Aka Monday 8th October
Today Tula Lotay’s sketchbook ‘Hiraeth’ arrived:
…and it’s full of great art, with sketches of superheroes (e.g.
Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn), films (e.g. Bladerunner, Mad Max) and TV shows (e.g.
Stranger Things) and others. There is a wistfulness to the drawings, which is appropriate
as Hiraeth “is a Welsh word which means 'nostalgia', or, more commonly,
'homesickness'. Many Welsh people claim 'hiraeth' is a word which cannot be
translated, meaning more than solely "missing something" or
"missing home." To some, it implies the meaning of missing a time, an
era, or a person. It is associated with the bittersweet memory of missing
something or someone, while being grateful of that/ their existence.”
I never got sketchbooks when I was younger, it seemed odd to
just look at drawings/art without a story/narrative to follow, but now I get them
and can appreciate the artistry and skill being displayed.
…I also re-started my weights regime again, hopeful this
time I’ll be able to better stick to it and get some proper, long-term benefit from
it…
…and I did the G2 crossword:
…which went really great, with only having to cheat on two
of the 25 clues, so close to a clean sweep, except that I couldn’t get
‘promote’ from ‘move up – market’, I just got ‘propose’, but I did learn that
‘anodyne’ also means a painkilling medicine, not just dull or boring.
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