tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-330261602024-03-07T15:18:59.655-08:00 Grow This Blogging while growingWeeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.comBlogger645125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-83702636037035661892017-04-09T13:28:00.001-07:002017-04-09T13:30:06.356-07:00Aged and Mellow<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15pt;">Mmm, aged and mellow!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">There's nothing a greenhorn can do
for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Cause my older daddy suits me to a T<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Now I like my men like I like my
whiskey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Ooh, aged and mellow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Now listen youngster, be on your way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Don't bother me til a later day<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">I like my men like I like my whiskey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Mmm, aged and mellow!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Junior may be young and strong, girl<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">But I'll take grandpa cause he's had
it longer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">I like my men like I like my whiskey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-size: 15.0pt;">Hah, aged and mellow!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Roboto-Regular;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"> - </span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tmtbnmchbimcpxzgm4j2us42aka?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics&u=0#" style="font-family: Roboto-Regular;" target="_blank">Johnny Otis, Preston Love</a><span style="color: #4e4e4e; font-family: Roboto-Regular;">, Aged and Mellow Blues</span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15.0pt;">I’m related to three old men. One has known me all my life. The other
two, I have known all their lives. Assuming we each left home at age 18, we
lived together 16 years, 17, and 12 years respectively, in the 1950s and 1960s.
Damn, that was a long time ago. And we have lived apart, and with spouses and
children longer since we were children together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKas3GeygrlprWduqHg_FIJ7jPdPVB3h3Ba3rnJThIBz5JSLtkqoh-EXpAH9395s5ajI0dACPnn3KcG420F5bu06BZsgkjTA6S8CdGAHTS8AuFtZM-OPsWEN07T4iMPfxMMO9cw/s1600/IMG_1322.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKas3GeygrlprWduqHg_FIJ7jPdPVB3h3Ba3rnJThIBz5JSLtkqoh-EXpAH9395s5ajI0dACPnn3KcG420F5bu06BZsgkjTA6S8CdGAHTS8AuFtZM-OPsWEN07T4iMPfxMMO9cw/s400/IMG_1322.JPG" width="300" /></a><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15.0pt;">I’m very close to my sisters, but there’s something about a brother that
may be all the more precious for being not as intimate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15.0pt;">I love my brothers in the unconditional way you can only love in a close
and happy family, but with a kind of exhausting effort where you always feel
challenged to do your best – even when you’re tired and don’t want to be strong
any more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15.0pt;">With my sisters, there’s a kind of acceptance that would include opening
the door late one night to confront me holding a bloody knife and crying. No questions
asked – come in, drink this, stop crying. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">Brothers ask and expect you to answer - even when all you want is to have a bubble
bath and a glass of 15-year-old Portuguese port. While brothers may</span></span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15pt;"> not argue about the bubble bath, but they will know to bury the bloody knife first. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15.0pt;">What an amazing visit with my amazing siblings and assorted amazing
outlaws. We are all aged and mellow now, and I love you all even more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-62212698874048541942016-12-08T13:28:00.000-08:002016-12-08T13:28:36.083-08:00Judging Iowa, Part II<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;">“By allowing us to survive, the
efficiency of intelligence also offers us the possibility of complexity without
foundation, thought without usefulness, and beauty without purpose.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Muriel Barbery, The Elegance
of the Hedgehog<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thought without usefulness is
almost an oxymoron to me. But not to everybody, apparently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was recently startled by a question posed
to me by an Iowa native. I mentioned that I would like to learn a bit more
about regional geography, specifically where the city of Ottumwa, Iowa is in
relation to Des Moines. I said casually that I ought to know this now that I
live here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEvYHb8yKrCBQxGKACxy-As7RZgEAH6a1BojrlBWtZXc5dFkvnGHUb4qfyq2w8rKbvuJ4ept6BhFkv1CwDN0_WlW3Xq8kw9y7t_yL9n9ka0h14ujIWvN3k9FV7KShtDEbra1QMGA/s1600/IMG_6435.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEvYHb8yKrCBQxGKACxy-As7RZgEAH6a1BojrlBWtZXc5dFkvnGHUb4qfyq2w8rKbvuJ4ept6BhFkv1CwDN0_WlW3Xq8kw9y7t_yL9n9ka0h14ujIWvN3k9FV7KShtDEbra1QMGA/s400/IMG_6435.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why?” she asked. “Why would you
want to know that unless you needed driving directions?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why indeed, squander one’s finite
cerebral activity on a matter beyond the city limits? Or even beyond the
parking lot outside the window and the road leading back home. Although not
inclined to gamble, I would be willing to bet my best pair of shoes that she
couldn’t tell me where Aleppo is. Or why we should care. Such lack of curiosity
- or even interest <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- stuns me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or, perhaps this is simply what
Barbery’s protagonist meant when she said this side effect of intelligence is
some kind of flaw. After the sentence quoted above, she goes on to say “It’s
like a computer bug, a consequence without consequence of the subtlety of our
cortex, a superfluous perversion making an utterly wasteful use of the means at
its disposal.” I don’t get this any more than I get why I shouldn’t want to
know more about where I live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To me, any thought is useful in
that it means my brain is functioning. I get Barbery’s point that searching for
truth and beauty doesn’t necessarily elevate us and make us somehow more than
thinking animals - with a brain perhaps a bit bigger than necessary to find our
way to Ottumwa if our life depends on it. We can find our way to Ottumwa just
for the hell of it. Sorry, I’m judging that as failure of imagination if not
intelligence. To me, an absence of curiosity about what’s around the corner
makes for a claustrophobically small universe. I’m curious, therefore, I am.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;">Then again, this woman did ask me
why. She was curious as to why I’d be curious. That’s something. She’s probably
going to the Trump thank you party tonight. Thank goodness it’s here in Des
Moines, and not wherever the hell Ottumwa is. In any event, I wasn’t invited.</span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-2174296465581420652016-11-25T12:05:00.001-08:002016-11-25T12:05:49.324-08:00First Impressions<br />
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Fortune, nor dissatisfied with ones Understanding.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I recently had the
opportunity to reinvent myself. I have avoided blogging while I decided whether
I want to keep this up and if so whether I want to shake it up. One of the
things I could do for example, would be to become suddenly nice and stop being
snarky. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, that decision
only took ten minutes, you say. What else have I been waiting for to resume
blogging?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sensory overload has
me spinning in place trying to make sense of my new environment. My once lush
So Cal garden is gone. Friends tell me the new owners cut down the 50 year old
eucalyptus trees in the front yard and painted the house a mustard yellow. I
could not bear to imagine how the backyard paradise that I made over 25 years
has been transformed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My exile in the
Pacific Northwest ended after just short of a year. I was going to sum that up by saying I’ve had a
lovely nine months and eleven days but this wasn’t it. But what about giving up
being snarky, you ask? I said the decision took ten minutes. I never said I
wouldn’t continue to employ strategic snark in nucular (sic) doses at whatever
target has attracted my momentary rage. I also never said I was an intelligent,
articulate and literate genius. I am a terrible person who has taken to heart
that advice about doing one thing and doing it well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I did have a garden
in the interim home near the Olympic fault line. There were figs, hops,
grotesque hydrangea that seemed to rebloom all year at odd times, and all
manner of flowering bulbs and trees that produced pollen my immune system
decided to get all drippy about. So my entire gardening experience this past year has been to plant a wisteria in memory of my lost California home and to apply water desultorily when it turned out after six months that it doesn't actually rain EVERY day there. Shit pretty much grows without the need for divine intervention. I used Benedryl like gummy bears and I started
having Amazon Prime deliver gummy bears in 55 gallon industrial drums. I have
enough empty steel drums to start my own steel band, mon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My garden now on my 16<sup>th</sup>
floor balcony consists of my bonsai ginko, one of the handful of potted plants
that made it from my yard, once filled with so many potted plants that I
abandoned dozens after having friends take home their choices for months before
moving. I have a blue ginger, a black aeonium and a holy basil that insisted it
would live longer than any Trader Joe’s potted basil ever had if only I’d water
it once in a while. I bought a 5-gallon fishtail palm locally, hauled it down
the block from where my car lives and placed in my sunny window where I am as
surprised as it is to still be happy 6 weeks in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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here, I want to say a tiny bit about first impressions of people in urban Iowa.
