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Here’s a good, in-depth piece from NASA:

Today’s The Oregonian ran this piece as a front-page story.  Portland seems rightly proud of its hometown Best New Artist.  In the article, Spalding cites Thara Memory as one of her mentors.  (An aside: Ivi was lucky enough to meet Thara Memory and attend one of his workshops a year or two ago in her jazz studies.)

If you haven’t heard of Esperanza Spalding yet, you will soon.

Esperanza Spalding: Short And Sweet

Here’s some sample press from Atlantic.com.

eye avenue picked up the now-Grammy’s Best New Artist in October 2010; check out her PBS interview and performance.

(In case you’re wondering, the Short and Sweet piece was a free download from her site; no animals were harmed, etc.)

Brother Dennis turns me on to a rather different kind of food blog: http://www.ediblegeography.com/

Inspirational? Takes me back to my boyhood days on the farm.

More here.

Perhaps you saw the July 30, 2010 post on this subject. Here’s a bit more from today’s Wall Street Journal.

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer-prize-winning 1985 novel, is one of the books Ivi is reading for her American Lit class this term. Since Ivi was recently at home sick in bed, Kim revived an old family tradition and started reading it aloud. I soon caught the apparently-same illness and while staying home from work for a few days, I listened in and also took up the reading chores. We got through about 250 of the novel’s nearly 1,000 pages by the time Ivi had recovered and decided to read it silently on her own to quicken the pace.  I hope to return to the thing soon because, while I thought the 90s TV miniseries — my only experience with Lonesome Dove to this point — was pretty decent, the darn (“dern” in cowboy-speak) book is flat terrific: colorful, hilarious, gripping, detail-rich, and almost impossible to put down.  Only 750 pages to go …