yesterday i bought some forks at habitat for humanity. whatever else i did is gone w/ the wind. everything is hind of far away. or in my face.

In Praise of Peasants | CommonDreams.org

In Praise of Peasants | CommonDreams.org: "Farmers, peasants, the indigenous and the landless are entitled to land only until the government or the corporate interests find a better use for it."

no news is good news.

no stuff is good stuff.

no nonsense is nonsense.

still, we are in an age where you and i are being redefined. this could be a good thing.

or not.

who decides?

i have no idea of what this photo i took is, except that whatever it is i din't touch it w/ photoshop.

about facebook: i recieved an invite to be a friend the other day from an old friend of mine i have seen once in 40 years or so. i clicked on it and his page opened up, complete with picture and some information that could only be his ("relationships: it's complicated"). i guess he recieved an email that said i was now a facebbok "friend" of his.

only thing wrong is he didn't send the original invite. he emailed me that facething reads yr address book and sends invites out to those on the list.

i haven't even checked to see if this is true or well-known but it's weird enough to be true anyone heard this?

yesterday, easter sunday, a number of these critters popped out of the ground. they were not there when the sun rose.

good friday. home alone, rainy, a little thunder awgile ago. ok w/ me, got camper interior finished yesterday thx to charley and moriah, possible glitch being silicon caulk drying in today's weather.

today i am doing the long putoff: clean and organize. then go camp somewhere quiet with no computer.

from a watercolor on yupo plastic. just fooling around.

do i need to oost a thought or opinion here that might be worth reading?

how about:

"Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day."
Sharon Gold

according to number, the above image was the 11th i took with digital camera.

what about events in the world? i'm disappointed in obama; he seems to be repairing the "system" so it will work like before: umrestrained greed on the part of thoses in the "know" and total disregard for those on the "now".

did above last nite after returning late from charley and moriah's. beautiful day up there. hot bed platform built, looks and rides good. storage shelves still up on the mountain. ripped all caulking build up from gap between camper shell and edge of truck bed in front. this morning my job ist to clean and scour this stuff off, then, if charly is not working today, get back up there and install shelving. then block leak w/ silicone and some kind of cap. like to het that done today, i think rain returns at night.

we have had a "wet spring". topic of local conversation. slept late, 9AM. now i'm running late. it's sunny out at last & i'm headed for lowe's for circular saw-blade and plywood, then on to charly&moriahville to make the camper livable, or at least survivable. later

dithering today, too many directions.

quote from random library book:
"history is the origin myth of the white man."
from
crossing the continent
1527 - 1540
the washington post review (scroll down)

an old foto, appropriate for the deason.

i'm still completely jammed up, just programmed replacement for damaged insulin pump, still tweaking it and now have to go to lowe's and pick up some materials for charly and drive them to the mountain top to work on camper shell.

from a watercolor i painted in az last month.

rainy overcast day. i ran some wet errands, moriah phoned and we canceled upgrading campershell until a sunny day. i am trying to focus on organizing. something i heard on the radio about ADD being possibly a genetic disposition well suited to hunter-gatherer cultures but not whatever one calls "today's" "culture". for the hell of it assume it is true and you are left with the question of when the culture changed enough to manifest ADD. end of hunter-gatherer culture? 10,000 years ago? or twenty years ago when the choice to putter was slowly extinguished?

focus hokus.

foto taken from walk on dirt road. about 15 minutes from my father's house. the mountains are the san francisco peaks outside flagstaff, about 70 miles away. more later today.

did this one yesterday. i have been fooling with printer and am getting reakky nice prints. i have so many that i am going to update image gallery soon.

overcast day, maybe rain?

been listening to Tell Tale Signs by dylan incessantly. the great american songbook will never be the same.

from rolling stone review

"Tell Tale Signs is less an anthology than an album in its own right. It seems designed to tell a story that sharpens and expands the vista of mortal and cultural disintegration that has been the chief theme of Dylan's 1997's Time Out of Mind, 2001's Love and Theft and 2006's Modern Times — perhaps the most daring music he's ever made. Tell Tale Signs makes plain that Dylan knows the caprices of the world he lives in, now more than ever."

