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lights #artstr Edison bulbs in an adjustable wire frame

this whole song is just so funny #artstr #music

I went on a ‘princess’ theme in my viewing choices, after finishing Amphibia. I really liked how in the live-action Snow White, the story was changed to have a play on words on the word ‘fair’. Instead of just ‘who is the fairest one of all?’ it became, who can be the leader who is fair to everyone? And that was Snow White and her friends and supporters. And her name is because she was born during a blizzard and survived. I also learned from watching ‘Into the Unknown: The Making of Frozen II’ that the song “Show Yourself” was really hard to write. I was shocked. This was totally unexpected. That song was so … cohesive, such a good fit, that I kinda imagined some wise old people steeped in story structure just came up with it naturally and effortlessly. Nope. They almost gave up on it, it was so hard to create.

I liked drawing a little tv screen for the April review page, soo did that for the May-June page too. ☺️ #artstr

😡 ‘She’s nice country. But she was stole a long time ago,’ a man tells Pa and Tom and Uncle John as they bathe in the Colorado River. In the 1930s, and today, most California farming is corporate farming, muscular and ever expanding, as dependent on migrant labor today as it has been for over a century.” - On Reading The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 13, The Salinas Lettuce Strike, 1936 “The ‘shipper-growers of California,’ said Carey McWilliams, author of Factories in the Field (1939), a sociological study of migrant labor that came out shortly after Steinbeck’s novel, ‘the men who own, control, and direct the state’s fantastically rich produce industry, are a strange breed, one that must be studied at close range over a period of years to be fully appreciated. It is a breed long addicted to violence . . . in the area of labor relations they are spoiled, stupid, and arrogant.’ Steinbeck had a story about a grower he met in the late 1930s, John saying to him: ‘you keep calling them communists. What do you mean?’ ‘I mean any son-of-a-bitch who wants 30 cents an hour when I’m willing to pay him two bits.’ #bookstr #reading #theGrapesofWrath

The next time I’m out on a dog walk and Joey is in the mood to sit and lounge for a very long time, I’m going to try listening to a familiar podcast. I got into podcasts very gradually, earlier this year. I used to think I wasn’t into podcasts, cuz, who has time for that? Listening to a long, rambling radio talk show filled with minutiae, is what I thought of it. ⋆.˚ 𓆉 getting into podcasts . . . ⋆.˚ 𓇼 Reclaiming by Monica Lewinsky 𓇼 Ocean Vuong on Oprah’s Book Club and NPR Fresh Air 𓇼 Taylor Swift on her boyfriend’s brother’s podcast 𓇼 Good Hang w/ Amy Poehler 𓇼 Las Culturistas w/ Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers 𓇼 On Purpose (mental health) w/ Jay Shetty and guest, Emma Watson And now back to Reclaiming, with Monica Lewinsky and guest Margaret Cho.

… still slowly working on the May & June page. The theme is pleasant surprises / unexpected discoveries. My partner found this on a walk because of the scent. When you put a small sprig in a room … it’s really nice. It smells like perfume, but natural. Needless to say, this type of flower — where a lot of little ones make up the whole thing — is really hard to draw. Especially the one where the flowers have opened. 😵‍💫 #artstr #artlist #plantstr nostr:note1xghuyaznszdxcum2uva3phgt2e39qca52ylcl78uk84zcqqzjcgs2th66p

#bookstr Jane Goodall