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Doors Open at Heritage, the Star Tribune printing plant
Camping in St. Croix State Park with the girls under the northern lights, trilliums in bloom and morels over the fire.
"Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you." -The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
The cairn terrier brought me a live one today.
May the 4th with Erin McGowan of the Star Wars Generations podcast.
"The shifting moods and colors of the Arabian Sea -- azure, blue, and black -- mirror the ebb and flow of his thoughts. The horizon rises and then dips, the salt spray is cool on his face; he has the sensation of standing still while plunging toward his future." -The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
New neighbor cookies
Robbinsdale, MN
"She had heard of the genetic code that could shape an eye or hand from passing proteins. Deoxyribonucleic acid. It contained the entire set of instructions for constructing a respiratory system and a digestive one, as well as the grip of an infant's hand. Chess was like that. The geometry of a position could be read and reread and not exhausted of possibility. You saw deeply into this layer of it, but there was another layer beyond that, and another." -The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis
The Basque country, where a unique language, cuisine and radical separatist elements have long resisted Spanish assimilation. In February the gray-blue waves of La Concha Beach in Donostia-San Sebastian were bitterly cold. After dark in Bilbao, relatives of incarcerated members of the Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) terrorist group gently marched for the transfer of their loved ones to prisons closer to home. Invented here was the brilliant gilda, a pintxo (appetizer) constructed of pickled peppers, olives and anchovies.
Painting by Antonio Ortiz Echagüe.
"With the county divided about history, identity and the basic dilemma of whether Spain is a single nation or a collection of them, further progress may take time. Yet there are still many dreams that all Spaniards share. The vast majority want, in some form, the windows to the world that Franco and others tried to shut to remain open so that Miguel de Unamuno's 'four winds' can blow in."
España: a Brief History of Spain, by Giles Tremlett
Barcelona, where a referendum seven years ago for Catalan independence was quashed by the Spanish government. The seaside neighborhood of La Barceloneta observed Carnival one week later than the rest of the city, and young people built a memorial for the late dissident Alexei Navalny at the mouth of the La Rambla promenade. To the north, separated by an industrial wasteland, is the middle-class neighborhood of Badalona, where we caught up with an old friend and ate doner kebabs with kalimotxo (red wine and Coke).
"Hearts stopped beating. People put guns to their chests. There was no one and nothing she could ever know well enough to make it stay."
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
The retirement of Lewis Leung, Star Tribune designer and longtime Asian American Journalists Association treasurer
"Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way."
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides