tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91660540358264367122024-03-17T20:01:26.994-07:00Way of the DodoL. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comBlogger1234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-57302853040889540512024-03-14T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-14T00:00:00.141-07:00gentrified crackers<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvWLPTJgrvGHgMGKI5gg2kwLGDxA1VJxTY5_4FxeI4UO21MA9GxkXvayA4bnaNhWpjG3lzRPUUUL8gqyXZk6gR08-a3w0kw7DdKjYLMtgBqXmDY6XKs3yLGcDHUV3DTnz_DoXNKxdf1Lbfc_4-miWzPX51xpQbGCf-fZrt4krgHTtqrBlzSXk7LHGX8Q/s4000/IMG_20240223_182137484.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFvWLPTJgrvGHgMGKI5gg2kwLGDxA1VJxTY5_4FxeI4UO21MA9GxkXvayA4bnaNhWpjG3lzRPUUUL8gqyXZk6gR08-a3w0kw7DdKjYLMtgBqXmDY6XKs3yLGcDHUV3DTnz_DoXNKxdf1Lbfc_4-miWzPX51xpQbGCf-fZrt4krgHTtqrBlzSXk7LHGX8Q/w480-h640/IMG_20240223_182137484.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p>Dear Curious,</p><p>Looking around, I found <a href="https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022761-fried-saltines-with-cheddar-and-onion?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk0.doMZ.If1zoOVEpLVK&smid=share-url" target="_blank">this recipe</a> for fried saltines, and of course, I asked myself: yes, but is it good? And here at the Dodo Test Kitchens we work to answer that question for you, dear reader. I could tell you, like many blog recipes seem to, in twelve pages of photos and dubious prose, gushing relentlessly.* But no, I am going to tell you clearly and decisively in a very short sentence: make them, eat them, they are great! They transform your workhorse, blue collar saltines to Boutique, Artisanal, Small Batch!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Fried Saltines with Cheddar and Onion</b>:</p><p>1 pound Cheddar</p><p>1 small white onion</p><p>About a cup and a half of oil (I used light olive oil)</p><p>1 sleeve saltine crackers</p><p>Yellow or brown mustard, for serving</p><p>Slice the Cheddar in neat tablets slightly smaller than the saltines. Slice the onion into thin crescent moons (not half-moons), cutting from root to shoot ends so the ribs fall apart more easily, are shorter and, therefore, more manageable to chew and swallow.</p><p>Heat the oil in a deep-sided sauté pan over medium-high to 350 degrees. Stick a wooden chopstick in the oil to see if it sizzles. If it does, it’s ready. Fry the saltines in 3 quick batches, adjusting the heat as needed, using a spider or a slotted spoon to swirl them around a little and to make sure they cook evenly to golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes per batch. Drain on a wire rack until cool. They keep for a week in an airtight container.</p><p>Set the crackers, cheese and onion on a platter to serve with mustard in a ramekin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* I sometimes wonder, when I read <a href="https://julieblanner.com/cheese-and-crackers/" target="_blank">these kinds</a>* of recipes, scrolling finally down to the actual nub of the thing- the ingredients and instructions- are they being paid by the word or page? Is 'content provider' lucrative if you get over the ten page mark? <a href="https://jjpryor.substack.com/p/why-are-online-recipes-always-so#:~:text=And%20since%20Google%20prefers%20longer,shoe%20before%20going%20on%20to" target="_blank">Right again.</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfOK0evCqZY" target="_blank">Let X = X.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* Technically, more than one recipe, I know. Also technically, barely a recipe in the first place.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-80088468440830441472024-03-11T00:00:00.000-07:002024-03-11T00:00:00.136-07:00birds<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTieFZpOY6aQJGJrvl2xDdZ_2nzNg5V1WbSyJS3XfltTalXdPJ_XXKtxMOSVXjGtNQbjzB8JM1qmV3RTiDzvqkdV0-iv6MogjBaEDvIvrryxnC7pm1ouvbb0T0sVemtjM3ZP3aa4cBtxE2SW9UqZcQDDVy0Jf9cBLIPRTtAn3raWY_gII9duBKYa1VN4/s4000/IMG_20240227_142611658.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwTieFZpOY6aQJGJrvl2xDdZ_2nzNg5V1WbSyJS3XfltTalXdPJ_XXKtxMOSVXjGtNQbjzB8JM1qmV3RTiDzvqkdV0-iv6MogjBaEDvIvrryxnC7pm1ouvbb0T0sVemtjM3ZP3aa4cBtxE2SW9UqZcQDDVy0Jf9cBLIPRTtAn3raWY_gII9duBKYa1VN4/w640-h480/IMG_20240227_142611658.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Looking for Love,</p><p>Here is your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry01mrtQJhI" target="_blank">song for today</a>, and here is your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE" target="_blank">nest cam</a> for Eagle watching. Plenty of love in both of these things to keep you satisfied.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-27940308610471092752024-03-08T00:00:00.000-08:002024-03-08T00:00:00.130-08:00cat box<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-kJoENnYW34jJu-PGvwFLdhhnVf5sqve19dR8w8acOhDOqgRTRyBgXATDBkxzIB66TQFGd3uEpXWlm4bFn0psYTd3Marhfju_upiKgM3BXIGZMQZrAQ1nmMaxm3INmjUv8ggqbI3ffXeJ8rAdV-oMPgOFj9iyvcSf2xj3MsG9-INuvGoxwTiXKvD1zKQ/s4000/IMG_20240224_160058811.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-kJoENnYW34jJu-PGvwFLdhhnVf5sqve19dR8w8acOhDOqgRTRyBgXATDBkxzIB66TQFGd3uEpXWlm4bFn0psYTd3Marhfju_upiKgM3BXIGZMQZrAQ1nmMaxm3INmjUv8ggqbI3ffXeJ8rAdV-oMPgOFj9iyvcSf2xj3MsG9-INuvGoxwTiXKvD1zKQ/w640-h480/IMG_20240224_160058811.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-20821409147776558622024-03-06T00:00:00.000-08:002024-03-06T00:00:00.142-08:002100<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExseac9HV9Ad18mqio0F2F-sy0ufOIgefxBBf1uOeug6cMee-j-o-iwvceqEZXkWUmh2oPYyu34nNPBTJ-C5c-7uAxD6dG0jPUlC0Up6vjV33VvjrjKV3DRc1gChpwmV3blhAFQa3lnPjWfyIhwYLUUvjatSq1HUWWp3RFauXORnIsQA6vdI4kAMafHo/s4000/IMG_20240229_180024345.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgExseac9HV9Ad18mqio0F2F-sy0ufOIgefxBBf1uOeug6cMee-j-o-iwvceqEZXkWUmh2oPYyu34nNPBTJ-C5c-7uAxD6dG0jPUlC0Up6vjV33VvjrjKV3DRc1gChpwmV3blhAFQa3lnPjWfyIhwYLUUvjatSq1HUWWp3RFauXORnIsQA6vdI4kAMafHo/w480-h640/IMG_20240229_180024345.