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By The Art Institute of Chicago
‘The largest Buddha in the mainland United States, this monumental granite sculpture, created in about the 12th century, originally would have graced a monastic site at Nagapattinam. This Buddha is seated with his legs in the meditating posture of padmasana, or lotus position, and with his hands resting on his lap.’
Posted on July 8, 2020
By The Center for International Maritime Security
“Navy Pier, Midway and O’Hare airports, the U.S. Navy’s Recruit Training Command, the Illinois Naval Militia (of captured Spanish ships!), paddlewheel aircraft carriers and more!
“New CIMSEC Chicago Chapter President Akshat Patel and Dr. Ted Karamanski join the program to discuss the new Chicago CIMSEC chapter and the city’s incredible maritime history.”
Posted on July 7, 2020
By David Rutter
Your life is a novel you are both writing and reading simultaneously.
And then, without intent, you lose your place in the novel. Was I on Page 220 or 350? Who was the main character? Who was I?
Life is the narrative bleep that happens.
The main character in your novel can become someone else. Maybe that’s what all the various dementia diseases are. You forget who you are, and why. You lose the bookmark.
You can’t plan that, because orchestrating your life only recognizes a pending future, not the specifics. The novel has many alternative plot lines, all of which end at the inevitable last page of your novel. But how you get there is an unwritten page.
Posted on July 5, 2020
By David Rutter
At some moment four years ago, author Cal Newport was so bored that he wrote a book.
The book, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, was about how to be bored and also more productive.
I read it. It was boring. I was more bored after I read it than before.
But I soon realized that without planning, or structuring activities and even trying to conduct myself productively, I was very good at boredom. Happy, in fact.
Posted on July 3, 2020
By The Art Institute Of Chicago
“Marc Chagall’s America Windows is one of the most beloved treasures in our vast collection. First debuting at the Art Institute in 1977 and made forever famous less than 10 years later by an appearance in the film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the ‘Chagall Windows,’ as they are more popularly known, hold a special place in the hearts of Chicagoans.”
Posted on July 1, 2020
