Isaac Bashevis Singer:
Of course I believe in free will. I have no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer:
Of course I believe in free will. I have no choice.
What I finished this week. 📚
“My love, she laughs like the flowers
Valentines can’t buy her.”
What I finished this week. 📚
That odd, almost dreamy clarity the first day after you get over a cold.
Don’t follow leaders.
It’s shaping up to be another snow-globe day.
A mob of robins has been filling the nearby bare trees since last week’s cold snap.
Robins? In January? Well, I just learned robins don’t actually migrate; they lay low, wandering in dense, silent flocks. When they “return” in the spring, their behavior’s just more noticeable.
Out the window, it looks like a snow-globe replica of my neighborhood.
swimming, swimming, the eye held by the sun, no sharks in the mind, nothing in the mind.
—Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary (1975)
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
—Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973)
I exist, said the mirror.
What about me? said Kleinzeit.
Not my problem, said the mirror.
—Russell Hoban, Kleinzeit (1974)
What I finished this week. 📚
Waking up to muffled voices in heavy fog.
Independence Day was the weirdest sequel ever. And no Bill Murray? No Andie McDowell?… A real missed opportunity.
So… With the temps rapidly approaching the 40s, and most of us suffering the climatic equivalent of the bends — how many Twin Cities restaurants do you think will giddily be offering outdoor patio seating for brunch this weekend?
The Moon and Venus are in conjunction right now, with Jupiter nearby. Take a look, if it’s dark and clear where you are.
(And yes, that Schoolhouse Rock song is stuck in my head now.)
I’m So Meta, Even This Acronym
Sometimes I think we’re always fighting a Battle of New Orleans.
I’ve been on a little pilgrimage the last few months, stumbling through various task manager applications.
Here’s what I’ve settled on. (Not much hijinx, really, and no singing.)
A few months ago, I wrangled with Things and OmniFocus. I loved both, but eventually committed to OmniFocus. Soon thereafter, life went sideways, which had an unexpected effect on my choice of — and need for — task managers. Hijinx have ensued. Details to follow.
Who put the “wild” in “bewilder”?
What I finished this week. 📚
I earned my custom domain pin yesterday, but I still haven’t bagged the 30-day-streak pin. That one’s a slippery bastard.
I’m still half asleep as I move about the dark kitchen, and I keep tripping over the patch of moonlight on the floor.