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blast from the past!
... from the kinda recent past. Wrote this on Saturday, when it happened, and then thought I posted it but CLEARLY I DID NOT as evidenced by this post. When I say today I really mean Saturday.
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long time no see
some not so good things about recent days ( Read more... ) -
my Finnish midsummer
So. The Finns? They are sober, introverted, respectable, and respectful people. Except when they drink. And when they drink, they drink to drunkeness (to quote from a travel guide to Finland). And then they become wild and hilarious ( Read more... ) -
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Hey those of you who know about these things, do you have any suggestions of methods to speed up recovery from pulled/strained/torn muscles? Last night I crashed while biking (in Finland! will stories about it later) and I did something to my shoulder/upper arm that makes it pretty painful to use the arm to carry any weight or to lift it ( Read more... ) -
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This weekend some friends and I went camping on a Dutch island on the North Sea (Terschelling) to attend a theater/performance art/installation art/music festival called Oerol (sounds a bit like "Earl"). The island made me want to have been born there--the black and white sheep, the hungry goats, the tall black horses, the mossy cedar forest, the ( Read more... ) -
said the walrus to the carpenter
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright--
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.
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also, May's music mix
1. Sunshine and Starlight - Bjork Ostrom
2. hammer and a nail - indigo girls
3. Keep on Tryin' - Poco
4. Tequila and Me - Greg Brown
5. One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
6. Rhineland (Heartland) - Beirut
7. Catalpa Waltz - Jolie Holland
8. Time to Move On - Tom Petty
9. Moonshiner - Redbird
10. Nantes - Beirut
11. Both Sides, Now - Joni ( Read more... ) -
KA-BOOOM!
Since yesterday at dawn (when I was awakened by the loudest and longest thunder clap I have ever heard), there have been (at least) four distinct thunder-lightening-and-pouring-rain storms, with periods of charged grey-fog-and-too-white-light in between. Like this (not taken by me):
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"Our universe may be the offspring of some other universe."
The science of thinking about the universe (Does Time Run Backwards In Other Universes?) really trips me out. Reading articles like that and thinking about the fact that we are even capable of and interested in thinking and reading about such things is a profoundly strange experience for me ( Read more... )
