by gina | No. 06
Issue No. 06
Welcome to Issue No. 6. Happy to have you here and I hope you are enjoying my emails to you.
Last weekend my website went down. I looked into it hoping it wasn’t anything serious. It’s fine now. My hosting platform was doing a big overhaul and a lot of the accounts were down for roughly 24 hours. Sorry for any confusion!
Happy Lunar New Year everyone! It rained like crazy yesterday but it appears that didn’t stop New Yorkers from celebrating:
Happy #LunarNewYear! Join us live at NYC’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park to ring in the #YearoftheRat!
NYC Parks: “Happy #LunarNewYear! Join us live at NYC’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park to ring in the #YearoftheRat!”
Happy #LunarNewYear! Join us live at NYC’s Sara D. Roosevelt Park to ring in the #YearoftheRat! — Manhattan, NY, United States
While NYC welcomed the Year of the Rat, the celebrations were preceded by devastating news. A five-alarm fire burned a historic building in Chinatown that held an archive of 85,000 artifacts – many of which may be completely lost. The loss is big, considering the Museum of Chinese in America holds the largest collection of historical artifacts that document the immigration of Chinese to the United States, and the years of development of Chinatown specifically. This includes items like newspaper clippings, old boarding tickets of steamliners, menus and more.
The fire brought to mind the loss of 200 million artifacts at the 200-year-old Musea Nacionales in Brazil in 2018 when a fire destroyed much of that iconic building. And, of course, who can forget the fire at Notre Dame? Or the devastating fires in Australia that’s razed entire communities?
Watched & Read
🎬 Step Brothers – continues to be funnier than it ought to be. ⭐⭐⭐
🎬 Tremors and Tremors 2 – the first was fun. And as with profit-seeking, so go sequels (they’re up to #6?!). ⭐⭐⭐ / ⭐ respectively
📚 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin – they don’t make novels like this no more. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Featured Print
winter sunset | College Park, MD | 2010
‘Til next time.
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