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Everyone,</p><p>It's <a href="http://www.wayofthedodo.org/2023/11/two-thousand.html" target="_blank">time again</a> for me to exhort you to roller skate! Sometimes, just occasionally, I despair of convincing you; I feel even, a little resentful that I keep on asking & asking, and you just don't seem to respond. I often blame myself: I must not have asked correctly, I wasn't convincing, I wasn't firm enough, I wasn't enthusiastic enough, silver-tongued enough. I have a thing here to try, though, and it is this: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/11/14/1123281060/roller-skating-love" target="_blank">you don't have to take my word for it</a>. </p><p>If Kia Miakka Natisse doesn't convince you, I'll try again, in another hundred days! Meanwhile, I am going to try, and try, and try again to get adequate at the challenging 3 turn. Here are some how tos, if you want to join me! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Fs3o0i7UI&t=120s" target="_blank">How one</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_eNsL0_8-A&t=387s" target="_blank">how two</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnpkP9Dox8A" target="_blank">how three</a>. And, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA8lnoru3F0" target="_blank">how</a> it might really look, to work on it, if you aren't at the level of Video Skate Instructor! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-20760557039398746532024-03-04T00:00:00.000-08:002024-03-04T00:00:00.142-08:00storied trees<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxH5r1B6xyyaaD42ct7VeNxfFzPwq4bcx5QPbXdSqucqwhVcF3JkbCZKf2ZS0U6hnsfD0KJ84p1Hl_r6DB3uJAifWimozJfbJuXR9QciEdsXo75hNItTokvYndNLkkrifeW3XpTDWD7xXzLkGKuoHLAoDtS5iTvU1SNQagKYqZxiqM4w0PV5fFM7SlSs/s668/Screenshot%202024-02-16%20132106.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="491" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMxH5r1B6xyyaaD42ct7VeNxfFzPwq4bcx5QPbXdSqucqwhVcF3JkbCZKf2ZS0U6hnsfD0KJ84p1Hl_r6DB3uJAifWimozJfbJuXR9QciEdsXo75hNItTokvYndNLkkrifeW3XpTDWD7xXzLkGKuoHLAoDtS5iTvU1SNQagKYqZxiqM4w0PV5fFM7SlSs/w470-h640/Screenshot%202024-02-16%20132106.png" width="470" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Trees 1</i>, watercolor on paper, 2002,</span> <a href="http://matsgustafson.org/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mats Gustafson.</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Reader,</p><p>I am back at my job; yes, I know, I don't know whether it is a funeral or cause for celebration either, but I am there in any event. Thinking about light and paper, as I do at my job, I am also thinking of what makes a good watercolor painting. You can make them a lot of ways, but some of the best ingredients might include:</p><p>attention</p><p>delicacy</p><p>love for the subject</p><p><br /></p><p>Mats Gustafson has some paintings of trees and rocks that come to mind as good examples. If you really want to nerd out on, or dive deep into <a href="https://www.artandcommerce.com/artists/illustrator/Mats-Gustafson/Exhibition-Catalogs---Books" target="_blank">Mats G.</a>, (taking care to ignore the fatuous title) watch this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTPel_iw30">film.</a></p><p>On the topic of trees, I have been saving this old oak for you, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelton_Oak" target="_blank">The Shelton Oak</a>. And, these, <a href="https://treesofmystery.net/" target="_blank">The Trees of Mystery</a>, and this, The Trees of Mystery, singing your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYtGkvOrOJI" target="_blank">song of the day</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-24542999083393252852024-02-29T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-29T00:00:00.238-08:00yarn-o-matic<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXo4tTSfK-JCNkDcH-vwJJVGDmOSaHTzb3mUGdMX-kwMJcyG4k7cmoI7UG5ROWN8uxmLg9pflZhs0p_VLmsGHWcISGEHmkoJh6XFr5AvlkWDgUMqlu2Bfjrpv8yaAtz1EbQl_XpRdmQelFIg2wWLMO9Sz5xcdsvMzYp6Elosd-DWd1weJqbaSUtxONI5w/s4000/IMG_20240222_100226234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXo4tTSfK-JCNkDcH-vwJJVGDmOSaHTzb3mUGdMX-kwMJcyG4k7cmoI7UG5ROWN8uxmLg9pflZhs0p_VLmsGHWcISGEHmkoJh6XFr5AvlkWDgUMqlu2Bfjrpv8yaAtz1EbQl_XpRdmQelFIg2wWLMO9Sz5xcdsvMzYp6Elosd-DWd1weJqbaSUtxONI5w/w640-h480/IMG_20240222_100226234.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear String People,</p><p>These <a href="https://at-swim-two-birds.blogspot.com/search/label/crochet" target="_blank">things</a>* are the ne plus ultra of objects for me. I am trying to make something like them (see above). The One Cat likes to sleep on it, even partly finished. The Two Cat likes to wrestle it into a snarled heap. The three of us together are pretty chuffed with this project, which has been going on for months and months.</p><p>My other yarn projects include a sweater with the kind of skinny-slow-splitty yarn that I cyclically swear off. I am in an ascendant phase of swearing, which might reach its peak in something wearable, and it might just languish in a cute knitting bag until death does us part. I was betting on the sweater until recently, when I got to the point of the sleeves. So many sweaters end there, I expect. Still, maybe it could have a life as a short skirt? It doesn't even have sleeves, but separating the 266 stitches into two sections of 131 has been a serious blow to morale. Morale is everything in making.</p><p>Anyway, the whole silly sweater thing wouldn't have even been attempted if it weren't for the beauty of <a href="https://www.labienaimee.com/products/merino-aran" target="_blank">these yarns</a> from La Bien Aimee. So delicious! I showed them to a friend who said: "My next cat is going to be a skein."