Morning in a Watsonville cafe. I'm sitting here because although my agency is requiring me to work through my holiday weekend, my boss was contrite enough to allow me to take my work with me, so I can at least be with my husband down here for the weekend. Starbucks is the only game in town with net access so I can log in and do my work, so here I ( Read more... )

I'm in a grim mood today. There is some heavy stuff going on in my community and I have a lot of processing going on inside me. But this post is about something else ( Read more... )

I watched a documentary about the lives of soldiers in "the Great War". It was a pretty poor documentary and most of it wasn't anything I hadn't seen before, but a couple of things struck me in new ways.

1. Trench warfare, it seems to me, is a stunning display of the insanity of war. Bring two armies of men together along a front and stick them in ( Read more... )

It strikes me today that people usually tell you exactly what they are about if you only listen ( Read more... )

This post started out as a comment a while back in yezida’s journal here. I found the question weighty and wrote some more thoughts down, but never ended up posting it. Now in view of Memorial Day, it seems apropos ( Read more... )

Sometimes the world before my eyes seems to become transparent, like glass or water. There are times when it seems like the surfaces of things become translucent and I can see the life force pulsing underneath, and light burning through, each object on fire from some deep nuclear furnace of manifest presence, heart beating, cytoplasm pounding, ( Read more... )

Well, I'm stuck at home with a nasty cold, and I've watched all the movies I can take for a weekend. Bleah. Things are getting really weird around here. Housemate alcoholic behavior nastiness. I'd rather be somewhere else ( Read more... )