Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
7/3: reading retreat?
A friend of mine went on a reading retreat in January, which sounded like such a wonderful thing to do for oneself. It turns out that my summer sinus infection is providing me with my own reading retreat of sorts. Today's thoroughly engaging book was Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang. I'm not sure I buy all of her underlying reasons for why certain colors/shapes/arrangements have the effects they do, but she certainly is good at demonstrating the effects--and she does it all with elegantly simple paper cut-outs. I might actually spend some time tonight playing with cut paper myself....
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