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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Someone We Know
I wish there were something to say about where we are and what we are doing and seeing. There really isn't. Something quiet and internal is taking place. We are learning something about life, about ourselves, about what it means to be human, about the predicament of humanity, about power and enslavement, about the biggest picture of all. It takes our breath away.
At this moment...
someone we know is starving himself to death
someone we know is battling cancer
someone we know can't pay her bills
someone we know wants to have a baby
someone we know cries in the grocery store aisle
someone we know just got married
someone we know is growing old and frail
someone we know has early-stage dementia
someone we know has lived in the same house for 40 years
someone we know has a job planting flowers
someone we know rides a recumbent bike with hand pedals into the darkening night
We are quiet because of all of them, because we are all here on earth together, and we have no answers. We laugh and grieve.
We are on hiatus.
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personal life
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Fire
We're finally settling in to our new home. Still a few unresolved issues, but we're glad we found this particular place. We can walk into town in about ten minutes-- go to the post office, the co-op, the bank, the library. We've cut down driving by about 90%, which is a very good thing, as gas is $4.79 per gallon for regular. Arcata is an incredible time warp of a college town. Everywhere we look there are faces that hearken back to the late 60s. Peace-lovin' hippies on every corner, long dredlocks down to the coccyx bone, and a marijuana script in their jean pockets. On the 4th of July we stumbled on to an all-day free concert in the downtown plaza. First we heard an incredible drumming band doing African music, which was followed by a band doing surprisingly fine covers of the Grateful Dead. We noticed all the people who felt free enough to dance and sway in the afternoon sun had gray hair and very sweet smiles on their faces.
1. Top photo from the California Forest Service webpage.
2. Marsh photo taken Monday evening at 6:45 pm. The bright green in the foreground is algae.
3. Feral kitty on a walk in the early evening sun.
4. River otter listening to me say goofy hellos, "bonjour river otter!"
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Arcata marsh,
feral kitty,
fire,
River Otter
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Parking Lot Wifi
Our furniture arrived Monday, only four days after promised. Sleeping on a real mattress off the floor is an incredible luxury.
We did finally get a landline on Monday as well. We don't know how FC manages to keep such a photo-rich blog going on dial-up. We haven't even attempted a single blog post on such a slow connection. Supposedly we will be getting our dsl on Monday July 7th.
We have had some very strained and contentious discussions with AT&T regarding their lack of customer support. Someday we may recount the more ludicrous aspects of their incompetence, but let's just say we were never sent a welcome letter, so we never received our passcode to get into our voice mail, so we could not access a message that was beeping on our line, which prevented us from even using our agonizingly slow dialup because the computer could not negotiate a connection without finding a freakin' dialtone. Hello AT&T, does a human ever answer your phones?
Other than that, life is interesting in a parking lot.
We saw this frog last week at the marsh.
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