have been puttering with small quicktime movie for web. as usual there were a few production glitches having to do w/ codec, think i just solved it, if so watch for it above. (no audio).

got lower dentures relined, i think they will work much better. now i am looking - but not very hard - for some kind of process or exercises that will help me to enunciate clearly, ie carry on a conversation.

still reassembling living space. plumbing problem is next: i tried to fix and no go. so will contact landlord for plumber.

talked to charly about camper shell upgrade. aiming for wooden shelves and bed platform, storage under neath. he had simple idea for leak which will probably work.

ac seems weak since i got heater motor replaced, need to look into that.


i don't know much about voodoo economics or accounting, but "toxic asset" makes no sense to me. could it more accurately be described as "debit"? is there such a thing as "healthy debit"?

mud season

how to describe our world now:
institutions:
church, town hall, Congress, any government, educational including "higher", chain stores, highways, commerce
a big etc.
have all become obsolete because they no longer work. one time they did.

so the question is why? will they "hit bottom" and work again? no.

because they are all hierarchical in nature, top down, and the worker bees can no longer pretend they are part of a greater whole. the power complex, always part of the institution since the beginning of civilization has become clearly visible. the power mongers ruthless thugs, with no regard for life.

institutional evolution, or cultural evolution where the most powerful survive by dealing in smoke and mirrors.

"everybody knows
that baby's got new clothes
but lately
i see
her ribbons and her bows
have fallen from her curls"
bobby d. from a song about addiction among other things

a quickie. i've always enjoyed clouds. an old girlfriend thought this was an indicator of something not quite right.

terrible night last night. the night before i had tripped and fallen, and my insulin pump was damaged. i thought it was fixed when i went to bed last night. so alarm was going off many times during the night. the last time i think i really did fix it and BG was right when i woke up.

plan for the day: catch up on the undone from a list i made monday. the list hasn't changed much.

puzzle for the day.

don't have much to say about it,

if the forest is full of empty eyes
are trees real?
whatta they care?

this is sophia catherine, born night before last to my neice anne and her husband andreas. mother child and husband all doing well. welcome sophia and have fun with your new life.

underwater

,

i apologize for the grusome image but thar'd a freshmade icon today. maybe i can sell it to a TV cop show

one of those nights. it's 2 in the morning and i'm still going strong. way pest my bedtime.

i've been putting together ardour and jack tuoted as a doftware DAW (digitial workstaion) for mac OS X., now trying to install virtual instruments for midi.

allow my magnetic attraction to the unknown - see what happens while i/m having fun..

reading the flood of '29. whem i find it i'll post the name and author of the book..

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taken on a walk up willow creek near my dad's house in prescott az.

it's noon i got to go do things of vast consequence and little importance.

[====>] later. done.

welcome to the world of lost objects and deluded subjects:

sophia katherine, beautiful baby girl born last night to my niece anne. pictures soon.

picture of moon and venus taken in prescott az last month. or maybe this month i can't remember.

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another failed watercolor
i did in az, sprinkled magic dust on it here. think it works?

about lyme's disease:
Re: New articles on the website of the CDC

watercolor i did at my dad's place. i did 5 or 7 there, brought them back to make right, and this is the first one i made right.

i'm still dazed and confused by trip, but if i don't bounce back i'll crawl back.

i saw a lot of cable tv which i refuse to have here at home, and overall was amazed at the burbles and bubbles of meaningless activity displayed. junk discourse. there is a lot of talk today of the way the brain keeps changing in response to it's time in the world, new circuits etc and i suggest that being surrounded by colorful winking blipping pixels that purport to signify is way worse then us tranced folks - everyone - can imagine. in large poart it is responsible for the empty stylistics of modern man.

don't worry about the catastrophe; it's already happened.

back safe, sound - that might be stretching it - & ready already.

fome. sleep.

granddaughter natalie taken yesterday evening, who informed me she is princess rose. i'm driving to asheville in a few minutes.

