Shakespeare & the # 14.

Turing Week.

Science, Thought, &c.

4th Amendment & Common-Law Trespass Torts.

I stumbled upon one of these earlier today near a friend's house and'm quite charmed: Little Free Library.

Got to introduce a couple of my Dear Friends to each other over brunch this morning, and then hang out w/some really good new(ish-to-me) folks for lunch(ish) out, too. :-)

So, I've noticed that I've not been posting lots here recently. ( Read more... )

Overall, this past weekend was FAB (tough stuff included). Rather than go into lots more details though, I'll let the photos - and descriptions at the link - speak for themselves. Besides, they're x-posted over at FB so you might've already seen 'em there. ;-P

And it's filling me w/joy. Perhaps my capacity for joy has increased w/the space available in my lungs. The phlegm invasion reduced my focus to my chest, breathing, coughing, Kleenex, all sorts of blech sauce. Then yesterday arrived, full of promise and hope and sunshine and more energy and feeling much (but not yet all...sigh) better. This morning's rain - the sound of plinking and plunking of raindrops and the rush of water down spouts and roofs and the street, and of birdies chirping like mad, more than there've been in a while...or at least more than I've noticed recently; the sight of the glowing reflective water droplets glistening on the Japanese maple on the front lawn, slowly swelling then rushing downward to join their brethren (I'm SO glad I got the steppables planted on the front lawn before Mem'l Day weekend); the feeling of the oh-so-cool air flowing through window over my oh-too-hot skin and the soft purple chenille blanket I use to cover myself up with...leaving enough where 'tis for kittenhead Havana who's joined me on the couch. And soon my senses of taste and smell will return to normal as well. Still residual built-up stuffiness stopping subtleties from sinking in. (Legend wore amber over to Common Grounds last night. I could detect it, barely, when he came over and asked if'n I liked it and wafted it right in my face (after asking first, b'c he's a sensible one ;-))

I think what I like so much about today's rain, other than my renewed sense of appreciation - and my appreciation of my renewed senses, is the contrast w/yesterday's brightness, warmth, and sunnyness. Too much of anything can grow old. (It's one reason SoCal's bright blue skies day after day wore on me at times, although luckily, living in Santa Monica meant I often had the variety of fog to break it up nicely.) ( Read more... )

I'm SO glad to be back...or nearly so - to health & strength & with energy. Now for tea and some healthy food (yogurt & berries & herbal tea).

Many thanks and kudos to fearless_son for the perfect panel summing up my time sense these daze.

It's important to heed the desire for and need to BAPAMAP*. Finding I must remind myself of this now and then. (*To Be At Peace As Much As Possible)

Got lots done today. Most importantly though, I took a good long (2.5 hour) walk around and about this aft/eve, stopping for breaks along the way to lay on the grass amongst flowers beneath both flowering and evergreen trees and admire the views, discovering a potential source for swings ('twas swarmed by kidlets so not as useful as it could be...not done searching yet), ending up to the top of the hill in Mt Tabor Park where I watched the sunset w/a whole mess of other folks looking on as well, sweet scents wafting all around, drums drumming and geetars strumming, making it back home to the Hive w/just the teeniest bit of deep midnight blue still showing in the sky. Also pleased to have finished up my Neah Bay 2009 compilation. Each of us CopperMoonies makes a CD compilation for Fambily Toad Rips such as the one we're taking to the coast this weekend.

sidhefire arrives o'morrow (Tu) evening, not long after I fetch LJ-less L from PDX. O'morrow (Tu) day I will pack and take care of other more mundane chores. *yawn* Gonna go sleepy-byes now. Sweet Dreams!

One-and-a-half days after one-and-a-half weeks away. Feeling like I need more decompression now than before. Don't know for sure whether this is so. One reason I blog about this is so I have a record, so I can go back and see whether these feelings are valid (these feelings = whether it takes longer now than before). Yes, I try to keep track of my intuition. Am I binding it? Am I dissecting it to no good effect? Am I not seeing the unicorn for what it really is?( Read more... )

Okay, to return to the qx from that Ask Me Anything meme from a while back. This required serious ruminating. Now some ideas're getting ready to calve...not sure whether they're ready for prime time, but coming out anyway:

( Some of My Regrets )

A Declaration: I hereby anoint this year and make this wish: To Be At Peace As Much As Possible. To BAPAMAP. And so 'tis so. *sigh* Muted cheers...background kazoo noises...calming, soothing noise.

It doesn't matter if'n it takes longer, so long as I have the luxury of bandwidth (time/energy/resources) to take it. Recharging in PJs on the couch in the sunlight now. Will increase the storage capacity and charge by walkies outside later on. Day in, day out, getting out is good.