Posts under ‘musings’

It crept up on me, the low moment. I think it started a week ago, when the work at the school couldn’t begin in the time period allocated and slipped into the time period allocated for Manitoulin Island. Disappointing, but the work had to be done, and island plans had to be delayed. We’ll have [...]

I started the project because I needed a boost. The last four attempts at starting something new were FAILs: wrong yarn (acrylic blend, what was I thinking), wrong needles, wrong mindset, boring pattern. I was surfing through Ravelry.com and I saw this cute little shawl pattern called citron. I had the yarn in my stash [...]

Sometimes you meet someone, and as you listen to them talk you begin to notice something familiar in the way they talk, in the way they present their ideas, in the cadence and intonation of their voice and delivery. You realize suddenly why it all seems familiar. It’s like you’re talking to yourself. And you [...]

Ganked from from Neil Gaiman’s blog, because he is much more skillful at this than I: May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build [...]

There are times when you just have to face the facts of a situation, and cut someone loose.  It could be a friend, a relative, a co-worker; it could be that you’ve grown apart, that you never had that much in common in the first place, that you’ve grown weary of the one-sided nature of [...]

A few years ago, my brother emailed me an mp3 file about the different ways that word fuck can be used in the English language, as noun, verb, adjective. In the audio clip a man with with a very strong Indian accent discussed the word fuck in a very deadpan manner much to the delight [...]

today kind of reminds me of the last part of a cartoon my younger brother once sent me: Well, that sucked indeed. A family emergency with the in-laws hit today, a fairly big one – my mother-in-law suffered a major stroke. I spent most of the afternoon and evening thinking about that fateful time when [...]

Deep breath. Release. Saturday was awful. No other way to phrase it. Really, there is no other way to describe a funeral for a young person. The Buddhist ceremony was long, and I lost track of how many times I cycled through grief and anger. Lost track of how many times my heart broke for [...]

I wrote this on the way home on Sunday. I did not intend to post it; I just wanted to get the words out of my head.  But it seems that this is what I want to say, rather than the usual kind of trip report. From the plane, 12/14/08 I’m facing home. I’ve watched [...]

Believe me when I say, there is nothing quite like the feeling of waking up after a good night’s rest, sipping coffee, then glancing at the cell phone to realize it was on silent mode all night and you missed a Dial-A-Shot from the delightfully bendy and smoochable BWoP. Damn! ———- Ran some errands with [...]