Finished book! Phone call, walk
Nov. 24th, 2025 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutMB from book group (surprising number of people in my life with the initials MB) called to chat and explain her recent absences, and that she would be absent again tonight, and to tell me about her travel to Greece and some recent health challenges and also her rug shopping adventure. Fun! I mean, bummer she won’t be at book group, but it’s nice that she isn’t just disappearing on us, and that she wants to continue and would like to get together just to hang out some time in December. We’ll see what we can do.
I finished _Last Light_, and I will note that Louise Nevelson was a strong note to end the book on. I really dislike Edward Hopper’s work, but I was pleased to learn about Josephine Nivinson and I wish it was easier to find her work online. What I have seen online is gorgeous, much better than her more famous husband’s.
Lacayo’s ideas about artists in later life are quite interesting to think about, both from a stay busy / occupational therapy / art therapy / staying connected to a community throughout life perspective but also in terms of how the skills we build over the course of our life may be diminished by the aging process and trying new things that can build on the remaining capacity is a way to find ongoing pleasure. I hope to find more books of this nature in the future.
Also, the many side trail I pursued along the way were rewarding in their own right, and I hope to return to the early / many uses of canvas part of that exploration.
I finished _Last Light_, and I will note that Louise Nevelson was a strong note to end the book on. I really dislike Edward Hopper’s work, but I was pleased to learn about Josephine Nivinson and I wish it was easier to find her work online. What I have seen online is gorgeous, much better than her more famous husband’s.
Lacayo’s ideas about artists in later life are quite interesting to think about, both from a stay busy / occupational therapy / art therapy / staying connected to a community throughout life perspective but also in terms of how the skills we build over the course of our life may be diminished by the aging process and trying new things that can build on the remaining capacity is a way to find ongoing pleasure. I hope to find more books of this nature in the future.
Also, the many side trail I pursued along the way were rewarding in their own right, and I hope to return to the early / many uses of canvas part of that exploration.