Apr 27 2024 - Safety Deposit Box Openings

 

The Sarah Winchester House in San Jose had a safe within a safe - I don't quite know how many.  Given she was very rich - of the Winchester rifle fame, there was the expectation fo vas amounts of money or riches.  But nside were three items - a lock of hair and obituaries of her husband and daughter.    What are the things that are found in safes?  The articles repeat over and over these very creepy stories of people who have locked themselves in gun safes for some reason and are no longer living.   And then they like to repeat the story of the family who were visiting Niagara Falls and the older boy locked the younger child in the safe. The child was fine - however, I expect the family is traumatized given that story is repeated over and over again. On a more intriguing note is the Baptist Seminary where  Mozart Manuscripts were found in an old safe in the 1990s - the original donation was money for the seminary plus the manuscripts, and the manuscripts got forgotten.  There's an article on things you SHOULD NOT keep in a safety deposit box in a bank - the list includes cash, passports, original copy of your will, final letters of instruction, Power of Attorney, and so on.  Access to contents is limited - think natural disasters, coronavirus, medical emergencies, and so on.   Experts say keep these documents in a fireproof home safe that's bolted to the floor.    I went looking in the archives for a picture of a box. Isn't this so intriguing?  It comes from the Canada Blooms show in 2018.  It isn't an art installation on its own.  It is waiting for a floral design.

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Dec 26 2023 - Boxing Day Traditions

 

"Mom shares after-Christmas tradition in viral video". Here we are at the after-Christmas news.  I wondered what a tradition is.  Mirriam's definition:  customs or beliefs from generation to generation, or the fact of being passed on in this way.  Here we are in the "now" and tradition has moved beyond an inherited pattern, action or behaviour.  It is a repeated one that gets viral reactions.   I am expecting that's what might be the case.  What is this mom's tradition that Yahoo headlined? “Such a simple tradition but I LOVE it. Before we put the kids’ stockings away each year, we have them write (or we do it for them) a little note about top moments from that Christmas,” she explained in the caption. “Favorite gift to give, favorite gift to get, memorable moments. (The grown ups do it too!) Then we tuck them into the stockings and store for the year. Putting up stockings is so sweet because we get to read back about previous Christmases!” The video shows her family taking out their stockings this year and reading what they wrote for 2022.  Sounds more like a family "ritual" to me.  Repeated year after year, but is there cultural significance, an element of tradition. But that isn't the point, is it?  People are searching for secular ways of making meaning.   That's why there are endless headlines - most common is between 9 and 28 personal, family, fun... traditions that you might add to your life.   I noticed that the main entry says "From sources across the web".  Does that mean that AI has done the retrieving this time?   I found a Christmas tradition joke that combines traditions and Christmas song fatigue: So last year I started a tradition, I carry a pebble and throw it at anyone who sings Christmas songs before December.... I call it my Jingle Bell Rock. Boxing Day wishes to you.

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Nov 7 2022 - Thinking Inside the Box

 

Thinking and the box - Standard or derivative, as opposed to creative or innovative; the opposite of "outside the box." "Please abandon any inside the box thinking because we need to come up with an attention-getting, innovative ad campaign. Don't give me inside the box choreography—I want to see something mind-blowing!" This next article seems to have a direct response to the above: "If someone tells me to do this, it's usually because they're frustrated with the situation. They don't like the outcomes, and so they bellow to those around them that they need to be more creative. What they're really saying is that they don't understand why what's in front of them in not materializing what they originally envisioned. And so they want other people to think outside the box to come up with new ideas." In 2004, the architect Peter Ryan, from Melbourne, designed and built a livable house made from cardboard boxes. The largest collection of pizza boxes belongs to Scott Wiener (USA) and consists of 595 different boxes as of 23 October 2013, in New York City, New York, USA. Fastest time to cram into a box: 4.75 seconds. Record-breaking contortionist Skye Broberg from New Zealand folded her whole body into a box that measured just 52 x 45 x 45 cm (20 x 17 x 17 in)!  There are world records such as the tallest person to fit in a 20x23 inch box, mosts tissues pulled out of box in 15 seconds, most playing cards flipped into a box while balancing an egg on the top of his non-throwing hand.  Little boxes, big boxes - here's the Toronto Botanical Gardens building in Autumn. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca