Smoky Rose Dress

Smoky Rose Dress

c. 1898-99

Silk crepe, silk taffeta with velvet ribbon and lace trim

Albany Institute of History & Art

Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.

Ray Bradbury

Hurrah!

Favorite Moment from Writing this Morning: I FINISHED!!!!

Favorite Line Crafted: Music, woven into the very fabric of the world, constantly played, constantly brought good to the cold land still lost in the echoes of an old war.

@alana-k-asby I finished the new version today!!!!

Cesare Saccaggi (Italian, 1868-1934)

Incipit Vita Nova – Dante e Beatrice

Which is why the geniuses in criminal correction lock up our criminal population in buildings with no air conditioning.

There's a well-known link between depression, suicide, and the seasons of spring and summer. This is often attributed to allergies. The most parsimonious explanation here is that allergies cause inflammation, which is irritating—sometimes to the point of inhibiting self-control—and therefore leads to increased impulsivity. However, if we step back a bit, the underlying theme here is not merely allergies but thermodynamics. It is heat that triggers the plant's cycle of releasing increased amounts of pollen. A separate but closely related theory, which also seeks to reconcile geography with human behavior, is the heat hypothesis. This theory posits that increases in heat are linked to increases in aggressive behavior. Various field experiments found evidence to support this hypothesis, while other lab experiments returned mixed results. Scientists published a paper in 1997 in which they performed an empirical analysis, looking at averages in temperature in comparison to US crime rates across the years 1950–1995. They found that a strong and compelling pattern emerged, suggesting that for every few degrees of increased heat, there was also an increase in violent crimes like assault and murder.  A broader way to reason here is perhaps in terms of economic or computational cost: because heat may reduce our overall cognitive performance and constrain our mental faculties, it may also make us more easily provoked.

The Kelpie Pond✨️ Jaimie Whitbread