Serenity… an expedition


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why, why why… ?

Don’t eyeglasses come with tiny chips that call home when they are lost?

[photo from here]

Tuesday, February 16th

nite time natterings

This and that about not very much.

I like rocks. I used to collect them, sort of. Definitely not in any sort of organized way, just here and there as something caught my eye. An unusual shape or color, maybe.
I remember one time a young boy came to my door – he looked sort of like [...]

Sunday, February 7th

i need an organizer to organize my organizers

I am not sure the proliferation of software geared toward helping you organize yourself is all that good of thing. Too many choices. Or maybe not enough choices to fit the needs? I would love to have just one program that is able to do everything I need it to do.
I thought, maybe, I had [...]

Wednesday, January 27th

I decided to trust myself today

What an odd sensation!
See, I was writing a promised (to me) article on Haiti and it just wasn’t going right. Start, stop. Delete. Start, stop. Delete. Rinse and repeat.
Finally I realized that there was a whole nother way of looking at things hovering at the edge of my mind, that I had been ignoring because… [...]

Monday, January 25th

why is this lizard smiling?

I haven’t a clue, but isn’t it cute? I guess it’s a gecko since that is what Paul Anderson calls it in the post I lifted this from.

It’s funny – when I first clicked over to the post from the rss feed, I thought I’d already read it yesterday, so moved on. Then I realized [...]

Sunday, January 24th

putty in her hands

Mom is watching a PBS show, some sort of oldies on Ed Sullivan thing. 60’s and 70’s – sounds of my childhood and teens. Good stuff
Of course I have to do the obligatory “They were so young!” exclamation. And also, “wow – most of those people would have been out of luck in the [...]

Saturday, January 9th

Random Question: when did black people all start looking alike?

Because it seems we sure didn’t used to.
Reading lately about the underground railroad (great stuff!) and other things dealing with the antebellum South, and I got to wondering…  when enslaved persons ran away, how did people recognize them?
For instance:

This says, in part- $150 REWARD
Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of Monday the 11th July, [...]

Monday, September 7th

processing

I had a whole day almost to myself today. What a change! And what a necessity.
Of the so many things I have to do, I actually did very few of them. Or, rather, halves of everything. Half the laundry done (washed and folded, but not put away), half the kitchen cleaned (floors, counters, dishes but [...]

Sunday, September 6th

Just yapping

We’ve had something like 35 days near or over 100 degrees so far this summer and much less than normal rainfall the past few years. Of course, this being California – with our ever green lawns and ubiquitous swimming pools – you’d never know it, if not for all the melting people.
The farmers are all [...]

Saturday, August 29th

if this looks half as good as it does in the picture… Michelle Obama Inaugural Doll

Even I would be tempted to get one. (I stole this ad from the one on Atrios).
And I don’t run around collecting memorabilia related to this or that celeb. It’s just such a rarity to see contemporary, realistic Black figurines and to also see particularly Black women depicted with such… well, grace is the only [...]

Friday, August 14th