But first, a disclaimer about my understanding of the difference between
stereotypes and people. I am about to make a few gross generalizations that
totally involve an un-ironic white-knuckled grasp of the obvious. Stereotypes
exist for a reason. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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my first impressions of the stereotypical 60-something woman from Iowa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It should surprise no one that she is</span> white. She has a short bob of
untinted gray or white hair. It’s November, so she is wearing a sweater.
She is about 10 pounds overweight and her cloths fit well: meaning she has been
this size for long enough to establish a wardrobe of clothes that fit. Meaning she
isn’t caught in the west coast cycle of so many women of a certain age that at
some point we are trying to fit into cloths that don’t belong in our present
diet cycle. Meaning that my Stereotypical Iowa Woman either never succumbed to
the increasingly desperate vanity of trying to be stylish, or she is as over it
as I am of fondue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Based on my
statistically invalid sample of three Stereotypical Iowa Woman, they were born
in Iowa, grew up here mostly on rural farms, left at some point early in their
marriages, and have returned to the big city in retirement. They have been
around, if by around you mean they have visited their grown children in
Oklahoma City, Kansas City or Omaha. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They have all been
to Chicago. When one lady told me that by way of explaining how worldly wise
she was, I said, yeah, the hog butcher to the world and she gave me the
sweetest blank look. You’d have thought I was quoting the freaking Duc de La
Rochefoucauld on self-awareness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It will be
interesting to see if these stereotypical first impressions ultimately say more
about me than about the new people I’m meeting. I hope so. My fortunes are
pretty fortunate these days, so The Duc is wrong there – at least about me
being unsatisfied with my fortunes. I am actually hoping that he’s also wrong
that I think I understand things I don’t really understand at all. I hope I
will become dissatisfied with my current superficial understanding of my new
neighbors. That’s why I wanted to record my first impressions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "\.SFNSText-Light"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For now, that’s what
I’m seeing. But I’m new here and as terrible and snarky as ever. I’m insecure
and falling back on looking down on people in the flyover states from the lofty
perch of my coastal arrogance. Also, I’m uncomfortable because my pants are too
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Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-68788433192876090112016-09-03T12:17:00.000-07:002016-09-03T12:17:13.934-07:00Extraordinary Days<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
"<span style="color: #262626; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14pt;">A person can stand almost anything except a
succession of ordinary days."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to Medicinenet, The </span><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=19341" target="_blank">Baskerville Effect</a><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is “a fatal </span><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/heart_attack/article.htm"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">heart
attack</span></a><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> triggered by extreme psychological </span><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/stress/article.htm"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">stress</span></a><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.” The term derives from the Sherlock Holms mystery
in which Charles Baskerville suffers a fatal heart attack due to extreme
psychological stress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcL-h6pErg_qlE-L_QaI1KFIBlzs3jLmJiLL6SJ5YcmaJwL8fxaExznKoPvvwkOiw6aGAKJvk_KCmdZYM4Xs8IM3mE4CuOF9qmGTBKazCwXYHyXY7CiBgLBKqjtzSmduwqeAy3Qg/s1600/mrburns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcL-h6pErg_qlE-L_QaI1KFIBlzs3jLmJiLL6SJ5YcmaJwL8fxaExznKoPvvwkOiw6aGAKJvk_KCmdZYM4Xs8IM3mE4CuOF9qmGTBKazCwXYHyXY7CiBgLBKqjtzSmduwqeAy3Qg/s320/mrburns.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The term "Baskerville effect" was coined
in 2001 in the course of a research study that found Chinese Americans and
Japanese Americans had a 7% greater death rate from </span><a href="http://www.medicinenet.com/heart_disease_coronary_artery_disease/article.htm"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">heart
disease</span></a><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> on the 4th day of the month (BMJ
2001;323:1443-1446). There was no such peak mortality for white Americans.
Since both Chinese and Japanese regard the number four as unlucky, it appears
that heart fatalities increase on psychologically stressful occasions.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14pt;">While I thought it was delusion and karma that
caused all my negative actions, anxiety is in there somewhere a lot lately. But
that was then. Back in the day, I worried more about tomorrow instead of
enjoying today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am getting better about letting go – at least of
the psychological stress of imagining hounds are trying to kill me. Since my
latest heart operation, I can drink more. More trial and less error, y’all. It
looks like my heart may hold out a while yet. Having learned a lot from
surviving my surprises this past year, I am less likely to succumb to the Baskerville
effect any time soon – barring extraordinary surprises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And anyway, the term is only 15 years old: probably,
not old enough that it’s been listed as a Cause of Death on somebody’s death
certificate. My short-term goal is not be the first in this state. If I make it
thru the coming week, that mission will be accomplished. Then, they can release
the hounds here because I will be enjoying ordinary days somewhere else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-40850911174129453372016-08-18T12:10:00.001-07:002016-08-18T12:10:59.134-07:00Bodily Dangers<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds
it necessary to include tooth decay in His divine system of creation? Why in
the world did He ever create pain?'</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'Pain?' Lieutenant Shiesskopf's wife pounced upon the word victoriously.
'Pain is a warning to us of bodily dangers.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'And who created the dangers?' Yossarian demanded. 'Why couldn't He have
used a doorbell to notify us, or one of His celestial choirs? Or a system of
blue-and-red neon tubes right in the middle of each person's forehead?'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'People would certainly look silly walking around with red neon tubes
right in the middle of their foreheads.'<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #131313;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">'They certainly look beautiful now writhing in agony, don't they?” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #131313;">―
</span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3167.Joseph_Heller"><b><span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joseph Heller</span></b></a><span style="color: #131313;">,
</span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/814330"><b><span style="color: #262626; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Catch-22</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #262626;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #262626;">I spent a large amount of money this week to stop
grinding my teeth. I’m getting a red neon tube to attach to my forehead. Let’s
see how that works. That pretty much sums up the kind of month this had been. </span><span style="color: #262626;"> </span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’m looking forward to my one-way road trip next
month.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve had a lovely 10 months. This hasn’t been it.</span></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-691992743208644992016-07-24T13:12:00.005-07:002016-07-24T13:12:56.252-07:00Unconventional Thinking<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJCUSoxEkr44kG_KIh3WbgcpZl-xnrN8yjTpuHgO6StWlPwnYohAtSyv2TuSIKT4iI5kEby_JmiFZf68FoAsxLb4Gi-VD5Gf-CfSFaeApZy9HR1IjIQ-T8Sb_mXupG-7PPCfErg/s1600/free+cuddles.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaJCUSoxEkr44kG_KIh3WbgcpZl-xnrN8yjTpuHgO6StWlPwnYohAtSyv2TuSIKT4iI5kEby_JmiFZf68FoAsxLb4Gi-VD5Gf-CfSFaeApZy9HR1IjIQ-T8Sb_mXupG-7PPCfErg/s400/free+cuddles.jpg" width="338" /></a><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13pt;">“There comes a time when the world
gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the
sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2987.Sarah_Dessen"><span style="color: #262626; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sarah Dessen</span></a>,
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1032901"><span style="color: #262626; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Just Listen</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is too much politics on the
internets and too many conventions. There is too much hate. Oh yes, and there’s
too much of everybody with an unfiltered emotion, and uninformed opinion, and
an inarticulate scream of unfocused rage. And don’t get me started about poor
grammar and shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 17px;">I checked online to see the results of my latest EKG and the word about my heart is that the rhythm was "borderline". So I need to listen to that and stop spending time on the heartbreaking internets.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m going to self-medicate and have
popcorn and cocktails for dinner. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I’m
going to read some David Foster Wallace because it’s that kind of day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you succeed in cheating someone, don’t think
that person is a fool. Realize that the person trusted you much more than you
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I need some advice about what I should do when guys try to
make me cry. The trouble I’ve had trying to explain to boys why it’s not nice
to make girls cry is that most guys are no longer conscious when I get to that
part of the lecture. Besides, I can’t possibly reach every mean boy out there
with my personal hands-on approach. So that’s actually not what I’m writing to
ask.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It has come to my attention lately that a lot of the boys
