A is for Al & Audre
Week A | Wednesday | Glimmer time ✨
I’m sending you this gathering of glimmers much earlier in the day than usual, purely so I can kick off with the late, great – and let’s be real, super fine – Al Jarreau. This was the first thing I put on the ‘Now Playing’ when I worked in a mall record store in the early 1980s, enjoying the vibe while it was still quiet, setting up the tills and opening the glass doors. Just hearing the first few bars makes me feel seventeen again. Mornin’!
The Hall of Columns in the Lonja de la Seda, or Silk Exchange, in València, Spain, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
That’s the spirit!
Break Free, Disha Dua.
“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”
🌱 EF Schumacher
Sunday Gardening, John Philip Falter, 1961.
Get up offa that thing. Dance. You’ll feel better.
Watching dogs rescue people and other dogs from Venezuelan ruins. They’re miracles.
A 3400-year-old petroglyph of the sun-headed deity, Tamgaly, Kazakhstan.
Just in case you needed this reminder today.
Cloud Cover, Nakkusu.
Still Life with Flowers and Butterflies, Maria van Oosterwyck, the Netherlands, c.1686.
The Barn at Nighttime, Annie Ovenden. Stay as cool as you are, glimmer gang. X
Beautiful collection.