In 2015, when Lou Reed was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame, his wife Laurie Anderson gave a moving and very eloquent acceptance speech. Toward the end, she shared the couple’s really handy…rules to live by…With those three things, you don’t need anything else. Here they are:
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As we were scanning images for the Fourth of July, we came across this iconic portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart in 1795, a few years after the country gained independence and elected its first president. The iconic, unfinished portrait seems like a fitting metaphor for our wild country.
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Once every June “the day with stars on it” arrives, as M.F.K. Fisher once wrote: It is the day I have “the first mess of peas”. With advice about shelling them happily, a reading from the sublime M.F.K., and an alternative for lazy dogs who just want to EAT their peas… unshelled.
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