April 20

Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta, 1960.

Current exhibition at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW:
Morandi: Master of Modern Still Life

February 21-May 24, 2009

Giorgio Morandi approached painting with the concentration of a Zen master. Working in the small apartment he shared with his mother and three sisters in Bologna, Morandi's carefully chosen collection of bottles, bowls, and jars served as his muse. He altered these objects by painting their exteriors, erasing their labels and reflections to expose their shape and volume, painstakingly creating still-life arrangements. Quietly mesmerizing and mysterious, Morandi's paintings hover between physical and spiritual, traditional and modern.

EFT World Summit 2009 Starts today, April 20th. Click on the link to register and learn more.

EFT stands for "Emotional Freedom Techniques" and is a simple and amazingly fast "tapping" technique. You just lightly but firmly tap on certain acupuncture/acupressure points on the face, head and upper body and astonishing events begin to take place. The process quickly and easily activates the body's own "energy meridian system" and has great potential for releasing virtually anything that's "wrong" with you.

Finally, via my calendar, in a clear sky the Lyrid meteor shower presents its nightly show from April 16 to 26. It produces around ten meteors per hour at its normal maximum, but on rare occasions tremendous bursts of up to 100 meteors per hour have been seen. The best views are in the eastern and northeastern skies between midnight and dawn. The Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak on April 22. It occurs each year when Earth passes through the dust trail of Comet Thatcher.

On April 26, Mercury an dthe star cluster Pleiades can be seen together with the moon at sunset.