The post “A Time to Weep” seems more appropriate this week, after the Boston Marathon explosions, but yesterday my pre-scheduled post “A Time to Laugh” went up on Burnside. It’s just two works of art and a verse, like most of the blog posts in this “A Time to…” series. Sometimes, though, short is effective. If you need a little levity, silly renditions of the Mona Lisa might be just what you need.
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Yiasou!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and speaker based in New York City.
She is the coauthor, with Paul Maher Jr., of "Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road.'"
You can email her at stephanie_701 {@} yahoo.com
How do you sum up a year in twelve photos? You celebrate the beauty. You cherish the love. Especially amongst the loss. The grief. The worry. You look for the good, and you hold it tight.
Keep going. Keep growing.
When we deny access to libraries, we deny access to knowledge, freedom of thought, and refuge. Defunding the New York Public Library is a travesty. It is a place where children learn to love books, where misfits find themselves in characters, where students practice researching instead of just looking stuff up on the internet, where those who don’t feel safe at home can find a few hours of solace, where scholars can dig into archives, where authors can write, where jobseekers can use computers to apply for work, where those who have only been taught one way can access information and challenges what they know, where we can read, and where we can dream. Starting this weekend, though, the New York Public Library will no longer be open on Sundays due to Mayor Adams’ budget cuts.
How do you stay educated in our pseudo-modernist world?
It’s beginning to look a lot like sale season.
Spend more time dreaming.