“…Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!” —battle cry of the pictsies of Discworld The house is quiet, with only the sussurus of the air conditioner. The new dryer is biding its time in the garage, as our gas valve turns out to be, let’s say, vintage, and Special Parts must […]
I’m having flashbacks. As the quips say, dejá vu all over again. I’m falling into last summer. Where I bobbed like a cork in the stream of whatever only to arise in September saying, What the—?! It’s now Thursday, plenty of time to shift back from vacation-time. Yet: Writing isn’t actually happening. Tackling my list […]
D&B say that every day at school pickup, Baby C’s teachers say his day was those three things: busy, chatty, happy. After spending a week together (and by together, I mean the whole clan of us, from Gma and Gpa down!), I can attest. He also likes to read. And that, friends, is most of […]
Shoshin (初心) is a word from Zen Buddhism meaning “beginner’s mind.” It refers to having an attitude of openness, eagerness, and lack of preconceptions when studying a subject, even when studying at an advanced level, just as a beginner would. (Wikipedia) This post-post school week I’ve been rummaging through various stacks of “I’ll read this […]
At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird’s cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind. The sun was rising at six, No longer a battered panache above snow . . . It […]
I’m going for a PhD. I can’t say much beyond that—nothing practical, anyway, because I’ve barely looked at what I’ll need even to apply for this prerequisite Master’s. There’s still the getting-in, the finishing, picking the next program, applying… miles to go before this trail is hiked. (Mm-hm. Sh! I heard you, and I appreciate […]
I woke up thinking about a buddy of mine. She writes at least one poem a day, with no discernible whining. She’d been using sestinas, but lately has moved to villanelles. She grabs her end-words from the world around her (kind of like how I grab my blog ideas), settles in, and makes a poem. […]
In a podcast interview, a professor about my age referred to himself as a “digital immigrant.” You may have run across this hierarchy before: digital natives being those my bonus sons’ ages or younger, digital immigrants those who learned their tech in adulthood. Digital immigrants seem to see themselves as those who can manage mostly […]
In a podcast interview, a professor about my age referred to himself as a “digital immigrant.” You may have run across this hierarchy before: digital natives being those my bonus sons’ ages or younger, digital immigrants those who learned their tech in adulthood. Digital immigrants seem to see themselves as those who can manage mostly […]
My friend J has two new puppies. She found them through a dachshund rescue group; I think she’s worked with them for her previous two as well. (One of whom recently died of very old age… sad, even if not unexpected.) It occurred to me that the four most recent computers installed chez Soques are […]
