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Biking home from school today, passed by new fire station at 55th and 40th that is pretty much done, as far as I can tell, and has had beauty bark spread across its landscaping; I can't think of anything that more perfectly captures what I think of as the essence of rotten, the chemical bite and the fecal miasma, dry but penetrating and so pungent ( Read more... ) -
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Coming back from Fred Meyer today, I saw the most beautiful pre-sunset show in recent memory: a lower band of brilliant white cloud backlit by the sun, with bright blue sky above, surrounded by slate-blue backing clouds, and superimposed over all of it were low-flying, fast-moving wisps of grayish-white foglike cloud. It was the most perfect visual ( Read more... ) -
Cry Havoc, Gossip Girl!
""What do you say we find that bitch and get a little frontier justice?" Blair asks. Sparks zap between their hands before they even shake on it, szzssing at the edge of hearing like a Tesla miracle, and everybody's hair stands straight on end. Birds fall out of the sky, delirious and panicked; storm clouds disperse into strange unreadable ( Read more... ) -
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The weather has definitely turned to Winter; here, particularly, the dark of the year is very much attuned to Water, the rains and snows filling the world in preparation for Spring. We can see too the greening of the grass, which takes so much less damage in the cold here than it does elsewhere; I've seen in other places how the grass gets brown ( Read more... ) -
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I still struggle with the various relational modes a practitioner might need to employ beyond Earth. The "Mothering" mode just feels so natural to me in a healthcare setting; people usually want to be fixed, after all, and the Earth Mother is best equipped to do that. I can access Fire for compassion and Metal, to an extent, if only to provide ( Read more... ) -
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The weather continues to be truly autumnal, though the air is cold enough to herald the first bite of winter; the differentiation of the two seasons is always a bit difficult here, though this year is forecast to be a bit easier. The forecast is for a very cold and wet winter, which, at this point, I'm looking forward to quite a bit. It never truly ( Read more... ) -
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It's interesting watching people who are superficially very typical of one CF, and trying to look beneath the surface to see if there's a deeper motivation at work that might not be so readily apparent. With SD last night, I was struck as I always am by how readily he moves in Fire, always driving the social energy of a gathering and making a ( Read more... ) -
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The air has cooled rather a lot, which is most pleasant, but the Late Summer humidity is still with us... which makes me think of humus, which is just another word for terra. Let it never be said that the Chinese were the only ancient culture to see a connection between the Elements, however unconscious or informal it might have been.
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And here it is three days later, and despite some almost-sleeping a couple of times during class (you do 17 hours of A&P in one weekend and we'll see how alert YOU feel), things went pretty well. Most of it was stuff I already knew in a general sense, so now I have a chance to get a really good handle on the specifics. One minor epiphany came as we ( Read more... ) -
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Yoga again this morning. Wendy (the teacher) said something at the beginning of the class about how it's autumn already, and I might have agreed, but by this afternoon it was definitely feeling like late summer again, all warm and humid, and to top it off there's a great big yellow harvest moon in the sky tonight. Still, I can feel the season ( Read more... )