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women wanting to be equal is equal to women wanting to castrate men.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So here’s what I’m writing to ask. Two-part question:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Can you offer any advice about how I can school such men not
to be dicks to women? <o:p></o:p></div>
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Second, can you recommend any particular action that
would <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not </i>provide actionable cause to
bring felony murder or intentional infliction of emotional distress charges against
me?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Big Girl<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dear Big Girl Who Apparently Doesn’t Cry,<o:p></o:p></div>
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While not directly related to gardening, I have decided to
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Given your preference to avoid tortious or felonious conduct, I will answer your second question with a question of my own. Do you?</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-10901609193820511342016-06-29T12:53:00.002-07:002016-06-29T12:53:51.764-07:00June'\_O_/'<br />
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- Reif Larsen, I Am RadarWeeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-70009072191313969102016-05-27T12:07:00.003-07:002016-05-27T12:11:43.532-07:00Operation Just Reward<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
"Justice is a knee in the gut
from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the
magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of
warning. Garroting. That's what justice is."</div>
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- Joseph Heller, Catch-22</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead of musing on the
unfairness of life, I thought I’d write about lifestyle choices. In choosing to
use the term “lifestyle” instead of, say, life, I deliberately set the bar of
philosophical depth at about twelve inches. I mean, y</span>ou could still drown in this
post, but you’d have to be pretty drunk.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNCnw-WocdSD_T-itnCWT3X3NMCF3asgw3zcw8tZ4biHxk01DugJ80qyEh0QWKIWInAoTuDQmBrPpLLiPmfyiGoytXU43Fxf53CNdWlH4eqhvGIy1r04uiyvG-mvFOiwMNPzFypQ/s1600/greigecouch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNCnw-WocdSD_T-itnCWT3X3NMCF3asgw3zcw8tZ4biHxk01DugJ80qyEh0QWKIWInAoTuDQmBrPpLLiPmfyiGoytXU43Fxf53CNdWlH4eqhvGIy1r04uiyvG-mvFOiwMNPzFypQ/s1600/greigecouch.jpg" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, by lifestyle, I don’t mean the latest topic
of the politics of division: transgender rights and all the carefully crafted
euphemisms we now tiptoe through in such discussions. Due respect, but I’d be a
neutered dog in that fight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I mean choosing the
penultimate stage of life – the one we chose while we can still <i>compos </i>enough
<i>mentis</i> to be as independent as possible and minimize the responsibility for our
own maintenance and upkeep. <o:p></o:p></div>
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No more lawns to mow. No more
stairs to haul laundry down and back. Uber and curbside assistance. Grocery
delivery. A landlord to replace light bulbs. Utilities included. In-apartment
laundry. Proximity to life-flight and good ER response times. Seriously? Sadly,
yes.</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For my next trick: an
apartment on the 16th floor of a building with a steakhouse adjacent to the
“controlled access” lobby. My mission is to make this the next act of my lifestyle
choices. The current act began when I bought an expensive piece of furniture
from my sole savings in a color that wasn’t brown. I bought a comfortable couch
in green and loveseat in blue: the colors of my freedom from brown and dark
wood. Then, when my spouse died on the green couch, I sold the whole house and
moved out of state, leaving my former lifestyle – real and imagined – behind in
San Diego. I took the couches to Seattle, but they're staying behind when I move. I’m buying a new couch in greige.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I will dearly miss
Paulo, my imaginary pool boy, I’m thinking there will be a doorman. I’ll need
to find some American heartland name instead of the vaguely un-PC Hispanic
name. (I love the Hispanics, and taco salads and mild salsa as much as the next
pumpkin though. I have a tremendous respect for the Hispanics. Ask anyone.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My imaginary doorman’s name
will be Corey. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is</i> Corey. If there is
any justice in the world for privileged boomers who outlive their spouses and
live on double dip pensions and consult their tax advisors about
where to invest that mandatory 501(k) distribution, it would compensate us by
providing individualized Coreys to offset our failing health.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbXp4txlnXR-6oR9F11sr04euiDOSzCf64ZBV-U88bqxev7AYPaKZe_WB_aN9_L7mMGGv3bo0Lim47N0QMdds32kTR7LXAe-mT4SEsbEo8lV5ZJnRa1qbicw1p1o1ADrSrDQLjg/s1600/Skyline-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTbXp4txlnXR-6oR9F11sr04euiDOSzCf64ZBV-U88bqxev7AYPaKZe_WB_aN9_L7mMGGv3bo0Lim47N0QMdds32kTR7LXAe-mT4SEsbEo8lV5ZJnRa1qbicw1p1o1ADrSrDQLjg/s320/Skyline-1.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The world’s most entitled
generation will not go gracefully into the good night, leaving behind a totaled
economy, political system, effective antibiotic treatment and, well, planet. We’ll
spend our children’s inheritance first. Therefore, along with my prediction
that the next trend in senior living will be leaving the coasts and moving to a
small Midwest urban center or a mountaintop in rural New Mexico; and that
seniors will take over Uber like we took over Facebook; I have one more
prediction.</span></div>
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Expect an uptick in
“assisted” suicides and sudden deaths in my generation, as our middle-aged
former latchkey children implement Joseph Heller’s justice on their clueless
parents. My apartment pictured at left has a balcony and my balance is tricky these days... Corey,
help!</div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-68397350451954925332016-05-20T10:01:00.001-07:002016-05-20T10:01:15.561-07:00LilacsWhen lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd,<br />
And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,<br />
I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring,<br />
<br />
Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring,<br />
Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,<br />
And thought of him I love.<br />
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- Walt Whitman, Memories of President LincolnWeeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-58690914478842040992016-05-17T16:19:00.000-07:002016-08-19T11:08:49.641-07:00For Now<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Joe Gillis: I didn’t know you
were planning a comeback.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Norma Desmond: I hate
that word. It’s a return!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Boulevard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
visited Iowa. It’s not like any other place. Wikipedia says my new midwestern home town has
extreme seasons – hot summers, cold winters. It feels so uncrowded it might as
well be empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels new and clean
after the moss and pollen covered surfaces here that are interrupted by ant
hills. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before
I left Seattle, a rheumatologist x-rayed my hands swollen with arthritis and took
some blood tests and when I returned for results after my visit to my latest forever home, offered to write a prescription. No thanks. I know a lot about what isn’t wrong with me; and a lot about what is wrong but isn’t bothering me. </span>I got a referral to a dermatologist next. My skin itches and I'm losing enough hair to make a small pincushion each time I shower. </div>
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I saw my new apartment. Building occupancy is a bit behind schedule. We had to wear vests and hard hats and be accompanied by a construction guy. The local news says that the most recent construction scandal/delay
with the project was a complaint filed by a contractor a mere month ago. He complained of concrete
dust that isn’t being cleaned up and poses a danger to workers exposed to it daily. The state is investigating, and the contractor was fired. This is just the latest in the problems that have plagued this historic building. After years of neglect, the building was to be renovated for condos a few years back. It was shut
down for violating laws about proper removal of asbestos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> The investor who spearheaded the upscale condo reno went to jail for a few years and then killed himself when he got out and was broke and disgraced. </span>Funny, the sales agent mentioned neither, nor did she speak about
the delay. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back home, summer
in Seattle is nicer than winter even though it pisses rain every few days and remains in the cool 60s. It doesn't rain enough to
prevent plants from wilting or to wash the pollen dust off the cars. I’m going to have to figure out how to turn the
outside hoses on. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, I’ve been taking care of business inside. I fixed the
problem of the collapsing bed by replacing 4 too-short 4” wide slats with six
longer slats each 6” wide. I got some screen drain covers to catch the hair in the shower. I'm doing some leisurely unpacking, sorting, disposing,
repacking of stuff in the garage. A casual observer might think they see more of a mess in the garage - but
would be kicked in the nuts if disparaging comments slipped out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> A casual observer would be wrong: t</span>hat pile is empty boxes. The trash has been
picked up. Another pile is to give away; and the final pile is to be consolidated and re-packed. So, shut up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ll probably return to the midwest later this summer. Maybe by then either the
rental agent will be able to give me a precise date, or I’ll get the hint that
this place is cursed and look elsewhere. I'm pretty mellow about my return.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-73670972698044203522016-04-16T15:25:00.001-07:002016-04-16T15:25:31.003-07:00Still Here<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
Step by step and breath and
by breath</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s a trail of doubt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Danny
Schmidt, Know Thy Place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Stubbornness is underrated as
a survival skill. I was too stubborn to die recently. I don’t want to die here.
