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Ahh I have a new love affair, the magical, wild & fiercely individual Leonora Carrington. Once lover & muse of surrealist Max Ernst she forged on & created a fabulous body of work & never bothered to hang about in galleries to say “look at me I‘m a surrealist”. Yet another woman overlooked by art history but thankfully brought back to life by distant family relation & author Joanna Moorhead. 🖤

#TuesdayTunes

Yesterday started out gloomy and then the wind picked up and washed it away. Today is a perfect fall day.

I love Vivaldi‘s Four Seasons and learned he wrote sonnets for each season at a candlelight performance a couple of years ago.

Here is Autumn: https://youtu.be/UIdwCrfDNjU?si=QrP8lmLBVBdn3b_B.

Along with Van Gogh‘s Harvest at La Crau with Montmajour in the Background.

@TieDyeDude

Where I struggle to write about a writer. Shingles is the pitts. Thank you to Joyce Morgan for writing about The Countess of Kirribilli.
https://www.suzs-space.com/the-countess-from-kirribilli-by-joyce-morgan/

Well-written biography. Bit long, I think. Some topics seemed obliquely related to Lombardi‘s life like the whole West Point academic dishonesty and expulsion scandal with Blaik. Marie‘s pregnancy complications were heartbreaking. The biography portrays the good and the bad and everything in between of his life and personality.

repost for @TheBookHippie

#SUNDAYBUDDYREAD NOVEMBER

All welcome 💙💙💙💙💙

Works for #NONFICTIONNOVEMBER too

When Shirley tells you in the first 3 pages to get the smelling salts & get ready for the surprise of your life, she‘s not kidding! “Real-life” Shirley is not at all like her squeaky clean image. Includes both sweet & wild stories about her films, her family, her troubled marriage to impressively endowed Jack Cassidy & all the behind-the-scenes infidelities. Gotta admire her candor in this hair-curling page-turner!☺️🌶️
#BookSpin
@TheAromaofBooks

Started this doorstop of a book today. Rom Chernow is one of my favorite authors. #MarkTwain #history #biography #RonChernow

“Planting Peace acts as both a mirror for readers who identify with environmental activism and African heritage and as a window for those unfamiliar with Wangari Maathai‘s legacy. “

Read the full review here:
https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/xvii-4/11/

#tuesdaytunes @TieDyeDude

Listening to this one today. Love Brian Eno, and this one is so calming. Just what I need. 💛💚💛

Ambient 1: Music for Airports