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thinking and articulation
i'm working through a lot of difficult bits, in five or six directions at once. i'm trying, in my same piecemeal, day-by-day way, to make sense of the world, of people and trust and honesty, of family and memory, of health and body, of future and action and learning and place-in-the-world. sometime soon i'll get around to writing these things out ( Read more... ) -
Two or three things I know for sure,
...and one of them is just this ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
The rest of the spoken-word piece (from welcome to oblivion) didn't grab me nearly so much, but this quote struck me clear and deep ( Read more... ) -
openness and telling the truth
i keep coming back around to this little piece of writing, a quote from bell hooks, and so here i am again ( Read more... ) -
a poem for travelling
from tamnonlinear, a sad sweet poem that makes me want to drop everything, pack Matilda up with the two or three bags that i need, pick up a tent and a sleeping bag, and go ( Read more... ) -
plans for the weekend?
i don't have much in the way of concrete plans for this weekend, and i know i'm likely to be a bit stressed and unhappy about not being at Burning Man. i'd prefer to keep busy with good bits of being-social and taking care of myself. so ( Read more... ) -
Lunacy
i spent the latter half of the day thinking that today was Friday, rather than Thursday, and now it's nearly two in the morning and time to sleep soon, especially if i'm back to needing so much more sleep than normal. more science tomorrow, and maybe my data and my chip will behave properly ( Read more... ) -
[booklog 2006]
56. Sir Apropos of Nothing, Peter David. it'd be silly fantasy fluff, except for a bit of meta-storytelling on the genre and an interesting exploration of exactly how far you can go with the idea of an anti-hero. it's still mostly fluff, but that's ok.
57. Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, Olivia Judson. a dense but entertaining reel ( Read more... ) -
quilt!
i picked up a ridiculous quantity of swatches of tie silk at the Depot last week. i bought two packs of one particular pattern -- a small-curlicue brocade with little dots -- with the idea of making a quilt. as it turns out, each of the ~150 swatches is a slightly different color, woven from a combination of 4 (or more) colors of thread. the shades ( Read more... ) -
an idle question...
i picked up an old folder of writing and found a bit from somewhere in the summer of 1999, written apparently during the security stand-down at Los Alamos. there's a brief reference to "the mythological history of espionage and why the rose is symbol for it," but no further details ( Read more... )