Sharpie Al
Charlotte Alice Overton-Hart, or just Sharpie Al.
Champion of ageing and the old, and the experience and wisdom of older people, inspired by my 92-year-old gran, Nancy.
People are my favourite vintage. Amazing greys.
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“Rhythm is deep and it touches us in ways that we don’t understand. We know that language used rhythmically has some kind of power to delight, to...
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CREATIVE IDEASNew and creative ideas happen all the time. By definition they are unique and different. However, with new ideas you never know if...
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Delicatessen with love – portraits of grandmothers around the world alongside their specialty dishes by Italian photographer Gabrielle...
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PlayThere are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and...
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“Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived...”
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“Though I am an old man, I am a young gardener”— Thomas Jefferson - To be ever learning is the key to life.
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Typeverything.com - DelVal Botany Mailer by @danielgblackman.
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in...
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39 posts tagged music
Lianne La Havas featuring Willy Mason - No Room For Doubt.
(thanks to James for the link).
Camera Obscura’s Forests & Sands. Best line in the song, “I’ve been innocently learning a language”. An allusion to the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, no doubt.
Golden Silver’s Magic Touch is just right for a winterly Wednesday.
An aside: I also like that “Golden Silvers” sounds like a synonym for the value of older people.
Sparklehorse’s Sea of Teeth.
“Can you taste the crush of a sunset’s dying blush?” = Lyrical synesthesia.
Yum.
I love this panel from Peanuts: the Art of Charles M. Schulz (ed. Chip Kidd). And the reason for Lucy’s reaction? Linus is listening to Christmas carols in February.
Gotta love Linus.
Music video for Bats in the Attic by Jon Hopkins and King Creosote. Best lyrics right at the beginning:
And I’ve gone silver on my travels,
growing silver in my sideburns..
