1. What’s the purpose? “What’s the purpose?” I sometimes hear that guy in my head ask. “Why post those doggerel-worthy drawings of yours?” Aside from the fact that the question makes me feel ashamed, he does have a point. Just what is their purpose — especially since some of them are so lousy? Here’s how […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
Nourishing Darkness
Sun, 22 May 2016, 03:55 PM (-06:00)
From a commencement address from Ursula K. LeGuin to the women of Mills College a lifetime ago (1983): …I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our […]
A Fine Thing
Sat, 21 May 2016, 10:36 PM (-06:00)
Was that a picture of graduation day you sent? I don’t think it’s a stretch to assume so. What a fine thing. Congratulations to the grad. And to the parents, too! What a fine thing.
Ney Day
Sat, 21 May 2016, 09:48 PM (-06:00)
The sun came out briefly, today. There was art in the park and music on the stage. There were toddlers twirling and clear water flowing in the creek. And there were wildflowers blooming and a flycatcher watching in the meadow. Ney Day at the Elizabeth Ney Museum, Austin Texas
Does He Tell You These Things?
Mon, 16 May 2016, 09:02 PM (-06:00)
Miss Izzy and I went out tonite to walk under the clear night sky. The sickle of the Big Dipper hung over us, and a waxing gibbous moon meeting up with Jupiter. And there was a Nighthawk sweeping thru the air high above the parking lot lights. She and I slowly made our way to […]
Screaming Wrens
Mon, 16 May 2016, 07:40 PM (-06:00)
You might have heard a Wren complain, chattering and scolding, shouting at you to get away. They do that sometimes when we get too close to their house in the backyard. There’s no mistaking their instructions. Go, go, go away! Go away, you! Get out! Get out! Get out! Yesterday afternoon, there was a disturbance […]
Worms
Sun, 15 May 2016, 07:32 PM (-06:00)
When watching me work in the yard a long time ago, one of the three sisties said to me, “It’s a good thing you don’t do this for a living.” She had noticed my slow, inefficient way of doing things and correctly observed that they wouldn’t scale well if I charged for the work. Of […]
Two Days In A Row
Fri, 13 May 2016, 10:48 PM (-06:00)
1. Thursday We had tested the logic. We made some changes and tested again. And when we deployed into production, we tested again, pushing a few small datasets thru the route to make sure that everything worked as expected, which it did. “Let me give you a complete data dump now,” Vyas said. And we […]
Oblivion
Thu, 12 May 2016, 08:57 PM (-06:00)
1. We were sitting at the dinner table talking about politics and journalism. (Now isn’t that just the stuff of dinner table talk?) Trudy had an observation, and I had a meta-observation about her observation. “Well, that’ll be a jumpingfish,” she said, smiling sincerely. I chuckled. It was a tiny thing, not particularly profound. An […]
Are You Tired?
Wed, 11 May 2016, 08:35 PM (-06:00)
Are you tired? I am. My legs are aching with it. And my feet. And the palms of my hands. And my eyelids. My eyelids are tired, but they will not close. I lie in bed with chapter 12 of Natalie Goldberg open above my head and a tower of books beside me on the […]