Tue 11 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under meme, page meme, what the living do
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The page 58 meme:
Pick the nearest book to you. Turn to page 58. Skip down 7 lines to the first full sentence. This describes your life so far.
From Riveted by Meljean Brook:
“Less than an hour remained until first watch began.”
I do feel as if I’ve spent an enormous amount of my life just waiting around…
Tue 11 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under belief, quote of the day, religion, science, skepticism
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Random quote of the day:
“In my experience skeptics are overreachers. They equate doubt with logical thinking, so that to be unskeptical makes one irrational….The line between religion and science, which skeptics defend like armed guards, isn’t so definite as they suppose, given the religious bent of Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and other scientific minds great and small.
—Deepak Chopra, “Gadflies Without a Sting: The Downside of Skepticism,†The Huffington Post, October 10, 2005
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under birds, insurance, medicine, observations
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21 Aug
I never thought I’d be this person. Life catches you unawares. I’ve spent a week battling with unmovable insurance companies and uninterested doctors. I need a flamethrower. Now I’ve released a breath I didn’t know I was holding. And if you know how much I hate that cliché phrase, you know that’s something. The doctor finally faxed what she was supposed to. Now we do battle with the insurance again in the a.m. Progress.
22 Aug
The main goal of medical insurance companies seems to be to exhaust you so you give up and stop bothering them.
26 Aug
Sometimes it’s difficult to tell the difference between making excuses for not doing something and facing the reality of the situation.
31 Aug
Never disappoint an old lady. She’ll not only rave like any disappointed child, she will tell you everything you’ve done wrong since birth.
2 Sep
After using red food coloring to mix four batches of hummingbird juice for our four feeders I now possess a Red Right Hand. This time of year we get them in epic numbers. “I’ve never seen so many hummingbirds!” people are wont to say. Every bird within a mile knows where the best juice is concocted.
2 Sep
The Nag Hammer may be a blunt instrument but that just makes it effective at chipping away resistance.
4 Sep
I am letting my puppy starve. That’s the message from last night’s dreaming. As I do not have a puppy, I think this one was a Jungian puppy.
4 Sep
The Krusty the Clown bird is out in the tree again this morning. It’s a migrating bird that’s been hanging around the feeders for the past couple of weeks. Looks like a giant mourning dove with long fan-shaped tail, but as lovely as it looks it makes the strangest call. You know that noise Krusty makes when he’s upset or caught doing something he shouldn’t? Take that sound, raise the pitch a couple of notches, and you’ve got a fair approximation of this bird’s call.
4 Sep
The Krusty the Clown bird is identified: the Eurasian Collared Dove. To listen click here then click on “3.3 harsh calls.”
4 Sep
Michelle Obama is a rock star.
6 Sep
Yesterday while listening to a John Cage tribute on NPR I stopped my car at a light. A fountain hissed and burbled on one side, the hum of a healthy engine droned on the other, and Cage’s “prepared piano” music played in the middle. “He’s right,” I thought. “Music is everywhere around us.”
7 Sep
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
7 Sep
So much can’t in my vocabulary these days. But hopefully no cant.
8 Sep
Every day on the way to and from work I pass a section of land near the wetlands that has been stripped of the wild marguerites which perennially bloom there in the spring, then leave behind a wildwood tangle. Someone has done a couple of plantings here and there in the bare earth as if hoping something more acceptable will grow. These plantings have refused to spread out for some time now. One clump at first looked like white lilies as I sped by at 50 mph but I finally realized they were white morning glories. Lilies would have been appropriate. Surrounded by dirt, the patch had been planted in a bunch that resembled in shape and size the grave of a child.
Still morbid after all these years, folks.
8 Sep
There’s a million wild finches, sparrows, and the like singing their hearts out in the tree next door. Every evening at this time.
8 Sep
I have discovered something wonderful: Von’s market home delivery. Surprisingly affordable, but more important it saves me pain and exhaustion.
Mon 10 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under names, proverb, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“It is not what you are called, but what you answer to.”
—African proverb
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Fri 7 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under body, money, quote of the day, soul
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Random quote of the day:
“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”
—Dorothy Parker, The New Yorker, February 4, 1928
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Thu 6 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under aging, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“We live by the rules of the elderly. If the toothbrush is wet, you have cleaned your teeth. If the bedside radio is warm in the morning, you left it on all night. If you are wearing one brown and one black shoe, quite possibly there is a similar pair in the closet….I stagger when I walk, and small boys follow me making bets on which way I’ll go next. This upsets me; children should not gamble.”
—Bruce Bliven, quoted by Malcolm Cowley in The View from Eighty
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Wed 5 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under quote of the day, reading, writing
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Random quote of the day:
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“Nobody but a reader ever became a writer.”
—Richard Peck, Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young
 Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Tue 4 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under angels, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:
“It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.”
—William Blake, in his Description of the Picture “A Vision of the Last Judgementâ€
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Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
Mon 3 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under pictures, rosie the riveter, war, women, work
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Here’s my mother, Donna (left), and Aunt Earlda just after they came out to Los Angeles in 1942 to work as riveters for McDonald-Douglas in Santa Monica. I thought it a fitting picture to post on Labor Day as those gals labored mightily to help the war effort. Also, they’re just so damned cute!
Do you know a woman who worked on the home front during World War II, even if it was volunteer work? They, or their daughters and other family, may be eligible to join the American Rosie the Riveter Association. Mom and I are members.
Sun 2 Sep 2012
Posted by PJ under misreading, signs
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An itch of a different kind.
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