Jump for Joy

In the past couple weeks, we have jumped from 40º F to 80º and everything is green.

Here's Marz, jumping over her bike.

Swirl of Joy

Volunteer Art is always aetheticizing my BOOK's area--last year he hung the two paper lanterns, below, which soften the fluorescent lighting. He also mounted picture rails on top of the bookshelves, so he could set art for sale there.

Last Friday he'd asked me of a newly donated rug, "Do you want to put this in your area?"
I'd said no, but over the weekend I had a dream that we had put the rug down, and it looked great.
Yesterday I told him my dream, and he said, "Let's do it."

So we did--neither of us bothered to ask permission from any of the three managers--and it does look great, and makes me super happy!
A lot of feet walk through that door--I hope the rug's swirly pattern will disguise dirt.

BELOW: The swirls point people to the back room, where books, furniture, electronics, and hardware are. I've long thought there should be some visual invitation because people occasionally say, "I didn't know there was a back room," or, "Can I come in this room?"

I'd rescued that vintage (1970s?) wedding dress, above right, from baling (to go to textile recycling). Its underskirts of tulle and swirl poof out the skirt and make a pleasing crunchy sound--it's just gorgeous (... and tiny).
And isn't it pretty the way the customer, center, wears her scarf. (I think she's Moroccan.)

Bright Animals.

Totoro had told me about alebrijes, the fantastical painted animals featured in the movie Coco, which I've never seen. Speaking of dreams, these animals first came to artist Pedro Linares in a dream in the 1930’s. [via--"Alebrijes in Coco"].

BELOW: These are not properly alebrijes, which mix-and-match different animals, but the Mexican grocery store where I often go by the thrift store carries brightly painted animals in that style. (They are made by hand, but mass produced for sale.)

"Someone Is Wrong on the Internet." (Remember the xkcd cartoon?)

Someone recently complained that Coco was not subtitled in Spanish. I had to restrain my compulsive editorial self from commenting to this person I don't know that, in fact, Pixar did release the movie with Spanish subtitles and also dubbed in Spanish. "Why the Spanish Dub of Coco Is Even Better..."

I do try to restrain myself from fact-bombing people [🙄 me, librarian to the world].
If people want to know things, they can look them up themselves on the magic boxes we carry in our pockets.

But sometimes I do correct people at work, if it's something that matters.
The other day during the Three White Dudes' discussion of Tom Petty, two of the guys asserted that Tom Petty died of a drug overdose.
The third guy expressed distress--he said he'd thought TP had overcome his addiction.

I seemed to recall it wasn't addiction, it was pain medication.
So though these guys have smart phones, I double-checked, and yes, that's the case----Petty was touring in extreme pain, including performing with a fractured hip, and was taking a lot of bad meds, which killed him. (It's complicated, as this article discusses:
"I’ve treated scores of people like Tom Petty. Drugs are only part of their story", www.statnews.com/2018/01/23/tom-petty-accidental-overdose)

I shared that privately with Third Dude.
He said he was glad to know, and thanked me.
How you feel about the death of someone you love matters.