Just when you thought you knew how.
Asides
“Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”
| — | Jeannette Walls – Half Broke Horses |
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
Its loveliness increases ; it will never
Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep.”
| — | John Keats |
“The leaders of the people who have broken every treaty with my people have their faces carved into our most holy place. What is the equivalent? Do you have an equivalent?”
Alex White Plume, Oglala Lakota activist, on Mount Rushmore
Samhain Moon of the Winter Solstice
Working on Missing. Out to get more drugs. Gas. Milk. Back.
Samhain Fallowturn Moon
Listened to a brief lecture on the Delian Hymn to Apollo, then checked my work for my time with Greg this morning. I’m trying to learn transformational grammar to use as an aid to translating. I don’t have it down. Yet.
Fall Fallowturn Moon
Gertie limped down the hall this morning, e-collar in place and greeted me when I got up. She’s feeling lots better.
Fall Harvest Moon
The hermitic existence of the last few weeks ends tomorrow with my first tour in almost a month. I’m still not sure what to do about the MIA, both wanting to be with the art and to be at home with my writing. It’ll become clear to me at some point.
Fall Harvest Moon
OK. So, I did my aerobics tonight. Back at it and it feels good. Still can’t lift, but I can do the treadmill, working toward the high intensity workouts I’ve been doing. On Sunday I’ll put in the Empress Wu hosta, several kinds of reblooming Iris and an early spring through summer batch of tulips. I’ll also add the small bar to my aggressive colony and turn it to the smallest hole, allowing the bees out during winter, but not allowing mice to get in.
Fall Harvest Moon
Decided to take the rest of this week for convalescence. Gonna lie low, read, not push myself. There’s no award for best recovery ever anyhow. I generally stay to a fairly firm work schedule, work hard am, nap, work hard late afternoon, evening relax. Just setting that aside for a bit.