</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>* I really love this artist's work; all of it, the yarn things, the watercolors, the photographs, the clay things. I am in extreme awe and envy of Renilde de Peuter. See more of her work <a href="https://www.instagram.com/renildedepeuter/?hl=en">here</a>. As usual, I am asking myself, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1L3wH11MuA" target="_blank">Why Can't I Be You,</a> Renilde? </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-38625308264399924862024-02-27T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-27T00:00:00.238-08:00it is coming: spring<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitNjEXauTao18is9q_5UCxHF5jdtf16wQDktQdAGub1TlXVbkkxd0xhfj7Cx_GJ-DeTx9Q28LcVmx7vep6Aj198EOskX_WVgCmS113QLdwaIheGFOjMy09zcvfoGofSn3D1UxrH0SFBKZ2zUQJcpg7pp-1CQe25CiR8CWFgey-I0QAXrUdGQkKD9iutNU/s4000/IMG_20240225_163358808.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitNjEXauTao18is9q_5UCxHF5jdtf16wQDktQdAGub1TlXVbkkxd0xhfj7Cx_GJ-DeTx9Q28LcVmx7vep6Aj198EOskX_WVgCmS113QLdwaIheGFOjMy09zcvfoGofSn3D1UxrH0SFBKZ2zUQJcpg7pp-1CQe25CiR8CWFgey-I0QAXrUdGQkKD9iutNU/w480-h640/IMG_20240225_163358808.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-37020622462332962272024-02-25T20:21:00.000-08:002024-02-25T20:21:59.462-08:00magnolia<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qu_3ZDxTM6QAUmccOPDbtMquPcK7gjrIdVJbGtZaduWVybRZguWGKjXaoSoMaiDop1e989rAjo4BWkVlocpnB3U-d5-RbR_i0eKDf2C1NRY9WRClHS5Pc9h-guCXqAj1razDd2oS4HLfSQpAPWImYTRTDa0dmLkjpeFKDNS5VlnIbpymn4n4k5yIOds/s4000/IMG_20240225_171413302.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qu_3ZDxTM6QAUmccOPDbtMquPcK7gjrIdVJbGtZaduWVybRZguWGKjXaoSoMaiDop1e989rAjo4BWkVlocpnB3U-d5-RbR_i0eKDf2C1NRY9WRClHS5Pc9h-guCXqAj1razDd2oS4HLfSQpAPWImYTRTDa0dmLkjpeFKDNS5VlnIbpymn4n4k5yIOds/w300-h400/IMG_20240225_171413302.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-23520071960551531432024-02-25T00:00:00.001-08:002024-02-25T00:00:00.129-08:00petal fall<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmDIlbaoxy4nszRrkYDjZdYtFas4dTuOHyhX30Dil7dCt85wFLdtpRW_-knWGgwS2qsAEsaJzzcZRgIVkPPHGjWTpEb9y14fggRczpfeuJ5ZeK2MENctzkf9gAr2uGr8TZ8qlF32mDrKvyM6PniD6BKQH8tDfLRcQLJMb9l32l6tdUF7KpXSZVv6NNeI/s4000/IMG_20240223_161022937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilmDIlbaoxy4nszRrkYDjZdYtFas4dTuOHyhX30Dil7dCt85wFLdtpRW_-knWGgwS2qsAEsaJzzcZRgIVkPPHGjWTpEb9y14fggRczpfeuJ5ZeK2MENctzkf9gAr2uGr8TZ8qlF32mDrKvyM6PniD6BKQH8tDfLRcQLJMb9l32l6tdUF7KpXSZVv6NNeI/w480-h640/IMG_20240223_161022937.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1FM_WhvrTxc0oNAum7PxkVXd5akJcag8SCI3uy_-wVVxxZNovCON4rf7vo6A39cNE8whb6lTO6AKvByY0Kj_a7KzF_SPbGhl2PJuRjddenqezMN115dRco6u7Ieacu5gu89WUL399GO-FTGEhYbaNRLYdPYAqWGnfg-WFRkAhWWmJM6TZT-AjN5i-Slk/s4000/IMG_20240223_161119336.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1FM_WhvrTxc0oNAum7PxkVXd5akJcag8SCI3uy_-wVVxxZNovCON4rf7vo6A39cNE8whb6lTO6AKvByY0Kj_a7KzF_SPbGhl2PJuRjddenqezMN115dRco6u7Ieacu5gu89WUL399GO-FTGEhYbaNRLYdPYAqWGnfg-WFRkAhWWmJM6TZT-AjN5i-Slk/w640-h480/IMG_20240223_161119336.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBhqSYddjZwUahxQb37f9RfUR4czy1H-fkgJUtOV-arru7a9BGsuknHVrJXioF8zdBs-Dx_H6B4YEo0eO5pLgSO15Ag5FWJTVOP7hE9QQH7VXP5VFvJZO3L6yCbeHpd-8-FJ63jwtTxOLvAKwZCLbvaOQK3k0MwSqrdLjOiAhI3xVY9NcA8-3M4-NO2s/s4000/IMG_20240223_161044859.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBhqSYddjZwUahxQb37f9RfUR4czy1H-fkgJUtOV-arru7a9BGsuknHVrJXioF8zdBs-Dx_H6B4YEo0eO5pLgSO15Ag5FWJTVOP7hE9QQH7VXP5VFvJZO3L6yCbeHpd-8-FJ63jwtTxOLvAKwZCLbvaOQK3k0MwSqrdLjOiAhI3xVY9NcA8-3M4-NO2s/w480-h640/IMG_20240223_161044859.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN3ihuR60E3P2owyYQIZoswAH04vgiNn_dIS59n1-smculQzPcZ8Zghv3BiQM9_hacHsxl_CiSbhECzQ4H6ezVxct2gXdqJhWYkbaEDcMd3dB7BE7vPoCWk6E5Y2YkpO-tp102M4IZOeowvbglJDOFf05u5mqzuu0y8Y5Grvu_yhGFYb1gjqVHVCmr-NE/s4000/IMG_20240223_161007606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN3ihuR60E3P2owyYQIZoswAH04vgiNn_dIS59n1-smculQzPcZ8Zghv3BiQM9_hacHsxl_CiSbhECzQ4H6ezVxct2gXdqJhWYkbaEDcMd3dB7BE7vPoCWk6E5Y2YkpO-tp102M4IZOeowvbglJDOFf05u5mqzuu0y8Y5Grvu_yhGFYb1gjqVHVCmr-NE/w480-h640/IMG_20240223_161007606.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-82733964733214079902024-02-22T00:00:00.001-08:002024-02-22T00:00:00.132-08:00bulbs<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3bXRl28EH1bcULXAJIFRJQXbag_Qvb2qHcywa-TSiWir7WchivNdOYpedKHNb_jcT4TjInJBSPjXMbOsMl959x8xOOWyco8UZ6-pWkBZczvblxYq2cB7nODExk2vS_jFzTxIcV886GdtiBXNPhCZrcV7L4a6q-PTEufqhxhVwyLbVRdUgqjWxYWvzj60/s4000/IMG_20240218_104603034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3bXRl28EH1bcULXAJIFRJQXbag_Qvb2qHcywa-TSiWir7WchivNdOYpedKHNb_jcT4TjInJBSPjXMbOsMl959x8xOOWyco8UZ6-pWkBZczvblxYq2cB7nODExk2vS_jFzTxIcV886GdtiBXNPhCZrcV7L4a6q-PTEufqhxhVwyLbVRdUgqjWxYWvzj60/w480-h640/IMG_20240218_104603034.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-11577236205167134532024-02-18T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-18T00:00:00.128-08:00rain; some rain; more rain; the rain<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSJR4-w3ckesQbROYacqwBYpnnZyBDaXyxymFHxMAamBk8HO99ldLHXJfO-8vh9w69uZ72qBzhEey_NjVQXKpK-0Ljuobx2h8lZtmP0YBncOKuihdv0QxdJ2RTiyYkGhVLo8yuVUcDx6pIVz_fO1KT3s-ZNroQifL6XNhaNw88a8UHpXTfM__mnGnj54c/s852/Screenshot%202024-02-16%20130150.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="852" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSJR4-w3ckesQbROYacqwBYpnnZyBDaXyxymFHxMAamBk8HO99ldLHXJfO-8vh9w69uZ72qBzhEey_NjVQXKpK-0Ljuobx2h8lZtmP0YBncOKuihdv0QxdJ2RTiyYkGhVLo8yuVUcDx6pIVz_fO1KT3s-ZNroQifL6XNhaNw88a8UHpXTfM__mnGnj54c/w640-h512/Screenshot%202024-02-16%20130150.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Sky Study with a Shaft of Sunlight</i>, 1822, John Constable.</span></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Under-the-Clouds,</p><p>I have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z98NEVWGi2w" target="_blank">your song</a> for today; it's a rainy one. But, you know, with Marianne Faithfull, it's hard to stop at just one bite, so please, if you have time, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc" target="_blank">take another.