Authentic Threads » photographs http://authenticthreads.org/blog Long live the doot deary! Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:52:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Happy April (4th!) http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/04/04/happy-april-4th/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/04/04/happy-april-4th/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:22:13 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/04/04/happy-april-4th/ “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
- William Shakespeare


This day is quite an illustrious day in history. You might not have realized this.

Duke Ellington and Maya Angelou were born on April 4th.

“April 4” is one of the only dates mentioned specifically in a U2 song. Tis true.

AND I was born on April 4th. Yep, it’s me birthday!*

*If you want to want to give me a present, leave me a comment telling me about something small that someone does for you that makes you feel loved.
April 4th birthdays and years
1896: Tristan Tzara, French poet
1899: Duke Ellington, American band leader
1914: Marguerite Duras, French writer
1915: Muddy Waters, Chicago blues singer
1928: Maya Angelou, American poet

April is also:
Guitar month, Humor month, AND Kite flying month. April truly rocks.

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You’re one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you’re two months back in the middle of March.”
- Robert Frost

“Spring is the Period
Express from God.
Among the other seasons
Himself abide,

But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.”
- Emily Dickinson, Spring is the Period, #844

More Spring poems here. (Takes awhile to download.)

]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/04/04/happy-april-4th/feed/ O hi http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/28/o-hi/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/28/o-hi/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:36:45 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/28/o-hi/ You knows bout I can has cheezburger, right??!! :) :)

I hate to steal their picture, but not enough not to do it. This one just made me laugh this morning. Now go to their site, so I don’t feelz bad bout stealin. k!

funny-pictures-yoda-cat-baby-sleeps.jpg

]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/28/o-hi/feed/ Ear ah Tahble http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/12/ear-ah-tahble/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/12/ear-ah-tahble/#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:40:48 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/12/ear-ah-tahble/ I had a great day. A good talk with a friend. Got lots done. Went to my Womyn’s group which I was really looking forward to, but while I was there, started feeling really IRR-A-TAble. I don’t know why.

All I know is, I came home and looked at my netvibes page to take my mind off it, and I was irritated with Dooce for her stupid pictures of her poor dog with the peanut butter, I’m disgusted with Blue and her stupid vengeful murder planning shenanigans, and hating this stupid asshole for his stupid f@#$ing advice that some poor slob is probably taking and bothering his wife about her cute new haircut. WHICH SHE REALLY DID GET JUST BECAUSE SHE WANTED A NEW HAIRCUT, YOU ASSHOLE!

This article made me feel better because it’s tone resonates with my current mood, which I should probably thoughtfully analyze but I DON’T WANT TO!

Only these little cuties are free from my wrath.

]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/12/ear-ah-tahble/feed/ Cartoon view http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/05/cartoon-view/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/05/cartoon-view/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:10 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/05/cartoon-view/ mypicture.jpg

Cartoon view out of our living room window. Taken with Photo Booth on a mac. I wish my camera could take pictures like this!

]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2008/02/05/cartoon-view/feed/ Flower http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/16/flower/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/16/flower/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:05:00 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/16/flower/

]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/16/flower/feed/ About the art http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/12/about-the-art/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/12/about-the-art/#comments Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:28:02 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/12/about-the-art/ Tree woman

Today I’m uploading art that got lost in the transfer from blogger to wordpress.

I made almost all of the art on this website using Microsoft Paint and a mouse. I don’t have my dreamed of tablet yet, but I do have photoshop now and am having fun softening the rough edges of my old pictures with it and giving some of the art a whole new look. I’ll update the old posts with the new versions as well.

I don’t know if when I edit the old posts they will show up as new posts, and I apologize in advance to those of you who are subscribed to this blog if they do!

I made the picture in this post using photoshop. I like how, by changing how strong the lines were, it changed from being a woman in a mountain, Mountain Woman, to being a woman looking at a mountain or some kind of beautiful scene. As the woman in this picture was a tree in the old picture, we can call her Tree Woman.

]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2007/10/12/about-the-art/feed/ Chuck dresses up as Princess Leta http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/ Have you been introduced to Dooce yet? She is the thin blond former Mormon who did web design who has a blog that people read who moved back to Utah. (Me: but bizarro world)

Check out chuckles on her Flickr page.

]]> http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/11/02/chuck-dresses-up-as-princess-leta/feed/ Laughing Jesus http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/10/21/laughing-jesus/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/10/21/laughing-jesus/#comments Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:00:00 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/?p=458 I was looking up “laughing” on google images so I could send my co-worker an image of someone laughing as hard as his email made me laugh. Naturally, I got completely distracted and found:

  • These laughing babies (guaranteed to make you laugh or at least smile!)
  • and these laughing Buddhas.

    • I think it highly commends a religion when the icon is often pictured laughing. It made me think of the contrast with the Christian religion which often glorifies suffering. I pictured the sad and serious face of Jesus that I’ve always seen.

    “You never see Jesus laughing,” I thought. Then, at the top of the next page, who should I find but Laughing Jesus!


    It almost seems sacreligious….
    Or maybe it’s a sign… :)

    Found at Christian Centered Mall.

    ]]>     http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/10/21/laughing-jesus/feed/     Alaska trip, day two: BC in the house! http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/07/27/alaska-trip-day-two-bc-in-the-house/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/07/27/alaska-trip-day-two-bc-in-the-house/#comments Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:44:00 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/?p=452 British Columbia rocks. On the first day of our trip, we landed in adless Vancouver, as previously noted and then, following some crazy plan of my mother’s, we spent the next 6 plus hours in transit. We took three bus rides and a ferry to our hotel on Vancouver Island where we immediately fell asleep. The ferry ride was beautiful though, and I tried to keep a pleasant attitude towards her as this was the beginning of our TWO WEEKS together. (”Family vacation,” “two weeks” I wonder that the two phrases together did not give me a single moments pause before the trip started.)

    Vancouver Island reminded me of Denmark because of all the people riding the bus, riding their bikes, and wearing rain gear. I miss bike paths.

    Here are some of the pictures I took on our ferry ride back to Vancouver to board the cruise:


    Finally a vista: what I had been longing for in my little urban life.


    I was sick as a dog on the second day of our trip, but hey, look at the view!


    Pulling into the dock.

    ]]>     http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/07/27/alaska-trip-day-two-bc-in-the-house/feed/     The Alaska report begins: An American in Vancouver http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/07/26/the-alaska-report-begins-an-american-in-vancouver/ http://authenticthreads.org/blog/2006/07/26/the-alaska-report-begins-an-american-in-vancouver/#comments Wed, 26 Jul 2006 06:36:00 +0000 Braidwood http://authenticthreads.org/blog/?p=451 Why are Americans so frazzled? I’m taking a reductionist view in this post and blaming it all on advertisements. I noticed something different about Canada the moment I stepped into the airport. By the time I reached the bus stop I realized what it was: There were no ads anywhere! I was so stunned with the breathtakingly simple lines the lack of ads exposed that I took pictures of the road and the bus stop.


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