February 2011
5 posts
October 2010
1 post
WatchDonna walks Sunny at a public spring in Northern Illinois. We went there on Sunday afternoon to get ten gallons of the best tasting water we’ve had in some time.
December 2009
2 posts
Elkish Argumentation
Fri Dec 25 07:16:09 CST 2009 Earlier in the night I’d dreamed of a snowy ridge next to a road. The woods was conifer but not dense. I glimpsed an elk to the north of me, itself next to the road and heading eastwards along it. I began running eastward myself, wondering in the dream where I was headed and at the same time quite happy to simply be running. I awoke grateful that in...
September 2009
1 post
Be It Night
As in benighted circumstance such being know of wordless anguish again and yet again, do bid thyself remember the bright recompense of thy mind, be it hale and facile. Be it not, then pray it be. Fri Sep 11 06:17:22 CDT 2009 Steve Veeneman
May 2009
2 posts
Interpret Dreams, Interpret Our Lives.
When it comes to dreams I more and more these days consider them a kind of inverse of our waking lives. In our dreams I suspect that they are about emotions, all about emotions, and the details are more or less irrelevant.
Hence we work hard to interpret the details, which on this side of the abyss seem so important. We kid ourselves perhaps that we live in houses and wear clothes but those are...
On the notion of pent up emotions as volcanoes
(From an email reply to a dear friend, who explained his understanding of emotional release as volcanic lava which is best not pent up, and can become the foundation for good soil.)
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Wow, what a detailed metaphor. In a general way I’ve long agreed about the bursting notion of pent up emotional energy, but I’ll have to think for a while about the resultant deposits...
April 2009
6 posts
Woo… The fair tax bill comes as a pleasant surprise.
Time
I’m considering that since anticipation is fundamentally stressful, and Halpern’s non-predictive music as an example of using that principle, there may be other examples around.
Tumblr
Now besides Facebook, identica and twitter I can bore the planet with Tumblr.com. Kinda neat tho.
Thermite in 911 explosion
Whitley Strieber points to Danish findings. That’s thermite, not termites. http://tinyurl.com/carewa