I may not know my place, but I know this isn't it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve always been better at knowing what my place is not. I know it by
heart, but also by seasonal allergies to pollen-producing flowers that know So Cal’s climate is
not their place. Such floras however, are very comfortable after 20 inches of
winter rain here in this corner of Zone 9. The pollen on the skylight is
thicker than ash from a nearby wildfire. It looks like yellow snow. My nose
hasn’t stopped running since things started blooming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRIRQos4hykl4zQU83ZWSGRaHjyOccL8EWPp_5g5F7hggLZ1L9HaNAu8oYvvHa-ocJDxqizgN4jalWZAV9qMo4aZOlfZS2diqRmtaSylAB-TfXtH8SCjTGmJJcznjYQtNW5ubfGA/s1600/IMG_8069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRIRQos4hykl4zQU83ZWSGRaHjyOccL8EWPp_5g5F7hggLZ1L9HaNAu8oYvvHa-ocJDxqizgN4jalWZAV9qMo4aZOlfZS2diqRmtaSylAB-TfXtH8SCjTGmJJcznjYQtNW5ubfGA/s320/IMG_8069.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Examples: Forsythia that I
haven’t seen since I was in my 20s. Lilacs so profuse that people trim them
with hedge clippers to keep the blooms from pulling the branches into
sidewalks. The plum and cherry trees lining the streets leave puddles of lovely
pink and white snow blowing in the curbs. Camellias drop their rusty fist-sized
flowers that gradually dry and turn a pink-brown color to complement the
puddles of cherry blossoms. My flowering quince bloomed itself out before I could
cut any blooms. I think that’s dogwood blooming now. There is lily of the
valley beneath my font porch. M’s red azaleas are shouting down the softer pink
ones. I saw a ceanothus <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so covered with
blooms that I barely recognized it, having only seen thirsty
southern-Californian relatives struggling to be a pale imitation of a syringa. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lilacs remind me of K who
would buy me a bunch every March from up the mountain in Alpine. In my opinion,
every perfume ever made from lilacs has failed. Even the essential oil is too
sweet and cloying. But the fragrance of a real lilac is something that evokes
the purest innocence of childhood. I have no doubt that the first time I
smelled a lilac, it was in the hand of my mother and it smelled like love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m going to another place.
I’m going sometime in the next two or three months. I’m reinventing myself. Again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Before I leave here, I’m
having another heart ablation, a few expensive microdermabrasion treatments
from an aesthetician, and I’m stocking up on my medications in preparation for
yet another adventure in switching health insurance which is related to but
slightly more important than finding another health care provider and totally
more intimidating. I’ll <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also get another
haircut before I leave this hip urban town. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I ran out of an important
prescription for a few days but finally managed to set up a mail order
prescription plan that enables me to never again enter the doors of the Rite
Aid down the street where it took an average – not hyperbole: a freaking
AVERAGE <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- of 3 trips to the pharmacy to
refill each of my five prescriptions. That means for the one time I got a prescription on the first try, I gave up on another one after the 4th try. A more incompetent pharmacy would be hard
to find, even with my luck. When I couldn’t get my blood-thinning
stroke-preventing meds recently (4 tries), I went home and contacted my
prescription plan provider and they walked me through the mail order enrollment
process. It took one 30 minute call to be saved from Rite Aid and certain death
by another stroke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, I am enjoying the smell of
fresh lilacs picked from the bush in the tiny communal garden between my house
and the mailbox. I have to go outside and plant two tiny mail-order lilacs in
the front yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I will get mail and
pick fresh lilacs and smell them while I drink my decaf latte and have homemade
corn chowder for lunch. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then, when the Spring flowers
are done, I will move to a new latitude and longitude.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can always come back next Spring. I’ll
bring Benadryl and stock up on legal medications while I’m in town. Maybe get a
haircut.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-24230148894676891782016-03-03T13:51:00.001-08:002016-03-03T13:52:28.367-08:00I Hope We Make it Home<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
If you choose to jump off a
cliff</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We can talk as you fall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I can’t promise you, no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you hit the ground that
there will be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Something there to break your
fall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, I guess you know it
all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s as if you were <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Waiting around to die<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And you found something to
mend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The frayed corners of your
mind."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Emily Jane White, The Cliff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I first realized I was a
grown up and I had to become a single mother and I needed a job and I was
younger and stronger than I am now, I wondered how I would survive. For years, I
had dreams of jumping off a specific cliff on the coast of San Diego. Ten years
later I would walk to that very same cliff at lunch from my nearby ocean view
executive office. I survived. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSxqrBS24LJhmVdbVlf245TqZae8bhwDbUA6dQzMSE9MC08YrUFsQKkASQdmKrDUBZbf2snsgCGgBFIKPzHb_ZS-syYXFBW6eaGYX340RbM54xZxfPNxbQZnFTesYx6yYu4NBdw/s1600/DSCF0490+2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizSxqrBS24LJhmVdbVlf245TqZae8bhwDbUA6dQzMSE9MC08YrUFsQKkASQdmKrDUBZbf2snsgCGgBFIKPzHb_ZS-syYXFBW6eaGYX340RbM54xZxfPNxbQZnFTesYx6yYu4NBdw/s400/DSCF0490+2.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I faced a few other hard
times over the years, but I have always remembered taking that very first death-defying
leap of faith off a cliff of complacency and unhappiness for a chance at
happiness. As the years roll on, the cliffs have become less precipitous, but
that is a good thing because my bones have become more brittle. I no longer
believe I can fly. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have moved to a house with safer stairs than my old house, but I’m sorry to say
that making it upstairs at night with a kitty asleep in my arms is a big enough
challenge for me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I miss California. In a
while, I will miss Seattle. I will move to the heartland, to Zone 5 from Zone
9. From sun-drenched deserts and from rain-drenched coastal jungles I will move
to the middle of the country: Des Moines, Iowa. I know, right?</span></div>
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It snows there, but it might
not be as dark at daytime. It’s cold there, but it might not be as wet as all the time. I could really use
something to mend my frayed wits and to distract me from
waiting around to die. I need to make a leap of faith to a new home where I
might make some new friends. I’m still determined to try. </div>
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I’m told it’s flat:
no cliffs. So, I have that going for me. </div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-69197922029161499792016-02-20T11:47:00.000-08:002016-02-20T11:47:35.993-08:00Expect Surprise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">But I'm here to tell you this</span></div>
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That the sky is yours to kiss <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So go and lift your lips and raise your eyes
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">And expect surprise</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And know thy place, and know thy part
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Know it by name, know it by face, and know it by
heart
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And don't look down, cause that's all been seen
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Step by step and breath by breath
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's a trail of dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Danny
Schmidt, Know Thy Place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You don’t
have to pretend to be one thing when you’re another. Even if they ask, nobody
hears what you really say. Me too. Hell, I often don’t hear what I say to
myself, so how can I listen to you?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
couldn’t be sorrier, I can’t tell you how sorry I am” can mean I can’t tell you
this but I’m not sorry at all. “It doesn’t get any better than this” can mean
it only gets worse from here. “Never better” in response to how are you can
mean never any better. When talking about how much you care about your lover, “Every
breath you take” imparts the sour whiff of a stalker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know
someone who died of colon cancer – never able to get rid of poison that was
killing her, keeping it locked tight inside. I knew somebody who died of heart
failure – from a broken heart. I knew someone who died of kidney cancer – he
was able to piss his poison out on his loved ones until he wasn’t. The last
year of his life his poison had no place to go. He spent a year emptying a
catheter until he couldn’t. His loved one had to empty his bloody catheter for
him. I have decided that dying of anger is a total pain in the neck. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, while
telling someone to expect surprise may be intended as an affirmation, a hope of
better things to come unexpectedly, don’t forget the dark shadow of unpleasant
surprise that has nothing pleasant about it. You might as well say expect
disappointment, betrayal, and a slow, painful and undignified death because
they are at least as likely as winning the lottery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fortunately,
platitudes suffice in most of our dealings with each other. Which is just as
well when or if you think of it because we are each so wrapped up in our own
place following the trail of our own private dreams. A wise woman recently told
me, “Fucking renarration, man. It messes us all up.” A.E. Houseman, that poetic
pessimist, wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
thoughts of others <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Were
light and fleeting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Like
lovers meeting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Or luck
or fame.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My
thoughts were of trouble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And mine
were steady<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I was
ready<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When
trouble came.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Expect
surprise, everyone. If you don’t like it, just re-pave the trail of your dreams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-33984768017685109432016-02-14T13:10:00.001-08:002016-02-14T13:10:52.238-08:00Not About the Weather<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">You
stayed to long</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Though
you never intended to linger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘Til the
hand of fate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One day
gave you the finger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Anonymous
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the
purposes of this conversation, an Optimist and a Pessimist are discussing the
rocky transition I made through December, 2014 when TSG died and December, 2015 which I moved 1,200 north on Interstate 5 where I life alone in a different
latitude with my surviving cat. Both ends of the conversation are mostly inside
my head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s raining, as usual. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Can we please talk about something else?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s downhill to get to the new house.
