Decided I wouldn’t read much news today, so I spent my first cup of coffee reading the Sunday comics. Every single one. Got to “Pickles”, the one about the older couple, retired, spending too much time together. But in this one the woman was out having lunch with a friend. She says, “I always carry [...]
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Oh I’m like the old lady in the comic strip!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family on August 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
is your library your memory theater?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life, reading on August 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Oh, the joy of discovery just when you’re turning circles on the straight road of reason. I’ve been pondering In Defense of the Memory Theater, by Nathan Schneider. His essay explores what we lose as our physical book collections, gathered by mind, heart and soul, are replaced with millions of restless individual books digitized mainly [...]
getting robbed of stuff and stories
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged My Life, writing on August 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I admire people who can write about tragedy in their lives, especially when it’s fresh. Famous people like Joan Didion writing about her husband’s death, even while losing her daughter. Christopher Hitchens while most likely dying of cancer. Regular people who manage to privately journal through their grief and anger. I’ve never been able to. [...]
new nukes for a rainy day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, community, news on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
President Obama’s DOE released a nuclear weapons stewardship plan as part of its 2010-2011 budget that manages to spend more money on fewer warheads. Or will there be fewer? Because along with reducing the nuclear arsenal 40-50 percent (but with budget numbers $2 billion higher than for the full arsenal) it includes an additional $8 [...]
age is a lot like yesterday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family, thoughts on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was my grandson’s 5th birthday party. I asked him if he was excited to be five. He gave a little shrug and said, “Um, ya see, it’s a lot like being four.”
it’s about the friends you walk with
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, community, My Life, nonviolence, Nonviolent Peaceforce on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is a video I took at the 2006 International Assembly of Nonviolent Peaceforce in Nairobi Kenya. Nobel Peace Laureate & NP supporter Mairead Maguire led us in a tree planting ceremony at the end of the gathering. (Sorry for the big flickr label, just click play.) Mairead is a warm, generous and wise woman. [...]
dissolving into completeness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, My Life on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I found another quote, this time written in a black and white faux marbled mini-notebook that I bought at Walgreen’s a few years ago, three for a dollar. I almost remember watching a c-span show about Willa Cather and scrambling to find something to write the quote in. Found a page in the middle of [...]
flip flopping
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged My Life, poems on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ready for work, opened door to leave. Cat ran in. Debated: Make cat run out? Grabbed purse and bag of tomatoes from garden. Too many. Debated: Beg whom? Gave up on cat. Drove. Made good time. Parked. Walked toward office Walking felt soft. Looked down. At flip flops kept by back door for quick trips into the [...]
the half-life of language
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged books, current events on June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just finished reading About a Mountain by John D’Agata, a creative literary nonfiction book about Yucca Mountain, with Las Vegas, mothers, language and suicide striations flowing through it. Yucca Mountain, 90 miles from Las Vegas, is the site originally chosen to be the U.S. repository for spent nuclear reactor fuel. All the billions of dollars [...]
my favorite sister in the microwave
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cooking, gardening, My Life on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last night I ate the first ears of corn from my garden. Remember, I’ve never grown any vegetables so having ears of corn appear, plump up, and six weeks later signal they’re ripe and ready is pretty exciting. I picked five ears and rushed home from the community garden to cook them immediately. One method [...]
