Distance: 1 mile
A movie art and/or Willem DaFoe lovers will appreciate.
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Friday, December 7, 2018
Two Women Abstract Expressionists --- Day 7/272
Walk: SFMOMA
Distance: 2 miles, small yoga
Distance: 2 miles, small yoga
Foreground: Beverly Pepper (b. 1922), Toro, 1962, Wood and Steel
Background: Joan Mitchell (1925-92), Bracket, 1989, Oil on Canvas
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Tonight? Nah... --- Day 7/271
Walk: Marin Driving Day
Distance: 1/2 block (?)
Distance: 1/2 block (?)
Ciwt is just not in the mood to write tonight....
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
ChiroNet --- Day 7/270
Walk: Totally jammed downtown for chiropractor/shin splints
Distance: 2 miles, yoga
So, instead of hitting another flick (Creed II) or waiting for her upcoming orthopedic surgeon appointment, Ciwt decided to call her chiropractor from the days of yore. About shin splints (or worse she feared, helped by Dr. Internet).
Expecting an extensive debrief about the where (Palm Springs), what (pickleball), how (hard surface, hard shoes), Ciwt carefully reviewed the circumstances of her pain. And began to explain in depth when she got in to his office. "Uh Hu," he said quietly as he pressed her neck(?) not shin, "Oh," he said as he connected the hand on her neck with something around her rib cage. "Turn this way; now that way..." on he went with barely a little finger on either of her shins.
Finally the pronouncement: "There's no fracture. Your lymph system is a little slow and backed up, so I cleared that. Walking won't hurt your legs. There's no particular exercise or routine you need to do. Here's the name of a vitamin to buy (Bone Up), it should help with everything."
So, that was it. $60, no surgeries, no braces or crutches, no horrendous downtime, no PT. Nothing mentioned by Dr. Internet where every condition leads to death - plus Ciwt was going to live.
Getting older is sneaky business. All of a sudden things appear. Like shin splints. Yogini Ciwt knows this but keeps forgetting about not consulting the internet - and checking things out at least initially with professionals in the simpler - and sometimes magical - modalities.
Distance: 2 miles, yoga
So, instead of hitting another flick (Creed II) or waiting for her upcoming orthopedic surgeon appointment, Ciwt decided to call her chiropractor from the days of yore. About shin splints (or worse she feared, helped by Dr. Internet).
Expecting an extensive debrief about the where (Palm Springs), what (pickleball), how (hard surface, hard shoes), Ciwt carefully reviewed the circumstances of her pain. And began to explain in depth when she got in to his office. "Uh Hu," he said quietly as he pressed her neck(?) not shin, "Oh," he said as he connected the hand on her neck with something around her rib cage. "Turn this way; now that way..." on he went with barely a little finger on either of her shins.
Finally the pronouncement: "There's no fracture. Your lymph system is a little slow and backed up, so I cleared that. Walking won't hurt your legs. There's no particular exercise or routine you need to do. Here's the name of a vitamin to buy (Bone Up), it should help with everything."
So, that was it. $60, no surgeries, no braces or crutches, no horrendous downtime, no PT. Nothing mentioned by Dr. Internet where every condition leads to death - plus Ciwt was going to live.
Getting older is sneaky business. All of a sudden things appear. Like shin splints. Yogini Ciwt knows this but keeps forgetting about not consulting the internet - and checking things out at least initially with professionals in the simpler - and sometimes magical - modalities.
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Good Book --- Day 7/269
Walk: deYoung Museum (possible tour preparation), AMC Kabuki (Green Book)
Distance: 3 miles, small yoga
Distance: 3 miles, small yoga
So, Ciwt went to Green Book with low expectations except about one of her favorites, poet/actor/multilinguist/brilliant/dreamboat Viggo Mortensen. Imagine her disappointment when the
movie opened to maybe 15 minutes of Mortensen as a 1. chow hound, 2. smoker, 3. heavy, 4. virtually illiterate, 5. ill mannered, 6. the list goes on to a few more non-Viggo qualities.