How symbolical, and shit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You had to go uphill to the old house.
You can coast home now.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">O and P:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In
an effort to process and benefit from the lessons of the past year, let’s
review. Let’s review the stages of our life changes in the past year or so.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">P:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
bad news is it still sucks after the stress of moving ends. The stages of moving
begin with d</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">isbelief. Then, the stress of
deciding what to leave and what to pack; the stress of disposing of what to
leave; of packing what to take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then,
the stress of logistics of renting POD and later truck, hiring POD/truck
loaders, scheduling truck driver, hiring truck unloaders three different times.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And including missed deliveries,
inadequate room in trucks, rooms, and my brain. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, the health effects including depression,
insomnia, hives – again with details too depressing to detail, and with the
whisper inside my head saying Don’t pick the scabs. The hilarious health insurance
carrier switch-over fubar too depressing and expensive to detail aside from
that fact that nobody prescribes antidepressants anymore for reasons having to
do with the fascist state’s depressing decisions to prioritize anti-addiction
over treating depression. Thanks. Obama. Then, the disruption in blood-thinner
medication schedule and resulting spike in rat poison-to-blood ratio resulting
in bruising and bleeding. Which isn’t so much fun when combined with hives, as it is un-seeable sight in the already unflattering buzzing fluorescent
light in the overheated cramped master bath. Finally, there is acceptance,
followed immediately by second thoughts, regrets and unfocused anger. Finally,
acceptance?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnjFhqs5if7ldZfj5hPPsVedv6eexRMKM-fpSTjvWf2BtCSwXKzx-UTWqw-iE05NnnzLIWeS3BFcfil70Df36tKX6pkxeoerG8k5GuezhYydahqAY-llbBbxLLOVQ3OB1Li6geQ/s1600/IMG_7386.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYnjFhqs5if7ldZfj5hPPsVedv6eexRMKM-fpSTjvWf2BtCSwXKzx-UTWqw-iE05NnnzLIWeS3BFcfil70Df36tKX6pkxeoerG8k5GuezhYydahqAY-llbBbxLLOVQ3OB1Li6geQ/s400/IMG_7386.JPG" width="300" /></a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Interspersed
with a sunny afternoon here and there and a smell outdoors of fresh life
awakening. There is the (no longer rushed) intermittent unpacking and
commensurate feelings of satisfaction at putting shit away. There is the
inevitable making and revising a mental short list of what’s still missing –
perhaps in some misplaced Mystery Box that might also include stuff I knew I
didn’t have room to pack and regret leaving behind. There is the fun of buying
replacements for mysteriously missing things like power cords, cat vitamins, a
single brand new sock, a vial of medicine, paprika. Because, shopping is always
fun. I’ve never seen dwarf iris with such a beautiful deep blue that I
would have chosen myself and that are coming up in several places by my front
door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Shopping isn’t the answer. Because, finding
stuff that wasn’t actually lost so much as it was found huddled shivering in a dark corner
with its fists in its mouth and a dead stare out the dripping window offsets
any shopping-induced joy. Then there are the early twilight afternoons spend ruing
poor life decisions as they accumulate behind me like duck chicks after their
mama duck only not so much cute as heavy. Endless recursive ducks behind me,
all in a dripping wet row.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">O and P: Acceptance
with the melancholy realization that it all has to be accepted over again
tomorrow. Knowing – most of the time - that we can do this because what other choice do we have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the days are slowly getting longer and counting the minutes that sunset is
deferred each day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Refining and revision definitions of justifiable
suicide. Why should such a stigma be associated with deciding to quit before
being fired?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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between suicide and merely wanting not to wake up tomorrow, and then making it
through another dark night. A single long sunny therapeutic afternoon online
shopping spree of nice new clothes more suitable for this foreign clime, including
new boiled wool slippers with backs instead of the Grandpa Simpson scuffettes
that worked before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shopping is too the
answer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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guilt and shame at being weak. Shit, I can’t even enjoy a pity party without a
judgey hangover of self-loathing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dinner, “This year is your year.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-9734529580850299032016-01-19T15:22:00.002-08:002016-01-19T15:22:19.024-08:00Life Through the Dark Eyes of Winter<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Life is
only something taken for a moment, rubbed warm and held back from the chill…
Winter waits and finds all life. In the end, each of us stares through the dark
eyes of winter.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - Richard
Nelson, The Island Within<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have lamented
at length before about the state of customer service and how people now work for
computers instead of vice versa. So let’s not talk about the trials and
tribulations I’ve had with Blue Shield so-called health insurance; or with USAA
bank, of all places. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Except to
say that Blue Shield was the only coverage I was unfairly permitted to “elect”
by my retirement system and, although allegedly covered since 12/1, I have paid
for most of my medical, dental and pharmaceutical care since I moved here in
November and still have no proof of coverage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As for USAA,
they found the large deposit of the proceeds from the sale of my house
confusing and after I transferred a large portion of the escrow deposit from my
primary account to my household account their reaction was to simply initiate
an investigation of possible fraud. The bank progressively inactivated my debit cards, then disabled the credit function of said cards, then declined my checks, and finally </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 17px;">shut me out of both accounts</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">. A week long death by a thousand fiscal cuts. They
almost certainly notified me of the security alert, but since I had been
locked out of online access, I have been unable to retrieve the messages I can
see are waiting for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let's just say that repeated phone calls to so-called customer service representatives have been not only frustrating but fruitless.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Finally
yesterday, I was able to sort out both problems. I was assured the check I
wrote to the plumber would be honored. Today I was able to withdraw $500 to pay
the yard guy who graciously waited a week for payment. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">As a bonus, during the 45 cumulative minutes
on hold with USAA, I was able to master the steps required to un-encrypt the
proof of coverage Blue Shill has e-mailed me several times.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ArHJqkKqMIgCqSZDiEen5mKZaaMFhSae7lDQyQYET5JiDsgyFlWYHCLQbAsCQ6rLSWrXuTuyFCHqWJsWMvfyVJNkMn_E7mEfR0juFLl7asdg4ft1nGIGY863y76zJR-LUutZWQ/s1600/IMG_7234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ArHJqkKqMIgCqSZDiEen5mKZaaMFhSae7lDQyQYET5JiDsgyFlWYHCLQbAsCQ6rLSWrXuTuyFCHqWJsWMvfyVJNkMn_E7mEfR0juFLl7asdg4ft1nGIGY863y76zJR-LUutZWQ/s400/IMG_7234.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead
of carping about the necessity of resorting to profanity to obtain customer
service, I could blog about the cardiologist I waited 6 weeks to see only to
miss the appointment by a day because I’d written it down wrong. When I called
to apologize and reschedule I was told that they wouldn’t make an appointment for me because I
was a no-show. I said that was probably just as well because the doctor was an
asshole, and it turns out I was looking for somebody with compassion.
