Dream

"Here is a little red wagon for you / put all your regrets in it / put your unfinished and unanswered questions it it / put your hauntings in it. You can then pull the wagon along with you as a more efficient method of hanging on to the past than keeping them with the monkeys on your back. Or you can leave the wagon behind."

energized

getting to be Someone
i dont know yet

what am up to

up to speed
feeling healing
the year of cancer
and year of recovery
sono tutto fatto

(all done)

strong again

piu forte di mai

yay

old habits die hard

i just cd not resist a peek at the confirmation hearings for Condoleeza Rice on C-span

comments on politicks will be confined to deeply superficial

i see Condi has a new and more elegant hair-do

smarter

meaning the hair style is smarter

okay thats enough

thought for MLK,jr Day

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. says "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

actually

i did not do any of those things like quibble grouse moan piss groan cry and whine

the week since the new moon has been so productive and accomplished i had no time for even the smallest of small talk

i made eight bracelets, threw a charming dinner party, wound up a challenge that had been dominating the proceedings since mid December, chose the tomato plants for this season from the new natural gardening catalogue, organized my pantry space, tidied up my attic/studio work space, made potato-leek soup to die for, and Oh Well

so much more

grin

okay let's get real here ~~

~~there's no way i'm gonna catch up no matter how much i change the dates / apparently i have been taking a break in order to quibble and grouse and piss and moan and whine and cry

so there

you can tell when i am bored ~~

~~ at the restaurant in topanga they cd tell i was bored when i made tuna nooodle casserole for dinnner

what do you call it when ~~

~~a Full Tilt LollyGag meets A Strategic Binge ?

that's easy

the dynamic of a strategic binge is a Decisive Blowout

a Decisive Blowout is not compulsive

the Strategic Binger chooses to go all the way / all the ways !!

with conscientious meticulousness

committed to bingeing until one cant stand it anymore

~~~~~ or runs out of Red ~~~~~~~~

smile

current Strategic Binge involves making potholders with cotton loops on a small red metal weaving frame

i learned to make these potholders when i was seven or eight

picking up the loom and loops now more than 60 years later returns me to my most essential inner child

the one with the beginner mind

the one who discovered patience

that perseverance furthers

that the oriental rug with the golden dragons in the corners was a safe haven

a place to acquire many mechanical skills

the last potholder binge did, indeed, run out of red / the binge was concluded by abandonment / there was even a potholder on the loom that was finished except for looping its edges to take it off the loom

it didnt even need another red loop but ~~

~~ pow / binge over in one fell swoop / like quitting drinking half way through a margarita or giving up cozze ala marinara half way through the platter when daughter said they looked like tonsils

he so smart / so well informed

Bush “Town Hall” Tidbits: #3


Dubya can condescend to a Red-stater with the best of them, saying to one attendee, “Have they got C-SPAN out there in Utah?”

this reminds me of when he asked the chief of state of Brazil if "you have any black people?"

(sorry, just had to let a little er um political commentary sneak in)

New Moon / first of 2005

today's menu

a nibble at quibbles

follow up with a grouse

brisk walk to clarify boundaries

midday is smoothly socially serene

sparkles with laughter and a few good natured ribs

serve with chumminess on turning points with hearts of calm


~~(meanwhile Chaz puts up the shelves / Lundy fixes DreamBoat's tailgate lock / the hopping john from new year's eve lurking in the usually cold but now balmy back room makes itself known

poor hopping john ran out of luck)~~

what if ~~

~~ it turns out i live a long time after all even though i think every day/night cd be my last

and

retain all my senses / sight / smell / taste / hearing / not to mention all of my teeth

avoid the breakage of key bones and the deterioration of significant organs

remain (smile) mentally alert

and dont "get decrepit" at all

but i waste my time and energy expecting these things to happen because of The Aging Process ?

wouldnt that be a terrific bummer ?

now what did i mean by that ?

when emdot encouraged me to join Flickr

i replied it's so very very you but not so very very me

now what did i mean by that ?

smile

Flickr is neat and offers many options

it is a BUSY place

sorta like a grand central station of picture shopping / name dropping / contacts popping

i kinda like my mac Homepages / so easy to do / put pictures in iPhoto / choose the ones you want to publish to the Homepage / click / presto pronto / there it is / arrange them in two coloumns or three coloumns / write a limited amount of caption / click publish and there you go

done

oh yeah, choose a frame or template / i like frameless / KISS / keep it simple, stupid / although in the initial excitement of having a mac with this application / as a joke i used the halloween motif / someone on the list at the time told me it wasnt halloween / duh / so i can do without comments / wink

my homepage is like come in to my house / my cyberphoto studio

a dearth of quibbles

doesnt quibbling ever take up so much time ?

whew / glad that's over

Nimitz Class

i am listening to a book on tape called Nimitz Class by Patrick Robinson

Nimitz class refers to nuclear powered aircraft carriers

the book is copyright 1997 but the setting of the plot is 2002

sooo / it was written years before IX/XI and therefore there is no mention or reference to the attack on the World Trade Center

in the story the BIGGEST AND BESTEST aircraft carrier is vaporized with several of its support war ships (like destroyers, frigates and so on) seriously damaged

first impressions are that the explosion must be an accident with the nuclear weapons carried by the aircraft carrier inasmuch as no other cause can be imagined

