Linda Louise Wood

Why Me? Lucky Me. Anomaly What's your favorite movie? Love Vegetarians/Vegans. Painting is Origin of Telomeres/Dividing Of The Egg

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

https://t.co/WWykUDhxzQ SIXTY WALKS ON THE BEACH

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

Every Adventure Becomes a Memory With Your Dog🐶🌎#adventuredog #dog #dogl... https://t.co/zGv81fM4l2 via @YouTube

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Pigeon has his own Uber.

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

Gordon Cooper: The Astronaut Who Trusted His Instincts in Space. https://t.co/QZ7Ex8AboH via @YouTube

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

This guy built a roller coaster to stop his fish getting bored

[VeganFlix Studio @Vegan_Flix]

🎉 Congrats to this year’s VeganFlix Seed Grant recipient, Ryan Rakes for his upcoming film, Ironbound!🎉

To learn more about the film➡️https://t.co/Fsb7V6BrJC

To learn more about the VeganFlix Seed Grant ➡️https://t.co/DfxOKJqSyA

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

Bob Keeshan: The Kind Heart Behind Captain Kangaroo. https://t.co/K9cmpmU9UX via @YouTube

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

@elonmusk_elp Small version is a squeezable coin purse.

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

Geena Davis The Olympic Archer https://t.co/hJ5O0ChEAc via @YouTube

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

He Searched Everywhere for His Missing Dogs… Then Someone Sent Him This ... https://t.co/XE5m7hpHCG via @YouTube

[Linda Louise Wood @pinklarp]

They Were BOOED on the Field, Until This Happened! 🤯🎤 https://t.co/3NUPXAyEHN via @YouTube

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Derik M. was on the McMurdo Station in Antarctica as a US Coast Guard in 2017, when he spotted a family of penguins.

Suddenly, a piece of the ice broke and the clip turned out to be one of the most thrilling ever filmed.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Never having privacy again once you get a cat.