Quentin's Weeknotes 6/27/21-7/3/21

This week:

• I am back after being off last week, and spending time with the my parents for the first time in over a year. We built part of a playhouse, visited local museums, went to a town full of bookstores, drank some great wine, ate some great food, and tried to make up for the lost time of the last year.
• I finished reading Gene Wolfe’s “Shadow and Claw” which combines the first two books of his New Sun series. It was a gorgeously written, meditative piece of speculative fiction about suffering and fate.
• I finished the re-design of “Black Lives at Hartwick Then and Now” and sent it to the printers.
• I watched “A Ghost Story”, a very slow, supernatural movie in which a deceased man, covered in the stereotypical sheet with holes, watches time pass in the last house in which he lived, moving through the future and the past, trying to find peace. It’s a thoughtful movie, and very archaeological with its focus on things and spaces, and the pull they have on us.
• I worked on putting together the Masks exhibit.
• I watched my son perform in a collectively written play at the West Kortright Centre.
• I celebrate 11 years of marriage with my sweetie, with drinks and dinner at the Autumn Cafe.
• I watched the astonishingly violent film “High Rise” based on the novel by JG Ballard. A scorching critique of neoliberalism, wrapped in a vicious and horrifying bacchanal of a movie.