Sunday Salutations #3

March 1, 2020February 20, 2020 ~ alexandrap529 ~ Leave a comment

Sunday Salutations are my opportunity to offer you some reading/pictures/songs for the end of your week.

As you read this I am furiously checking my bags before I leave for Morocco. I am slightly terrified but mostly thrilled to have the opportunity to travel to a country I’ve wanted to visit for so long.

I first came across the word anthropocene in a poetry class. This essay is just the right kind of nerdery about the word and its interplay with climate change.

Packing books for a trip. Topical but since I subscribe to the Rory Gilmore method of carrying books… for reference, Rory carries 1 bus book biography, 1 bus book novel, 1 lunch book – preferably essays, 1 book of short stories.

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Sunday Salutations #2

February 23, 2020February 16, 2020 ~ alexandrap529 ~ Leave a comment

Sunday Salutations are my opportunity to offer you some reading/pictures/songs for the end of your week.

Gender and sexuality are hard y’all. I really enjoyed this profile of Lachlan Watson who plays Theo on Sabrina.Their journey to defining their identity, and the way they fought to have different identities shown on screen should be required reading.
I read this profile of how Gilmore Girls & Parenthood star Lauren Graham spends her time. Moral? If you want to be creative, make time to see/do/feel creative things.
Liberal arts has a branding problem. Or at least it does according to potential students. As a Kenyon grad, I think about the value of my education every day but I’m not sure that articulating the ethos of it would work with my students.

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Sunday Salutations #1

February 16, 2020 ~ alexandrap529 ~ Leave a comment

Sunday Salutations are my opportunity to offer you some reading/pictures/songs for the end of your week.

HH-Suffolk-Suite-table — Designer Kit Kemp for the Haymarket Hotel

I’ve been wondering for months how to get back into blogging and had the realization yesterday that…you just do it. So here’s the first post in months, but hopefully you’ll hear from me again much sooner than that!

First up in articles this week is a former FBI negotiator’s tips for travel. I’m headed to Morocco so, so I’ll take all the tips and tricks I can get!
I’ve been trying to organize my schedule using timeboxing this week after reading this article about it in the Harvard Business review. Have you tried time boxing?
I’ve been relatively obsessed with my childhood friend Ashley Trabue’s work. She shares her amazing art and her words of wisdom on Instagram. Give her a follow!
The rapid flow of information has made us all distractible. I’m trying to combat it with these 4 simple exercises. Care to join me?
I’ve been obsessed with Kit Kemp’s work for various hotels. So much design inspiration!
This week I’ve been listening to my February playlist, but mostly this song on repeat.

The Wayward Children Series by Seanan McGuire

January 9, 2019 ~ alexandrap529 ~ Leave a comment

Since the fourth book in The Wayward Children series was published on Tuesday, I thought it was high time I shared my review of the books.

“You’re nobody’s rainbow.
You’re nobody’s princess.
You’re nobody’s doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your story ends is you.”
― Seanan McGuire , Every Heart a Doorway

These books are for every person who ever felt too weird, too different, or too out of place in our world. For every kid who read about Narnia, Wonderland, Neverland, and Hogwarts and thought, “yeah, there’s where I would fit in.”

They’re for the adults who are still waiting to recapture some of the same magic that they found one afternoon in a backyard with their friends. That doorway to another world…

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