Day 4481: The Green Lady & Sloth Days.

          

'Disarray": junk collage.

  

Want music?

    

Click:  Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Back Together Again

  

 

 

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The Green Lady

Among the brightest, verdant forces of nature in town is the Green Lady of Brooklyn, AKA Elizabeth Eaton “Sweetheart” Rosenthal. She is a living legend in town and an inimitable spark of happiness to everyone she knows and anyone else who happens to catch a glimpse of her for the first time, running errands or puttering in the yard in her Carroll Gardens neighborhood. 

You see, she only wears green: from her lime-green tinted hair to her green dyed overalls, scarves and socks, to her hand painted green shoes. Her attraction to the color began about 25 years ago when she decided to paint her nails green. “And then it just spread all over me,” she once told a reporter, to every shade from evergreen to kelly green to chartreuse, and every shade in between. 

And not just her wardrobe, but also her front door, dishes, towels and sheets, picture frames, drapery, and smartphone – you name it.

Born in Nova Scotia, Elizabeth honed her natural skills as an artist and fabric designer. She hitchhiked to NYC in 1963, where she has worked as an artist ever since, running her own design company and creating hand painted fabric designs for haute clothiers such as Michael Kors, Liz Claiborne, Calvin Klein, American Eagle Outfitters, and Ralph Lauren.

Elizabeth believes that green is the most positive color in the world. “It makes me feel happy,” she said in 2011. “You can wake up really miserable in the morning and then you get dressed and turn green and it’s quite wonderful.” She is married to artist Robert Rosenthal, who’s cool with the green theme. Their son Sam is a mentalist.

There are videos, here, here and many more.

Halloween is done. Thanksgiving done and now the rush of parties, events and the Christmas, holidays ... galloping towards us at an accelerated rate, in my opinion. And my energy level is  ...

very much like my friend above.

Do you ever take "sloth" days?

I think they should be mandatory.

So I wish you love and peaceful rest 

in whatever you are dealing with today.

I'll be over here hanging from a tree.

      

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Mosquito from Caribbean, here

 

 

 

  

 

Just because ...

Saddle-necked stork

 

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