</a> Is there a message we can take from these two songs? I think so, I think so. And I think it is this: be gentle with the fragile things you know and love.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS Should you find yourself wanting more from fragile beauties, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiaS3YaGZtY" target="_blank">try this</a>, and then, oooh, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdfKx1z4Zag" target="_blank">this</a>! If you don't have rain, you could have yourself an <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/1672814/watch-6-wondrous-clouds-float-inside-museum-walls" target="_blank">artificial cloud</a>. You could also look at this beautiful <a href="https://fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/exhibitions/true-to-nature-open-air-painting-in-europe-1780-1870/labels/cloud-study-1" target="_blank">painting</a> of a cloud-filled sky, by Johann Jakob Frey.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-66636681646306227962024-02-14T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-15T14:29:24.546-08:00the season<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTptgLMI6pQOCC3PSwcbOWYPRQW7oh2HNRodM1oavlF1h246Tv6tAZePy_2m3G8iXwZaTwbFgw7slfpuKsfRPfb87XE-OtECaqIhrEYg4BZ1Gh3rLAHmPVKM5tEYboZ_1r3E1Xb5IIAOt_mruF1N-kau3cnKX6K9UMPVGXb3hzI2_H40c1Th_gKs7ybHM/s460/Screenshot%202024-02-08%20104400.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="456" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTptgLMI6pQOCC3PSwcbOWYPRQW7oh2HNRodM1oavlF1h246Tv6tAZePy_2m3G8iXwZaTwbFgw7slfpuKsfRPfb87XE-OtECaqIhrEYg4BZ1Gh3rLAHmPVKM5tEYboZ_1r3E1Xb5IIAOt_mruF1N-kau3cnKX6K9UMPVGXb3hzI2_H40c1Th_gKs7ybHM/w396-h400/Screenshot%202024-02-08%20104400.png" width="396" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chat Noir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia" target="_blank">Dahlia</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Shovels and Spades,</p><p>Every so often, say 6, 7 years cyclically, I get a great notion to 'garden.' It's a Mr. Toad <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Toad" target="_blank">mania</a>, fueled by the enchantment of words (which actually, I believe were first invented to incant, to put a spell on), and the poetic promise of potential of growth. This time, I ripped out a bunch of perfectly charming, thriving plants (from a previous 'episode' of gardening) to put in raised beds and do a 'cutting garden.' Mostly based on expensive dahlia bulbs, which would perish (unlike the plants I removed!) in our clayey, gloppy, dark and fecund soil. So, in a classic Colonialist move, I filled these land containers, these raised beds, with pricy, purchased, bagged dirt dripping with absurdity, privilege ,and hubris! Drainage problem solved! Maybe? Do tubers grow well in hubris?</p><p>Anyway, it all has culminated in a beautiful little ditty I'd like to share with you now:</p><p><br /></p><p>GAR-den-ning is a</p><p>suck-ee suck-ee job,</p><p>Where you murder the plants</p><p> and you piss off the worms!</p><p><br /></p><p>GAR-den-ning is a </p><p>suck-ee suck-ee job, </p><p>where you mud up your clothes</p><p>and you ruin your shoes! </p><p>(Sorry about the lack of score; if I could remember my piano and guitar lessons well enough to write down the notes, I probably would also remember what happened last time I got the bug to garden. Just make up your own tune.)</p><p><br /></p><p>To garden, you must also, in the great tradition of gardeners everywhere, leave your tools out in the rain/sleet/snow to rust, possibly maiming you later, or causing you to just "buy another one." </p><p>A few more words on shoes and women: whenever I garden, I enjoy/despise the words of E. B. White when he tells us that his beatific wife would <a href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/lifetimes/white-katharine.html?module=inline" target="_blank">garden in her Ferragamo's</a>. Put that down to "words; incantations" and file it under X with "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24178.Charlotte_s_Web" target="_blank">talking spider</a>." Because, although I love these two instances of words, I don't really believe either of 'em!</p><p>And, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNBUIDQM48c" target="_blank">Happy Mud Season</a> to my fellow aflictees everywhere! </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS</p><p>Additional, interesting information on the madre of the modern dahlia, <a href="https://masaamerica.com/2021/01/04/acocoxochitl-the-dahlia/" target="_blank">Acocotli or Chichipatli</a>. If time constrains you, read that, over the Chat Noir link.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-60617927551048526362024-02-08T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-08T00:00:00.132-08:00share bread with me<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCBqnBOOlS-gRb3w0icMJxKiS0G_er0kfyemqAzAPfXffRe31e5POKeEPyaS9z24JZmdO3KZEoroegQnoyeFGqux9Gy7j8CYNHbQldcmNuUfKJdQaP-M7lr-TgNE08yqKziMYR-3PuQszrjNIJbOumRJVnN15ZQcT6bzamUXc9p4x5ZaFWT7SJiXtAmsc/s4000/IMG_20240117_191518735.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCBqnBOOlS-gRb3w0icMJxKiS0G_er0kfyemqAzAPfXffRe31e5POKeEPyaS9z24JZmdO3KZEoroegQnoyeFGqux9Gy7j8CYNHbQldcmNuUfKJdQaP-M7lr-TgNE08yqKziMYR-3PuQszrjNIJbOumRJVnN15ZQcT6bzamUXc9p4x5ZaFWT7SJiXtAmsc/w480-h640/IMG_20240117_191518735.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Copine,</p><p>Here is a word from the French that I just recently learned: copine/copain. The thing, that I know you already know about words, is that they are made often of other words, or bits of words, and so when you say them, when you write them, when you use them, you get the meaning of the word and the meaning of the bits, too! So economical, so unfolding and expansive! Meaning is like that, I guess.