WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: ILLUMINATION

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Frigidaire, illumination, postaday, postaweek2012, weekly photo challenge

il·lu·mi·na·tion

1.  an act or instance of illuminating.

2.  the fact or condition of being illuminated.

3.  a decoration of lights

4.  Sometimes, illuminations ~ an entertainment, display, or celebration using lights as a major feature or decoration.

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Bright and beyond dazzling, these LED lights illuminate my spacious, stylish and sophisticated refrigerator. She’s a glamour girl. An ohmigodess.

I admit it, I’m an appliance snob. My audaciously cool LEDs flounce and sashay over shelves, strut and swagger into corners, and hurtle to the depths of the continental-shelf-size freezer.  It’s not your mother’s Frigidaire.

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Ah, the luxury of a well-stocked fridge…it inspires me to doodle.

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What’s in your ice box?  Leave a link to a picture or drawing of yours.

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Bring joy to the world, one fridge at a time.

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Toni 1/14/13

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WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE: RESOLVED

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blog, Library Walk, new years resolution, NYC, postaday, postaweek2012, weekly photo challenge, WordPress, writing

Resolved. It’s that time of year, isn’t it? Landslides of resolutions and good intentions. With a nudge from WordPress blogger Sara, I resolve to avoid posting about my lunch or afternoon nap. I think that blogging is jubilantly more than navel-gazing content.

Blogging seems to be The New Renaissance, a rebirth of personal expression that’s collective and messy, loosely strung together with links, comments, and trackbacks. The dictionary defines Renaissance as a movement of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity.  Blogging is like that. It’s a busy hum, a bustle and stir that rewards brevity and immediacy, inviting writer/reader interaction in a free-fall kind of way. It’s like talking/thinking/writing out loud. Words have never seemed so now.

With just one click of the Publish button, bloggers send their words out to hover in cyberspace. I feel as though I know some of my favorite bloggers and experience what they experience, often in real time. In front of a screen, there’s just the two of us ~ blogger and reader ~ linked in an artistic and intellectual way. And a personal one.  It’s Friendship, in The New Renaissance.

Words endure ~ whether in pixels or print.  I resolve to celebrate the written word in every medium, talk while listening, comment while reading, be informed, enriched and, ultimately, rewarded.  In NYC, there’s plenty of words that inspire, far from the navel-gazing crowd.

Toni 1/7/13

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Click on photos to read the hallowed words of some upper-case great writers, embedded in the sidewalks of New York.

WHY WE HANG THE LIGHTS SO HIGH

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Christmas, Lights, MarkTwain, music, New Year, postaweek2012, Tracey Thorn

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink, and swore his last oath. To-day, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient short comings considerably shorter than ever. We shall also reflect pleasantly upon how we did the same old thing last year about this time. However, go in, community. New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness suited to the greatness of the occasion.

Mark Twain, Jan. 1, 1863 

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Corks have been popped.  

Stockings (and stomachs) have been stuffed.

Avowals have been made.

So, Resolutionists, bring the tinsel and holly into 2013 with you and leave fear and gloom behind. Ask British folk-pop singer/songwriter and guitarist Tracey Thorn. She knows we’ll be alright. http://www.onlylyrics.com/tracey-thorn-lyrics-1103683.php

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I Wish You Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy.

Toni 1/3/13