Another 40 days to see another cardiologist.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I could blather about the degree to which mood swings have overtaken my life, but I
have no constructive observations about how to avoid dizziness and palpitations
when they leave me momentarily suspended over the precipice. I just hold on
when things tip sideways, and take great comfort in feline companionship and
hard cider. Nor can I impart words of wisdom for defending against panic
attacks, or less severe quiet smothering of all confidence in dealing with the
world. When I went to the gym this morning, I realized I hadn’t left the house
for four days. From the weather, you’d never know. It’s perpetually damp and
rainy, or cold and drizzly, or twilight at noon. Or it’s the middle of another
night spotlighted by neighbors whose houses are too close and who are afraid of
the dark and leave lights glaring in my bedroom windows all night. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Much
other contemporary social media like FB and Instagram are hipstamatically
illustrated, presenting curated lives of love, adventure and happy children; or
posters of banal clichés (is that redundant?) or two sentences worth of
pre-digested and misspelled thoughts some twit incorrectly assumed would
interest the internets. Blogging seems positively relatively primitive anyway and requiring an attention span longer than a TV commercial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Upon
further thought however, my thoughts this gloomy afternoon can be summarized in
two short sentences: It has been a long time since winter has found me. I had
forgotten how much my mood is influenced by real winter.</span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-13801164033361442782016-01-06T14:57:00.002-08:002016-01-06T14:57:49.890-08:00Sunny With Chance of Contentment<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 3.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Have you
seen the rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Turn the
earth to mud?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And watched
the mud turn gold in the rising sun?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have you
seen it, brother?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will you
come outside and see?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According
to a legitimate peer-reviewed study conducted by reputable scientists that I
just made up for this post, grumpy old ladies have perfect comic timing; we
just don’t perform standup very often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
exclusively perform for my cats, who appreciate the sublime cosmic significance
of my humor, the subtle double entendres, the understated sarcasm, the
self-deprecating modesty that I deploy with such dependable and consistent
hilarity. My cats don’t judge me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Actually,
although the above was correct when I first wrote it back before Thanksgiving,
it’s not true now. It’s me and my cat – singular. Patti was old and tired and
now she’s gone. We agreed it was time and we said goodbye. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She cried on the way to the vet – real
tears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want to talk about it any
more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was
depressed and that was the low point and now I’m a lot better. I feel a bit
guilty when natives meet me and immediately apologize for the harsh weather: we
don’t usually get this. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course I
don’t tell people not to feel personally responsible for my misery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m enjoying too much the pity I get for
being exiled from Paradise in this stark, dark, cold wet winter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is out at the moment and I’ve done some catching up on my Honey Do List.
Yesterday, I finished an onerous chore: I got my WA driver’s license and
replaced my CA tags on my old car. It was an all-day task, requiring a visit to
the DOL drivers’ license place, and then a perilous drive across-town in the
rain where I got my WA license plates at another DOL office. There is no DMV in Washington and apparently it hasn't occurred to them to combine the offices. They have the Department of Licensing, complete with different branches in different places to obtain your driver's permit, and to register your </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">vehicle</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> and obtain license </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">plates</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">. And all supported by an unhelpful website. From the website, it was unclear whether I had to have my license before I could register my car (I did), whether I'd have to take a driving test (I didn't) and whether I'd have to provide proof of insurance (I didn't although it's required go figure). It was unclear precisely what I needed to get a license, how long I'd have to wait (just under 4 hours) to find out whether I'd guessed right and brought originals of my expired passport and sewer bill to prove citizenship and residency. Possibly respectively. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The biggest source of uncertainty and anxiety was whether they'd check my license and find that I had a speeding ticket - photo enforced up the street. in mid-November. Thank goodness the cameras in WA only photograph the vehicle and license plate, not the driver. Which was lucky because the ticket that chased me to So Cal and back to WA and included an affidavit I could have signed to deny being the driver although the car was clearly mine. One of the registered owners is deceased, so I gave a moment's thought to whether his ghost could have been speeding. But then, since the tags had been expired over a month at the date of the ticket and were over 2 months expired by yesterday, I decided to go under the radar and pay the fine. Which I did and which included a "courtesy fee" of $4 for the </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">privilege</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> of paying online instead of sending a check. Presumably, WA needs to fund their DOLs from such polite fees and should probably increase the courtesy instead of increasing the wait times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">I opted for an Enhanced ID that includes
a magnetic strip for </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">identification details like </span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">what I had for breakfast and that enables The
Man to see through the back of my eyes and read my thoughts.</span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">It takes longer to sell your soul in exchange
for the promise of visiting British Columbia without renewing a passport than
it took MYS yesterday morning to fly back to -19F weather and 600 emails. In exchange for paying
an extra $25, my license will include my motorcycle permit, and no irony
intended, my consent to donate my organs. I also registered to vote, I think.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">After getting my "temporary" license (which looks </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 17px;">suspiciously</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;"> like a xerox copy of my license) I went to the registration store across town where there were two signs hanging from the ceiling. The first, which had 0 people beneath it, said "New or Transfer Registration" and the other line which snaked out the door said "Renewals Only". So I stood beneath the empty sign and was immediately waved to the front by the next available clerk. Only to be rudely interrupted by a woman at the back of the long line who demanded that I tell her what line I was in. When I pointed to the sign above, she said she didn't see that sign - like it was my fault and that's the line she should have been in. I graciously waved her in front of me without even suggesting she pay me a $4 courtesy fee for being a dumb shit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">Just now, I walked around the front and back yard with a landscape expert who will return
next week and do a yard cleanup to undo the effects of months of neglect and
weeks of freezing temps and rain. I can’t wait to see the yard again, even if
it’s months before I can go outside and play.</span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-65546337825961532812015-12-05T10:23:00.001-08:002015-12-05T10:23:18.625-08:00Today"It might sound sentimental to say it, but we are blessed by the dead, and we know that we are, in spite of our protestations to the contrary. They leave spaces in our lives that, for some of us, are the closest thing to sacred that we ever know."<br />
- John BurnsideWeeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-70286344540414007772015-12-04T16:47:00.000-08:002015-12-04T16:47:37.555-08:00No World Domination After Lunch Today<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">“Space is infinite to men without destinations.”</span></div>
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success in the sense that I’m still alive. For the first time, I went to the
new orthodontist today all by myself into the big city, and I made it home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the address, the nice lady - inexplicably named Louella - directed me there.
Unfortunately, her directions for getting home were inexplicable. Lu assumes
road are all at ground level. However, there are a lot of places in Seattle (especially when crossing between Puget Sound and the mainland downtown across a
body of water I have yet to identify) where there are roads on top of roads. Lu
usually detects when I miss a turn because my icon moves the wrong way on the
map. But when I take a road above the road she told me to take, she gets
confused and thinks I’m still at sea level on some frontage road leading to the
bridge when I’m on a very long entrance ramp at a different altitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Or, perhaps she’s trying to kill me. All the way across the bridge across the water, she kept
telling me to turn right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me to take imaginary exits while I
calmly stayed the course and finally un-pried my white knuckles from the
steering wheel to hit the “suspend stupid guidance” button to shut her up after I made it across the bridge without taking her advice to plummet to a watery
grave. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good job, you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had wine for lunch. This required me to reschedule my call to the home warranty
people about the circuit breaker that trips halfway through the washing machine
cycle; talk with the escrow people about the escrow snafu du jour, or call and
attempt to speak to humans about health, home, or car insurance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">This decision not to interact with other humans was
made after I barely get through a call from a guy who called to schedule
delivery of my new mattress. I was all, I want it tonight, dude and he was all,
next Wednesday and somebody over 18 has to sign for it. I solemnly assured him
I was old enough to sign for a stupid mattress and in fact, by next Wednesday I
should have overthrown the stupid Washington State Department of Licensing which
sounds like a good name to call a place until you realize you have to go to a
different place to register your car and the DOL doesn’t make appointments and
their website doesn’t tell me whether I have to pass a written or road test.
