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Every second and fourth Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Beachfront Grille, located at 2444 South Oceanshore Boulevard, Flagler Beach, hosts the Peps Art Walk. Enter the enchanted atmosphere of distinctive handcrafted artisans selling their wares in one place. All types of makers, crafters, and artists can be found here. Honey, baked products, wooden surfboards, painted surfboards, jewelry, silverware, apparel, foot fashions, birdbaths, soaps, candles, air fresheners, and home décor, to name just a few! Every month on the final Saturday, Peps Art Walk takes place. Since its inception in May 2022, a grassroots market has gradually expanded to include more than 30 sellers and a large number of devoted customers. There is free parking, food and drink available on the premises, and a raffle to benefit a nearby charity.Meadows Whispering Ranch. Great music, positive energy, kid-friendly, and dog-friendly. Come show your support for the artists in our hometown!
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market, which will feature prepared food, fruit, veggies, handmade goods, and local artwork from over 30 local merchants, is set to take place at its new location on South 2nd Street, directly in front of City Hall, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. Flagler Strong, a non-profit, hosts the market.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: At his law office located at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach, Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley presents his weekly unofficial town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. All topics are welcome, whether you’re a resident or not. There is typically a special guest at the events.
The Grace Community Food Pantry is open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. via drive-thru at 245 Education Way, Bunnell. Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Flagler County disaster relief organization, are in charge of organizing the food pantry. Feeding Northeast Florida assists local families, children, and active and retired military personnel who are struggling to put food on the table, as well as elders. Collaborating with nearby supermarkets, producers, and farms, we salvage premium food that would otherwise go to waste and turn it into meals for the underprivileged. A large portion of the food pantry’s operations and storage space are provided by the Flagler County School District. Give 386-586-2653 a call to volunteer, give, or offer assistance.
Byblos: Ten years before to his divorce, in 1959, John Updike penned The Poorhouse Fair. He envisions Updike’s own second marriage and the interactions between his new wife and stepson in front of his mother. His writings occasionally resembled France’s Retif de la Bretonne sCalendar (Mon calendrier), a diary-like account of his marital frustrations on the one hand and his sexual activities on the other. By 1959, he was already a serial and boastful cheater. According to Adam Begley’s gracious Updike (2014), which was written five years after his subject passed away from lung cancer, Updike’s stories were his own form of lightly dramatized, peekaboo autobiography. Although the veil is transparent, his women are stylized and adjectified to appear less objectified.In his 1979 preface to the collection of stories, Updike referred to the Maples as the calender of the decline and collapse of a marriage, seemingly implying that Richard/Updike’s philandering found justification or support in the immorality of Roman emperors. In his laudatory and repulsive memoir, U and I, about his infatuation with Updike (1991), Nicholson Baker claimed that Updike inappropriately used his alluring reputation as a young writer to prey on suburban couples while the wives were out at work.When Baker spots Updike, he calls him: Mean? He is cruel, indeed. He was particularly moved by a scene in Wife-Wooing, a story that was harsh in addition to being mean. One night in the seventh year of his three-child marriage, Richard Maple is unable to win the sexual favors of his weary wife. Cynicism is tethered to the crudest pun, double-barreled just in case you miss it the first time (You are asleep), immature jealousy (You love the kid more than me), and misogyny (courting a wife takes twofold the strength of gaining an uneducated girl). Oh, clever trick, clever. The brutality is yet to come: To my relief, you are unattractive in the morning. The light from Monday’s weak breakfast bleaches you blotchily, saps the deliciousness from your thickness, and turns your bathrobe into a limp, discolored tube that flails shamefully, revealing your sallow-colored collar. Your breasts’ skin is a depressing shade of yellow. Every wrinkle and sickly tinge is a relief and a form of retaliation as I feast on your drabness with the coffee. Youngsters yammer. The toaster remains in place. This woman has been worn for seven years. Baker found the description to be unforgivably cruel.When he read that passage, he could not fathom Updike’s real, non-fictional wife’s anguish. Updike refused to back down. When Rabbit enters the third decade of his gloomy marriage to Janice in Rabbit Is Rich, he treats her like a piece of game: As she develops the barrel figure typical of women in their late middle years, with arms that are loose like cooked chicken coming off the bone and legs that are getting slender, her waist is larger and has less of a dip.As his career came to a conclusion, Updike provided us this in Toward the conclusion of Time: The earth resembles a naked woman who was flash-bullied in her bathroom during a clumsy restroom transition. We lust for her in spite of her ugly wrinkles.John Lennox told Stephen Baxter in Henry James’s Story of a Masterpiece that you might be ruthless without trying to be actual. Updike never followed this advise. Men find ugliness to be so fascinating and alluring that they never get tired of talking about it. In Wife-Wooing, Voltaire uses language that foreshadowed Updike’s description of Ninon de Lenclos, the octogenarian benefactress of his boyhood. De Lenclos had on the bones nothing but yellow skin trending to black. In his memoirs, Casanova describes a meeting with an elderly woman who displayed half of her sagging breasts, which were repulsive because they revealed their potential. (In the original French:Elle laissait voir la moiti de sa flasque gorge, qui d go tait pr cis ment parce qu elle montrait ce qu elle avait pu tre. )Not to mention Dostoevsky, who goes further than Upike in disparaging women’s appearance. He also had a habit of likening ugly women to chicken. You recall his early description of the old woman Raskolnikov ends up hatcheting to death: Her colourless, somewhat grizzled hair was thickly smeared with oil, and she wore no kerchief over it. Round her thin long neck, which looked like a hen s leg, was knotted some sort of flannel rag (I like my French translation better, son cou long et d charn comme une patte de poule, which Google translates to herlong and emaciated neck like a chicken s leg. ) Dostoevsky believed that all women turn ugly because they give all their beauty to their lover ( their beauty quickly passes to their beloved ). We need a little beauty after all of this.
P.T.
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Human imagination never conceived hobgoblin or witch more ugly than she. You could count all her ribs through the wrinkles of the leathery skin that covered them. Her withered face more resembled an old skull than the countenance of a living being, even to the hollow, darkened sockets, at the bottom of which glittered her little black eyes. Her arms had dwindled away into nothing but whipcord and wire. Her hair, half black, half gray, hung in total neglect nearly to the ground, and her sole garment consisted of the remnant of a discarded buffalo robe tied round her waist with a string of hide. Yet the old squaw s meager anatomy was wonderfully strong.
FromFrancis Parkman sThe Oregon Trail(1849).
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