#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

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