And plus, I have to cross the bridge and take some other 3-D route that cause
Louella to attempt to murder me again to get to a DMV, I mean a DOL. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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taste the bitter wine of defeat when I abolish those two branches of state
government. And the Department of Redundancy Department, I said after I hung
up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13pt;">The wine, and the possibly unwise conversation with
the delivery schedule guy about the auto licensing and registration procedure,
caused me to re-think the wisdom of attempting to conquer the world before dinner.
I still have goals. They are just flexible is all. Decaf latte, anyone?</span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-46003192923834550772015-11-30T17:00:00.002-08:002015-11-30T17:00:37.337-08:00Shut Up about Seasons<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">"What </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">foolish</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> forgetfulness or </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">mortality</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">sixtieth</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">The sun sets by 4:30 and never makes it to the top
of the sky at noon because I now live at latitude 47N and tomorrow is December.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD6bOhvY6in_Qvz-1g-6NfEm-fWjn6oDueSKcMegdA8EtShPAk3WTQw6YYyyJWYhDDNwhwjWJYP-r0D_-Q3oKzFwbIkM0AIZ2uScXlErsl-mxzU-34NCSNBEowT_Ui3Jr4HC013A/s1600/IMG_7863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD6bOhvY6in_Qvz-1g-6NfEm-fWjn6oDueSKcMegdA8EtShPAk3WTQw6YYyyJWYhDDNwhwjWJYP-r0D_-Q3oKzFwbIkM0AIZ2uScXlErsl-mxzU-34NCSNBEowT_Ui3Jr4HC013A/s400/IMG_7863.JPG" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In addition to coastal regions bordering the
Mediterranean Sea, the fabled <a href="https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=chr-greentree_sf&ei=utf-8&ilc=12&type=453483&p=mediterranean%20climates%20in%20the%20world">Mediterranean
Climate</a> (30-45 degrees north and south of the equator) are found in western
coastal regions of large subtropical continents including Southern California,
central Chile, southern Western Australia and the western cape of South Africa.
I lived in a Mediterranean climate until last week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I had to use the defroster on high to melt the ice
on my windshield this morning, which I appreciated the hell out of because it
gave me time to overcome the shock of needing an ice scraper. (Notice the outside temperature in the upper left corner of dash display.) When I moved here
a week ago, the temperature was 43f and I was assured this is as cold as it
gets. (Insert insufferable joke about how now I live where they have seasons.) Just
because meteorologists in San Diego rarely use the term wind-chill factor,
doesn’t mean they don’t, quotey hands, appreciate it. Despite what some people
think, there are seasons in Mediterranean climates. They are slightly subtler
than a blizzard or a hurricane; and the understated charm of warm sunshine
cannot be overstated. The beauties of the swirling grey fog at noon escape me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the glow of my full-spectrum light bulb I’m taking a break from unpacking boxes
and wondering what the hell I was thinking moving here alone this time of year
as we head into the colder, shorter and darker days of the year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">While the industrial strength grease prescribed for
my anxiety-induced hives has begun to stop the blistering and itching, I was
unable to obtain a simple blood test to determine whether the elevated levels
of rat poison in my blood have subsided, because the people at the
anticoagulation clinic were, let’s just say, uncompassionate. I was denied a
test this morning despite a referral I was told they required. We never even
got to the point where the receptionist listened to me explain today is the
last day of my current insurance coverage and I haven’t had confirmation of my
new local insurance. Nope, even if you’re bleeding from your eyes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">I thought this was the season of peace and joy,
asshole. Guess you don’t have that season in this latitude. Before walking away
in disgust, I said why don’t you just tell me “I am not the little prick you are
looking for”? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-34898519582621703372015-10-19T13:45:00.000-07:002015-10-19T13:47:01.994-07:00Going Local<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Slowing down your body enough to feel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Thought you were at a standstill<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">but you were only slowing down enough<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">to feel the pain. There are worse things<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">than running to catch the train, twisting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">your ankle, the afternoon fucked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Running to get to or away from?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">the stranger who helps you up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">wants to know, you who are so used to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">surprised to find yourself<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">reaching for someone else's hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Timothy
Liu, <a href="http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/249412" target="_blank">All Trains Are Going Local</a></span></div>
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climate you’ve grown old in and transplanting to a new climate zone. I have a
40 year long taproot here. My trunk has grown thick and ragged and my knuckles
are like small branches with arthritic twists and bumps. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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place. That includes selling this house after cleaning and fixing up the worst
parts. That includes attending to more logistical and financial detail than I’m
now accustomed to. Finally, that includes the fact that I can’t pack and carry
a box of books to the car without having to take a nap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to be stressed about moving to the new place. I have become a happy hermit who
prefers the company of my cat and a good book to lunch with the ladies. That is
about to change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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profusely. Like becoming accustomed to gardening with little water, I have
chosen to live without people. I have made do with knowing a single neighbor in
this house I’ve occupied for 30 years. I don’t need to socialize, limiting my
friends to a few carefully chosen like-minded eccentric friends who volunteer
together a few hours a week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people. I’m moving into an actual neighborhood like the one I grew up in. The
broker that sold us the house lives across the street. Several neighbors (including
the guy pictured here) have dropped by to introduce themselves in the brief few
days I’ve visited prior to moving. The seller’s grown child lives nearby and –
with our permission - is sending a letter to introduce us to our new neighbors.
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about ourselves. I wanted to say I have moved here as part of the Federal
Witness Relocation program and will no longer answer to the name
“Thumb-Crusher” preferring to go by my brand new name and brand new profession
as a Life Coach. I wanted to say that my sister has recently returned from what
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Murder is more positive than suicide, right? I’m not ready to throw a holiday
open house where I serve Dad’s egg nog and worry about my kitty sneaking out.
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">This is perhaps the most stressful thing about the
whole move. I’m almost ready to reach out for somebody’s hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-9440673149868019482015-09-25T16:27:00.001-07:002015-09-28T11:33:47.837-07:00Change is Hard<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_demiVTg-kR9Gni1RT_v7j5zgc1nws6oOASbjmA97uMl7qLOuSeLhaw1lowYv60xWQ2rCwB53zCNykGoh5nVzIYnJ1gFSIBBarXLmNgL68lTIU9ApXaNOsoaQXrp3Yl_5k311Ew/s1600/kittycrowther_le_grand-desordre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_demiVTg-kR9Gni1RT_v7j5zgc1nws6oOASbjmA97uMl7qLOuSeLhaw1lowYv60xWQ2rCwB53zCNykGoh5nVzIYnJ1gFSIBBarXLmNgL68lTIU9ApXaNOsoaQXrp3Yl_5k311Ew/s400/kittycrowther_le_grand-desordre.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t stand in the doorway<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Don’t block up the hall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For he that gets hurt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Will be he who has stalled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a Changing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are those who insist
that nothing is impossible. I respectfully disagree. I used to do nothing every
day. Except this week while I’ve been staggering more than a one legged man on
a tightrope. I saw this fork in the road, and I took it and I didn’t realize it
would involve so much deciding, spending, worrying, scheduling, working and
getting dirty. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And so very much cleaning.
Hoarding should be a hanging offense and everybody should have to move every 5
years. To a smaller place each time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would have said doing all
this in such a short time was impossible. I was wrong. I also underestimated
how cranky it would make me. And believe me, I already know I am easily pissed.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cats complicate my life
because they have to be segregated from each other and from whatever room
people are coming and going and there’s been a lot of that. The other day, I
was wandering around looking for my misplaced (fill in the blank) and glanced
outside and noticed Lily strolling through the back yard. Inside the house no
longer constitutes an enriched environment/hoader’s paradise and the cats are
cranky about losing their hiding places. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With all the coming and going
and packing and loading and cleaning and looking for the disappearing magic
markers (Wait! Is that why they’re magic?) I’ve been blocking hallways or been
blocked in doorways. I have totally not been stalled and I’m covered with the
kind of bruises only a 3.2 INR and hauling boxes (or losing a meth-head slam-dancing
contest) can make.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What has got me through?
