Walks: Hood
Distances: 3.75 miles average
Hello, loyal readers. Happy May. Ciwt is thinking of you and just waiting for ideas to show up.
Walks: Hood
Distances: 3.75 miles average
Hello, loyal readers. Happy May. Ciwt is thinking of you and just waiting for ideas to show up.
Walks: Hood and Short
Distances: 2.5 miles average
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Mother, ca. 1895, o/c |
When she saw it this morning Ciwt was completely enchanted by this painting by the Spanish artist Joaquin Sorolla commemorating his wife and the birth of their youngest daughter, Elena.
How perfect that it showed up on Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day to all (grand, great grand) mothers around the world.
Walks: Housebound with 😷😷
Distances: n/a
Well, darn, once again Ciwt wasn't 'able to make' (read 'invited to'): fashion's biggest night, The Met Gala. Of course she went right to the pictures, and remembered her 20year old self in NYC nervously dressing for her first post college job interviews. Imagine if she (or her boyfriend) had shown up in one of these 'power suits!'
Colman Domingo in a Valentino by Alessandro Michele zoot suit at the Met Gala |
Teyana Taylor co-created by her and Black Panther costume designer Ruth E Carter |
Ooops..Sabrina Taylor in (sort of) Louis Vuitton |
Walk: T Joe's
Distance: 2.5 miles
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Jimmy Butler |
So, one of the things Ciwt admires about many elite athletes is their ability to stay focused on winning right to the very last buzzer - no matter how harrowing the circumstances. A few of her favorite examples are Joe Montana calmly surveying the field for a receiver with less than ten seconds on the clock, and Rafa Nadal throwing himself entirely into every shot after hours of playing.
And last night, the aging Golden State Warriors winning game 7 of the playoffs. Throughout the series there were the inevitable newspaper headlines about how unfair the refs were to the Warriors or how brutally guarded Curry was by the Rockets or how punishing their schedule was with all the plane rides. Poor, poor Warriors.
But, as always, the players themselves were having none of it. The best of them are not looking for excuses or handouts. They know winning is up to them and they take full responsibility for - actually seem to look forward to - the challenge. When some reporter started down the 'terrible schedule' road with Jimmy Butler the other day, he brushed him off completely:
“We’ll be all right. I’m 35, I can’t remember how old Steph is, Dray is 35, too. Everybody’s got to travel the same distance. Ain’t like we’re going to go around the world and land in Houston and they got only a five minute flight to Houston. They’ve got to travel just like we’ve got to travel.”
Walks: Legion of Honor
Distances: 2.5 miles
Joseph Baumhauer (maker), Commode, mid 18th C, Bloodwood, Kingwood marquetry, marble top, gilt bronze mounts |
Walks: Legion of Honor x 3
Distances: 3 miles x 3
So Ciwt's private art tours business is among the world's least hazardous. The possible perils include things like:
1. Totally zoning out and not remembering any titles, artists, art facts. So far so good on that.
2. Not establishing good communication with her clients. This usually happens when someone brings a (grand)child(ren) with iPhone(s). And yes it has happened several times to Ciwt.
3. Unexpected rehanging of works Ciwt has included in her tour.
Well, hazard 3 has happened. Ciwt is booked to give a tour of an entire museum this weekend. She's done it many times before and has a general plan she usually follows. To confirm that all was a-ok, she went to the museum in question a couple of days ago. And 😧😬😮😨😱
Important works (to Ciwt's tour) have been removed; Unimportant works (to Ciwt's tour) have been taken out of storage and put on the walls. The chronology of every room is completely different. So, pardon Ciwt while she reorders her understanding of the museum's collection - so well that she can present it in a couple of days. Suddenly such risky business....
Walk: AMC Kubuki (The Account 2)
Distance: 3 miles
Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal on top of Airstream in The Account 2 |
Perfect! A plot-holed, rock em/sock em, buddy movie where (spoiler alert) all the bad people were blown away and all the good people lived. Ciwt was looking for exactly kind of fluff, and she got it.