THB and DB go across the Bay to see Loft Art + odds and ends

THB's dad would be 100 years old today. If Hank Murta Adams had done a bust of Bert in cast glass, this is what he would look like! Maybe without the jug on top...
 

DB and THB worked for many years and were friends with Ted Cohen, a fabled Bay Area exhibition designer and craft collector. A few years ago, Ted asked if he could use our Loft art collection in a show at the SF Museum of Craft and Design. Of course we said yes. Now, the show is up and you followers can get a view of some of the pieces in our collection. Unfortunately, Ted passed away recently at the age of 93 and thus did not get to see the selections he made displayed in the show. 

Ted Cohen

Up through June 5

 THB and DB

E&J

 

Twin Pic of the Week: C, without fear, attacking a climbing wall...she's 4 and has already scaled higher heights than the other members of her extended family. 

Department of Travel: THB and DB cancelled their trip to Baja on a Lindblad Cruise. We lost faith in Lindblad after they made several changes to the cruise dates and forgot to tell their travel department. Imagine being in Loreto, Mexico, airport without seat assignments and no flights out for several days. Instead we'll be doing a collectors' tour associated with the NCECA show in Sacramento for 5 days and a week on the Big Island mostly snorkeling and relaxing. 

Movie Review CODA (streaming on Apple+). A nice small coming-of-age film of a family consisting of deaf parents and a son in his 20s, also deaf, and the 17 year-old sister who is not deaf and ends up being the interpreter for her family as they struggle with the decline of their fishing business. 

Book Review

The Oregon Trail, A New American Journey, Rinker Buck (paperback, pub’d 2015): A guy in his 60s and his brother make a trip from Missouri to Oregon in a covered wagon pulled by three mules, following the “Oregon” Trail (not really just one set of ruts, more like a wide swath with lots of options). As the author puts it near the end of the book: I know a great deal more now about a seminal time in my country’s history [1830s to 1860]. But, mostly I had indulged in a wonderful summer of romance and grit. It's quite the tale, interspersed with stories and recollections of his father, a big figure in life and in the author's life. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED