tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28864124836267889932024-02-19T21:49:27.223-05:00TrouvaillesDiscoveries made while going about my business and in the pursuit of art.Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.comBlogger577125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-40651284496718365642014-01-08T12:04:00.002-05:002014-01-08T12:04:54.953-05:00morning<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Motherhood is creating something in me that I can only describe as similar to tectonic plates shifting. I'm the same but my parts are rearranged, I am more me. I see it in the pictures I am making now and the way I am making them. How wonderful to know.</div>
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-80976185990021793112014-01-02T18:30:00.000-05:002014-01-08T11:34:04.594-05:00remains of Christmas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-19458210129309442452013-11-14T11:39:00.000-05:002013-11-14T11:39:06.657-05:00resistance is futile<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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So, I wasn't going to turn this into a baby blog, thus my long silence here. But it seems that is where my life is right now. Baby-fever. So why fight it? Hope you visitors don't mind too much!</div>
Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-88544809671004953072013-10-23T11:30:00.000-04:002013-11-14T11:31:15.201-05:00impression<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After a long nap, Max left handprints on my chest. Here is one.</div>
Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-64530664341219375232013-10-20T11:26:00.000-04:002013-11-14T11:28:20.978-05:00from waiting to waiting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Max was born September 29th. I went from waiting for him to come to waiting for him to breathe/sleep/wake/eat. I could not stop staring at him.</div>
Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-17451798301120010842013-09-12T10:41:00.000-04:002013-09-14T10:41:56.244-04:00waiting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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37 weeks</div>
Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-71702362956428383602013-09-08T15:30:00.000-04:002013-09-14T10:20:47.108-04:00the baby's room<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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everything nice and close together! Having everything set up, unpacked, and pictures on the wall makes us both relax quite a bit.</div>
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-86495930618782184972013-09-05T19:00:00.000-04:002013-09-14T10:41:06.410-04:00sun after rain<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The weather here seems to shift rapidly and dramatically. One minute it's dark and raining, the next minute the sun is shining.</div>
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-71824667606762817392013-09-03T08:30:00.000-04:002013-09-14T10:16:44.933-04:00cup o' tea<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is a light on the stove that warns of "hot stovetop". It doubles as a cool effect, no?</div>
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We inherited a bird's nest with freshly hatched chicks hanging in the planter outside our door. Over the course of the first week we occasionally peeked in at them as they grew. On the day our movers came these baby birds decided to leave the nest. We watched as first one then the other hopped (or was pushed by its mom) down to the pavement and stumbled confusedly off to safety as the mother and father flew nervously nearby. All while our things were being unloaded from the moving van and into our house. </div>
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-91164152489034250712013-08-25T11:30:00.000-04:002013-09-14T10:15:14.853-04:00the movers finally arrive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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After a week of waiting, our things finally arrive Sunday morning at 7:45am. Nothing about this process has been convenient for us but at this point we just don't care anymore and are pleased to have our things -- especially our bed and our own chairs to sit on.</div>
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-53467896667154632222013-08-22T18:07:00.000-04:002013-09-14T10:07:43.206-04:00the view<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-69166695541742721852013-08-14T17:16:00.000-04:002013-08-14T17:16:06.834-04:0033 weeks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-9309094061642551682013-08-13T08:00:00.000-04:002013-08-14T17:30:02.049-04:00a momentary break<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Even cleaning out the fridge can provide a lovely surprise once in a while!<br />
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-87116215426475600592013-08-12T12:00:00.000-04:002013-08-14T17:28:12.123-04:00packing continues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-9572678088243674322013-07-23T17:26:00.001-04:002013-07-23T17:26:19.106-04:0030 weeks<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-74235188609768983902013-07-21T17:45:00.000-04:002013-07-23T18:39:44.471-04:00baby shower!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My fabulous sisters and sister-in-law threw me a baby shower this weekend, which was wonderful! So many thanks to Carmel for hosting, to Laurie for coordinating, Celine for providing food, and activities (advice books!), to Florence for making adorable party favors, and to Simcha for her chairs and being the kind of awesome "kid" I hope I have someday. Also thanks to everyone who came, there were a lot of happy women from 9 years old to 90, just what pregnant women should be around, in my opinion. We missed my Mom, and sisters Angela and Regina, who couldn't be there, but I got to see them in June and it was like we had a mini-shower that lasted all weekend when they were here, so it's ok.</div>
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The present-opening marathon, much helped by Paloma.</div>
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Me and Carmel, the amazing hostess.</div>
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-59551312012875770172013-07-18T22:00:00.000-04:002013-07-23T18:26:49.257-04:00exhausted artists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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J.R. Uretsky had a killer one-woman performance of her new piece <a href="http://www.jruretsky.com/wordpress/?p=617" target="_blank">"Bromance"</a> at the RISD Museum as part of the huge <a href="http://events.risd.edu/event/locally_made_on_view_at_the_risd_museum#.Ue8C942sh8E" target="_blank">"locally made"</a> show going on this summer and fall. There were cannons, pom-poms, costume changes, huge video, puppets..... It was epic. And this picture is what happens after an epic performance -- you crash -- at 10pm. Emmy and Jamie, ready for sleep.</div>
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Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-49204636530110436142013-07-18T19:00:00.000-04:002013-07-23T18:31:51.670-04:00my kick-ass niece<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As part of the RISD Museum's "Locally Made" show, my niece Simcha Davis (remember that name, she'll be famous someday soon) designed and made 12 of these benches as well as tables, to be put around the museum. Not a bad thing for your resume when you're merely 19 years old. To be fair, she did have major help in the construction phase, her old mentor and friend Jeremy, from AS220 and now RISD.</div>
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Yeah, that's a Cy Twombly on the wall.</div>
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I've never had the confidence to rock a bikini just any old time and place but since being pregnant I no longer care about my belly looking fat. After all, there is a baby in there, it's supposed to be big! I now wear a bikini with pride. So I asked Jon to take a picture of me wearing it, in the ocean. Unfortunately, I-phone cameras can only get so close... Haha</div>
Rita Lombardihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06273683719977681594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886412483626788993.post-31222220619184347562013-05-22T13:37:00.000-04:002013-06-14T13:37:45.735-04:00baby bump<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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21 weeks and looking pregnant. Barnes and Noble bookstore bathroom.</div>
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