Dining In The Dark, T-Shirts Bringing Light.

Not much going on today but I loved the following article in Today's Oregonian:

http://www.oregonlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2010/08/portland_blind_cafes_dinner_in.html

I would have loved to be at that dinner. Being there most likely would have made be a better person and if not a better person certainly a more aware one. If you remember our minister is an amazing woman that is blind. The couple of times that I took her to Mom's I wasn't sure what to do and how to help her so I just let her tell me what to do. Maybe if I was in her shoes for a night I would be able to help her without asking. What do you think of the article? Would you want to attend a dinner like the one mentioned in the article?

Do you have the T-shirt? This man made his own T-shirt to avoid misunderstandings in his new city:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100826/od_nm/us_philly_tshirt_odd

If you were to design a T-shirt to wear what would be the saying that you would put on it?

Mine would be, " Every man dies. Not every man lives."

Hope this is a great day for you. As always your comments are appreciated.

WHO AM I? Yesterday's answer was Matilda Joslyn Gage.

I dropped out of school at age fifteen to pursue a career as a visual artist. I was born in 1918 and raised by my divorced mother, a traveling saleswoman, selling corsets. Avoiding the last names of both my parents, I used my first and middle names for my first solo exhibition. By age twenty I was on the WPA Easel Project in Chicago – and had become a ‘regular’ in a cutting-edge culture of writers, actors, artists, and scientists. At twenty-one I moved to New York to work as a designer of costume jewelry in the garment industry. I painted at night and on weekends. I married an Air Force Flight Surgeon and substituted his last name for my middle name. When Pearl Harbor was attacked I left New York for Los Angeles, intending to work in the aircraft industry. I became certified in Production Illustration at Caltech/Art Center School. Before I took ajob there WGN in Chicago hired me to script several programs a day for music continuity and to schedule interviews with war heroes and movie stars on War Bond shows. The WGN experience honed my literary talent and I wrote influential essays on artist’s rights, art criticism, and feminism. When World War II ended I returned to Los Angeles to stay and became an integral part of the Californian art scene. I eventually turned to designing tapestries in France. In them as in the rest of my art I expressed my avant-garde connection of art and science to issues of the times. In many media, optics, the genetic code, stellar winds, magnetic fields, tsunamis and temblors appeared in my work, often linked to metaphors for the human condition such as the lemmings series, fables, justice and love. On a feminist level my “The Dorothy Series” includes my much praised video which together with the suite, was shown in Tokyo in 2006. My art is represented in many museum collections in the USA and abroad. I received dozens of awards as well as honorary doctorates. I was also a Visiting Professor of Research at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper. If you haven't figured out who I am think of the famous male actor named the Duke who shares my last name. Who Am I?