Thinking Out Loud
It is just me and Tina hanging out on the porch watching the sky slowly darken on the longest day of the year. It got hazy and humid about an hour ago, harbingers of the hot weather that is on its way. Just in time for our first official houseguest who are venturing out of [...]
Another week of feeling disjointed. I left my laptop power supply in the burg so had to use husband’s windows 7 machine all week. I found it easy to use and I mostly work in the cloud anyway but it wasn’t my air. Plus I found myself missing the comfort of my desk and office. [...]
Back at the farm…took the ferry yesterday afternoon and stayed the night. It is still cold, but the air mattress made a real difference! I am just too old to sleep on the floor. I spent yesterday working in the library, looking through cupboards and making piles of left behind books that I really don’t [...]
John Trindle at The Fogbound Continuum has a great piece on the difference between making people happy and making happy people. It is the latter that is indeed the challenge as it flies in the face of the mantra of materialism: things, events, even other people, can and should MAKE us happy. Perhaps they bring [...]
I am reading a library book! That’s right…a public library book that I will have to return in two weeks. Of course, I’ve already had to renew it once but I’m confident in my ability to finish it this time. I checked it out along with another book and a music CD when I attended [...]
There are moments when reading and real life come together. Not to be too dramatic: but now is one of those times. As oil spews into the Gulf of Mexico, my companions for the journey are Annie Dillard and Wendell Berry. And, both of them make the same essential point about science: the real power [...]
Like all Unitarian Universalists, my week has been overshadowed by the horrible shootings in Tennessee last Sunday. I think the shock was intensified for me as the week played out because of the sudden awareness that my liberal beliefs pose such a threat to others. Oh, I knew Ann Coulter and her tribe made fun [...]
Lynne Keisling at Knowledge Problem pointed to an article in The New York Times that reported that the $4 plus gas has led to a move from gas guzzling SUVs to fuel efficient compact cars. While I am happy that consumers are going green, I think it’s sad that it had to take high gas [...]
I keep deleting the first sentence of this post because I’m not sure how to begin. This has been an odd sort of week for me. I’ve gotten a lot done in terms of work and research but I’ve done it in this kind of weird, puttering way. I’ll work on something for a few [...]
Yet another reason that black might be angry. This story got a brief mention in the opening news review on the News Hour this evening. Yet, dealing as it does with race, I would think it would get a bigger play considering how offended everyone supposedly was about Wright’s remarks about race in America: The [...]