Crafts, content strategy, flatware, and dogs. Not necessarily in that order.
On January 23, 1806, exactly 210 years ago, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were camped out at Fort Clatsop along the Pacific Coast, close to what would eventually become Pacific Beach, Oregon. According to their journals, they were spending a lot of time documenting plants. Continue reading “Day 23 – The Lewis and Clark Portland, Oregon Spoon”
On this day, January 22, in 1849, the Swedish playwright (and novelist, painter, and poet), August Strindberg, was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
One of Strindberg’s other creative pursuits was photography and judging from the number of self-portraits he took, it’s not hard to think that he may have been the first person to perfect the art of the selfie.
To celebrate the anniversary of Strindberg’s birth, here’s an enameled gold-tone souvenir spoon from Stockholm, Sweden. The building painted in the bowl is the “Stockholm Slottett” (Stockholm Palace) and the Stockholm city hall is shown at the top.
For a more amusing (and entirely fictional) look at August Strindberg, check out the animated web series, Strindberg &Helium.
Millions of women (and men) in hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world are marching today to protest the policies and politics of our new president and of the Republican Party to which he claims allegiance.
The biggest rally is in Washington, D.C. I picked up this spoon on one of my trips to D.C., back when I believed that our two political parties could actually work together for the good of the nation. Now all I can see is a war on women, minorities, and immigrants.
To quote Gloria Steinem’s speech at the D.C. rally today:
“We are here and around the world for a deep democracy that says we will not be quiet, we will not be controlled, we will work for a world in which all countries are connected.”