Elisabeth B
@decorporis
Rare book librarian in the Midwest, tea and fountain pen enthusiast, cat lover.
We’re doing a shelf read right now and while it’s not EXCITING, it still gives me a chance to find things like this dude operating on what appears to be a giant.
The high level tea temae are very, very intense (and are punishing on the legs).
My tea ceremony senpai needs a bigger storage system for all her tools, so I inherited her old tansu. It might be from the Taisho era? It certainly holds all of my tea implements at this point in time.
Eye images seem to cause visceral reactions in people, so this is the case of phobias.
According to my mom, I once called this iconic diorama from the Milwaukee Public Museum “Lunch.”
Tea ceremony day at Nagano-an, the tea house in Missouri Botanical Garden!
I grabbed this when I was at the Musée de Cluny, and it really is such a nice quick reference piece. Museum bookstores are always clutch.
I got a secretary desk for the corner of my second bedroom so I could set up an actual work station. Naturally, the cat must make herself at home.
So far, I think my favorite perfume house is Arcana Wildcraft - some really interesting blends either great staying power.
I spent way too much at the Paris flea market, but came away with treasures. The most special one is maybe this vintage Grand Etteilla Tarot deck. It’s rather different from the Rider Waite; I’m going to have to really dig into it.
Now *that’s* a cool garden design (at the Country Doctor Museum in North Carolina).
Interesting presentation from U Buffalo’s Keith Mages on how the qualities of a good nurse relate to the qualities of a good medium. #LAMPHHS
The cemetery Ambroise Parè was buried in was one of the ones whose remains were reinterred in the Catacombs, so I *might* have visited him as I walked through. I like to think I did.
Last thing on this whirlwind Paris trip was a visit the catacombs, the great Parisian “Empire of Death.” And now I am going directly to a professional work conference, because I am an idiot.
Bonnier de la Masson’s delightful cabinet of curiosities, a fraction of which is preserved in a public library near the Jardin des Plantes.
Found Jean Martin Charcot, a key figure in 19th century neurology, at the Montmartre Cemetery.
The Parmentier metro station is a truly an Ode to the Potato (and Parmentier, who got the French to embrace it).
I DON’T OFTEN SAY THIS ABOUT CHILDREN, but I was honestly slightly charmed by the French school children learning about the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries at @museecluny.bsky.social. (Also, they are amazing. God, people used to be such amazing artisans.)
I really, really wanted to see Sainte Chapelle, and of course I am glad I did, but I have to confess that it did not move me in the way the frescoes in the Padua Baptistery did.
My tea teacher gave me flowers from her garden at my dance recital last night. They smell so nice - I never think to have flowers around, but they really are a nice touch.
One of the students I took to Italy chose to do a linocut for his final project and gave me a framed copy. It is SO COOL. (And yes, his monograph was inspired by Dürer)
Got my next set of tea ceremony certifications! Officially an advanced student now. :)