: Days of Future Past, which is due to be released in 2014. Ian McKellan flirted with the younger reincarnation of his character Magneto, Michael Fassbender, commenting on Proposition 8, he said "It's great to be back in California, I feel safe here now." He continued by announcing "I'm looking for a husband", cheekily adding "it's great to meet you Michael".
The next instalment of the Avenger's franchise, Avengers: Age of Ultron, is scheduled for release in Summer 2015. Tom Hiddleston appeared at the panel in character, as Thor's brother Loki. The latest Thor instalment Thor: Dark World is due to be released later this year, so Hiddleston's appearance suited promoting The Avengers and Thor films. Other Avengers news included the promise of Captain America: Winter Soldier would be more "character driven".
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DC's contribution to the comic-con was their revelation that Superman and Batman would be teaming up in Superman: Man of Steel sequel. Henry Cavill will be reprising his role as the superhero, although no casting decisions for the Batman role were announced.
The Hunger Games panel was greeted with hugely popular, attracting an audience of 6500 fans. Jennifer Lawrence impressed the crowd with anecdotes from the filming of Catching Fire and the premiere of the film's full trailer.
From the realm of television, True Blood's panel announced they would be changing direction for the seventh season. Executive Producer, Brian Buckner promised fans the plotlines would be reined in, with action centring back in Bon Temps.
The Comic-Con's turnout usually indicates how successful a film or series will be. With such vast crowds showing up to see many of the aforementioned movie panels, next year's releases are due to be highly successful.
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The The Boston Consulting Group's report questions whether the United States really faces a manufacturing-skills crisis and finds most shortages are localized. The other major manufacturing centers experiencing a skilled-worker shortage are Charlotte, N.C.; Miami; San Antonio, Texas; and Wichita, Kan. The Boston Consulting Group estimates that the United States is short around 80,000 to 100,000 highly skilled manufacturing workers. Those numbers represent less than 1 percent of the nation's total manufacturing workforce and less than 8 percent of the country's 1.4 million highly skilled workers. "Our research finds little evidence of a meaningful and persistent skills gap in most parts of the U.S., including in its most important manufacturing zones," the report says. "We believe such fears are overblown — at least for the near term." 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Blooming Season I
Anne-Elizabeth Whiteway
Painting - Acrylics On Braille Paper
Blooming Season I is part of a series.
Since this is painted on BRAILLE PAPER, I consider it unusual.
Of course, they say there is nothing new under the sun.
Have you ever painted on Braille paper?
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Swadlincote, De - United Kingdom
Very pretty work Anne...
Smithfield, VA - United States
Thank you to all who have commented. I have written to each of you individually to thank you but want to express my appreciation again here. NOTE: In case you didn't read the description, I want you to know that I painted this on Braile paper. A friend of a friend of mine is blind. She saves some of her books for me.)
Omaha, NE - United States
Anne, This is very beautiful. I just love the flow. Voted.
M�nchen, Ba - Germany
This picture inserted a lot of emotions, Anne! Thank you for your support! V/F
Brookeville, MD - United States
This is a very beautiful work of art ... wonderful colors!!!!! f/v
Long Beach, CA - United States
Once again, very creative work! Love the texture and beautiful painting, Anne-Elizabeth. f/v
Chicago, IL - United States
Another wonderful creation on Braille paper. I love your choice and the look to the painting that it gives!
Santa Fe, NM - United States
Anne,thanks for your comment.Creative color and design on your fine painting !
Castrop - Rauxel, NR - Germany
Ann, I can see that you love what you do and you doing good. Lovely work with great expression. Thanks for your nice support.......much appreciated - Chris.
Smithfield, VA - United States
So happy to see that many people like this. As mentioned, I painted this on Braille paper.
Cedar Rapids, Ia - United States
Anne,This is so gorgeous.Love it and keep them coming. Hugs,Marsha
Boise, ID - United States
Fantastic painting!
Stalowa Wola, po - Poland
Awesome and visual creation! Such color, depth, and textures…very fine work,
Pe�aflor - Chile
acrylics have many good qualities. I do the same as you, until I am satisfied with my work I keep searching and searching
Smithfield, VA - United States
Thank you Madalena and all the others who so graciously commented. I just "make up stuff" as I go along. If I like it, I leave it as is, but if I am not fond of it, I simply paint over it. With acrylics that is easy to day because acrylic paint dries fast. Also this is on Braille paper, as mentioned. Thank you very, very much. The best to you all.
Pe�aflor - Chile
Wow!! Good work!
Hicksville, NY - United States
Love the colors and texture.
