The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

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#126. The Carpenters, A Song For You.

'This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record, and hopefully the start of a new conversation.'

Omara Portuondo, Tiny Desk Concert.

Regina Carter, Tiny Desk Concert.

osprey.

usually we listen to jazz, but right now i'm taking a trip down memory lane and listening to cbc's classic prog. when i bought my first turntable in 1977, i used elp as the test. there's a lot of music i haven't heard, like curved air's backstreet luv (above) and renaissance's ocean gypsy (below).

groovy!

Monday, 2018 April 23

watched the leafs and did art.

my latest art, inferior.

Tuesday, 2018 April 24

A.Word.A.Day: 'androcracy ... A system ruled by men.'

watched civilizations (how do we look?) and first civilizations.

Wednesday, 2018 April 25

 Self-portrait Wearing A Scarf (1911) by Zinaida Serebriakov.
   
susan took mary to the movies. when she got back she watched the hockey game. i did art and joined her for the third period.

Thursday, 2018 April 26

watched the agenda (when mayhem comes to town; solving climate change: a blueprint; sustainability goals for the government).

Friday, 2018 April 27

'Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.'--Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797).

played scrabble.

Saturday, 2018 April 28

susan flew to winnipeg, then got a ride to kenora. bob dropped in.

The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Turns Seventy

'When the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights was adopted seventy years ago, the hopes of its drafters and of people across the globe was that it would help transform the world into a place of freedom and justice. Sadly, the declaration is now being challenged as it has never been before.'

Sunday, 2018 April 29

reading in the star about hans asperger, the psychiatrist who identified a form of autism. he lived in germany during ww2: 'comparatively, aspberger was not a nazi criminal, but was ultimately like so many others at the time who tried to preserve their careers by going along with nazism.' IN9.

less seriously, i read that scientists have proven that uranus stinks: its upper atmosphere is 'full of one of the most malodorous chemicals known to humans, hydrogen sulfide.... the gas is what gives rotten eggs--and human flatulence--their distinctive and unpleasant smell.' IN2.

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