Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s time for me to get off this little white object that contains endless hours of purposeless travel and get to living my life. Shutting out the lovely and ugly (did you know NAMBLA has a website — oy yoy yoy!) noise and turning back to basics. Without writing to write, research to research, or pictures to post, the little while ibookG4 that can — and does — stays closed. I have nothing new to say but lots to do.
After all, there are:
Flowers to water
Pets to brush
Miles to run
Crows to practice
Hills to hike
Kids to play with
Bikes to bike…or buy/build, then bike
Books to read
Cookbooks to learn from
Rooms to paint
Stories to create
Money to make
Candidates to shout for
Muffins to bake
Salads to mix
Oceans to swim
Fridges to clean
Sweaters to knit (where is my sweater?)
Sand castles to build
Fish to catch
Blocks to make
Papers to touch
Canoes to paddle
Towns to visit
Pictures to take
Writing to learn
Parents to hug
Friends to see
Clothes to hang
Picnics to have
…
A summer hiatus, a post-vacation daze, an experiment? I’m signing off…for now…
Filed under: What the...
Today, I read a piece of junk mail, interested to see what the Philadelphia Foundation (which is home to the 6th Street Garden fund, which is no long my community garden but lovely nonetheless) had to say to me. Here’s what I learned:
“Pennsylvania releases almost as much greenhouse gas as the entire continent of Australia.”
So my lesson for today is 1. that we need to live cleaner and 2. even green-friendly organizations still do marketing on paper, which is oh so wasteful. (Oh, and incidentally, I also learned that the Philadelphia Foundation is having a panel lunch about Climate Change in PA on May 29, 2007.)
Filed under: For the tongue, Guilty Pleasures, Pretty Things to Look At, Rather be
I often find a good hair brushing and deep breaths in and out are refreshing releases.
Aaaah!
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Some everlasting good stuff:
-just-ripe avocados
-light comforter in summer
-outdoor showers
-the beach — YAY!!!
-the moment in spring when the trees burst — often overnight — from a sprinkling of buds into an impressionistic full bloom. The air feels softer and the days lighter.
Filed under: Rather be
We went to the book fair,
The bears and bunnies were there.
The blue balloon by the hand of someone,
Made its way to the air.
Filed under: Hmm...
Those of you who know me, which is all of you, since I have very few readers at all let alone any who are strangers, which is okay with me, since if my readers were strangers I wouldn’t be able to use shorthand and assume personal knowledge of my…um…interests. Anyway, those of you who know me, know that I was very, very interested to find this site: mydeathspace.com.
I found it on yesterday’s find: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com.
Oh, I also just subscribed to The Week and am very very excited to start getting yet another publication I won’t have time to read. But I am still excited.
Filed under: Amazing People, Murder a day, Other worlds, Raves and Rants, What the...
Sure, that makes sense. Wait for the facts. Let’s not rush to judgement, because, after all, he might have used a knife.
Statement from the NRA [in response to killing of 32, as of this count, dead]
www.nra.org/Article.aspx?id=8442
The National Rifle Association joins the entire country in expressing our deepest condolences to the families of Virginia Tech University and everyone else affected by this horrible tragedy.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families.
We will not have further comment until all the facts are known.
Andrew Arulanandam
Director of Public Affairs
National Rifle Association
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.’”
Goodbye to a very kind man.
Six, 6, SIX, *SIX* murders in one weekend. More than one person killed a day since Jan 1, 2007. We’re outpacing last year’s epidemic-like rate by 18%.
Why? Well, do the math. We have one of the highest poverty rates…our schools suck…people don’t really care…Dunno. There’s got to be something there…