</p><p>Anyway, the word is made from two Latin pieces that mean "with" and "bread." Copine/copain is the person you share bread with. I made some recently, and shared it around with friends. If you feel you'd like to make some bread, you need 3 days, starter, and a languorous outlook. If you are <a href="https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-right-kind-of-busy?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fon%2520being%2520busy&utm_medium=reader2" target="_blank">busy</a>, forget it, you shouldn't even watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JRSF-zDgvk" target="_blank">the video</a>!</p><p>But, you know, it was mighty good bread, and maybe you want that kind of busy-ness.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-81426233642550776792024-02-02T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-02T00:00:00.253-08:00why doesn't anyone tell me these things?<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PGmQMWqoNG_m2DtwDL8mgydp7D98HyGd34Km2MSsXV0hvknA_wTYqFLn_deFXvTXjGEwqzhBG3oatlm3zPDPl7wT4QKMLHouIhJfwYXRwocgBWGs1dfa6uQ8qTP5cr1bkKziraIZ0Vyp2UQFgucsx69OSGUxhrnBAXioEeioC2Gx_sm9KXQwQS5BeHM/s508/Screenshot%202024-01-26%20125809.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="336" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PGmQMWqoNG_m2DtwDL8mgydp7D98HyGd34Km2MSsXV0hvknA_wTYqFLn_deFXvTXjGEwqzhBG3oatlm3zPDPl7wT4QKMLHouIhJfwYXRwocgBWGs1dfa6uQ8qTP5cr1bkKziraIZ0Vyp2UQFgucsx69OSGUxhrnBAXioEeioC2Gx_sm9KXQwQS5BeHM/w424-h640/Screenshot%202024-01-26%20125809.png" width="424" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Know it Not,</p><p>Why, why doesn't anyone tell me these things? Why doesn't anyone tell me about Lizzy Mercier Descloux? Or Tove Jansson? Or Eve Babitz, Helen DeWitt, Josephine Wiggs, Bikini Kill? What about Lizzie Araminto? Or Rebecca Solnit? P J Harvey? Lydia Lunch? Wanda Jackson? </p><p>Who did I have, as a role model in the mass media of television as a young person? I had Wives (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Vg5w9TIMg" target="_blank">Mary Tyler Moore</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw_OdPInxe0" target="_blank">Elizabeth Montgomery</a>), I had Whores (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj4Emiv1Kt4" target="_blank">Suzanne Somers,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2SMEm6Rvw" target="_blank">Loretta Swit</a>), one single Worker (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj286uBKCu0" target="_blank">Mary Tyler Moore</a>), and I had this one lone person, this outlaw, this woman with a gender challenging name, this one person that seemed like she might be writing her own rules. I am grateful to her! <a href="https://michiganrockandrolllegends.com/index.php/mrrl-hall-of-fame/382-suzi-quatro" target="_blank">Suzi Quatro</a> is our Girl Friday!</p><p>Check her out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njGFPS7pU90" target="_blank">here</a>, where I first met her; and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMZEy-2iztE" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixNWJXRaWZQ" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPfFfsrzm0" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf3jc_Au5so" target="_blank">now</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bRb5WDIOoc" target="_blank">Bonus track!</a> And a nice <a href="http://www.suziquatro.com/home.html">website.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-89139262502252600352024-01-30T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-30T00:00:00.138-08:00flowers<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGiZlvUmJBQVC0Olg7t2nLc-tjsL4XcPqQQkFLUYG70IlJOkNCcYRIdsY1dAhN35CHmrwSrSSFhIw-7KH4il2ziYGWEJwpBYcOZM8QXOlh1zaZ_dzUK7A3aTbLgu8Im6tqkMaj1DAFi34HVboY_w2Ngm4pEOnQLCFUv28O2uzraW29ACEzZDlDmq_LKno/s488/Screenshot%202024-01-29%20095857.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="488" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGiZlvUmJBQVC0Olg7t2nLc-tjsL4XcPqQQkFLUYG70IlJOkNCcYRIdsY1dAhN35CHmrwSrSSFhIw-7KH4il2ziYGWEJwpBYcOZM8QXOlh1zaZ_dzUK7A3aTbLgu8Im6tqkMaj1DAFi34HVboY_w2Ngm4pEOnQLCFUv28O2uzraW29ACEzZDlDmq_LKno/w534-h180/Screenshot%202024-01-29%20095857.png" width="534" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Night Chrysanthemums</i>, <a href="https://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/pat-steir/" target="_blank">Pat Steir</a>, 1984.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Beloved Recipient,</p><p>I send you flowers today. <a href="https://honestlywtf.com/diy/diy-crepe-paper-flowers/" target="_blank">These paper flowers</a>, which you can make, and maybe even give, and also this, which is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMDMR8sxo4" target="_blank">Snow, Moon, and Flowers,</a> a piano piece composed by Peter Sculthrope, and played by Shoko Kuroe.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-10178172095927050742024-01-24T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-24T00:00:00.159-08:00Ground Plane XV<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ewx5KNnNpaNUYAzxiUZeIiMcrsACwgKIkNTMmg4s2K7flj6bpMOAuWgSXGgANjtnMvOXTf-ARziniolr-XabTZDfFJleIfggCr_ZwEyLvhvKEURKVBpW_0OvtwBNx_a4zoRObpAWNZZu-V3Iz9rUPFTPdCq-zBXWppKHz78gsoInsopwThnnPkptoPo/s4000/IMG_20240106_153446701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ewx5KNnNpaNUYAzxiUZeIiMcrsACwgKIkNTMmg4s2K7flj6bpMOAuWgSXGgANjtnMvOXTf-ARziniolr-XabTZDfFJleIfggCr_ZwEyLvhvKEURKVBpW_0OvtwBNx_a4zoRObpAWNZZu-V3Iz9rUPFTPdCq-zBXWppKHz78gsoInsopwThnnPkptoPo/w480-h640/IMG_20240106_153446701.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-85256087369543417682024-01-20T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-20T00:00:00.137-08:00for immediate viewing!