Zinta Aistars's Blog, page 36
April 5, 2012
The beauty of the irregular, the bliss of slowing down
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Kalamazoo Books Center is about paper making, printmaking, letterpress, creative writing, and bookbinding, but it's much more. Zinta Aistars talks with director Jeff Abshear about preserving a technology that changed the world.
Jeff Abshear at KBAC (Photo by Erik Holladay)
Others grow flowers and vegetables in their gardens. Jeff Abshear went into his garden to grow books. It turned out to be a very good year to grow books...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
The Kalamazoo Books Center is about paper making, printmaking, letterpress, creative writing, and bookbinding, but it's much more. Zinta Aistars talks with director Jeff Abshear about preserving a technology that changed the world.
Jeff Abshear at KBAC (Photo by Erik Holladay)Others grow flowers and vegetables in their gardens. Jeff Abshear went into his garden to grow books. It turned out to be a very good year to grow books...
April 1, 2012
Leap of Faith ... Net
by Zinta Aistars
Guinnez watching, listening, scenting a Sunday dawn at Z Acres
I had been circling this property since December 2011, ten acres in southwest Michigan with a century-old red farmhouse, a pond, and several outbuildings. March 26, 2012, at long last, the day to close on the property had arrived. I had already named it: Z Acres. A play on the old sitcom of a city girl moved to the country, called "Green Acres." I wasn't quite a city girl, but I was moving from suburbia, a world of ...
Guinnez watching, listening, scenting a Sunday dawn at Z AcresI had been circling this property since December 2011, ten acres in southwest Michigan with a century-old red farmhouse, a pond, and several outbuildings. March 26, 2012, at long last, the day to close on the property had arrived. I had already named it: Z Acres. A play on the old sitcom of a city girl moved to the country, called "Green Acres." I wasn't quite a city girl, but I was moving from suburbia, a world of ...
March 17, 2012
Toward That Golden Place End of the Rainbow
by Zinta Aistars
Reality is sinking in. Only six days left until I move to the wonderful little red farmhouse on ten acres I've come to call Z Acres. It's time to do some serious packing. I've been collecting boxes in the garage for a couple of months now, most of them kindly set aside for my use by colleagues in my office from office supply deliveries.
I haul the empty boxes inside and set them in rows, open and ready. In it all goes. Books, books and more books ... I realize I really should s...
Reality is sinking in. Only six days left until I move to the wonderful little red farmhouse on ten acres I've come to call Z Acres. It's time to do some serious packing. I've been collecting boxes in the garage for a couple of months now, most of them kindly set aside for my use by colleagues in my office from office supply deliveries.I haul the empty boxes inside and set them in rows, open and ready. In it all goes. Books, books and more books ... I realize I really should s...
March 16, 2012
Announcing the SPRING 2012 Issue of THE SMOKING POET!
Mushroom print by Margo McCafferty and Tom Rudd
The Smoking Poet - Spring 2012, Issue #21
"Words that turn the page to flame."
Every spring we feel it—the softening and warming of the earth, the dried and dead moved aside to allow green new life to nudge up first growth. Tender leaves unfold, blossoms open like palms toward the sun-filled sky. It is spring, yes, spring! A time of renewal, and hope, and rebirth.This spring has special meaning to me, for I have started a new life, a rebirth of...
March 12, 2012
And on the 11th day …
by Zinta Aistars
At last, I am down to counting days, no longer months or even weeks. Eleven days remain. Even now, these are not lax and lazy days of anticipation. All the things that must be done prior to moving a household!
It's been an early spring—so early, in fact, that I find it worrisome. Hardly into the second week of March, and we have already experienced 70s Fahrenheit. Next week, even higher. When I drive by the new property—and I do so frequently, for a soothing stroll across the w...
At last, I am down to counting days, no longer months or even weeks. Eleven days remain. Even now, these are not lax and lazy days of anticipation. All the things that must be done prior to moving a household!It's been an early spring—so early, in fact, that I find it worrisome. Hardly into the second week of March, and we have already experienced 70s Fahrenheit. Next week, even higher. When I drive by the new property—and I do so frequently, for a soothing stroll across the w...
