I've just noticed a class of effect I'm thinking of as two-way mirrors; there's a divider, and how things look, what awareness of the world one has, is very different depending on which side of it one is located ( Read more... )

I'm cleaning up old mail. Two years and a day ago, someone I knew was having trouble getting over a breakup. I sent ( this advice )

Apparently my cellphone stutters when I've been drinking.

Things I don't know how to get rid of. This may be a long series ( Read more... )

Today ( Read more... )

So, in my quotes file is the entry "It's human nature to attribute good things to our actions and assume bad things come from outside ourselves ( Read more... )

I received many replies to my recent post, some as comments, some in person, some by email.
Thanks very much, everyone; I'm still a bit confused, but it's very nice to feel listened to, especially when I'm trying to puzzle stuff out...

Go team irony... follow the link and scroll down to the auction.

Burning Man this year has rendered me stupified and speechless, beaming and guffawing, bruised, aching, and so so so happy. I slept 20 hours yesterday, and am tired yet; that will happen when everything is different. For two weeks of my life, the balances were different; nothing was wrong for more than a few moments. The world was a song of beauty ( Read more... )

My mother had an entire shelf of books of etiquette ( Read more... )