i'm at nicole's, corbin is at school, she is at work,and i'm organizing for trip back to aville. probably leave tomorrow. i slept from 3 in the afternoon untill8 this morning. believe i'll visit lily and natalie tonight, jim in the morning and head out. above is picture of chemtrails over prescott.

grandson corbin looks great, good to see him.

need to get to meher center before late april when there will celebration of great darshan. that will be my next trip out. hope to visit damien and ludie on the way because i don't think i'll make it this go round.

started spook country by gibson on airplane, realized i've already read it, but since i have no idea of what happens in book i'll finish it. again.

two massacres in the news since last night. see muckers to learn a little about this phenomena, and read the damn book it comes from to learn a lot about our lot.

got to nicol's around 3 this afternoon after eli and i drove around the long way back to airport securiy because i jad left a bag
on the curbside which we recovered. slept from 3 pm to around 8pm. will repack, unpack, ratiolize truck, and hope to drive to damien and ludie's in warrington, back in town to visit the eli parsons. hope to visit jim and his new computer tomorrow. head back to aville friday or saturday.

when i get back i have a waccy notion to turn off the electricity for a week, light kerosene lamps, and brood, sleep in the dark for a week.

head for a weekend in hot springs.

spent a week in myrtle beach meher retreat.

the only thing that leaves that i know of is spend the rest of my life.

while away i studied cable tv. what a hoax. noise and lights distracting from life. a zillion babbles. electronic tower of babel. no communication, only news. while in prescott i listened to the late night news in navajo on the am dial and got a hell of a lot more out of it.

to sum up, quote from einstein by walter isaacson:

"he generally thought in pictures...'i rarely think in words at al'", he later told a psychologist. "a thought comes, and i may try to express it in word later."

a bit of cryptic fluff for y'all. and im still operating in the pc world, one of the least pleasant working conditions i've ever suffered. my god it is so abysmal, klutzy, bass ackwards, buggy, a pile of gee gaws precariously stacked, i truly never want to touch one agaain. took me all day to do the bit above.

i am well aware that we are living in another age of the warlord, the meaga-vandals, thieves, crooks, and murderers, most dressed impeccably, but parallel to these connisuers of destruction is the pile of crap called windows, probably as responsible for the disappearence of the institutions that make or made up civilization as the gangs - i'm not talking about 16 year old latinos.

rant finished.

i'm leaving tomorrow afternoon for raleigh and environs. ninian is gracious enough to pick me up around 9 tomorrow night. spend the night at his house, he works tuesday, not sure after that but i hope eli can pick me up. i could sleep for a week. probably will. but not yet.

in phx. looks like i'll be in flight to nc either sunday night or following sat nite depending on what dreams and portents say if i have any tonight. the morning will tell. exhausted. unsteady. shaky. ie routine.

what i will or will not do when i get back:

get a passport.

pay rent for last two months

install wooden shelving in camper plus a rain protecter between cab and camper

whip out 5 postcards, 100 each, place in stores around asheville.

produce 2 or 3 giclees, 8x 10 w/backing board, wrapped in clear baggie.

sell quadra and imac, throw away tv, maybe read hegel's xxx. make dvd slideshow from family photos (a big job)

camp out for a month

buy more ammunition for krag rifle

become a member of anarchist artists group to maintain ability to communicate with others should the desire hit me

drive to colorado july stop over in mountain view ark.

practice life and death

buy a yurt

live in it

not worry

not worry about the demise of the age of megatechnics and the evaporation of every institution. move foward as they say. fun bliss embodied transfiguration is the force that drives the fuse.



carry water chop wood.

carry wood chop water.

history is a nightmare that i am trying to remember - you know how dreams are

the future belongs to the crowd. i belong to now.

the night catches crows, the day blows away in curliques of sudden demolition.

too many souls maybe but definitly too many objects. on the other hand you can win one of them if you are doomed.

“Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quote

good night.

going to see doc w/ jane and dad tomorrow. ride to phx with her friday and one way or another crawl home. saw tavis smiley and bob woodward kast night on of all things larry king live. only meaningful thing i have heard during 2 months of "news". they may have even mentioned the megaheist of the last 8 (or more) years.

if i rob a bank tomorrow and am caught and charged i don't get to keep the money.

why not use the law to GET THE MONEY BACK.

you've been robbed. and it was an inside job.

bird in snow. friend of dad's took us to chinese place last night. today emptied pond to repair leak. still planning to head for phx thursday but difficult to plan ahead, more like improvising any plan as i go.

sunday. things shaping up. i'll ride w/ sister jane to phx thusday, hope to see some museums there, and hope to fly to Albuquerque sunday am & visit sr slown in santa fe and see more museums. back at end of week and on to nc.

dad is fine, still hurting a bit, and looks like the deal is to do the low salt no alcohol exercise regimen, wear support socks and increase endurance. he has really been patient and tolerant of my manifold eccentricities and probably gotten a little used to me being around. i'm easy.

today and tomorrow we are going to sipon water out of small pond, repair crack wednesday. jane will be up tuesday or wednesday, we'll be at heart doc's followup thursday morning.

after i get back to aville will have some biz to take care of for a month or so and after that one way or the other will, as they say, move on to the next now whatever it may be.

dad doing amazingly well for an 80 year old and he is 90. bum leg looks like tendinitus exacerbated by edema.

i think i'll be leaving maybe next week. spent half a day trying to get 10 infusion sets for insulin pump which will give me some time. hope they arrive tomorrow.

stay tooned.

picture above i took last week. used pc to make it what a thankless task but here i am w/ no mac or internet access. a challange.

still in prescott. dad is not boucing back like we would like. half hour doing almost anything puts him out. new problem is his left foot which hurts him quite a bit with use. we are going to try and see doctor tomorrow about this. otherwise he has doctor appts thru most days next week. i will begin to run out of supplies for pump soon so some action is required. i hope to go to phx, fly toalbequerque and spend a week or so w/ jeff in santa fe, back to phx, and on to raleigh, drive to aville. his current last doc appt is a week from this coming thirsday sofoloowing friday would hypothetically be the first time i could head for phx. currently he needs someone around, he should not be by himself.

today is Meher Baba's birthday.

tomorrow i may meet a tibetan monk who has been doing something or another at sangha about 20 miles away.

went w/ katie and dave yesterday fo dove release. tried to get them with picture or video, they are really fast.

and last but not least from an email from old friend:

" when Fascism comes to the United States, the
> public relations for it will be handled by Disney. Instead of a swastika,
> the symbol will be a smiley face. Instead of the sign over
> Auschwitz reading 'Arbeit macht frei', the sign would have read 'If you
> lived here, you'd be home now.' Instead of politically suspect persons
> wearing yellow stars, they would have been compelled to wear badges saying
> 'Have a nice day.'

wow. this is the longest time i have been able to access net since ive been at dad's. even got a picture up.

he continues to improve. saw cardio doc this week. he wants to pull pacemaker's atrial control because it isn't doing anything because synch between atrial and ventral has been lost because...

and a pain in left leg below the knee, not edema but new since hospital. maybe gout?

still unsure of any logistics on my part, will slowly aim east i guess, and visit NM on my way there.

now about "the economy": is it animal, vegetable, or mineral? "

monday. fred & jane drove up yesterday, back t6o phoenix today. starting to think aboutr heading back to aville. appt w/ cardio for dad thursday. still don't think he is up to living by himself but may be soon. checking into returning via santa fe. thinking of putting somr money into camper and camping out this summer.

nothing new. dad doing great. fred & jane coming up tomorrow for 2 days. probably things will be decided. should start aiming for trip home at that point, maybe i hope via santa fe, maybe denver.

just to illustrate that i'm still power doodling. this was done with gimp, a port from linux, running on windows so it was done w/out any knowledge, technique, maybe just a tad of curiosity.

dad continues to recover, his first trip out tonight to a mighty fine breakfast at denny's.

tuesday. yesterday 13" snow out of the blue. dad steadily better, tomorrow should be end of "house arrest". we have to get plan going for future, i think what we have both been doing is taking it very slow. instinct and metabolism.

i'm typing this courtesy of katy next door. tomorrow after nurse's visit and an visit from some care taking outfit i'll go get some stuff printed up at library about CHF.

been painting some.

that's it signing off.

found hip nice place w/ wi-fi. the raven prescott az.snowing outside have to leave before freeze. dad better. much better. nurse will probably release him from bound to home this wed. working on part time domestic help and a panic button for him. missed calls on cell fone.

