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Thursday Morning, Here We Go!

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. - HL Mencken

It is shaping up to be a good day here. The sky is blue, the sun is shining.  The snow is starting to retreat from the front garden, and I can see that one of the gnomes who live therein has suffered a misadventure; I can see his beard and face and pert red cap but the rest of him is missing. I'd not realized the perils of the as...

And in other news

I read this story about how the military is changing and it scared the shit right out of me.

Wednesday Morning, Vaguely

I'm sorry.  You've been feeling neglected lately. This one's exactly, precisely, specifically for you. Enjoy.

They all have big hands. She chooses them for that, her lovers. Nothing else matters.  They could be tall men, or short; narrow or broad, well-kept or not-so-fresh from the farm. A little bit of brain was nice, but  not entirely necessary.  But they had to have big hands, huge hands, palms five, six inches across, sausages for fingers.  Hefty hands, weighty hands, hands that would, in...

For my textile-loving friends

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Tuesday Morning, Thus Far

We are in the midst of *fix the van* and *get ready for cold night* mode. There is a show now about frontier people in Alaska, I think it airs on the weather channel, and I like it, because it shows people gardening and canning and fishing-for-groceries rather than fishing-for-sport, in part because it motivates me to get my own little homestead into some form of better working order.

But I am not by nature an orderly homesteader; especially where the garden is concerned. My method, in main, i...

Monday Morning: Here We Go

There are no Oracles anymore. A fool's lament. There are Oracles every where; you just need to look for them. Signs and Portents didn't fade away when they went out of fashion. They there remain, unremarkable only because no one remarks upon them. But not talking about something isn't the same as not seeing it.

Today, in one of the quotes of the day emails that come, it says

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
           -- Ellen Glasgow, The...

Sunday Afternoon

I have a list of tricks I use, when I am in need of calming.  A pot of tea, a spot in the sun, staring out the window to watch the world go by. Breathing exercises, meditations. Nothing works as well as the chainsaw; I wish I'd wood to cut today. There's something about having the whole world agree that there's nothing more critically important than what's in your hand at that moment that gives great inner peace.

I am in need of calm and quiet; there has been a lot of disruption and emotional ...

Thursday, Thus Far

Two hours working means two articles done, which is about halfway where I wanted to be.  Please to be sending clones, tons of caffiene, and the ability to stop time in my direction, STAT.

Thursday Morning

Breathe.  This day begins, like any other. The Stillness has not come, not yet. Rejoice, rejoice; the Spark still lives! Rejoice!

A voice from the future you wanted?
To for you provide a sneak peek
a look ahead
your own personal insight into the Apocalypse?

That's not what I'm here for.

I am afraid your authorities have perhaps
Misunderstood
The intent of our delegation.

Prophets not are we.
You knew the End was coming; knew it all the time.
Nor Saviors.
No redemption have we packed
There are no...

Why All The Republican Presidential Candidates Suck: My Conspiracy Theory, Let Me Show You It

Now let me preface this by saying I am not now a registered Republican, nor have I ever been one.  But I know, and I have actually seen, that there are good people who have accomplished positive, meaningful things in office while they also happened to be Republican.  Being Republican doesn't mean, in my book, that you're automatically wrong about everything.

But folks.  The current batch of Republican presidential candidates is pretty terrible. I don't think any of them are electable. I have t...