Closing the Links (Newsie News Time w/Fiction Bits, Too)

All About Tea Chemistry.

Suppressing Dissent: The emperor does know-How the system rewards repression, in the name of maintaining stability (Chinese politics).

Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip Searches for Any Arrest.

Leading Psychiatrist Apologizes for Study Supporting Gay ‘Cure.’

Why We Should Talk More About Death.

How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet.

Fantasy Artist Interview.

A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers.

Photo Update

Home w/out anything particularly pressing today. (Well, so long as I don't look around at the state of the Hive, which looks like a hurricane (named Emily ;-) has passed through recently.) Heck, I dunno whether any reads along here anymore anyway, so mebbe it doesn't matter whether I post anything here. As I'm not currently feeling a pressing need to process anything through the brain-meat, this may well just be blowing steam and dropping words and time and energy into a void...and not even for posterity as I'm not at all convinced that the ethernets will save 'n' store stuff 'n' things for down the line. Then again, I do enjoy doing this: blathering away as if I had an audience...and I suffice as my own audience, so all's well.

Very happy and pleased to feel to happy and pleased. Good days recently, w/more to come. Best weather of past week was on Saturday, when I spent all morning doing volunteer gardening over at TaborSpace, a local community coffee house 'n' space at a nearby Presby church. It's raining right now, which is why I'm inside, tip-tapping away instead of out 'n' about in my own garden.

Okay, 'nuff words, onto pics of recent adventures 'n' things 'n' stuff...here're my Flickr sets, feel free to roam through and check out whatcha wanna see.

Solidity & Security & Comfort / Mood-Choosing

So, I used to feel this way w/him. Yet that's gone and over now. Furthermore, it seems as if it really wasn't as I'd thought. Except I DID feel that way (secure). The feeling was real, even it what I thought it was based on wasn't necessarily so. Here's where I'm going w/this: if the feeling was real, it came from within me...so howzabout choosing to regain the feeling w/out the outer influence/factor/feature? I like this idea. Sorta like method acting, only w/out the acting. Method living? LIVING. It's as simple - and complex - as this.

Other ways I wanna keep on living: Skip the competition games. Don't get too caught up in/with ambition for its own sake. Don't dream it, be it. Okay. Tag. I'm it. And it's good.