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December 14, 2020

The Gnawing Mouse

 Poem by Ezra Pound. Even when I forget the exact wording (my mind always changes "full" to "long"), the gist is there. I think I also connected (long ago) the field mouse to Michelangelo's gnawing mouse. Anyway ...


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Published on December 14, 2020 07:38

December 11, 2020

Evening Walk

Long Beach. Evening walk: Colorado Lagoon (coots = mythological earth-divers) and Marine Stadium (sunset).


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Published on December 11, 2020 18:35

December 10, 2020

Ho Ho Ho

 Long Beach. Xmas trees @ Todd's -- that time of year. We prefer Nobles.


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Published on December 10, 2020 20:25

December 8, 2020

Networking

Long Beach. The Neighborhood. Networking.


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Published on December 08, 2020 19:15

December 7, 2020

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher @ Colorado Lagoon

 Long Beach. Blue-gray gnatcatcher wintering in CA. Very hard to "catch." Best pic I've got so far (with my phone).


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Published on December 07, 2020 16:10

Christmas Town

 Long Beach. Around the neighborhood.


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Published on December 07, 2020 14:31

December 5, 2020

Chekhov @ Sakhalin

 At Korsakovsk I was accompanied round the cabins by the convict Kislyakov, quite a strange man. Very probably the court reporters still have not forgotten him. This was the same Kislyakov, a military clerk, who, at St Petersburg, killed his wife on St Nikolai’s Street with a hammer and presented himself before the City Governor to announce his crime. According to his story, his wife had been beautiful, and he had loved her very much, but one day after quarrelling with her he had sworn before an icon to kill her, and from that time right up to the murder some invisible power had whispered without ceasing in his ear: “Kill, kill!” Up to the trial he had been in St Nikolai’s Hospital; very probably because of this he himself considered he was a psychopath, for he more than once asked me to plead on his behalf that he should be recognized as a lunatic and shut up in a monastery.* His entire penal servitude consisted of the following: in the prison he had been entrusted with making the pegs for fastening the makeweights to portions of bread* – not hard work, one would think, yet he would hire somebody in his place, while he himself “gave lessons” – that is, did nothing. He was dressed in a lounge suit of sailcloth and had a prepossessing appearance. He was not a very bright fellow, but he was a talker and philosopher. “Where there are fleas, there you’ll find kids,” he’d say in a sweet, rich baritone voice every time we saw children. When people asked, while he was present, why I was drawing up the census, he would say: “They’re doing it so as to send us all off to the moon. You know where the moon is?” And when, late in the evenings we would be returning on foot to Alexandrovsk, he would repeat several times right out of the blue, “Revenge is the most noble emotion.”



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Published on December 05, 2020 05:30

December 3, 2020

Bolsa Chica: Herons in Palms

 Bolsa Chica. That time again: Herons nesting in palms.


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Published on December 03, 2020 12:02

December 2, 2020

Holidays: Juxtaposition

Long Beach. California Autumn Juxtaposed with the Holiday Season. It's All Good.


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Published on December 02, 2020 17:05

Morning Toilet

Colorado Lagoon. Morning toilet.


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Published on December 02, 2020 12:33