"This movie will be terrible," Ciwt thought. Then lean, elegant Marershala Ali glided onto the screen and sat on a splendid throne. The two leads began playing their 'buddy' roles together, and it all worked with terrific energy and just enough historical fact to inform but not either overwhelm or sugar coat.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Not Ciwt's; Maybe Yours Though --- Day 7/268
Walk: AMC Kabuki (The Favourite)
Distance: 2 miles, yoga
Longtime CIWT readers might remember Ciwt's ancestors came over from England on the ship Griffin in 1633. That's 15 years after the Mayflower, and something Ciwt herself didn't remember until she consulted notes. After that, English marriage after English marriage ensued until Ciwt was born - and after that even.
So maybe her dna explains why she never completely enjoys plays, books or movies that mishandle presenting the peculiarities of the English. To be sure there are many of those but comparatively few and superb are the artists who get it right. Monty Python, Oscar Wilde, Dame Edna, Emma Thompson as well as many notable others come to mind. And what they usually have in common is their Englishness. Or, okay, Irishness, or Great Isleness.
When non-English artists go at the bad teeth, thin hair, strange relationship with pets, dark wooden everything,huge estates, non-stop tapestries general daffiness, part of Ciwt cringes. Unsually this isn't done with love. And, in spite of its many commendable qualities such as superb acting, Ciwt felt such was the case with The Favourite. But, Ciwt is, you know, pretty thin-skinned about such matters, so please go and judge for yourself.
Distance: 2 miles, yoga
Longtime CIWT readers might remember Ciwt's ancestors came over from England on the ship Griffin in 1633. That's 15 years after the Mayflower, and something Ciwt herself didn't remember until she consulted notes. After that, English marriage after English marriage ensued until Ciwt was born - and after that even.
So maybe her dna explains why she never completely enjoys plays, books or movies that mishandle presenting the peculiarities of the English. To be sure there are many of those but comparatively few and superb are the artists who get it right. Monty Python, Oscar Wilde, Dame Edna, Emma Thompson as well as many notable others come to mind. And what they usually have in common is their Englishness. Or, okay, Irishness, or Great Isleness.
When non-English artists go at the bad teeth, thin hair, strange relationship with pets, dark wooden everything,huge estates, non-stop tapestries general daffiness, part of Ciwt cringes. Unsually this isn't done with love. And, in spite of its many commendable qualities such as superb acting, Ciwt felt such was the case with The Favourite. But, Ciwt is, you know, pretty thin-skinned about such matters, so please go and judge for yourself.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
Otherwise... --- Day 7/267
Walk: Cinema Club (Capernaum)
Distance: 2.4 miles, wee yoga (still healing shin splints)
Distance: 2.4 miles, wee yoga (still healing shin splints)
What can Ciwt say about an assured, technically excellent movie that is hard to take? Well...if you are looking for 2 hours* of unmitigated Lebanese hardship and despair - very well acted, filmed, scored and Cannes Grand Jury-winning - Capernaum is for you. And/or, if you are in need of a good cry; Ciwt believes the tough looking man next to her at Cinema Club this morning was sobbing at the end.
Otherwise....
*edited from 12 hours, and, in Ciwt's view, in need of more.
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Reading the Light --- Day 7/266
Walk: No, healing shin splints
Distance: 0, but nice to just read with cats on lap
Among the many things Ciwt admires about Henri Matisse is his courage to grow as an artist until the very end of his life. One of his most dramatic periods of growth came when he visited then stayed extensively in the South of France. Having grown up in Northern France not far from Belgium Matisse had never seen such light. It affected him deeply and seems to have transformed his sensibilities and art forever. Pictures are worth 1,000 words they say, and here they are above. The first is painted in his original palette based on the dark light in the north. The bottom paintings tell us all we need to know about his later and continual love affair with light and color.
Distance: 0, but nice to just read with cats on lap
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| Henri Matisse, Woman Reading, 1894 |
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| Woman Reading at Dressing Table, 1919 Two Women, 1939 |
Among the many things Ciwt admires about Henri Matisse is his courage to grow as an artist until the very end of his life. One of his most dramatic periods of growth came when he visited then stayed extensively in the South of France. Having grown up in Northern France not far from Belgium Matisse had never seen such light. It affected him deeply and seems to have transformed his sensibilities and art forever. Pictures are worth 1,000 words they say, and here they are above. The first is painted in his original palette based on the dark light in the north. The bottom paintings tell us all we need to know about his later and continual love affair with light and color.
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