Howdy. Offline a long time and kind of out of any loops out there. This is the first time I have had time to post the story of the last few weeks so here goes:

erdaughter Nicole’s in Chatham county. Had a day or two there and was happy that Nicole, Eli and Melissa all seemed fine and grandchildren even finer.

Arrived phoenix 15th Jan. son Eric had arrived earlier with Angala and Grace. Dad came down from Prescott Friday and Saturday we celebrated his 90th birthday. Nobody overdid anything and Sunday we all dispersed, dad and I to Prescott.

Don’t remember all details but dad started a loud on and off wheeze and not feeling so hot. Tuesday evening he was worse and I took him to ER. Diagnosed as congestive heart failure triggered by some respertory infection. (everyone from phoenix get-together came down w/ something similar w/ a few exceptions, one of which was I.)

He is home now after 3 - 4 days in hospital, seems to get better each day. Lots of doctors, nurses, physical therapists. Home bound until next Wednesday by which time I imagine he will be ready to get outside. Presently a short walk in park nearby does it. Sister Jane came up this week and was a great help. I have changed my return flight to open so not sure of return date.

I think I’m online now without trip to town so will keep updating her every day.

story so far. i am in prescott az visiting my father. he tuned 90 last week. he also spent 3-4 days in hospital for congestive heart failure. he is recovering well but of course it is slower than he would like.

so i have cancelled my return flight to raleigh while he heals and regains invigoration.

he has a nice house and would just as soon not leave it.

i may get to santa fe after all dust has settled. i'd really like to train from flagstaff to lamy but it leaves 5 in am, logistics not tpretty.

email or net hookup very sporadic. may have an answer to this we will see.

reading new earth by /answer coming/ which i am really enjoying.

it may shed light on a question that has been bothering me: if i...

"Last week, long-time manufacturer Seagate acknowledged a bug that is causing its hard drives to fail."

so what?

times are hard. time is easy.

dad slowly recovering.

i urge everyone to take mellancamps latest cd, go home, and listen to the man. serious as a heart attack.

if i can figure out how w/out photoshop i'll post some images. imagine that.

lot happening since last post. took dad to hospital ER tuesday after return from phoenix and very pleasant birthday family gathering for 90th. congestive heart failure probablac from hospital friday, doing meds, doc appts, nusing at home rehab etc. tomorrow doc appt hope to learn more. things definitly looking up.y developing over time and set off very suddenly by upper respitory infection. b

did this watercolor last week. part of my latest fancy, learning it again.

i'm outa here today. bye for awhile.

Slavoj Žižek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Slavoj Žižek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "So the truth of our experience lies outside ourselves, in the Symbolic and the Real, rather than being buried deep within us. We cannot look into our selves and find out who we truly are, because who we truly are is always elsewhere."

it took me 10 minutes to find this foto file which i don't recall. i've been looking for painting & foto images to fill out gallery and i'm not finished yet. i am astounded by what i find, some really nice work IMHO and some of it you will find on posts but it won't be all annotated and displayed in one place until i can find my attention which i apparently am in deficient of.

meanwhile a similar phenomena happening with my preparations to leave town. can't find stuff, some of which is critical ie meds.

so my intention is to leave in the morning after an interesting day.

trying to work this into bumper sticker, license plate, security badge and so forth.

but not very hard.

uploading 2 videos to youtube while i type.

had an eerie walk along sunset last afternoon, the light, shadow, glow intricately curved swirled. i just seood and stared.

Political Irony › Robin Williams on Obama’s Election
maybe i'm not out of words. maybe i just can't deal much anymore with the words i was trained and conditioned to use. think wyatt earp, davy crockett, martin luther king.

then there are other tongues, stances, postures "world-views": the source is aware of this world but but the opposite is not likely to be true.

i digrss or is it dribble" what i meant to say is
my sister sent me this Link. and these words do express real of now. or is it the rail of now? "words" that communicate.

words temporarily unavailable until chris can think straight.