<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear All,</p><p>Oooh! You are going to love this! I was sent to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@indiacrawford/featured" target="_blank">India Rose Crawford</a> by <a href="https://makezine.com/" target="_blank">Make Magazine</a>, and I sure feel lucky!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="644" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RNDF-S_-yv4" title="Frog makes a strawberry pie for Toad 🍓🐸 #knittedfrog #frogandtoad" width="363"></iframe>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-27780049399110635372024-01-18T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-18T21:52:25.613-08:00roses to deaden the clods as they fall<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1eCm1WHvsXbnlaUihsXL8GgUzySrMd7N0pLmRIouitZkwXALEokhmwielADqJPr6Opiz7fzKLJ-Om503-oWxgyzNL16lN3RFLptUOLwfYMXPERiubZ6yG0JaTt1iaTaw2It5pzxr9tCrcVY3xlh6vHEKncDpfdcrMiUTppaCczqZkhjaV6S0ZGPjq4aM/s456/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20125215.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="455" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1eCm1WHvsXbnlaUihsXL8GgUzySrMd7N0pLmRIouitZkwXALEokhmwielADqJPr6Opiz7fzKLJ-Om503-oWxgyzNL16lN3RFLptUOLwfYMXPERiubZ6yG0JaTt1iaTaw2It5pzxr9tCrcVY3xlh6vHEKncDpfdcrMiUTppaCczqZkhjaV6S0ZGPjq4aM/w399-h400/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20125215.png" width="399" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear All,</p><p>I have seen some things these first few weeks of the new year; it starts to form an image, a collage, a map? Well, how we use it is maybe not all that important. </p><p>Last year was the year of Take it All Away; and yes, there is still plenty to haul off, but it was a start, ending with speaking aloud the ugly shadow side of caring deeply, passionately for objects: beings often come second. It happens slowly, I think. The objects are so patient, so good, so reflective of our wishes, our selves. They would never misbehave, they would never talk too much, or say the wrong thing, they are never too loud, their innocence is pure, their value is limitless, as long as we keep beings from damaging them, questioning them, toppling them. Having them adds to our greatness, increasing our mass.</p><p>But back to this very tiny, very small, nearly formless object, that you can keep in your back pocket or say unto the winds, this collage of the present:</p><p>A beautiful copy of <i>The Rings of Saturn</i> on the table in the sunlight at a woman's home. A blue filled with grey tree branches that climb the sky. A greening under the old washed, worn stubble. An ice sheet on the birdbath. Pages that describe Sido, and the daughter, Colette. Near perfect shortbread fingers. Ruby Tandoh on Cadbury eggs. Chicken leg confit, because duck is so dear. Waves, both blue and brown. A pelisse, whatever it might be, because I have forgotten it already. Like the phrase for this year: A concourse of events? No; an accordance of occasions? A surcease of importance? A confluence of concerns? I look it up, again and again:</p><p>The year of the "acausal connecting principle." Something Carl Jung wrote, and I read somewhere in the recent flurries of pages; maybe the book on Los Angeles architecture? <i>Inciting Joy</i>? Not the book about the Shaker boy and his pig, not Carrie Fisher... well, that connection is gone too, but connections are like that; here today, gone the next. I still want them, if only <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToHp_br-_0g" target="_blank">to deaden the clods as they fall.</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It's the all of a piece, you know? The reading, the writing, the voices, the thinking, the seeing, the making, the wondering, the glimpsing, the listening, the stitching, the drawing, the remembering. They all go together, joined for a time by the temporary glue of the acausal connecting principle.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-81048550129332584732024-01-15T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-15T00:00:00.151-08:00two<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-cV6naFIKjIttA8NeNaXDzF2EpmB2Ia9DSWsCsRmnA9MOH-7iJk51OmVFZ2AQjSF3TvP9zyo7kt3_GhF78T7Ib0cg2ThrUZ7wW8_TRR8RsbV1c4OIegwFdt8Tp1ckeLKnAsBgKxoLG_ajXJuSgsEw3GoyQBKbDm2u9ziUXwC2aS0Jrv3QwQc2r2AVcc/s812/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20134551.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="812" height="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-cV6naFIKjIttA8NeNaXDzF2EpmB2Ia9DSWsCsRmnA9MOH-7iJk51OmVFZ2AQjSF3TvP9zyo7kt3_GhF78T7Ib0cg2ThrUZ7wW8_TRR8RsbV1c4OIegwFdt8Tp1ckeLKnAsBgKxoLG_ajXJuSgsEw3GoyQBKbDm2u9ziUXwC2aS0Jrv3QwQc2r2AVcc/w640-h406/Screenshot%202024-01-13%20134551.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.memorydenpdx.com/our-collection" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Memory Den</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Radio Dodo Fans,</p><p>Get up and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/39RcqGZbjsnsqBK1er6qbp" target="_blank">change the station</a> if you don't want these two great songs: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsJRuxHq3F0" target="_blank">One</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQa1MSRK44A">two.</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>PS Another <a href="https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/tn-wknd-me-radio-man-20170824-story.html" target="_blank">place</a> you can go, while the two songs play.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-25787629446220049412024-01-11T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-11T00:00:00.145-08:00by the sea<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2faWGmsWhDQqlZij6PDLRy2lZsRYfawcc_gtwSbrfy68cfyZqr4DIbn6XeI3WRArH3nOMNCugs7eg4X58Z_cx-WX4AnJeSq4reqBbdhFGlbGUBBwcmiu5ha_aomhg-glJhQzSKgpCyydclWKSf_qlqosDQ5ER1RPjvBwdS1twm_KLnwnwYnxboOMwz2g/s4000/IMG_20240106_151045532.