Today

Today I ...

-Got sunburned
-Ate too much quiche
-Hung out with cool people
-Was serenaded by a harp
-Stored my cell phone and a granola bar in my Gandalf sleeves (academic attire is weird and uncomfortable but randomly convenient)
-Got a Master's degree

I would have never been able to do it without my parents, my grandmother, and all the awesome people at school. You are awesome.

Snake

My dad found this next to our house. It tried to kill me. We named it Snake de Poose.

More photos from the Liljenquist Collection

I've written about the identically dressed sisters in the second to last photo over at the Episcopal Cemetery Project.

See the whole collection here.

Crabapple tree in bloom

 

The Rubin Museum of Art

The other day my friend and I went to the Rubin Museum of Art to see the movie Free the Mind, which is about the use of meditation techniques to treat PTSD in veterans and behavioral problems in a little boy. Spoiler alert: meditation cures everything. Okay, not everything, but it does things that you wouldn't even expect it to be able to do, like increase the efficacy of the flu shot. That's cool, right? This is the trailer:

The Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs

 

These incredible photos all come from the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, held at the Library of Congress. I chose these particular photos in the Collection because they all depict soldiers in New York State regiments, though only a few of the soldiers are actually identified by name. The fourth to last photo is of Abram M. Carhart; I've just written about him in a post over at the Episcopal Cemetery Project.

New York Civil War Photos Project

I've now done five posts of what I'm calling the New York Civil War Photos Project. It's not a cute name, but it fits. You've already met Sergeant Dewey. Let me introduce you to the other men (I'm hoping to do women too).

General William Glenny

Sergeant William Carasaw

Captain Joseph Egolf

Private Lewis W. Cashdollar

They are all extremely interesting, so I encourage you to go read their stories over at the Episcopal Cemetery Project.