E has a book which he insists we read each night called The Great Goat Chase.

This involves a farmer and various of his animals trying to get some goats out of a field. After all else have failed, a bee arrives and shoos the goats out of the field with a threat of stinging them. The moral of the story apparently is that Small folk can sometimes do ( Read more... )

Re break: That seemed to work quite well, really. FB made the biggest difference but, annoyingly, there are still a couple of people there who aren't anywhere else despite me really disliking its cacophony now. I think I'll try to restrict here and there to weekends or something like that ( Read more... )

As I'm having a little break from tomorrow, some random things ( Read more... )

[I'm sorry that a great many of my posts here in recent days have been quasi-religious. I know that a lot of you don't care about that, and that it doesn't really reflect on what I spend time thinking about most of the time. These things just go in runs for some reason].I was thinking about the word faith and the odd sense in which it's used by ( Read more... )

So I swore off Facebook for lent (for space to think, not to forgo a luxury) and I seem to have ended up posting a lot here. I'm trying just to post more thoughtful and personal things only (forgot a couple of times), but it's getting a bit too daft, so after Mother's Day (being half-way-ish), I'm going to try to forswear LJ as well. I'm learning a ( Read more... )

I see a few things marked with TW, which I assume means trigger warning. The problem, though, is that they then go on to immediately mention stuff and trigger it. Because it's usually prominent, for obvious reasons, even if I'm just scanning, I end up seeing it ( Read more... )

The way people talk about the recent IS attacks, (I don't mean the media, but people you talk to) have led me to an odd conclusion, that people very much fear evil, even those who you would think of as being thoroughly secular. I suppose the idea came in contrast to the many recent deaths we've been near due to accident, illness, or injury. (For ( Read more... )

That post has reminded me of a story about Rostropovich ( Read more... )

E: Man! A man.
Me: A man. His name is Rostropovich. Can you say "Rostropovich"?
E: Rostropovich.
Me: Oh, ok, you can.

Deanna Troi is now director of Mossad. Just thought you'd like to know.