2018/2019 by the numbers…
I’m using my retreats as bookends so the timeline covers the period between December 7-9, 2018 and December 20-22, 2019. What I didn’t know before my first retreat ended is Continue Reading →
Category Archives: London
Weekend 443.0 (Fellow Travelers)
“Driven out of paradise by You and exiled in a distant land, I cannot return by myself unless You, O Lord, come to meet me in my wandering. My return Continue Reading →
Weekend 439.0 (Andantino con moto)
(1) Dvořák Carnival, Op. 92 (YouTube) Heard this last night at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. The performance on YouTube is from Royal Albert Hall in 2012. (1a) Limestone Photo Continue Reading →
Write this story…
…winner gets homemade fish n chips or bangers and mash. The illustration was done by Clarke Hutton for A Picture of Britain.
Weekend 383.0 (…try to catch the deluge in a paper cup)
(1) Super Tunnel: Join engineers as they build a massive new railway deep beneath the streets of London. (NOVA) (1a) 5 Key Lessons from 10 Cities at Transforming Transportation 2017 Continue Reading →
Weekend 376.0
(1) Edward Johnston, designer of the iconic Underground typeface and ‘bullseye’ symbol, died on this day in 1944
Endless River
(1) Two quotes from Sir Winston Churchill: “…whatever the worries of the hour or the threats of the future once the picture has begun to flow along…they pass out into Continue Reading →
Weekend 347.1
(1) NOVA: First Air War (2) All change: at the rebuilt Tottenham Court Road Tube station in London, Daniel Buren’s geometric installations are set to make a connection (Wallpaper*) – Continue Reading →
Weekend 325.0
(1) Look At Life: Living with Cars 1964 (YouTube)
Weekend 308.0 (Allucciolato)
This space is a placeholder for my #BWC2014 and #London trip report. (1) Refining the palette: “Making Colour” at the National Gallery (The Economist) I saw this exhibit twice (7.26 Continue Reading →