Daily Archives: January 11, 2015

Humanities, Third Phase

An Intellectual Magpie

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Winter                                                    Settling Moon

As my books see daylight, they reveal my interests. So many interests over so long a time. Writing, art, Latin and the classics are at the core for me and still are, but history, religion, depth psychology, poetry, Asia, China and Japan in particular, the natural world, the West, environmental issues, Modernism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and politics, are there, too.

Libraries are a Rorschach for at least the intellectual journey of their owners. And in this case it is a psychometric self-administered and evaluated as each book heads toward the shelf.

Maybe I’m an intellectual magpie collecting interesting bits of knowledge and threads of thought, then putting them in my nest all higgelty-piggelty. There is certainly that element to me.

Anyhow the nest on Shadow Mountain is still under construction.

Colorado, Family, Weather +Climate

Location Relevant Weather

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Winter                                                               Settling Moon

As Bill Schmidt said, the weather was still set to Andover, Minnesota. I changed it. The weather now reflects a personal weather station (not mine, not yet) located in my small neighborhood here on Shadow Mountain.

Jon came up and put the bed together. We’re not sleeping college anymore. Felt awful high off the floor though. Jon and I got the downstairs TV on its stand and into the cabinet area built for a T.V. The doors close over it now and it’s off the furniture pad. Jon had to get back and watch the Broncos play the Colts. I’m agnostic as to football teams for the moment.

Tuesday night is the science fair and Ruth has an exhibit that features the glucose levels of various fruits. We’ll be there. She recently tested into highly gifted (not a surprise) and Jon and Jen are considering sending her to a gifted and talented school. Good idea, from my vantage point.

More time unpacking books. Jon and I swung the treadmill around where I want it. Next is getting the tv up here and installed.

Snowing now. More snow due Tuesday.

Colorado

Three Weeks

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Winter                                                     Settling Moon

We’ve been here three weeks. Our bodies have acclimatized, though there is still more for them to do. It amazes me that this is a natural process, one borne of feedback loops. Hey, not enough oxygen? No. O.K. More hemoglobin. Also, let’s make sure we get plenty of rest. More fatigue. Good.

Settling in is like letting a compressed spring gradually loosen. All the household items packed away gradually come out. All those matters tied to a particular state get replaced: new license plates, new title, new address, new phone number. A process of subtraction, the move itself, becomes additive: a new doctor, a new grocery store, a new mechanic. At some point the additive process becomes simply life, albeit in a different physical location.