“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
It’s like standing atop the railing surrounding a 14th-storey balcony (why doesn’t the spell-checker acknowledge ’storey’ when it is the correct word for referring to the floor levels of a building??? that’s stupid). Anyway, it’s like balancing up on that balcony rail wondering if you will return to the relative stability of the [...]
I swear I’m losing it. Yup… whatever last little semblance of sanity and clarity I had, I am losing it.
I was looking at my credit union account this morning, and I see there’s a payment due on a small loan. The payment is due on August 31.
Well, I’ve known all week long that this Friday [...]
I’m watching the final four on Last Comic Standing. They just showed a trip to this one guy’s home. They had a camera guy inside the living room, and he walks in the door hollering “I’m home” Then the camera switches to momma coming out of the kitchen yelling “My baby.”
Oh puh-leeeze. You can’t [...]
Plenty of media coverage about the slow pace of recovery in New Orleans.
But why the hell does it seem like the ONLY story is the Lower Ninth Ward? Nearly 80% of the city was flooded and destroyed, but the only story that seems to matter is the Lower Ninth Ward and the fact that only [...]
If people are supposed to get dental implants and other devices to avoid tooth migration resulting from lost teeth and gaps, why don’t horses’ teeth migrate?
You raise your glass and join a toast during a pretentious affair put on by wannabe snobs … do you experience the discomfort of “sham pain”?
I think about such things. [...]
[Note: I got up around 1:45, haven't been back to bed yet, and now it is after 5:00; I started writing this around 3:00, but as you'll see I had to take a break and 'process' parts of what was happening along the way. It's been a very weird night of revelations and insights that [...]
The Dalai Lama is 72 years old. He is a majorly important religious figure in the world today, a wonderful teacher and great example (in living color!) how to live a higher life.
The Dalai Lama (by Buddhist teaching) has been reincarnating through the ages. Reincarnation is a major doctrine or teaching, not just [...]
based on the heat, humidity, and heat index, this is the month of Ugh-ust. How true that is.
Yesterday, as I was dyeing rovings (pictures to be posted later), I realized that living inside what is essentially just a metal box, running the air conditioner, AND having TWO 20-quart stockpots simmering, is somehow counterproductive. [...]
The other day I headed off to the library and grabbed a copy of the Tao Te Ching for this week’s reading moments.
Before getting into the section I was actually reading, I wanted to talk about the various translations. There are DOZENS (hundreds??) of translations of this [...]
My brain works fine. It’s my mind that has some weird connections.
So… if an Olympic distance swimmer goes zoom-zoom-zoooom the length of the pool so he’s just a torpedo-like blur …. is that the Speed of Light … or the Speedo Flight?
Tonight I ordered pizza from Papa Johns (I do that about once or twice [...]
Some of the little lesson in life (not the BIG ONES, but those little niggley ones) seem to repeat over and over. And you think you ‘get it’ … until next time. Things like, “it’s his/her problem, let him/her fix it” or “you didn’t create it, you can’t control it, you can’t cure it, so [...]
Why is it that canned cat food and canned tuna come in the exact same sized flat round cans, but it’s the CAT FOOD that has the convenient ring-pull-tab, but the StarKist you still have to open it partway, drain off some of the water, finish cranking the can-opener around, squishing the released lid down [...]
This is the tracking map I just sucked off of Weather Underground, but if you click on that you’ll get whatever the current image is. This is the one (below), I’ve been hoping to see:
I like this one because now ALL the computer models are sending Dean down into Mexico; until this afternoon, that blue [...]
Last night I looked at the projections and the “Cone of Uncertainty” as to where Hurricane Dean might land. Yesterday it appeared that Dean would head toward the Texas-Mexico border on Wednesday afternoon. This morning, it seems to be headed to that same general area, but now it shows landfall projected there Thursday in the [...]
I’m listening to the mid-day news, hearing that the rescuers going after the miners trapped in Utah have themselves suffered fatalities. Just checked the story at CNN. I can’t imagine the utter horror and flood of emotions of all the people directly or indirectly involved in the rescue efforts.
I heard a story long about about [...]
Okay, so all y’all know my legs, particularly my knees, hurt. A lot. And worse later in the day than earlier in the day.
But, enough about me. Watching this video is very very cool but it still makes my hurty parts twitch just looking at it.
but I’m glad I did!
Got to bed around 11:00, woke briefly around 3:00 and went back to bed. Around 6:30 I stirred and got up, flipped on the bathroom light and
uhhh.. flip-flip… WTF ??? And I don’t remember turning off the fan in the night. But I PAID (some) on my electric bill. Oh geeezzz… [...]
Watching the evening news I see we have a new Tropical Depression brewing in the Gulf, along with TS Dean coming off the west coast of Africa. Yup, we’re in the thick of the hurricane season.
I know everyone’s tired of hearing about Katrina. Hell, that was two years ago now. But it still scares the [...]
There is no single place in the entire rest of the country experiencing heat in the extreme degree as MY BLOCK of MY neighborhood. NObody else can begin to grasp the heat. Trust me, it is truly extremely, absolutely, unacceptably HOT!
So, because NObody else is having such heat, all y’all gotta feel sorry for me. [...]
