"The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet."
A sunny, cold day. Our high was 50F, after a low of 27F.
I probably slept three hours. Again. And unlike last night, yesterday morning, whatever, I was too tired to make use of that time and get much of anything done. I have GOT to sleep tonight. There's too much work. I cannot just bleed away time like this.
The interview that I did for Clarkesworld is now online. I hope that you'll read it. It's the first energy I've given in...I'm not sure. But it has been a goodly number of years. I just do not like doing them. But this one came out pretty good. Nothing makes me cringe. My grateful thanks to Arley Sorg for shepherding me through this.
I have some quotes today. Isaac Asimov, who was born on this day in 1920: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” And that goes right back to what I talk about in the interview about our society's relationship to science.
And there's this one from William Faulkner, something he wrote on New Year's Day in 1941, during WWII: "All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn’t die."
I think the Faulkner quote pretty much sums up the way I view the role morality plays in the cycle of history.
Mike Polcyn called at 12:38 p.m. (I just checked the phone), because I'd emailed him about a dream I had regarding One Particular Mosasaur, which amused him. And since I'm heading up this next study I'm doing, and we have about six investigators (all paleontologists), it falls to me to delegate this or that task to a given worker. I told Mike how I planned to do it, and he told me I was too egalitarian and that I need to assign roles. So...I shall. But it is strange to me, being so authoritative. Probably, it's good for me. I also can't get used to the level of secrecy paleontological are often cloaked in these days, and for good reason. There are truly unscrupulous workers who will attempt to "scoop" a project. I have watched it happen.
Yesterday, I saw someone with a list of things that did not happen in 2023 and that they despaired of ever happening. One of "the end of capitalism and the equitable redistribution of all wealth." And I'm still laughing. And shaking my head. And feeling sorta ill at such a blinkered view of the world. I'm assuming this indidivual is unaware how things went in places like Russia and China and on and on and on. And this time would be different...because? The delusional must remain delusional, at our peril.
Blah, blah, blah. That's enough for now.
Resurrected,
Living in a lighthouse.
Can you see the funny side?
Them ships are gonna wreck.
Resurrected,
Living in a lighthouse.
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet. ~ Arcade Fire
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundies shop. Book! By me! I leave you with this yummy photo of the blackeyed peas cooking yesterday. And tonight, leftovers, boy howdy. I love few thinks like I love good blackeyed peas (with lots of salt pork) and turnip greens.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
10:54 a.m.
I probably slept three hours. Again. And unlike last night, yesterday morning, whatever, I was too tired to make use of that time and get much of anything done. I have GOT to sleep tonight. There's too much work. I cannot just bleed away time like this.
The interview that I did for Clarkesworld is now online. I hope that you'll read it. It's the first energy I've given in...I'm not sure. But it has been a goodly number of years. I just do not like doing them. But this one came out pretty good. Nothing makes me cringe. My grateful thanks to Arley Sorg for shepherding me through this.
I have some quotes today. Isaac Asimov, who was born on this day in 1920: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” And that goes right back to what I talk about in the interview about our society's relationship to science.
And there's this one from William Faulkner, something he wrote on New Year's Day in 1941, during WWII: "All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins - it never will - but that it doesn’t die."
I think the Faulkner quote pretty much sums up the way I view the role morality plays in the cycle of history.
Mike Polcyn called at 12:38 p.m. (I just checked the phone), because I'd emailed him about a dream I had regarding One Particular Mosasaur, which amused him. And since I'm heading up this next study I'm doing, and we have about six investigators (all paleontologists), it falls to me to delegate this or that task to a given worker. I told Mike how I planned to do it, and he told me I was too egalitarian and that I need to assign roles. So...I shall. But it is strange to me, being so authoritative. Probably, it's good for me. I also can't get used to the level of secrecy paleontological are often cloaked in these days, and for good reason. There are truly unscrupulous workers who will attempt to "scoop" a project. I have watched it happen.
Yesterday, I saw someone with a list of things that did not happen in 2023 and that they despaired of ever happening. One of "the end of capitalism and the equitable redistribution of all wealth." And I'm still laughing. And shaking my head. And feeling sorta ill at such a blinkered view of the world. I'm assuming this indidivual is unaware how things went in places like Russia and China and on and on and on. And this time would be different...because? The delusional must remain delusional, at our peril.
Blah, blah, blah. That's enough for now.
Resurrected,
Living in a lighthouse.
Can you see the funny side?
Them ships are gonna wreck.
Resurrected,
Living in a lighthouse.
The lions and the lambs ain't sleeping yet. ~ Arcade Fire
Please visit the Dreaming Squid Sundies shop. Book! By me! I leave you with this yummy photo of the blackeyed peas cooking yesterday. And tonight, leftovers, boy howdy. I love few thinks like I love good blackeyed peas (with lots of salt pork) and turnip greens.
Later Tater Beans,
Aunt Beast
10:54 a.m.