I really like my old LJ nym "aeonvolupz" - not sure why I started the new blog https://sshawhan.livejournal.com/ ... except I was writing more for people who know me ftf. So many of my closest friends are cyberrelationships - some from so long ago.

I need to find a way to merge all of this ... ( Read more... )

I just found a blog that inspired me. My discovery was via another 'rabbit hole' adventure, this time set off by a Netflix film (http://muranishi-blog.com/)

The film itself was entertaining, but there was something about the dialog of the main characters that made me want to know how many ( Read more... )

A msg today popped up on my FB msngr - to a group I rarely interact with anymore. They were once very central to my life - my surf life (98-2004?)
USENET's alt.surfing moved to various servers over the years, finally ending up on FB. Today one shared a moving piece about the suicide of one of us 20 years ago. Read more... )

I was on my way to an event - something like ABCs (?) ... some acronym for a business group of mostly brown people. It seemed like we were in a foreign country or new city? I had been looking at a map of islands and talking to someone about how no one knows the counties of their own places ... and then finding my favorite cove on the map (flashes ( Read more... )

In the late '70s futurist Jim Dator taught us how to scan for emerging issues/ideas/trends. It became intuitive for me; I function as a bot, scanning the liminal. I am addicted to researching, trying to understand these things peripheral that pierce our domain. In the 70's it was environment, global warming and Native Hawaiian Renaissance. In the ( Read more... )

I just wanted to post another update on dreams (about another baby) and my latest "DONE" list (a long one today - I awoke with massive 'clean-up' energy). I thought it would be good to get a paid account here. Now I'm rethinking that. I need a home for my blogging, but am not inspired to find a new one. "Putin's Livejournal" will have to do? ...   ( Read more... )

"That was when I was going to be a surgeon - a neurosurgeon, because I liked the sound of that word." She said that to explain why she is thinking of getting EMF training - "it could be useful." She's talking a mile a minute about working in the Prosecutor's office (as an intern; she thought it would be cool to just try it out) and how she'll be ( Read more... )

The last thing said before I woke up from my dream, "Klimt". Of course it was his painting, "The Kiss" - I was about to show them my photo recreation of that painting, H and I at Blake Island. It is a beautiful photo - I don't know if I have ever shared it. After 20+ years I should, shouldn't I?

The dream was so colorful - all about art. There were ( Read more... )

I have had such difficulty remembering my dreams when I wake up. I think this one stayed with me because in the very next dream I was telling someone the whole story (2 girls who were hijacking a car with me - we had to pee in the change cup in the front seat ...? I'll never understand the pee dreams.)

The dream

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We are in the second month of pandemic stay-in-place mode. It has not been difficult for me. I still see Ami and family often enough; still shop every two weeks; still bike around town. And, lying on the couch watching hours of K-drama while snacking on anything I desire is not a bad life for an introvert who has spent the last few years "un- ( Read more... )