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danny@danielcjonas30 May 2020
No better than time than the present to dive into Will and Ariel Durant's, The Story of Civilization. Narrating Western history over 11 volumes, 10,000 pages, 4 mil words, & 375 hours of Kindle reading hours, I couldn't be more delighted. Will file my favorite passages here 👇
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august in cape cod
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grilled chicken & zucchini
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Breakfast still life Pieter Claesz., 17th century
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Still-Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar Willem Kalf, 1669
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Still Life after Willem Kalf. Cornelis le Mair, 2015
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Landscape with pilgrim, c. 1813, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Prussian, 1781–1841).
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Can't stop thinking about this passage from MFK Fisher on potatoes: “They were almost evanescent, like the upper or lower cheeks of baroque cherubs.”
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April in Madrid
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the only tortilla I know
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Madrid’s Royal Collections Gallery, where even the children are dressed with a better sense of proportion than most grown men
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eating manchego in la mancha hits different
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can I get a hell yea
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Breakfast Table with Blackberry Pie Willem Clasz. Heda, 1631
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Still Life with a Silver Jug and a Porcelain Bowl Willem Kalf, 1656
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The Victorian critic and artist John Ruskin believed all beauty comes from nature. Look closely at his painting of a Bleinheim Orange apple (1873), and you'll see how Ruskin's lighting and shadow animate and dramatise a simple object.
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a recipe for extinguishing sadness from tamar adler
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Charleston in January
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Eggs, fresh bread, a cool glass of wine, and a flower to rest your eyes on ~ I like the simplicity of 17th century German still-life specialist Georg Flegel’s ‘Snack with Fried Eggs’ (1630), State Gallery Aschaffenburg
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