Working late tonight— Curriculum Night at my school! I’m wearing a new blue dress but the pre-autumn chill has set in—bringing a warm drink! Hope everyone has a great rest of whatever time zone they inhabit.

These are the two gems I purchased from Pittsburgh’s Art Book Fair (first ever exhibit)! I loved that the artists I chose (by coincidence) were connected to water & Michigan, USA (childhood memories).🍁💦 #zines #bookstodon #books

My morning read ☕️ “In wit begins criticism, but there is nothing sneering or pushy or pretentious or doctrinaire about it. Wit is measured not by «mere jests» or by the demonstration of one’s cleverness at the expense of others. It is measured by the ability to «move passions» and to «make passions.» To make a passion is not to invent a feeling whole cloth, to conjure something out of nothing. It is the ability to take one’s initial perception or impression of an object and to subject it to the earnest, protean, and fleet-footed movement of consciousness; to expose what one has seen, heard, tasted, and touched to «the sun of the Brain,» so that it may receive its illumination and its fast-spreading heat. Wit «sweetens melancholy, dresses joy; it quenches fear, raiseth hopes, eases pains,» Cavendish lists. «It mourns with sorrow, mends faults; it moves compassion, begs pardon.» We should note that she describes both wit’s enhancements and, more ardently, wit’s compensations – that it can raise hope just as it can sweeten melancholy, quench fear, ease pain, and mend faults. In turning an object over and around, wit can change one’s perception of what the true nature of a thing is.” ~Merve Emre

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I’m decorating today for the autumn season… and discovering this photo of my son every year is a joy even though he’s in his 20’s now— it feels like yesterday ☺️🍁 My goal is to jump in a pile of leaves before winter.

Reading by the library! Saturday bliss 🍁🍃🍁

I love my job— surrounded by wonderful books like this favorite of mine! (Animals By The Numbers)

“Camus addressed his views on writing most directly in a 1943 essay about the novel, included in his altogether indispensable Lyrical and Critical Essays (public library). He reflects: One must be two persons when one writes… The great problem is to translate what one feels into what one wants others to feel. We call a writer bad when he expresses himself in reference to an inner context the reader cannot know. The mediocre writer is thus led to say anything he pleases. In a sentiment James Baldwin would echo in his advice on writing, insisting that “beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance,” Camus observes that all creative endeavor demands of us “a certain constancy of soul, and a human and literary knowledge of sacrifice.”

The Marginalian

Albert Camus on Writing and the Importance of Stubbornness in Creative Work

“There is no greatness without a little stubbornness… Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity.”

Good Night Nostr— logging off to relax, read, & rest. It’s going to be in the 90’s tomorrow in my city & my school does not have air conditioning 🙏💙

“... and when ‘the future’ is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ripened memory which is twice as hole-ridden as real cheese. After all these years it hardly matters who or what stands in the corner, hidden by heavy drapes, and your mind resounds not with a seraphic ‘do,’ only their rustle. Life, that no one dares to appraise, like that gift horse’s mouth, bares its teeth in a grin at each encounter. What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech.” ~Joseph Brodsky from “A Part Of Speech”

One day a week, teachers at my school are allowed to wear jeans & pay a fee that raised money for something work related. For me— a dressy blouse & not so casual cut jeans were typically the norm on these days. But this school year— no more jean days (for a reason not mentioning) & I’m so sad. But I’m also on the look out to add to my wardrobe— #shopping