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2faWGmsWhDQqlZij6PDLRy2lZsRYfawcc_gtwSbrfy68cfyZqr4DIbn6XeI3WRArH3nOMNCugs7eg4X58Z_cx-WX4AnJeSq4reqBbdhFGlbGUBBwcmiu5ha_aomhg-glJhQzSKgpCyydclWKSf_qlqosDQ5ER1RPjvBwdS1twm_KLnwnwYnxboOMwz2g/w640-h480/IMG_20240106_151045532.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCAyNKPiPTcabahhvezQMAWk_2Q7DHIc-SmObUoJZWoM1IwvC-dtgxq-dP4te6Gsl2P8Crh3t5IAf64e62GeeCcf6-gC8uYlTk6Pcz9UEfEwco_904ivOp16U1f9uVfaTeCSOE4WVQ8EktiPPd78exRR8_5boPc-HOAXHdcNjBxHbBVVtfOR7feS1rYXU/s4000/IMG_20240106_153433131.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCAyNKPiPTcabahhvezQMAWk_2Q7DHIc-SmObUoJZWoM1IwvC-dtgxq-dP4te6Gsl2P8Crh3t5IAf64e62GeeCcf6-gC8uYlTk6Pcz9UEfEwco_904ivOp16U1f9uVfaTeCSOE4WVQ8EktiPPd78exRR8_5boPc-HOAXHdcNjBxHbBVVtfOR7feS1rYXU/w480-h640/IMG_20240106_153433131.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigacNYugUpKJMA7JkGOKYNpoquQ7ijSbKfLOn3hXbPWFSBTdM5HRwJQctkibWDkACEa5G4Nj896yhE7TVUNe384qfYaVfkUic4KBhigGtF812vBzNpSeKKwwMErAm8DhOSMARPp759hVQOOe_u_0N8vu-lgst-hb8Jh73lRQaL4xzXAp7yAJSJCDQLxNo/s4000/IMG_20240106_160845202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigacNYugUpKJMA7JkGOKYNpoquQ7ijSbKfLOn3hXbPWFSBTdM5HRwJQctkibWDkACEa5G4Nj896yhE7TVUNe384qfYaVfkUic4KBhigGtF812vBzNpSeKKwwMErAm8DhOSMARPp759hVQOOe_u_0N8vu-lgst-hb8Jh73lRQaL4xzXAp7yAJSJCDQLxNo/w640-h480/IMG_20240106_160845202.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjF8DTqx-4vBaJyRXywvKm-ckknzaO089W8fNKz41BiwaUd0ZQB8lXtHDccDehBU1lKC4ngg80WArfAgfrWQd1mkqoRSfXBspvlZhDNJuk2puXMOlD6KRv5-P_B9NH8m8qrv06U4RSX9qoSW1z1PklSFMKcjW2_YrWgS88gP6l7lF75OQqIngqB1xCemQ/s4736/L1011523.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3552" data-original-width="4736" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjF8DTqx-4vBaJyRXywvKm-ckknzaO089W8fNKz41BiwaUd0ZQB8lXtHDccDehBU1lKC4ngg80WArfAgfrWQd1mkqoRSfXBspvlZhDNJuk2puXMOlD6KRv5-P_B9NH8m8qrv06U4RSX9qoSW1z1PklSFMKcjW2_YrWgS88gP6l7lF75OQqIngqB1xCemQ/w640-h480/L1011523.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-6647592289842330072024-01-08T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-10T16:00:53.522-08:00pure pop for now people <p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjX2EAxkyxqS-V45hQwN7LS87v5aIivbw90qXVRGzDvVGrPU2vonAObOkUCXHorU9J8eQAVAhTuNnQTJ1bXGsD2L3_oi9Y9z6rgLi5SnEmsG2DlECR2RHMiUBf08aPrkuWqW7_oUMGVBT_bmPBpGeq5JZMjdnPFephJd9eHuuBkO7XrYHLQ297a6csJ4/s708/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20193603.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="635" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjX2EAxkyxqS-V45hQwN7LS87v5aIivbw90qXVRGzDvVGrPU2vonAObOkUCXHorU9J8eQAVAhTuNnQTJ1bXGsD2L3_oi9Y9z6rgLi5SnEmsG2DlECR2RHMiUBf08aPrkuWqW7_oUMGVBT_bmPBpGeq5JZMjdnPFephJd9eHuuBkO7XrYHLQ297a6csJ4/w574-h640/Screenshot%202024-01-04%20193603.png" width="574" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://sisoo.com/how-to-diy-confetti-poppers/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">confetti pop instructions</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://thimblepress.com/search?type=product&options[prefix]=last&q=confetti%20pops*" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a place to buy them readymade</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p>Dear Today,</p><p>Listen to these, today, an eight song set of Nick Lowe:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrEqHNTGbPY" target="_blank">Refrigerator White.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOyLXo4j_VU" target="_blank">Breakaway.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNhvqRHkZZQ" target="_blank">Without Love.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJP5-Q1nz0" target="_blank">Ba Doom.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwGlzpTWwWo" target="_blank">The Rose of England.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLI-AdoZN50" target="_blank">Wish You Were Here.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QsCkL0wYBQ" target="_blank">Big Big Love.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-dpiIzYQ5g" target="_blank">(I Love the Sound of) Breaking Glass.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-77578819511433021842024-01-04T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-04T00:00:00.140-08:00Radio Dodo<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBiEOmgx23-5yw4j0rZLBpeeDDIXgE-DRzdOisEdzT_FhDVdzuh5ZQZaum4jyKfioEWG_ROVmRrDN8KgW6POxzsGLdG1XlqAyTPolrN0GFtHROtMGRx5yVCQzd59ABdvqiyZep5hP4n6t8Xv4CZ6NYw2OdCaAsYDF05B4gJEnN3XIxzpjLJGreL07GA3Y/s1400/shrewsbury-fm-master-tower-crestwood-missouri-antenna-harris-broadcast-light-moon-guy-wire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1400" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBiEOmgx23-5yw4j0rZLBpeeDDIXgE-DRzdOisEdzT_FhDVdzuh5ZQZaum4jyKfioEWG_ROVmRrDN8KgW6POxzsGLdG1XlqAyTPolrN0GFtHROtMGRx5yVCQzd59ABdvqiyZep5hP4n6t8Xv4CZ6NYw2OdCaAsYDF05B4gJEnN3XIxzpjLJGreL07GA3Y/w640-h360/shrewsbury-fm-master-tower-crestwood-missouri-antenna-harris-broadcast-light-moon-guy-wire.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Maybe you'll hear these songs being broadcast from this 1 mw <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/exploring-1-mw-fm-radio-tower-my-dad" target="_blank">Supertower</a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Motorheads,</p><p>I have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quIlkYL7BT8" target="_blank">your song</a> for the day! I think you are really going to love it; my DJ played it for me, and I had never heard it before, which is always like finding coins in the couch cushions or a $20 in a coat pocket. You will recall the last hidden treasure we had here, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNoLqV-0TcI" target="_blank">Pointer Sisters doing Steely Dan</a>. Oh, and you know, there is another, gorgeous, take flight with me now, cover of a Steely Dan song: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPYAnjnh4M" target="_blank">spread your wings!