My favorite Bible study teacher, Dee Brestin, shared in her email list a link to a beautiful video of a song of his i'd never heard of.
May you find your celebration of Thanksgiving enhanced by the words and music.
Links disappeared in the text? Here they are separately:
Like usual, these are novels i've read before. Most recently, it's been several about Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, as well as some of Sayers' other short stories.*
This go-around, i've been more than usually impressed by the signs of the times, especially regarding:
i'm guessing you pretty well know if your kid will enjoy an art-related gift this holiday season. But you may feel lost about choosing.
First, there's those got-everything little studio cases. Like most things, the quality would vary from kit to kit. More than the quality, however, i would expect the giftee to quickly use one medium completely up, and have most of the rest unsampled or barely touched.
You'd probably be best off choosing your own.
What medium or media does the young artist work in? Or like to work in?
Feeling out of your depth? i do understand that! That's how i feel with tech stuff. However, you can find all sorts of people who want to help you.
Questions? Leave a comment below and i'll see if i can help you, or point you in a good direction.
Oh, the very best art gift, or perhaps any kind of gift, is one that involves spending time with the kid. But you knew that, right?
i don't want to dwell too much on COVID here, but the fact is it is a part of our lives these days.
This link goes to an article with suggestions to make this a safe Thanksgiving, but also there's an good .infographic
https://www.in.gov/dhs/get-prepared/thanksgiving-safety/
To print the infographic separately
i use computers. i don't like them.
That's something i might put in a wordart frame. But not until i figure out what to do about the Google photo situation.
i won't be posting photos for awhile. It seems that Google photos will no longer be a free service. Ok, the cutoff is over six months away, but that's not long to find and move pictures.
... it's not just photos and videos here. All those Gmail emails with attachments that you forgot to delete also count, as does anything else you do on Google. (Our friends at Google tell me that my Gmail alone counts for 40 GBs of online storage.
i have never consciously used Google photos, but they do have a tendency to mix their services up, so i've no idea how many will be affected. Tons of undeleted emails. And photos with texts.
Wikipedia seems to have a good article on Google photos (ooh, and this raises the question, what's happening / has happened to my Picasa photos, another service that i didn't consciously use, but seems to have a lot of blog pics on it.).
This one seems to have a lot of useful info:
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-manage-your-google-photos-or-move-them-somewhere-1845657549
Any one with suggestions, ideas, i'd love to hear them.
Two things i want to comment on:
You'd think that would be enough for everyday use. No, i've had to move greys and flesh tones to a smaller case. And i resorted them to put only the most used ones in, which works out to mainly the Faber Castell ones, moving out all but one of the Luminance ones and quite a few Derwents.
The amazing thing is how much lighter the case became, substituting narrower-barrelled FC and Lyra Rembrandts for the Coloursoft and Luminance.
Below, i've got a picture of my weirdly bent paperclip on a pencil case zipper. i should remove it, the paperclip. It's a relic of the days when i used primarily Prismacolors.
With the Prismacolors, i sharpened the pencils a lot, going through them quickly. And maybe 25-50 times in a two hour session i would have to use my paperclip to dig pencil parts out of the sharpener.
i don't need to do that any more. Though i do miss the fantastic range of Prismacolors.
"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
John Burroughs
