I've been working at the kitchen table today on the ethnography article (henna practices in Morocco) that I have been wanting to do for the past two months, and which had been put off in favor of the economic anth article (done, but revisions pending) and the first book review. What a calm, beautiful place to work. I always seem to pick one place to work on each project, and this place will be where I pound out my first draft this week.
Can you see a new painting on the wall opposite the table? That was in the bottom of a box lot (with some kitchen linens too, and maybe the toy trunk?) that Ron got at an auction last summer. He wouldn't have paid more than $12 for the box, and this was a bonus hidden away inside. I finally got a frame for it ($14) and now it's up.
And this is what's going on outside.
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I'd love to know about henna practices in Morocco. It's a huge thing in India too and even the Indians living in England still carry on the tradition. It's always done to a bride the night before her wedding - on her hands and feet and in the olden days the ladies would make up the paste themselves and put it on with cocktail sticks (can you believe it). They managed to make the most intricate patterns. All this done to the acompaniment of traditional songs (there's such a scene in the film 'Monsoon Wedding'.) It's called mehndi in Indian.
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