3/2/13 review of Hinamatsuri at Simpson United Methodist Church

(Image: Kazuko Kozai website.)

Here is my March 2, 2013, Twitter review of the Hinamatsuri event at the Simpson United Methodist Church in Arvada.

Unlike my later Twitter reviews, I did not post this all in one thread. Instead, I posted each tweet separately.

The tweets are below for your convenience.

However, some of the tweets have images attached. I didn't attach the images to this post. (I might change this in later posts.) So if you click on the links for each tweet, you should see the pictures.

Also, the "sick relative" in the first tweet was my grandmother. Unfortunately, she passed away only a few weeks after this review.

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Tweet 1. This morning, visited sick relative. In afternoon, went to Hina Matsuri (Japan Doll Festival) at Simpson United Methodist Church in Arvada.

T2. #HinaMatsuri is, as far as I know, a festival for displaying dolls. I think it runs in conjunction with the festival of Girls' Day.

T3. Here's a view of a doll-temple (I think). #HinaMatsuri

T4. Here's a husband and wife. #HinaMatsuri

T5. Here are a husband and wife and a young girl. #HinaMatsuri

T6. Here's one with interesting dolls and calligraphy. #HinaMatsuri

T7. Forgot to mention for anyone in #Denver -- the #HinaMatsuri at the Simpson United Methodist Church runs tomorrow, March 3rd, as well.

10/2/12 review of book Life Like Dolls by A.F. Robertson

So, as I mentioned in one of my first posts in this blog, I was trying a very basic method for hunting down all my old Twitter posts.

Recently, especially as I approach an emotionally charged date in my Twitter timeline, I've decided to do my best to get back to the very beginning of things.

I joined Twitter on October 1, 2012, I believe.

So this review of Life Like Dolls: The Collector Doll Phenomenon and the Lives of the Women Who Love Them, by A.F. Robertson might be my first book mention.

It's not my first book review, as you'll see in my next post. But it's the first book I mention reading, I'm pretty sure.

The review is not in thread form. It takes place over a number of separated tweets, which I posted between October 2nd and 5th of 2012.

Here are the tweets:

10/2/12

Went to the library. Checked out Life Like Dolls, a study of doll collectors, and The Art of Suicide, a history of suicide depicted in art.

10/3/12

@RubberDoll I'm a new follower. I'm okay -- reading a book right now called Life Like Dolls, about porcelain doll collectors.

10/4/12

First tweet -- Still reading Life Like Dolls. One interesting idea is that kids had dolls they played with and other dolls they collected.

Second tweet -- One young woman in Life Like Dolls said she actually feared the dolls she collected, didn't play with. They were like strangers in her room.

10/5/12

Still reading Life Like Dolls. Brings up the concepts of want, need, deserving, desire, and ambition. Shades of an emotional color, I guess.

I checked this book out from the Jefferson County Public Library, a great library system in Denver, Colorado.