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>

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

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

#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>

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)

from a neighboring social: Hello dear, @[email protected]

i like how "illegal in the EU" means it probably violated a human right and "illegal in florida" means it probably is a human right

friday neighbor socials gem:
chris martens
@[email protected]

if our computers can get away with saying they shut down “because of a problem” i think the rest of us should try this explanation for our behavior as well

today's #cosopoetry offering:
"Let's not shame our eyes for seeing. Instead, thank them for their bravery."
- Joy Harjo, Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings, p. 39

today's gem from the socials:
Shaula Evans @[email protected]

“Do you know what insanity is? Insanity is “doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.” That’s writing poetry, but hey, it’s also getting out of bed every morning.”
- Mary Ruefle

the Internet and the socials FTW