Last night I aimed a flashlight out the kitchen window at 2:00 a.m. to see if it was snowing yet. It wasn’t, but I was surprised to see a medium-sized raccoon staring back at me from the tall platform feeder I’d made for the birds. He (?) was licking those sunflower seeds up with his tongue as fast as he could and chewing them up husks and all, as far as I could tell, having a high old time.
“You’re mad,” she said before eating, “but it’s good mad, so that’s all right.”
Extremely decent of her, don’t you think? This is worth its weight in purest gold. You can’t pay someone to treat you like that, because they don’t exist. She has to know you, to wit:
I just got to have tequila for supper [...]
Oh, it was a struggle today. The urge to strike back at virtually everything was at full roar. Amazingly, I mostly didn’t, but the strain is palpable and weighs me down like a blanket of bricks. This too shall pass, of course, and I wish it would hurry the hell up.
Just a few days [...]
You learn something new every day. Does that mean I’m really smart or just stupid and still catching up?
See, I almost have the blog set up the way I want it. By that I mostly mean the underlying architecture. I’ll soon be playing with the layout some more, and that’s all part of the fun. [...]
Brothers and sisters, I am now officially immune.
Not even Daily Kos, Firedoglake, or people going all Buddhist commando on my ass can divert me from the promised land. The incontrovertible HUMONGOUS failure of the system to produce solutions that most of us cry out for in our hearts is actually a gift… (This also [...]
That was how the old Classics comic books used to render Tarzan’s ape call. It more or less describes my state at the moment.
My latest trip to the underworld has released an enormous amount of energy, which must explain why I’m still awake after going to bed at 4:15 a.m. and getting up only [...]
Yep, I’ll be updating FotoFeed soon. In the meantime, here’s a mountain for you:
Taos Mountain yesterday evening, from the back “yard”
Supposed to be 63 degrees today, well above normal. Yee-haw!
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Too dark, pre-occupied, self-critical, and cranky to write much this week. That, and watching McCain disintegrate against the backdrop of the Great Unwinding is so engrossing and entertaining, who has time for anything else?
This is all just amazing. There IS a God, as the saying goes, and she’s winding up for the big pitch. What [...]
What’s not to like?
First off, not everyone is stupid! In fact, most of us aren’t, and this morning it’s bringing a smile to my face. Not worried about the economy, either. Our way of life is unsustainable: if things are falling apart, that’s why, and they need to fall apart. So let’s run this by [...]
Be not afraid, the light is growing.
My sweetie has embraced “process,” and so, remarkably, have I. This is big. She has a studio now where she can place her baby grand as soon as Mayflower gets its act together and trucks it down here from Dubuque. There’s even a bathroom of sorts, with [...]
I watched the last few hours of the Democratic convention, and of course I heard Obama’s amazing speech. It wasn’t the words — most of what he said was very down-to-earth — but his courage and directness. The intensity of spirit that he showed, the empathy, the honesty — my God, the INTELLIGENCE! I’ve been [...]
Aerial image © 2008 by Eva-Marie Brekkestø
Oh, those hoaxers are busy, all right. It’s hard work, too. Just you try getting a bunch of people out to a grain field in the middle of the night and creating something like this in a few minutes, then getting away without leaving any tracks or tire [...]