~~~~~interruptus buptus~~~~~~~

okay i have a problem with being interrupted in mid-flow and my unlimited reserve of self-importance kicks in

once upon a time i used interruptions as great leaps forward / the interrupter was my toddler grandkid who was in my charge at a time that coincided with intense creative activity / every interruption by him was a gift / i made it so / of course

i would stop in my work for varying lengths of time to devote myself to him and when i came back to pick up where i left off there was often a jolt of new perspective / seeing where i was and where i was going as fresh and new

once upon a time i had fabulous concentration / i was able to create a character for acting in the theatre and hold true to this creation during hours of performance no matter what sights sounds or smells came into play / once time, indeed, someone sitting in the first row (arena type staging) translated my every line into italian for his companion / i faltered not

and i do recall that with a big smile

once upon a time i did some of my most satisfying writing at a small desk in our very busy dining room or standing on street corners scribbling on a Rhodia tablet

(ps / googled up Rhodia / they had an ad at Talking Points Memo in the last year / i loved their tablets when i lived in R ome)

oh well okay / cut to the chase

coming soon to a blog near you : quick review of Nimitz Class

tootle tootle tootle

DreamBoat is home at last

we are going to tootle all over Moab

i sent in her application for the car show

i wasnt going to do it again until i received the dvd of last year's show

towards the beginning of the dvd there is a FULL SCREEN SHOT of DreamBoat's license plate

MOABIUS

smile

most of the dvd shows the tours to Dead Horse Point and to Needles Overlook in Canyonlands / poor DreamBoat looked good but ran shitty so we missed the tours as well as the saturday night cruise of Main Street

soooo / we is gonna do it this year !

i cruised 'round town this evening / once she gets warmed up she hums / and Oh her heater works and the radio is fm/am / and she just kind of glows

we've turned a corner and we're On the Road Again

(cigarette lighter works too / i told Lundy i burned it out smoking joints / he laughed / said we all did when we were younger)

from the fictional Archeologist ~~

you dont know who you are
until you dont no who you are

Aftermath

there will be an end to utterly trivial and inconsequential quibbling

an ocasional disgruntlement is permissable but please do not share it

success

success comes gently
but not without effort

bloggety bloggers blogging

from the Washington Post :

"Though blog readership jumped, the percentage of online Americans who write blogs grew only slightly - to 7 percent in November, up from 5 percent early in the year. Blog creators tend to be male, affluent, well-educated and young; 70 percent of them have high-speed connections at home, and 82 percent have been online at least six years."

i can say i have a high speed connection at home and have been on-line at least six years / okay so i started with a webtv box / dont be snooty / smile

i am neither male nor young / affluent ? well, i have everything i wanted when i was 14 and then some / far down the economic scale, however and as for well-educated i hold no university degrees despite many years in various colleges / i am auto-didactic (look it up) and know how to do LOTS of things to keep me entertained, amused, and productive

lately, blogs have been getting a lot of attention from the MSM (mainstream media) / most of the articles i have read seem to be written by someone not very "in the know"

dont ask what "in the know" means / smile

randomly musing with morning coffee