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Top Draw: Saul Steinberg illustrated Eames chairs-
During a visit to the Eames office in the early 50s, Romanian illustrator Saul Steinberg obviously felt the urge to doodle. He took it upon himself to do so on the first available thing which happened to be several Eames chairs. Steinberg drew on shell chairs and on an early prototype of ‘La chaise’ the Eames moulded plastic chaise lounge that had been designed for a competition at MOMA.
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I confide to anything
So I have to hide from everything.
Everybody wants a piece of me.
Rinse the origin and cease to be
Sit back and let it happen,
Let us take your time away
I don’t understand you.
I don’t want your time of day.
If you’re gonna walk, might as well walk your way,
Always walk the whole ways,
Forget the punk, I pack the funk.
I’m gonna take a piece of you.
Making money for good health, but first I learn to see myself
Making money for good health, but first I learn to see myself
You’ve promised me poems
You’ve promised me poems
You’ve promised me poems
I rue the day that I ever met you,
And deeply regret you getting close to me.
I cannot wait to deeply neglect you,
Deeply forget you, Jesus believe me,
You promised me poems.
You might have been my reason for livin’
I gave up ungivin’, gave up everything.
We were a right pair of believers
A couple of dreamers, so how come
You hate me?
You promised me poems
You promised me poems
You promised me poems
You promised me poems
Dreamed of ringing voices,
They contemplated choices.
Taste like a rare kiss,
To heighten my awareness.
With all fairness, greatness, with gratitude.
And simply rhymes with attitude
Now do promotion and TV, and ya still can’t see. We
Down the hill cascade
And keep away the masquerade,
Dreamed of ringing voices,
And you promised me poems
And you promised me poems
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Simply Orthodox ☦: Go to your spiritual father! 
So everything you do, do it with your spiritual Father’s blessing. Wherever you live, go to your spiritual Father and ask him to give you a praying rule. So that he knows your rule of prayer and you, one the other hand, will do as much as you have received blessing for. It is also good to ask…
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Eastern Orthodox nuns
#taking back the tag
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Simply Orthodox ☦: Advice on praying 
So, morning or evening, immediately before you begin to repeat your prayers, stand awhile, sit for awhile, or walk a little and try to steady your mind and turn it away from all worldly activities and objects. After this, think who He is to whom you turn in prayer, then recollect who you are;…
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Photos are up from CreativeMornings/London with Rory Sutherland. Photos are all taken by their new photographer, Kris Elliott.
Check out the rest in their Flickr Album.
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Today, among the other Saints, is commemorated St. Sophia of Suzdal, the Great Princess of Russia!
St. Sophia (born with the name “Solomonia”), a Great Princess of Russia, was the daughter of the noble Yuri Saburov. In 1505, she was chosen as bride by the heir to the throne, the future Great Prince Basil. Their marriage was unhappy, because Solomonia remained childless, so he divorced her. In order to have an heir, Great Prince Basil decided to wed a second time, and on November 25, 1525, he ordered Solomonia to become a nun at the Nativity Monastery in Moscow. Forcibly tonsured with the name Sophia, Solomonia was sent under guard to the Monastery of the Intercession in Suzdal, where by ascetic deeds she banished from her heart worldly thoughts, and totally dedicated herself to God.
Prince Kurbsky calls the blessed princess “a Monastic Martyr.” In the manuscript, “Lives of the Saints,” she is called “the holy Righteous Princess Sophia the Nun, the wonderworker, who dwelt at the Protection monastery.” Under Tsar Theodore, she came to be revered as a saint. Empress Irene sent a package to her with the note, “to the Great Princess Solomonia, also called Sophia, a velvet veil with depiction of the Savior and other saints.” Patriarch Joseph wrote to Archbishop Serapion of Suzdal about serving Panikhidas and Moliebens for Sophia.
St. Sophia departed to God in the year 1542. The Suzdal sacristan Ananias speaks of several miraculous healings at her grave.
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Sitting Pretty: Eames Lounger illustration by Charles Kratka-
Eames office graphic designer Charles Kratka created this illustration of the iconic Eames longer in 1956. The exploded diagram details all the component parts and how they fit together.
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Last Friday, CreativeMornings/NewYork continued last year’s tradition to celebrate the end of another fantastic year. Turning the mic to our audience, we sent out an open call for anyone interested to apply to speak at CreativeMornings this December in NewYork, London, Milan or Geneva.
It was tough to choose, but we ended up with a fantastic lineup of speakers, one of which was Theron Humphrey. Originally from Coastal North Carolina, Theron is a photographer who has lived and worked across the country.
In 2011, he started a kickstarter-funded project across the US, meeting and photographing someone new every day. He takes his coonhound Maddie (above) on his adventures.
You will be able to watch Theron’s talk, as well as Holley Murchison’s and Brooks Atwood’s on our Vimeo Channel.
