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I’d seen this girl on the bus several times and thought she was pretty cute, but I was afraid to ask her out. She was always so engrossed in the books she brought on the bus, it seemed impossible to try to talk to her and so I put her out of my mind.
Over time, I started seeing her…
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Maurice Sendak Scared Children Because He Loved Them
“Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life’s concern,” Maurice Sendak told NPR in 1993. His lush visual idiom managed to evoke the strange—and sometimes malign—intensity of real childhood, as fey, unruly protagonists sparred with adversaries (fanged monsters and imperfect parents). All his work demonstrates a strong desire, and uncanny ability, to capture the eerie vividness of youth and its crucibles. “I am trying to draw the way children feel,” Sendak told The New Yorker in an early profile. His ambiguous phrasing is apt—as though “the way children feel” was both what he tried to draw, and how. […]
Sendak railed against what he perceived to be an insidiously overprotective parent culture. The evidence does suggest we adults sometimes take our good-natured desire to protect children from unpleasantness to perverse depths. I see it in the phenomenon of “helicopter parenting,” for instance—the misguided attempt to thwart all potential pitfalls through hovering omnipresence. We seek to foil internal darkness, too, by plying young people with antidepressants and anxiety medication. And we’re highly sensitive about showing children any sort of “challenging” material, even in cases when censorship verges on absurd. The new documentary Bully, which depicts the brutal realities of life in the hallway and playground, was initially deemed “too violent” for children, the very audience it portrays, and attempts to reach.
But it is this expurgated account of childhood—what he called “the great 19th-century fantasy that paints childhood as an eternally innocent paradise”—that Maurice Sendak fought tooth and claw, horn and beak. He knew that children are unavoidably beset by grief, yearning, anxiety, and rage, the same wild and turbulent emotions that seize adult human beings. “To master these forces,” Sendak said, in his 1964 Caldecott acceptance speech, “children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction.”
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Source: The AtlanticMaurice Sendak Scared Children Because He Loved Them
“Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life’s concern,” Maurice Sendak told NPR in 1993. His lush visual idiom managed to evoke the strange—and sometimes malign—intensity of real childhood, as fey, unruly protagonists sparred with adversaries (fanged monsters and imperfect parents). All his work demonstrates a strong desire, and uncanny ability, to capture the eerie vividness of youth and its crucibles. “I am trying to draw the way children feel,” Sendak told The New Yorker in an early profile. His ambiguous phrasing is apt—as though “the way children feel” was both what he tried to draw, and how. […]
Sendak railed against what he perceived to be an insidiously overprotective parent culture. The evidence does suggest we adults sometimes take our good-natured desire to protect children from unpleasantness to perverse depths. I see it in the phenomenon of “helicopter parenting,” for instance—the misguided attempt to thwart all potential pitfalls through hovering omnipresence. We seek to foil internal darkness, too, by plying young people with antidepressants and anxiety medication. And we’re highly sensitive about showing children any sort of “challenging” material, even in cases when censorship verges on absurd. The new documentary Bully, which depicts the brutal realities of life in the hallway and playground, was initially deemed “too violent” for children, the very audience it portrays, and attempts to reach.
But it is this expurgated account of childhood—what he called “the great 19th-century fantasy that paints childhood as an eternally innocent paradise”—that Maurice Sendak fought tooth and claw, horn and beak. He knew that children are unavoidably beset by grief, yearning, anxiety, and rage, the same wild and turbulent emotions that seize adult human beings. “To master these forces,” Sendak said, in his 1964 Caldecott acceptance speech, “children turn to fantasy: that imagined world where disturbing emotional situations are solved to their satisfaction.”
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Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball, New York, 1966.
the most fabulous party ever given…except that dominick dunne had given one first, and that’s where truman got the idea. :)
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hello friends. after a rather lengthy hiatus, i am back on the handmade jewelry horse. it’s terrifyingly easy to let other things intervene and keep you from doing something you love to do. as soon as i figure out how to never let that happen again, i shall share my knowledge with the universe and become staggeringly in demand on the lecture circuit. i have been making lots of pretty things this whole time, but i all but abandoned my shop, which when i came back to it, had tumbleweeds rolling through it. what I’m saying is it’s been awhile.
but when i started my shop the first time a few years ago, it had ALSO been awhile since i had been making jewelry on a consistent basis. again, something i love, but got put aside in favor of other time-sucking activities. just think about all the different hobbies and pastimes and more-than-pastimes we wind up laying aside because of jobs, families, socializing, sleep…pretty soon, it’s been ages since you picked up that guitar, or that needle, or those needle-nose pliers.
i’m having a great time getting all this going, again. i always like to read about what makes people go, how or why they’re doing what they’re doing, so i figured some of you might want to know the same about me. in future posts, i’ll yack about my design process, my shop doings, jewelry trends, the so-not-boring “small business” aspect of my venture, and other silly things like coffee. in case you’re buying. :)
stay tuned! and remember, there’s always money in the banana stand. ;)
also the part in “mad men” last sunday when joanie put her husband out. dudes!
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