Ever since I got home, about an hour ago, it’s been steadily raining out back. Meanwhile, the sidewalk in front is bone dry. Apparently, there’s a tiny little rain cloud stalled over the back field.
Day: December 20, 2007
Adventures in Shopping
I had to make a quick stop at Target last night. ‘Tis the season, so the parking lot was packed; the only spots open were at the very back. As I was walking toward the store, I noticed an elderly woman wandering around, looking kind of lost and forlorn. I asked her if she’d lost her car. She described it to me and apologized for being stupid. I told her not to worry, it happens to everyone. I walked down the row with her, looking for a maroon sedan with a 7A plate. It was only about 10 cars beyond where she’d been standing, so she would have found it on her own, but it was nice to feel helpful.
I forgot about the incident while I was shopping, but was reminded again when I left the store. For a moment, I thought, “That’s going to be me in 30 years.” Then, as I was standing around looking for my damned car, I amended it to, “Hell, that’s me now!”
Denied!
I tried to join a new(ish) Yahoo group for bookbinding and art journaling, and I was denied. Denied, I say! I think that’s kind of funny. It’s not like I need another group’s worth of mail to slog through or anything, but I got irritated with the idiocy at AJ2 and didn’t migrate to the new group when it morphed. I figured that replacing it with another visual journaling type group might not be a bad idea, but I guess maybe it was!
The Heretics
The Heretics
When discovered among themselves —
Grudgingly respected,
Arrogant upstarts who threatened
the message,
Engaged in conversation with
such dissident seekers
With deeper insights
derived from deeper mysteries —
For the first time
The heretics speak to us
in their own words.
I started a new project last night: another altered book. While flipping through it, trying to decide how to get started (aieee!), a couple of phrases jumped out at me. I got out a pencil and blocked out a few words. And then a few more. And a few more.
red paper boat 