#BookSky ‘You don’t have to understand life, you just need to live it.’

Friday night record: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, The Cure (1987) “and I used to sometimes try to catch her/but never even caught her name”

Just finished reading but still digesting Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar. Recommend! #BookSky

Afternoon vinyl: Hyaena, Siouxsie and the Banshees (1984) #VinylSky #MusicSky

Now playing: Reggatta de Blanc, The Police (1979) #VinylSky #MusicSky

Apple Venus - XTC (1999) Afternoon soundtrack: “We’re all so frivolous tonight/ But there’s always one/ Who wants to talk shop/ We’ll drive him to the door/ With a broom or a mop” #MusicSky #VinylSky

Fragile - YES (1971): afternoon soundtrack “roundabout” the turntable #MusicSky

2/2 Portrait of Adolf Loos by Oskar Kokoschka (1909) seen at the Kimbell. His hands look the way mine feel (arthritis). #ArtSky

1/2 Portrait of Geza von Cziffra by Rudolf Schlichter (1926-27). My obsession with hands continues. This work is part of an impressive exhibition: Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945 now at the Kimbell Art Museum #ArtSky

On the turn table this morning - “She’s an artist, she don’t look back.” #MusicSky

First summer read complete. Highly recommend. Science, mystery, history, human spirit. Bugs don’t give up! #BookSky

Saint Paul the Hermit by Jusepe de Ribera (c 1640), Meadows Museum. Every time I visit I must see these hands. Long ago, I imagined myself an artist, and I struggled with hands. I look at these and I feel my own aged, aching fingers clutching the rosary. #ArtSky

Flaming June by Frederic Leighton (1895). Sat in front of this brilliance for a long while in the Meadows Museum. There is beauty in this world. #artsky

The physics of materials defines their resistance and behavior. Density affects buoyancy, elasticity allows deformation, and thermal conductivity determines heat transfer. Each material has unique properties that govern its use.

This I love. And resemble more each day.

Dylan Thomas with the words this morning.

Holiday book haul. New Year goal to read more. #BookSky