Today is December 1, World AIDS Day, and, in the early "celebrations" of that sad, dark day, the Day Without Art. Some galleries hung cloths over paintings; some theatres went dark. With advances in research and treatment, with so many people alive and thriving, I think the Day Without Art aspect has faded from commemorations of World AIDS Day.
So I
am offering art today in the blog, but it is old art, pre-AIDS, a couple of Christmas-shopping
Vogue covers!
I am not Christmas shopping today. Nor am I dusting. It is Slattern Day in the blog. But 1) I have been
working, on book reviews, poetry features, submissions, etc. 2) there
will be laundry (those gym clothes must be clean for PE class) 3) I
was dusting, over the past few days, and it felt good! I dusted our bedroom: furniture, books, videos, knick-knacks, photos, and jewelry. Yes, it was so dusty, the jewelry needed dusting. This is costume jewelry, left out in little saucers and glasses or hanging from odd mini-sculptures as my kind of interior decoration. I like it, and I like it even better now that it is dusted off.
4 comments:
My costume jewelry needs dusting, now that you mention it. And you have reminded me of the horrible loss of artists and friends to AIDS.
This is very unslatternly of you. I don't know what to think.
Collagemama, yes. Staying home yesterday (from shopping, events, etc.) was the right thing for me to do for them.
Seana, I hope I have made up for dusting by being slatternly in the blog lately, as in not very daily.
yes, I suppose that does balance things out.
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