print-out puppets

I am having a love affair with Downton Abbey and couldn't be more pleased to have stumbled across these! Ahhh, how clever...

first loaf

Nothing but raw ingredients; wholemeal flour, bicarbonate of soda, salt, honey and buttermilk.  Combine them all and you get, a rainy afternoon sequestered inside for warmth, a blanket to burrow in, a book and the smell of baking bread.  I've had the time and the quiet to think about how singular those moments can be when all of the raw ingredients of life finally combine to create something nurturing, beautiful and surprisingly complete.  Events, meetings, opportunities taken and not taken, timing, and relationships when mixed in their own perfect way and baked over their own perfect time often create magic.  I guess the key is what you do when the works are in the oven.

Here's the next venture...

Hey friends, 

Is all well? Here's a little joy, movement, and unadulterated expression.  

dance, dance, dance!

Love,

francesca

For every parcel I stoop down to seize

I lose some other off my arms and knees,

and the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,

Extremes too hard to comprehend at.  once

Yet nothing I should care to leave behind.

With all I have to hold with hand and mind

And heart, if need be, I will do my best.

To keep their building balanced at my breast.

I crouch down to prevent them as they fall;

Then sit down in the middle of them all.

I had to drop the armful in the road

And try to stack them in a better load.

- the armful, robert frost 

Star Slinger - Mornin' Directed by Alan Jensen from Star Slinger on Vimeo.

timing...

A glance exchanged with a passerby among the stacks at The Strand, lending that gorgeous girl your umbrella for the opportunity to graze her hand, the closing subway doors marking the chance you had and the chance you missed to say 'hello'...

Sophie Blackall, Brooklyn based artist, has mined that bittersweet corner of Craigslists' Missed Connections to create an illustrated opus to love, lost and found.  Her work is as ephemeral, quirky, and vibrant as those moments that slipped through all those strangers hands...the joy of it all?  That whether those missed connections were found, they're given a second chance at life through Blackall's poetic imagination, and her stunner of a book.