Happy Women’s Day! I am a firm believer in saying, “Behind every successful society is a woman who dared to dream.” Recently the Governor Janet Mills of Maine brought this quote to my mind. I hope you have a wonderful day of celebration!

I had my share of dictators in South Korea during the 70s and 80s. But I did not expect to see another one in the U.S. T's words bring me a déjà vu. If it goes on, soon you may see undercover law enforcement on college campuses. I truly hope not to see this in the country I chose to call home.

Listening JD Vance's interview on the culture attacking masculinity and creating “androgynous idiots,” I remembered what Susan Sontag said once, "What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."

“Our President is a short, thick little lump of a man, with no talents," remarked a Bowdoin student from the class of 1825.
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Zoom-20250113 -Hendrick Avercamp, "Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters"(1608). It is a winter landscape but it always warms my heart. See the full image at id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108163

Good morning from sunny Maine. Yes, it snowed last night but the morning is beautiful!

"페미니즘은 여성을 더 강하게 만드는 것이 아닙니다. 여성은 이미 강합니다. 페미니즘은 세상이 그 강함을 인식하는 방식을 바꾸는 것입니다." -- GD Anderson 현재의 저를 만들어 주신 수많은 여성들에게 감사드리며 세계 여성의 날을 축하합니다!

I am who I am now, thanks to the countless strong women who have shaped my life. You are my heroes. "Feminism isn't about making women stronger, women are already strong, it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength." Yes, you are already STRONG. Happy International Women's Day!

Squirrel: Double Chocolate M&M Cookies! Why not before?

Me: Well… you know the last time I put some out, a passing by Golden Retriever licked them all.

Zoom-20240225. "At the Moulin Rouge: The Dance" at Philadelphia Museum of Art. #dance See the full image at www.philamuseum.org/collection/o...?

Zoom-20240224. "The Wedding Dance 1566" at the Detroit Institute of Art #Dance See the full image at dia.org/collection/w...

Zoom-20240223. "The Gods Sing and Dance for Shiva and Parvati" at Philadelphia Museum of Art. #Dance. See the full image at www.philamuseum.org/collection/o...?

Zoom-20140215; Painting of the Royal Procession to Hwaseong on Eight-panel Folding Screen in National Palace Museum of Korea. See the full image at artsandculture.google.com/asset/painti...

Zoom-20240213 Tani Bunchō, Dragon in Clouds, a hanging scroll painting at the British Museum. See the full image at www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Zoom-20240212 "Dragon and Tiger" housed at the National Museum of Korea. See the full image at artsandculture.google.com/asset/dragon...

Zoom-20240211, "Umar defeats a dragon" from Hamzanama manuscript housed in the Museum of Applied Art in Vienna, Austria. See the full image at rb.gy/6i8d85

Zoom-20240208 2024년 새해 복 많이 받으시길 기원합니다. 국립중앙박물관에서 소장하고 있는 원본 그림은 아래에서 확인할 수 있습니다. www.museum.go.kr/site/main/re...