A Spurt of Quake Activity Raises Fears in Yellowstone - TIME
"Last week, geologists at the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) announced they had recorded a 'notable swarm of earthquakes under way since Dec. 26 beneath Yellowstone Lake.'"

An End, and a Beginning, for the Media - TIME
"there was good news for the media in 2008 too, and it had a lot in common with the bad news. For while the media business (the exchange of information for money) was lousy, the media (the conduits of information) were multiplying."

all the snooze that fits.

i am in one week push to leave for a long trip. this means i have to get a lot done today and the next week. so i am boucing between super focus and overwhelmed. the usual.

a peculiar sort of day. i just fribbled it away, wondering around. missed an absolutely gorgeous day. but what the hell i opened door and windows, cool fresh air and a lot of light. while i puttered about in a small land.

congratulations to ninian the new grandfather. daughter megan, new baby girl and family doing well.

you know after ghingus khan pillages east and west there was about 150 years of relative stability, to the point that trave between the east and west become viable.

after the vikings went nuts for a century or two, pilliging irelands west coast, they became merchants and traders from north america to byzantium.

after the neo-conservitive pillaging of the world's "money", and believe me they have it whatever it is we had, i wonder if it will result in any action that might aid human survival?

probably much more like the spanish looting of the americas.

foto near beaverdam lake.

i am still pilled towards a "statement" about the new now. and still lack the words to do it. as a member of Babblers Anonymous i keep trying to remember that i have perhaps used up all my words.

but others have not. some worth checking out:

the image by boorstein. written i believe in the late 40's, it is about public relations and replete with phrases like "pseudo-event" and "photo-op". amazingly prescient.

the myth of the machine volumes I and II by lewis mumford. a long and wide look at humans over the long run, and the evolving collective cultures man has lived. and how the power complex has revived big time since the enlightenment.

the stars my destination by bester. pulp sci-fi of a high order. a retelling of the man in the iron mask, set in the near future. a society whose ruling entities are the old aristocracy, ie "house of exxon", "house of sony". written in 40s?

stand on zanzibar and the sheep look up by john brunner. both written in the 60's, maybe 70's. full of today's aberrations, eg "muckers", folks who flip out and carry a weapon to some target and deal out random death. remember columbine?

sex, ecology and spirit by ken wilber. just read it.

beaverdam lake two days ago.

i want to end this blog with some kind of statement concerning the situation on this planet. but it is beyond me. and this is the only planet i experience.

so:

new happy year
don't believe everything you think
and if you do don't believe that.
be who you are
the Kosmos will thank you
even if you believe it.

this is a piece of a watercolor i did some time ago. it's large, and i have a few more that are a quarter of large watercolor paper i will be scanning.

have no idea of news lately, but armeggedon outa here. it's a setup. we've been pillaged, robbed, threatened and intimidated. i worked hard to get obama elected. but now it's time to stand up, speak up. we've been robbed and it was an inside job. the political must be transfomed or else.

Microsoft files pay-per-use PC patent | Tech News on ZDNet
"Microsoft's patent application does acknowledge that a per-use model of computing would probably increase the cost of ownership over the PC's lifetime."

"medical aesthetic marketplace"
what's it mean?

very pleasant xmas day, slow and uneventful. spent afternoon at tom and erin's where i snagged the above foto. early to bed.

if someone, somewhere, greeted me in the appropriate season with "happy haj" would i be insulted or offended?

no.

if they greeted me with "happy" anything it would be ok with me.

