8: Puzzle

Sisters photographing

and this makes me think of you

i want you to do this but...
i want to change the tasks for the day.
you'll take a photo each day and post it here. 
since we start late, i'll start with the eighth.

so:

8th. a puzzle
9th. cat
10th. funny
11th. the hail mary
12th. boy
13th. girl
14th. cook
15th. where you go
16th. book
17th. hero
18th. ugly
19th. lips
20th. coffee
21st. door
22nd. hair
23rd. homemade
24th. jealous
25th. habit
26th. candle
27th. upstairs
28th. noisy
29th. smelly
30th. sisters
31st. you

wanna do it?

Sisters Reading a Book

Constantin Hansen, The Artist's Sisters Signe and Henriette Reading a Book, 1826

This reminded me of you! I wish I could have tried your flan! It looks delicious. You will have to make some for me. Are you coming to visit today? 

Regresamos a la casa

After exploring Mexico for the holidays with you, I finally am getting back to posting.
So, your bard notes and Lewis Carroll defenses were all a delight to read during the tail end of my semester. I agree with you. Carroll was beautiful, and he shouldn't be reduced to creepy. There was an afternoon in the library when I just felt so sorry for the little girls in his photos, but after some more research and glances, I feel differently. Childhood has become inevitably difficult to choose as a subject, so in a way, I think both Liddell and Carroll were brave.

As for recent updates...I said goodbye to you about eighteen hours ago and slept for some eight of the eighteen, so no major events. However! I did make flan this afternoon with mom. finally.

I love making anything with sugar, but this was particularly fun. I like when things are a little delicate. Look at this caramel!

Then I made the creamy part...

Finally, it was ready for the oven.

Last but not least, it was time for the bunny garnish...

Only joking!!

Happy New Year Sisterpoodle!

Regarding LORCA

Obviously I am making up for my long silence and filling your head with my Bard past. Now I have some Federico Garcia Lorca poems that I translated. Well this is a few pages of my first draft, so do not judge me too harshly, must have been 1999 or 2000.

Another obsessed soul full of greatness, then he was shot by the anti-communist death squad during the Spanish Civil War. 

Second in from the right and Salvador Dali all the way on the Left.

Lorca and Dali

RE: Lewis Carroll

As you will see... I was also introduced to Lewis Carroll while at Bard. I found this in my old Bard folder, amazingly enough it is dated 3/23/2000, which, as you know was my 21st birthday. Here is the folder with my old Bard phone extension, oh the days before cell phones.

It has a very "Alice in Wonderland" image on it... so I guess I was quite obsessed. Though I think your obsession with Lolita is not all that different, right? You can't call Carroll 'creepy and sad' without saying the same of Mr. Humbert Humbert and his darling Nymphet. Then again this is possibly the most creepy photo of Carroll with Alice...

She was quite an inspiration, this Alice Liddell, and she was also photographed much later in her life by another of my favorites, Julia Margaret Cameron, mimicking the pose by Carroll but backwards.

 And so.. what do you think of him now? Creepy? Yes, but genius as well, he did write Alice in Wonderland after all. You can't really have one without the other... obsession... creepiness... and greatness? Do they go hand in hand? Possibly that is why I may never reach greatness as I am lacking in the creepiness. I will have to consider what I can do about that.

Oh dear!

Emily! I have been very bad! *(&^*%^*&%!!! Why have I not posted in so long! Here is a funny photo to make up for it. Thanksgiving 2004 cruise. 

Now... no more Thanksgivings without me!!! This in not OK. I am not OK with it. Never again.