Last week I went back home. Visited old friends, bopped around Atlanta, got my Waffle House fix, sat for an impromptu photoshoot, walked by a lake, walked in the woods, worked for a few days from my parents’ house, ate too much, slept too late, went on gentle hikes, and explored some parts of the state I’d never been to before.
Hadn’t had a proper museum visit this year, so we fixed that thrice over at the Museum of Papermaking at Georgia Tech, Emory’s Carlos Museum, and the Etowah Archaeological Museum at Etowah Indian Mounds. Also paid a visit to the New Echota historic site. The mounds were the coolest of the set – just about every place on Earth has the echoes of a previous civilization…
Coming back home with a full heart, and very pleasantly tired.
Art
Seated male figure in basalt from the Cartago-La Cabaña cultures.
Books
War and Peace.
Running
Very glad I took my running shoes with me on my trip. Didn’t run as much as I initially thought I would, but there’s no outlet like it, and came back home in better shape than I usually do after week-long trips.
Around the Web
There is nothing about being a parent that isn’t a cliché.
Reviving Atlanta’s south downtown neighborhood.
“You can’t have craft without being at peace with pride and embarrassment existing.”
“Have Oscar voters’ tastes improved since I was a teenager, or have I become a boring, middle-aged establishmentarian who likes boring, competent movies?”
How to end your extremely-online era. “Most of a good life is simply refusing to do what is bad.”
Music
Catrin FInch, Seckou Kaita, SOAR. The kora is such a good instrument. “Listen to the Grass Grow“.
Ishmael Ensemble, A State of Flow.
A few from Erik Hall…
- Simeon ten Holt’s Canto Ostinato. Really sings in
“Sections 31–40“. - Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. One of the best from one of the best.
- Solo Three
Movies
Peter Rabbit. Pleasantly charming, good for a couple laughs.
TV
The X-Files, s6e1 “The Beginning“.
Dark, s2e4-8. Second season complete.
Pokémon: Indigo League, s1e2. The plot didn’t do much for me but at least the theme song rips.
Mark Larson 