Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

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the book is a very poignant and beautiful account of a life lived in most part without romantic relationships and in conversation with joni mitchell's blue album. and the final chapter is a beautiful end to the book, with such warm and hopeful reflections on human connection and care outside and within romantic love. The HCP stacking shown on the left just above takes us out of the cubic crystal system into the hexagonal system, so we will not say much more about it here except to point out each atom has 12 nearest neighbors: six in its own layer, and three in each layer above and below it.

Although we could use a hexagon for the second of these lattices, the rhombus is preferred because it is simpler. Classic and captivating, this handmade Queen Anne's Lace Spray can be used as a beautiful addition to a floral arrangement or as a lush stand-alone decoration, in a sublime natural colour. She has a rich seam of friendships and, despite one of them being tragic, this is how life is and for me, it was just too indulgent. Key weaves her personal journey with her deep connection to the songs on Joni Mitchell's “Blue” album.My notebook is rich with things I've transcribed from this beautiful, moving book, helped along by the fact that Amy Key's writing voice is open, compelling, warm, and fiercely honest. But in reality, each layer consists of an extended hexagonal array; the two layers are simply displaced from one another.

i loved the "crazy" chapter detailing her experiences with men which lasted months and years but never fell under the placeholder of "partner/boyfriend" and found it very relatable.

The countless hours of manipulating flowers has taught (Sim) how to blend the scents of various blooms to create a powerful refreshing scent for anyone nearby. Particularly poignant are Key’s musings about her close and complicated friendship with British poet and mentor, Roddy Lumsden, who passed away in 2020. In Arrangements in Blue, Amy Key sets her musings on life and love to her most precious soundtrack: Joni Mitchell’s 1971 album Blue, a kind of inherited psychic scaffolding. We could alternatively use regular hexagons as the unit cells, but the x+ y shifts would still be required, so the simpler rhombus is usually preferred. This does not alleviate her yearning for romantic love and being part of a couple, but her contemplations also reveal the abundance in her life, particularly her family of cats and friends, and the joy she finds in her home.

I thought this was such a refreshing take on longing, loneliness, and negotiating your own version of adulthood between what you desire, what you should desire, and the idea of the nuclear family and romantic companionship. Flower arranging is a talent badge introduced in The Sims 2: Open for Business and a skill introduced in The Sims 4: Seasons. As we pointed out above, hexagonal packing of a single layer is more efficient than square-packing, so this is where we begin.As the book progresses, it becomes clear that Key’s deeply introspective quest is not just a hunt for what’s missing, but for what she has overlooked. We and our partners use cookies and similar tech to improve your site experience, show you personalised ads, and learn from your behaviour so we can, for example, recommend products you'll love! i bought this book at Shakespeare and Company, alongside “Things I Don’t Want to Know About”, by Deborah Levy — non-fiction is the genre I have been most interested in this year, and my current obsession with blue covers paved the way for this “double bill”. As someone with a delicate relationship to both desire and body, and as someone who felt some of the same conflicts and complexes before finding a partner, I feel transformed by reading it through. Listening to the song “California,” she explores the mixed emotions that come with traveling alone in a world built for couples; she juxtaposes the lonely lyrics of “My Old Man” with the pleasurable art of curating a perfect apartment for one; and with the utmost tenderness, she parses out her decision to not have children with the eloquent “Little Green.

As a fan of Amy’s lush and evocative poetry, I eagerly anticipated her book, and it was nothing short of astonishing. Plant list 22: Red Mandevilla, Orange Calibrachoa, Variegated Pelargonium ( Geraniums) , Pink Petunia.Other relationships she witnessed, including that of her maternal grandparents, were antithetical to her parents’ in that each person had a role they seemed to relish and lived harmoniously with their partner. There have been encounters – brief liaisons, unrequited passions, even a distressing affair with someone else’s husband – but nothing has stuck. It is interesting to note that if all the atoms are replaced with carbon, this would correspond to the diamond structure. This means that an atom or molecule located on this point in a real crystal lattice is shared with its neighboring cells. The previous welter of witty, relatable memoirs of 21st-century womanhood – narratives that skewered the awkwardness of modern dating, celebrated the power of the sisterhood and exposed the patriarchal and biological frameworks imposed on a woman’s life story – usually ended with their protagonist finding love anyway.