San Isidiro, Pe - Costa Rica
just gorgeous Anne... the texture is fabulous, it begs to be touched and caressed... gregory
Canby , MN - United States
This is stunning!!
East Brunswick, NJ - United States
Anne, I absolutely love this piece.....just beautiful!
Smithfield, VA - United States
You are so sweet and caring, Marsha. Also thanks to the others who commented so graciously.
Cedar Rapids, Ia - United States
Anne,This is so lovely.I wish the blind could just see the painting or there was a way they could make paint in different feelings like texture and that would cause a way for them to feel art. Beautiful. Hugs hun,Marsha
Dearborn, MI - United States
Wow! The texture in this piece is good eye candy for the texture junkie resident inside me. I really like this!
Smithfield, VA - United States
Thank you all out there in cyberspace for the wonderful comments. BTW Linda, I viewed your paintings on feathers. AWEsome.
Sequim, WA - United States
Master of creativity you are Anne! Beautiful! Would of never thought of Braille paper .....gives great texture .....I do paint on feathers though which is kinda unusual.
Beau Bassin - Mauritius
really nicely done Anne.. the Braille textures enhance the background..
Denton, TX - United States
Hi Anne-Eliazbeth, This is a great of the dark flowers and the design. Ruth
Lachine, QC - Canada
Delicate, yet rich in colour and texture, very nice.... Chris R
Lansdale, PA - United States
Nicely done. Love the color and the textural effect.
Rochester, MI - United States
Lovely painting Anne! The braille paper adds most interesting textures and like Patricia, I want to run my hands over it.
Aystetten, Ba - Germany
A colorful springtime you did,
Encampment, WY - United States
Joyful and zesty work, with beautiful colors and spirit. I like the braille paper -- that's a great idea to include the blind in the experience of your painting. Plus it gives it a unique look.
Hampton, VA - United States
I enjoy the colors and textures in this piece, Anne-Elizabeth! I set up an account on here too. I haven't done much with it yet, but I was inspired by the work you have shared with on FB.
Presque Isle, ME - United States
Beautiful Painting and I love the colors Anne!!
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I have never painted on Braille paper, but i love the look of this with the all overlapping colors and beautiful texture. I want to run my hands over it. I must try it. Very nice!
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Brilliant presentation of Blooming season..GREAT pleasure to view ur art...
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Dear brother,
I saw the whole speech but did not find any hate speech for any specify religion.
If BJP think MIM leader are wrong, then BJP, Shiv-Sena, RSS & Bajran-Dal & so on party usually speech wrong about Islamic people.
Then first arrest BJP Shafroon leaders, who started this religion politics in India.
He ask smile question: where did kaushaliya give birth to YRama?
Ayodhiya or kaushaliya Nagar....?
But instead of answering his question, BJP started playing with religion sentiments of Hindus & doing politics on this issue.
BJP first get the answer for the Rama birth place issue?
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Here at Liverpool Boutique Hotel, you will find some fantastic rooms with a feeling you just don't get in ordinary hotels. Every room in our Beatles themed hotel is named after one of the great band members or songs. This allows you to enjoy the boutique feel of our hotel every single night during your stay.
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It was hard to find a room in the middle of Liverpool at short notice for a Saturday night but this one turned out to be convenient as West Allerton is only about 10-12 minutes on the train (there is then a 5-10 minute walk through a pleasant residential area to the hotel).
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Loup Charmant (the charming wolf) is a purely seductive and eco-dreamy intimates collection. Kee Edwards, the designer for Loup Charmant, will be showing selections from her latest PURE Collection at the Project Earth Day Eco-Fashion Show here in NYC tonight! We are anticipating a stunningly beautiful 'force of nature' to sweep down the runway as the lights dim and the stars come out. Romantically crafted and historically inspired, PURE collection will no doubt demonstrate the poetry of sustainable style – with its respect for the integrity of organic materials with a real connection to the unleashed, free-spirited imagination.
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Peaceful Disorder October 25, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I know from first hand that organic cotton clothing is a great way to naturally alleviate some skin conditions.
That is an easy call since conventional methods of cotton production use such harsh chemicals.
I have heard some varying numbers on the amount, but everyone agrees the chemicals just are bad for the earth and us.
"Traditional cotton production also attributes to 25% of worldwide insecticide use and 10% of worldwide pesticide use."
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There's nothing better than that crack of the bat and smell of fresh-cut grass -- on the North Side, that is. With this offer from Wrigley View Rooftop, you'll take in all the action of America's pastime: For $99 (regularly $198), score one all-inclusive rooftop ticket to see a Cubs home game.
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