Although I have not abused any substances, I have treated several with great
respect. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Photo credit: Kitty Crowther, Le Grande Disordre, which looks like me but I wasn't getting any help from living rats)</span></div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-74166847121132052872015-08-26T13:19:00.002-07:002015-08-26T13:50:08.520-07:00Moving to Seattle<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
“If you search for tenderness</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It isn’t hard to find.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can have the love you
need to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But if you look for
truthfulness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You might just as well be
blind…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don’t want some pretty face
to tell me pretty lies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All I want is someone to
believe.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Billy Joel, Honesty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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My sister is an Edumacator (sic)
from Detroit. I have lived in Southern California longer than I’ve ever lived
anywhere else. We have been <i>talking</i> for years about moving in together in our
dotage. This year, because we are both now with no rings and no strings, we have
started <i>negotiating</i> about actually doing it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We finally agreed on a
location on the Puget Sound in a community not unlike the neighborhood where we
grew up – where you actually know and like and socialize with your neighbors, and you and look out
for each other. We finally settled on about a year out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Barely two weeks ago, our
schedule abruptly changed. We just bought a house near Seattle. My POD will
arrive in a few weeks. My handyman guy is fixing what my real estate guy says
needs to be fixed. I feel like Nancy: “The whole world is spinning.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Why, you are asking, did all
this happen so suddenly? I know I am. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We were motivated by our desire to retain our independence
longer; and we wanted to do this before our kids had to do it for us; and my sister is a Zillow junkie. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly, I blame the Illuminati and the
increasingly obvious collusion of our grown children – let’s call them the
Diabolical Conspiring Cousins (DCC) to protect their presumed innocence. They
convinced my sister to stop dithering around in slightly less genteel terms. <o:p></o:p></span>Ok, they convinced me too.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwfUPqOmqYJqo7ofYX_kRPDQe8JlIqRdT_DOi0PQeLlxfF_MjqkBNY_45CjN2d9iKssJLxvfYgY7kQpInKHbGcWEbc-ziFcc0y45mbNa3YWhH2iFCXsQrwI4VxcgEfjgzJE1qAKg/s1600/RemodelMuch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwfUPqOmqYJqo7ofYX_kRPDQe8JlIqRdT_DOi0PQeLlxfF_MjqkBNY_45CjN2d9iKssJLxvfYgY7kQpInKHbGcWEbc-ziFcc0y45mbNa3YWhH2iFCXsQrwI4VxcgEfjgzJE1qAKg/s320/RemodelMuch.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since then, as another of our
sisters sagely advised me, this has become a full-time job. Of course, we’re
older, and we’re slower, but we’re feisty and together we’re a pretty smart
team. I’ve ended many long days completely fried from sending texts, reading
documents, arranging and interpreting inspections, negotiating yet more
documents, e-signing seemingly endlessly. A lot of what I’m doing is similar to
what I used to do for a living. But that was more than ten years ago. This is
work that demands substantially more focus and concentration than I typically spend these days deciding what to
make for dinner. I’ve been sleeping very well after long days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now it’s all over – except for
more endless paperwork, negotiations, repairs, and the lurking statute of
frauds that compels me to want everything in writing and carefully documented.
Ok, compulsively documented. Within a week or so, I will officially no longer
be among the ranks of the second-homeless. No way am I moving before the mid-century-modern-meets-psychadelic-contact-papered wet bar basement is hit with a sledgehammer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shortly before the purchase
reached the point of no return, one of the DCC recently, gently and
oh so diplomatically suggested the mere possibility that we might get on each
others’ nerves. After a moment of silent mystification at the very thought (!) I
practically did a spit-take. Whaaaat???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you decide to move back
in with the sibling you shared a bedroom with for your first 15 years or so, it’s not like
you don’t know you’re in for a wild ride. Within a couple of anxious, stressful
and emotional months my sister and I will be on our way to the Pacific Northwest
from the Midwest and from Southern California respectively.</span><br />
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And we’ll settle down and
begin to get honestly on each other’s nerves. There comes a time when
truthfulness in a relationship is worth more than a pretty face. It's going to be a bumpy ride, but we got this.</div>
Weeping Sorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05617503185773155102noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33026160.post-69721197527473238282015-08-23T14:43:00.000-07:002015-08-23T14:43:11.654-07:00Men Can’t Have Anything To Themselves<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
Two women are now Army
Rangers. Yay. Congratulations. Etc. Then, backlash. Andrea Tantaros is <a href="http://jezebel.com/andrea-tantaros-on-women-army-rangers-men-cant-have-an-1725843637" target="_blank">sad</a>. Andrea Tantaros worries that we might be hurting the boys’ feelings. Andrea
says “I believe in equality and all those things, but…”</div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">... Andrea Tantaros says men
can’t have anything to themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> While we may never know if some of those "other things" Andrea Tantros may believe in are pay equality, right of women to control their own bodies, and whatnot, I will concede Andrea Tantaros is right: there are a lot of things men did </span></span>exclusively in the good old days when jobs were advertised in two different sections of newspaper classified ads: men and women.</div>
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I won't argue with Andrea Tantaros that women have indeed been making inroads into the boys clubs lately. There are women public leaders, women politicians, women government officials, and women in management generally. And lately, even some women clergymen (sic) and women terrorists. The military was clearly in the targets of these uppity women who think it's all about them and appear insensitive to the self-esteem of men. Andrea Tantaros may be on to something about how sad this may make some men who may no longer permitted to have some things to themselves. Andrea Tantaros is a woman, so she should know it sucks not to have anything to yourself. </div>
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But Andrea Tantaros, I am not as disturbed by the fact that more woman are determined to encroach on all all-male bastions. I seek to reassure you, Andrea Tantaros. It turns out men still have a bit of an edge in all those above professions. Women have a long way to go from two female Rangers to violent overthrow of the hegemony of the male discourse and replacing non-optional female genital mutilation with mandatory male castration. </div>
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Andrea Tantaros, don't worry sweetie. It might reassure you to know that although men are encroaching on many of the following traditionally female lifestyles, women still make up the greatest proportion of whores, rape victims, single parents and lowest paid people. So maybe the scales balance out, right Andrea Tantaros?</div>
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Andrea Tantaros says men can't have anything to themselves. Like that's true. Like
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Everything has been
said. But nobody listens. Therefore it has to be said all over again-- only
better."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To Whom It May Concern:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The purpose of this post is
to say how sad it was that after watching the Fox Republicans Debate last
night, it wasn’t until the talking heads of the world told the sheep what
happened that the sheep looked up. It was when reading last night’s news this morning that I realized it doesn’t actually have to be said all over
again. I heard it the first time. A while back in fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhmfSx5yu46Tvfflr3K5s2ZO7In0S170f6QLRcfQ-fsg3AzM9yWrA7tCG6iuc9JDylUWdIMKUuBZSBybmNPQJ1E_PrJ5dptvqAwH92l5thn0Ym7BBFKOHffd9N6jO0p_uwKl-3Q/s1600/IMG_7001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhmfSx5yu46Tvfflr3K5s2ZO7In0S170f6QLRcfQ-fsg3AzM9yWrA7tCG6iuc9JDylUWdIMKUuBZSBybmNPQJ1E_PrJ5dptvqAwH92l5thn0Ym7BBFKOHffd9N6jO0p_uwKl-3Q/s320/IMG_7001.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is my sincere hope that
somebody else out there has any fucks to give about the next president
because I’m not listening any more: I’d rather watch a pot boil. But somebody
should pay attention or we will have a violent revolution in this country. It
may already be underway (like the way the Internet was actually born on June
6, 1969*) and we may have just not realized it’s begun. This has
been a rather violent summer, focused mostly on race. But history teaches
that these things can smoke and spread far and wide before sparks erupt into
a firestorm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is time for a new leader
to either unite us or to take up the cause of the social revolution. Maybe
one of you unemployed folks with six-figure student loans and no insurance?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The mission of this post is
to ask for somebody to step forward to say it so well everybody listens and
everybody hears it because I’m too tired and cynical. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If mission not accomplished
then diem carped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“It happened on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">June 6th, 1969</b>, at
eleven hundred hours, eastern seaboard time," Pierre counters.
"That was when the first network control protocol packets were sent from
the data port of one IMP to another – the first ever Internet connection.
That's the singularity. Since then we've all been living in a universe that
was impossible to predict from events prior to that time.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Charles Stross, Accelerando<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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