Serenity… an expedition

I mentioned yesterday that I thought that to re-brand and renew Human Beams, we needed a new name. I still think that – or maybe at least a good tagline.

Anyway, I thought I had found it yesterday. A line of a poem by Langston Hughes just sort of leaped out at me and I thought [...]

Wake up in the morning, sip that first cup of coffee and set out to find something good to greet the writing day. And to bid it goodnight.
That’s my plan, though I am not under any illusions that it will be easy. Good news des not always jump into your face like bad does. [...]

First, a nasty flu (nothing to do with pigs, though, I don’t think) and then my keyboard bites the dust. Computer is still on its last legs, too, but still standing for now.
“Interesting times” indeed, these last couple of years of my life. Me, I’m ready for plain old boring for a while.
ETA: One thing [...]

Sigh.-I-have-keyboard-&-computer-issues.
Obviously-no-space-key.=Less-obviously-no-”n”-or-”b”-key.
Also,computer-is-dying.
Will-return-as-soon-as-possible.

Said the 4 year old, upon disembarking into a completely different place after his first cognizant ride in an elevator.
Sometimes kids make up for all their other annoyances just with wonder.

The black cat that lives on my patio doesn’t belong to me.

He doesn’t belong to anyone – although he seems remarkably well cared for, for a stray. His thick, glossy fur on his large, muscled frame alternately reflects and absorbs all light as he wanders, strutting through his half-wild life as a part of the [...]

A few things came together for me, in my mind, at roughly the same time.
I turned 50 last year.
I had a dreadful year last year.
I joined Twitter.
I realized that, of all the sites I’ve made or been a part of, not one has been just for me. A personal site, with my own thoughts, dreams, [...]

I’m off for the next two days – well, off from watching children but not from cleaning house or things like that – that would be way too much to hope for. Still, it’s a good thing.
I find it’s important for me to have at least two days in a row after spending the previous [...]