@misterfive also maybe "and one for the pot" (what my dad always said)

from a neighboring social: MostlyHarmless @[email protected]

I asked the librarian if they had any books on paranoia.
She whispered, "They're right behind you!"

From Joy Haro, Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings (https://worldcat.org/en/title/1125172714), page 74:

We all have helpers in seen and unseen realms.
Give them something to do.
Otherwise, they will grow inattentive with boredom.
They can clean junk from your mind,
Find the opening note for the chorus of a song,
Or give a grandchild a safe path through the dark.
They will not give you winning numbers at the casino,
Wash your dishes, or take out an enemy.
Thank them.
Feed them once in a while.

it really disheartens me to hear politicians deny the impacts of climate warming, and some of them the warming itself. but the media reporting on these events act as if they will not be impacted by the lack of government action on climate change leaves me bewildered, when i am not downright frightened. </mood>

@WayneEdH "literally" as opposed to "figuratively" or just "meh"?

this showed up in a neighboring social the other day and, well, no explanation needed ...
https://mstdn.social/@lakelady/110924570759079122

@Bix @InUnfunky eventually we will be able to think the unthinkable, but it is going to be a minute or two ....

some Rachel Carson for today:
Dr. Laurel Stanley; @[email protected]
toot link: <https://mstdn.social/@LaurelStandley/110891236479212328>

Rachel Carson's words from seventy years ago still resonate mightily.

"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself."

- Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Revised edition(1961), page xii

@Museek @dauphin87 thanks. and ooooh, the art and bead work is very nice. and one of the flower art was very georgia o'keefee to me.

@Museek @dauphin87 i really wish i knew what to do once i am allowed in (whatever that means). do i "create a room"? Where.Am.I?

#cosopoetry for Sunday:
Love Like Salt - BY LISEL MUELLER

It lies in our hands in crystals
too intricate to decipher

It goes into the skillet
without being given a second thought

It spills on the floor so fine
we step all over it

We carry a pinch behind each eyeball
It breaks out on our foreheads

We store it inside our bodies
in secret wineskins

At supper, we pass it around the table
talking of holidays and the sea.

Link: <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42468/love-like-salt>

@Museek miso soup used to be my go-to meal when recovering from a cold.

ah, life, and its little bridges:

from the neighborhood socials: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/110863318771869939

a #cosopoetry offering:

I wanted to hide so that I could get busy

at my real work, which was a sort of wooing

of distant parts of myself.

- Alice Munro

/via Maya C. Popa <https://substack.com/@mayacpopa/note/c-21828609>

making a selection using my Apple mouse is a "click-or-miss" proposition. More often than not, that clicking sound I hear does *not* result in a selection. </whining>

While looking for info on my Mac memory usage I came across a post suggesting i buy an app to keep my Desktop neat. that seems like a really messed-up idea (just sayin' and pun intended)

Things That Are (<https://worldcat.org/en/title/755905560>) by Amy Leach is one of the more remarkable and delightful books I have read. This gem is from The Glossary:
> VASTY (As differentiated from "vast") Has approximately the same meaning as "biggy", "hugey", and "giganticky." Do not let anyone tell you these words are not words; all words are words.

#reading

by the Australian “mathematical expressionist” artist Edwin Tanner (cf. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/26.2019/#about)