Daily Archives: June 17, 2013

Family, Woolly Mammoths

Mark of Arabia

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Beltane                                                                         Solstice Moon

The desert rambler has returned to visit.  Mark showed up at the backdoor this afternoon.
He went with me to the Woolly meeting at Bill Schmidt’s apartment.  Bill had a delicious meal and a very thoughtful video called Griefwalker. Stephen Jenkinson is a man who has chosen to live into death rather than away from it and has discovered great riches in the process.  Check out his website if that sort of living interests you.

(Mark two years ago)

Bill, Stefan, Mark, Warren, Frank, Scott, Mark Ellis and I were there.  Mark O. had a 60 mph car accident this last Friday, thankfully door to door rather than head to head, but scary with considerable to his car.  He reports some fears about driving now, understandable.  Warren’s making some moves on their various houses, of which they seem to have at least 2 too many and maybe 3.  Frank’s picking out burial plots.  Scott’s helping a friend deal with a schizophrenic relative who has ended up in a locked unit for her safety.  Stefan has begun to recognize that the racing, cramming pace of his life has begun to overtake him.  I talked about the shoulder pain and the p.t.

The Woolly meeting is here next time and, barring rain, we plan to make good use of the fire pit.

 

 

General

Quotes continued

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“Great doubts
deep wisdom…
Small doubts
little wisdom.”
— Chinese Proverb
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid
that while you weren’t reading,
the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river;
while you went on living, it went on living too,
and like a river moved on and moved away.
No one has stepped twice into the same river.
But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
— Marina Tsvetaeva
“There is one story and one story only
That will prove worth your telling,
Whether are learned bard or gifted child;
To it all lines or lesser gauds belong
That startle with their shining
Such common stories as they stray into.”
— Robert Graves
“To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central humane system of thought. The present age is peculiarly barbaric: introduce, say, a Hebrew scholar to an ichthyologist or an authority on Danish place names and the pair of them would have no single topic in common but the weather or the war (if there happened to be a war in progress, which is usual in this barbaric age).”
— Robert Graves
“WHEN a dream is born in you
With a sudden clamorous pain,
When you know the dream is true
And lovely, with no flaw nor strain,
O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch
You’ll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.”
— Robert Graves
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
— Jean Paul Sartre
“Hell is other people.”
— Jean Paul Sartre
“Human life begins on the far side of despair.”
— Jean Paul Sartre
“Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!”
— Samuel Beckett
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
— Albert Einstein
“As punishment for my contempt for authority, Fate has made me an authority myself.”
— Albert Einstein
“As far as the laws of mathematics
Refer to reality,
They are not certain;
As far as they are certain,
They do not refer to reality.”
— Albert Einstein
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.”
— Albert Einstein
“A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.”
— Albert Einstein
“All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.”
— Arthur C. Clarke
“All things are in the universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us: and in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.”
— Giordano Bruno
General

Readiness Drills

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Beltane                                                                               Solstice Moon

Getting ready for grandkids, for Mark.  Cleaning up detritus from other cleaning efforts left partly accomplished.  Doing garden work.  Lois, housecleaner, comes on Wednesday, the kids on Thursday.  I find this kind of work quickly saps my energy though I’m not sure why.  I spent about two hours at it today and feel worn out.

(Ruth)

I have opened up file drawer space in the study which will allow me to organize my writing folders more easily.  In order to do this I put Europe, America and Africa into file boxes, still accessible, but not immediately.  I left the Asian art files in the top file drawer, where they have been since I put the file cabinet in because I intend to continue my immersion in Asian art.

The mess that gathered as I tried to eliminate and reorganize material in January is now gone.  There are still items to move and refile, but they are in their own places for the moment.

Woollies tonight.  Workout this afternoon.  Probably more cleaning tomorrow before dentist and p.t.

(Jon, Gabe and me)

I’ve learned that devoting a couple of days to this kind of stuff every once in a while seems preferable to doing it all the time.  At least for me.