</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-59651622144355749192023-12-31T00:00:00.000-08:002023-12-31T00:00:00.152-08:00Old Year's Day.<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8rBzoQrZTFjog6gb8j5OwtKjUnY2liimHDnyncUVhXcXICxPm6cHUW1quN2Nr_0uNwk1xwfG6Qpf1oRKmzRj5E0M5jrAZb4-ilUdShGDXQRrPFXfB7iZ0vSpAt8ELFn9AzwWB4TwHrwhog1TaQa8Z1214sEK64JFOQPn7fqbrXh6G4ZJBrpvYtlb5_A/s700/Screenshot%202023-12-14%20144616.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="700" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8rBzoQrZTFjog6gb8j5OwtKjUnY2liimHDnyncUVhXcXICxPm6cHUW1quN2Nr_0uNwk1xwfG6Qpf1oRKmzRj5E0M5jrAZb4-ilUdShGDXQRrPFXfB7iZ0vSpAt8ELFn9AzwWB4TwHrwhog1TaQa8Z1214sEK64JFOQPn7fqbrXh6G4ZJBrpvYtlb5_A/w640-h638/Screenshot%202023-12-14%20144616.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.selenesantucci.com/other-work?pgid=jlbx9qtl-fdd9a1fb-26a9-4b98-872f-8c48d32da12a" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Selene Santucci.</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Time,</p><p>What a drag you can be, with your damn thresholds between the day and the night, the month, the year. I am tired of you, even as I try to mark and honor you. Well, what have you done for me, eh? Yes, let's not and say we did, this New Year's. There's not enough champagne in the world to make it a party anyway.</p><p>I think, what I will say, in truth, and with a minimum of resentment, is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk" target="_blank">so long, it's been good to know you</a>.</p><p>I learned everything I know about saying The Long Goodbye from singers and songwriters. You can learn it too, in easy, online lessons. Here are your course materials for Goodbye 101.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-bJPmasXKs">One.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDlKb2cBAqU">Two.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVEATF7VNTk">Three.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9_d-sFhmRM">Four.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUqxQzoHys">Five.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2C3f0Atcoo" target="_blank">Six</a>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJPMesAnsU8">Seven.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ghKhEg8VX8">Eight.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRyrWN-fftE">Nine.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FZZK8gBBOI">Ten.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTIkFwMuiTw">Eleven.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuKfiH0Scao">Twelve.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-35237859788262441242023-12-28T00:00:00.000-08:002023-12-28T00:00:00.130-08:00think about direction<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNcHFFXXPLL1J04GoBaW2kmnfp-IAvVfdKpukB56aEMMvaduuQI2iyLDh5n95fonPo8s8V6iQICYuEODP8U0ptMLhyFzBPYxnK-bPcH3m1QEFFcIdAJqC3Na-bEc7A8CBevO4UPKlb2L4QaPFFi5lSKb-MhrN00bZi8u-4Vr3xhILvQXnEiOqEnee_SM/s1179/IMG_20231209_190559816.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1179" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpNcHFFXXPLL1J04GoBaW2kmnfp-IAvVfdKpukB56aEMMvaduuQI2iyLDh5n95fonPo8s8V6iQICYuEODP8U0ptMLhyFzBPYxnK-bPcH3m1QEFFcIdAJqC3Na-bEc7A8CBevO4UPKlb2L4QaPFFi5lSKb-MhrN00bZi8u-4Vr3xhILvQXnEiOqEnee_SM/w640-h480/IMG_20231209_190559816.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dear World,</p><p>It's time, I think, the time that I said would come, when the <a href="http://www.wayofthedodo.org/2020/04/plenty.html" target="_blank">string of pearls first broke</a>. The time I said would be looked back on, would be seen from a far distance forwards, but looking back. (<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=fhT70ww0ork" target="_blank">Stand</a> in the place where you are). </p><p>What is here, now? I feel it, the presence of the huge impact of the Pandemic, but, I look around, standing in the place where I live, and I see that we don't talk about it. (We have turned away?) The emptiness, the slowness, the worry and the fear, the honesty. I don't think they have exactly gone away. I think they may be there, here, like huge thundercloud ghosts, ready, (raw, open, bleeding) to break open on some little party, some small hope.</p><p>I proceed now, cautiously. Not only because of fear, that's the thing I wanted to tell you: It's also because I liked the pure sharp edges of those days. The rarefied air of loss and longing was like the thin atmosphere of a high peak- like, a smallness within a bigness, like an exposure to the elements and suffering and hope, too, that was so immediate. It was just so much 'less' of everything. </p><p>I believe that is why I have wanted to empty my living spaces; cupboards, drawers, closets, boxes, chests. I want some empty space made for that high-pitched purity of purpose. Very little of "You Should" crossed my mind then. It was a vacation away from You Should, I think, because You Couldn't and maybe that is what I miss.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>L. T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16850458736533050328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166054035826436712.post-82891311231037603482023-12-24T00:00:00.000-08:002023-12-24T12:05:54.967-08:00Happy Sledding!<p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGK8m9GRa1BCl0D0KZgRcm7HSkxajttLMcjhHD-G7lYosdMchJGq89GU0Mp1tFPfbZrcTPsWX7W3lKhsuxyfkby9R6ZYM1ediJwb4rEQ1vyoet7PBe9myWDcyzuny5A67kOdhcbO9G1M_F8vsKHkzd8BF5zb8e28DBiyKq9mRs3eW6Q0tzgkhohi0Y1z8/s1200/reindeer_volvo.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGK8m9GRa1BCl0D0KZgRcm7HSkxajttLMcjhHD-G7lYosdMchJGq89GU0Mp1tFPfbZrcTPsWX7W3lKhsuxyfkby9R6ZYM1ediJwb4rEQ1vyoet7PBe9myWDcyzuny5A67kOdhcbO9G1M_F8vsKHkzd8BF5zb8e28DBiyKq9mRs3eW6Q0tzgkhohi0Y1z8/w640-h480/reindeer_volvo.gif" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p>L. 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