"it's dark out here, i can't find tomorrow"
john mellancamp

"i got a pain in my side but i keep travelin on"
john mellancamp

"it's not dark yet but it's getting there"
dylan

"there's no room to be anywhere"
dylan

memes and topoi. another new now.

there was a science fiction short story written in the 30's by two writers whose names i forget. a projection into the future, it featured a world in which a tiny minority enjoyed the privilege of time because they were not compelled to buy anything. the rest of the populace had to rush madly about in order to consume.

why do i bring it up now? to point out that the meltdown that blew in with no warning a month or so ago was always in the story, entirely visible and almost palpable for 2 or 3 generations.

who felt like they lived in a house of cards back then? or now? do you?

back in aville, the vortexes are quiet. too quiet. i intend to stop the contentless prose of the daily posts the last day of the year.
foto from back yard of eap.

if i had anything to say it is that the so called bad guys, republicans, are not the bad guys. the thugs, vandals and heistmeisters have made no mistakes the last 20 years or so. the last eight at least. they have robbed you, intimidated you, and gotten away with it. revenge is not productive, so where does that leave you?

whatcha gonna do?

Free Will Astrology : Aquarius Horoscope:
"Aquarius (January 20-February 19)
Would you like to consistently be in the right place at the right time in the coming weeks? Personally, I'd love you to have that knack. It would make my job more enjoyable, since I could fall asleep each night with the comforting thought that you are meeting your dates with destiny while you're at the height of your powers. So what IS the best way to ensure that you will have impeccable intuition and a great sense of timing? Here's what I say: Set aside all expectations about what the past implies and what the future may bring. Instead, cultivate a desire to recognize and respond to the raw truth of each new moment."

nice overnight camp w/ good folks, charley and moriah's, including her dad and susie, lot's of rain.

image above from the waterfall.

good morning. headed for the hills. i'll be at charlie and moriah's where cousin bob and susie are visiting. back friday. if the creek don't rise.

photo removed. richard said it looked like a power plant. it did. first time-exposure i tried w/ digital. first time i have removed a picture. it was richard and debbie's house last nite.

posting to let all know i'm still kicking. and shed some light on house of cards (tip of sombraro to sr. jeff)

> Subject: FW: Why we're in financial trouble
>
> Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a
> farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey
> the next day.
> The next day he drove up and said, 'Sorry son, but I
> have some bad news, the donkey died.
> Chuck replied, 'Well, then just give me my money
> back.'
> The farmer said, 'Can't do that. I went and spent
> it already.'
> Chuck said, 'Ok, then, just bring me the dead
> donkey.'
> The farmer asked, 'What ya gonna do with him?'
> Chuck said, 'I'm going to raffle him off.'
> The farmer said, 'You can't raffle off a
> dead donkey!'
> Chuck said, 'Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't
> tell anybody he's dead.'
> A month later, the farmer me t up w ith Chuck
> and asked, 'What happened with that dead donkey?'
> Chuck said, 'I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at
> two dollars a piece and made a profit of $998.'
> The farmer said, 'Didn't anyone complain?'
> Chuck said, 'Just the guy who won. So I gave him his
> two dollars back.'
> Chuck now works for Goldman Sachs.
>
>

winter... like everything, it's not what it used to be.

when i lived with my wife and children on big ridge in s. jackson county i noticed a yearly shift the 3d or 4th week of december. already very cold, it was like something flipped a switch and then it got cold. very cold. the topography, the earth itself became ice-cold. a real change.

wonder if it still happens?

tip of the hat to jeff in nm for the following:

> Subject: FW: Why we're in financial trouble
>
> Young Chuck moved to Texas and bought a donkey from a
> farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey
> the next day.
> The next day he drove up and said, 'Sorry son, but I
> have some bad news, the donkey died.
> Chuck replied, 'Well, then just give me my money
> back.'
> The farmer said, 'Can't do that. I went and spent
> it already.'
> Chuck said, 'Ok, then, just bring me the dead
> donkey.'
> The farmer asked, 'What ya gonna do with him?'
> Chuck said, 'I'm going to raffle him off.'
> The farmer said, 'You can't raffle off a
> dead donkey!'
> Chuck said, 'Sure I can. Watch me. I just won't
> tell anybody he's dead.'
> A month later, the farmer me t up w ith Chuck
> and asked, 'What happened with that dead donkey?'
> Chuck said, 'I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at
> two dollars a piece and made a profit of $998.'
> The farmer said, 'Didn't anyone complain?'
> Chuck said, 'Just the guy who won. So I gave him his
> two dollars back.'
> Chuck now works for Goldman Sachs.
>