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I have new earrings: dangly vintage glass beads in soft blue and white. My friend Michelle made them. She makes gorgeous stuff, a lot of it is up on her website ( Read more... )

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Please join me in a boycott of horoscope columns and astrology books that insinuate all Scorpios are cruel, perverted, power-mad jealousy freaks. Let's refuse to read those propagandists until they cease and desist from brainwashing the masses into directing bigotry toward your tribe. It's true that there are some less- ( Read more... )

It is so great to flop out of bed and walk down a flight of stairs, and a few steps away is the farmer's market. Today I bought a turnover and a hunk of artichoke-and-olive goodness and an heirloom tomato the size of your head. Among other things. Eggs that came from real chickens. I looked covetously at the jars of real honey but could not ( Read more... )

Two discoveries of yesterday: I don't need to buy new clothes, just delve a little deeper into my dirty clothes pile. I discovered items of clothing that I hadn't seen since the move. (Just for clarification purposes, these clothes aren't necessarily dirty, they were just musty from being in black garbage bags since my move. So no "Ewwww" ( Read more... )

I think everything will be better after I take a nap.

Some semi-serious thoughts have been going through this fluffy head of mine. First, I'm serious about not spending another winter in Ellensburg. The more I think about it, the more I want to move by, say, October. But I need to get on the job search with a quickness. I dread looking for jobs. I dread working at repetitive tasks that make my ( Read more... )

I should just sit down, write the detailed update, even if it takes forever and a day. But the short version is ( Read more... )

Maybe the reason humanity deserves to survive is linked to the beautifully absurd fact that one of our greatest symphonies was written by a deaf person.

Or maybe his external silence enabled a profound inner music.

I'm still working it out. Maybe I'll have more to say in a month or so.

On my quest for Bubblegum Ice Cream, yesterday, I stopped by the store of dread (both stores of dread, come to think of it). My friend E_ with the pretty blue eyes was there, all happy to see me and my scarf. He hugged me over the customer service counter. At the other store of dread, I saw briefly the boy I gave my number to, out of the corner ( Read more... )