Fabulous Week of Serendipity

This has been an interesting week. First, Margaret Mooney, one of my former colleagues at UCR trained me on the advanced features of InfoMine. I was very impressed w/ MiY and the themes. I think they have great potential for dynamic use of the WWW. Margaret used the term "exhilirating" for IM and I think she is right! I have entered my fashion/costume MiY terms and MM has approved them.

I have spent alot of time on the finding aid for the collection. There are many jewels there--one is a plate hand-colored by Anais Toudoze; a very famous family of women involved w/ fashion plates!!! Hopefully, I will finish my draft tomorrow (b4 having to travel to Morgan Hill for yet another soccer tournament!!!!) and can submit it to Tammy. I am so blessed to work w/ these beautiful images!!!!

I signed up for the Yoga Studio. Their entryway desk has a beautiful mosaic. I asked who was the artist? Turns out it is the co-owner. She said it was very easy to do and I could get the materials at Home Depot. One of my sabbatical goals was to create mosaics--so this is definelty serendipity!!! I have many plates etc..from my family to use.

I have been listeneing to Lhasa de Sela's cd, "La Llorona" which is fabulous! Her first track is used in John Sayles, "Casa de los Babys" which I highly recommend if you have travelled in Latin/Central America. While nowhere as powerful as LoneStar (one of my favs) it is still worth viewing. Check out http://www.vaxxine.com/artline/books/lhasa.htm she has a very interesting bio.

I enthusiastically recommend "Angels in America" which I got thru Netflix as I do not have cable TV. Very powerful and Jeffrey Wright is a fabulous actor!!!

Nameste as my yoga pals would say!