Every Saturday I share the blog posts I read and enjoyed most all week.

💻 Classical composer and pianist Franz List was as popular as a rock star in his day. Fred Wilson notes that humans have probably always loved incredibly talented performers at the tops of their games. Read Franz Liszt

💻 Maria Popova‘s blog turned 13 this week, a milestone my blog reaches in February. She writes about matters of the mind and heart, and shares the 13 best life lessons learned while writing her blog. Read 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings

📷 On a visit to Japan, Ming Thien skied at Hakuba, and made some lovely landscape photos. Some of them look like pencil drawings! Read Photoessay: Alpine

📷 Charlotte Davis writes a lovely essay about Ilford’x XP2 Super film, the black-and-white film that is developed in color-film chemistry. The photos that accompany the essay are crackerjack. Read Ilford XP2 Super – The Film That Saved My Photography