Sabina Hahn's Uploads

Listening to Megumi Nagai talk and getting inspired. It was a wonderful show! It's up until June.

Things I learned from fairy tales. Being first is not always good. Being second is worse. And so, slow down and enjoy not being the fastest! https://www.instagram.com/p/COa3tsAhAWf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Plantain, Plantago major, was considered to be one of the nine sacred herbs by the ancient Saxon people, and has been celebrated in Anglo-Saxon poetry as the "mother of herbs." In Russian this plant is called Подорожник - meaning near the roads. Native Americans called it "white man's foot" as it is often found growing along well-trodden foot paths and it was brought to the Americas from Europe. The Latin generic name means "sole of the foot." When I was a kid, we would use the leaves of this plant for small hurts and scratches. We would spit on the leaves and stick it onto our scratches. https://www.instagram.com/p/CSE9jT9LqUY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cat couldn't decide whether to dress up as Santa Claws or Krampus. https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1TfShLt2t/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Beginning. Dee LOVED hats. She made very elaborate hats for herself and her friends. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQgWEpMhF2Z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The hows of how to balance. https://www.instagram.com/p/CanaXjjlhRy/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

A DISPUTE IN SIGN LANGUAGE. From Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen. And this is what the poultry dealer related: “The priest pointed with one finger to my eyes, meaning to take out my eye. I pointed with two fingers to imply, I would take out both his eyes." ... At the same time the priest’s friends questioned him: “What did you ask the Jew? What did he reply?” The priest related: “At first I pointed one finger, meaning that there is only one king. He pointed with two fingers, meaning that there are two kings, the King in Heaven and the king on earth."

Sometimes, I re-read books and they don't have the same impact as before. Sometimes, I re-read them and they hit me harder. Roadside picnic by Brothers Strugatsky made me cry. This is my favorite book by them, although I do so love Monday starts on Saturday. But this book! I wish more people would read it.

Every time she squatted in the clump of wavy grass, she felt like a Phoenix reborn. https://www.instagram.com/p/CWbcNmtroTp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

The cat with the plan. https://www.instagram.com/p/CYkDEJ1pJo-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Joan Miró (1893-1983) Miró always maintained a rigidly inflexible daily routine—both because he disliked being distracted from his work, and because he feared slipping back into the severe depression that had afflicted him as a young man, before he discovered painting. To help prevent a relapse, his routine always included vigorous exercise—boxing in Paris; jumping rope and Swedish gymnastics at a Barcelona gym; and running on the beach and swimming at Mont-roig, a seaside village where his family owned a farmhouse. Miró hated for this routine to be interrupted by social or cultural events. As he told an American journalist, “Merde! I absolutely detest all openings and parties! They’re commercial, political, and everybody talks too much. They get on my tits!” From Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey

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Cat had the best present for all his friends. He just wasn't sure how to split into so many cats. https://www.instagram.com/p/CXl_XonpKDI/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Sekhet liked to unwind after a long day. #mythology #doodle #egyptianmythology

Beginning. The surprise was hiding under a pillow. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPl7gaEBi2W/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I so enjoyed the inktober and now I am going to do whatever whatever for awhile. I grabbed a sketchbook off my shelf. The paper is thin and rough - bad for ink, but so nice for pencil. Will try to switch the gears now and go with a different feeling. Let's ouroboros together. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvp-ZkrX2I/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Or - do not make plans with Nac Mac Feegles

Beginning. Eleleth got bored of dancing on the needle's point pretty quickly. Now he read. Cat's autobiographies were his favourite. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQT4rFaBuys/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Kismet's countryside adventure. Cattails are wetland plants, typically 3 to 10 feet tall; the average cat tail is 12″ in length. https://www.instagram.com/p/CR4ij6xBE56/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

BAM! Apple fell on Kismet's head. How unnecessary that was to prove gravity! Cats knew all about gravity a lot longer than people did. They test it once in a while to make sure it is working properly. https://www.instagram.com/p/CS9-uLPL3pa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

It's not every day, thought the Cat, when you get to be a cosmonaut and fisherman at once. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAVtVdpJ5Z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link