March 5, 2012
The SOuL Event
by Zinta Aistars
Gabriel Giron, Kirk Latimer, Nick LobelThe SOuL Event, a performance by the slam poetry duo, Gabriel Giron and Kirk Latimer, otherwise known as Kinetic Affect, with the additional lineup of youth from Kellogg Community College, Calhoun County Juvenile Home, Urban League, and Summit Pointe, on Saturday, March 3, at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Michigan, took more than soul. It took guts. My friend Amy and I had been planning on and looking forward to...
Gabriel Giron, Kirk Latimer, Nick LobelThe SOuL Event, a performance by the slam poetry duo, Gabriel Giron and Kirk Latimer, otherwise known as Kinetic Affect, with the additional lineup of youth from Kellogg Community College, Calhoun County Juvenile Home, Urban League, and Summit Pointe, on Saturday, March 3, at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Michigan, took more than soul. It took guts. My friend Amy and I had been planning on and looking forward to...
March 1, 2012
Zinta Gets Kinected
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media:
Kirk Latimer, above, and Gabriel Giron, below. Photo by Erik Holladay.
The beautiful scars of Kinetic Affect bring healing to othersZINTA AISTARSTHURSDAY, MARCH 01, 2012Slam poetry competitors turned business partners, the two men behind Kinetic Affect have found a way to connect with audiences of all kinds through their vulnerability. Zinta Aistars talks to them about their art and business.
Sold out crowds gather to hear them at school...
Kirk Latimer, above, and Gabriel Giron, below. Photo by Erik Holladay.The beautiful scars of Kinetic Affect bring healing to othersZINTA AISTARSTHURSDAY, MARCH 01, 2012Slam poetry competitors turned business partners, the two men behind Kinetic Affect have found a way to connect with audiences of all kinds through their vulnerability. Zinta Aistars talks to them about their art and business.
Sold out crowds gather to hear them at school...
Zinta Talks to
Published in Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media:
Kirk Latimer, above, and Gabriel Giron, below. Photo by Erik Holladay.
The beautiful scars of Kinetic Affect bring healing to othersZINTA AISTARSTHURSDAY, MARCH 01, 2012Slam poetry competitors turned business partners, the two men behind Kinetic Affect have found a way to connect with audiences of all kinds through their vulnerability. Zinta Aistars talks to them about their art and business.
Sold out crowds gather to hear them at school...
Kirk Latimer, above, and Gabriel Giron, below. Photo by Erik Holladay.The beautiful scars of Kinetic Affect bring healing to othersZINTA AISTARSTHURSDAY, MARCH 01, 2012Slam poetry competitors turned business partners, the two men behind Kinetic Affect have found a way to connect with audiences of all kinds through their vulnerability. Zinta Aistars talks to them about their art and business.
Sold out crowds gather to hear them at school...
February 28, 2012
30, But Still and Always My Baby Boy
by Zinta Aistars
I've heard others say it, too: when we no longer have our parents with us, one of the things we miss most is being someone's baby. I thought about it just this past Saturday, when I took my own mama out to what I have already begun to refer to as "Z Acres," the property I have purchased in southwest Michigan and where in just three more weeks I will be living. I wanted her approval. Didn't need it, no decision hung on it … but when I got it, that approving smile on her face, ...
I've heard others say it, too: when we no longer have our parents with us, one of the things we miss most is being someone's baby. I thought about it just this past Saturday, when I took my own mama out to what I have already begun to refer to as "Z Acres," the property I have purchased in southwest Michigan and where in just three more weeks I will be living. I wanted her approval. Didn't need it, no decision hung on it … but when I got it, that approving smile on her face, ...
February 19, 2012
Already My Garden Grows
by Zinta Aistars
At the north trail head of Saugatuck Dunes
It's an old, almost cliche lesson, I know .... but admit it, we all need regular reminders, don't we? Appreciate the day while you have it. Time is shorter than you think.
I was driving home after a wonderful afternoon spent hiking Saugatuck Dunes, just north of the little resort village of Saugatuck in southwest Michigan, and the sun had set. Night was deep, dark, and I was admittedly a tad too impatient to get where I was going. On a ...
At the north trail head of Saugatuck DunesIt's an old, almost cliche lesson, I know .... but admit it, we all need regular reminders, don't we? Appreciate the day while you have it. Time is shorter than you think.
I was driving home after a wonderful afternoon spent hiking Saugatuck Dunes, just north of the little resort village of Saugatuck in southwest Michigan, and the sun had set. Night was deep, dark, and I was admittedly a tad too impatient to get where I was going. On a ...
