Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Is how this 1985 article from the South African newspaper, The Star, begins. I know there were/are probably significant social, economic and other effects of changing colo(u)rs in apartheid South Africa, but still – this made me laugh. But if anything can point up the ridiculousness of racial classifications, this is it. I got this [...]

Family has descended on me (in my rather small space) so I doubt I’ll get much quality writing time in anytime soon. So, in order to have something posted daily it’ll more likely be blather than not. I’m trying not to write *too* many things in my head because once I do that they don’t [...]

I’ve just finished (well, all but a few pages) the underground railroad book. What a read, I don’t want it to end. Well, I do because I think it ends at the Civil War, but I’d love it if it was twice the size, with more stories of the various escapes and the workings of [...]

I’ve just noticed that I’ve completely lost my blogroll – and I haven’t a clue where it went. Or how to get it back.

I’m sitting here opening and closing various posts I have in draft – writing a little here, changing a little there and, in general, being completely uninspired and not accomplishing much at all. And all the while – for days in fact – that phrase has been running through my mind: “Sufficient unto the day… [...]

Some birds are extremely clever, full of ingenuity and resourcefulness, masters of misdirection when threatened, able to leap tall buildings in a single- Well, anyway, as I said – some birds are extremely clever. Some are, well, dodos. I’m not sure which category the bird that’s taken up residence in the courtyard outside my apartment [...]

Despite my crabbing about quotations, I quite like them sometimes.  Some, in my view, are insipid and unimaginative but what does that matter? If others find joy or inspiration or humor in them, then it’s all good. It’s not really what the words say but what application they may have to your life at that [...]

I am finding this promise to write something (for posting) every day for a month a bit onerous, but it’s almost over. I know I’ll feel better for having accomplished my aim and kept my promise to myself, but I don’t think I will carry it over in the next month. Or maybe I will. [...]

That’s just… weird. Sad, too, of course – my heart goes out to their family and friends. But still… I practically grew up with MJ. Oh, I didn’t know him (unless you believe the rumor that was going around my jr high school at the time that that was him spending a semester there), but [...]

One of these days I’ll get a new computer and issues will be a thing of the past. Maybe. If I get a Mac.