But first! Please enjoy this week’s dramatic reading of Monday’s post: “The Elements of (Your) Style” 👇
Enjoy!
Notes from the Captain
What a time to be alive. The Tour de France is on a blinder, I experienced my first 4th of July as an American citizen, and the June Gloom in Santa Cruz is so enthusiastic it’s added extra shows in July. I enjoyed making this week’s video very much. It is (as always) super rambly, but I hope you watch and get a giggle or two.
Until next we meet, love what you love, and I’ll see you out there, making stuff.
Your Captain, Janeen 🫡
Thangs mentioned in this episode…
👩✈️ The elements
The elements are represented in a lot of religions and cultures, and for the most part, are the same across the board. Classical elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and with a fifth sometimes of Aether or “The Void” in which we operate.
The symbols are:
And sometimes the aether is represented as a circle from what I found.
Here is an image that looks cool with all the elements and who knows what it means. Read this and find out! 👉 Earth, Air, Water, and Fire: The Verticality of the Classical Elements
Here’s a primer on the whole shebang and it’s stuff to the gills with the Greeks. This is part 1 (which I will confess is the only one I watched.)
👩✈️ Sawtooth Beasts. They Come Undone
I mentioned that this is not the first time I’ve used the elements as a structure for something I’ve written. Way back in 2015, I wrote a poem (and a story) about a bike race I did called Rebecca’s Private Idaho. Riding a bike is very much like poetry. Well, that’s what I was trying to get at I guess.
Here is the story about the race 👉 This Cowgirl’s Poem and this is the poem itself 👇
👩✈️ Speaking of The Fifth Element
I know I shared this in a newsletter forever ago (May 2022), but always a great reshare. The fashion in that movie was OFF THE CHAIN.
25 years after the release of the film "The Fifth Element," Milla Jovovich talks about her iconic Jean Paul Gaultier-designed costume and how playing the character of Leeloo immeasurably changed her life.
👩✈️ Strunk and White
Words nerds will know it, but as I mentioned, the White in Strunk & White is E.B. White, who wrote one of my favorite kids’ books, Charlotte’s Web. As an adult, this very short read “Here is New York” (given to me by my friend Amelia many years ago) is a gem. It is widely considered one of the best books to be written about New York. I would add Patti Smith’s “Just Kids” to that list, simply because I read that also while living in New York and it felt just like the city.
From my notes: William Strunk, White’s professor at Cornell, originally wrote the style guide in 1918, and E.B. White revised it in 1959 long after Strunk had passed on. It was one of the books anyone doing my writing course at University HAD to get, and I still have my copy all these years later.
I think that’s it…. thanks for listening/watching/being.
Do something great this weekend.
Do. Make. Be.
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