Cute mandala

the golden light channel and serpentmandalas.com

Ah, sports poetry

I Heart Your Dog's Head by Erin Belieu

Nature poems

by Minnie Bruce Pratt

"...pain running like water through the glittering room."

~ All the Women Caught in Flaring Light

"A huge sound waits, bound in the ice,

in the icicle roots, in the buds of snow...."

~ Justice, Come Down

"He listens as they argue
 back and forth, their dialect of nature..."

~Learning To Talk

"She bows her wings and slowly lifts into flight..."

~The Sound of One Fork

The Paper Garden

By Mary Delany, from bookfoolery

Enjoying The Paper Garden by Molly Peacock. But my god, the amount of permission this upperclass woman had to seek to make basic life choices...

The Paper Garden: Cleveland Plain Dealer review
The Paper Garden: The Picky Girl review
The Paper Garden: A Life Sustained review
The Paper Garden: Excerpt

AA (AssistiveAfflictive)

from sensualtantrichealing

Surprise when I came home: PCOS story from a friend. Hmmm...

http://notalwaysright.com/a-real-woman-versus-half-a-man/31544

I had to wonder if "the only options out there have already nearly killed me once" might refer to a  bad side affect, such as losing copious quantities of blood. Which can make one feel very cold and also do a strange mermaidish thing where you feel like it's hard to breath and gulping water is almost like breathing...

From "Sesame Street"

A dreary morning dream: I wander into an area where many men are working. There are some interesting gravel staircases, but I have a feeling I should leave. I want to ask someone the best way to get out, but everyone is so busy. As I am trying to find my way out, some of the men carelessly toss more gravel on top of the hill and began laughing. It slides and covers most of me quickly, making it difficult to breathe. I tell myself I have a will to live and will find a way out of this heavy gravel and start breathing.

This dream triggered a funny memory. When I was young, kids would refer to a place called "the gravel pits" as a good place to go smoke, and I was sorry I never saw them. But as soon as I woke up, I thought "I'm never going to the gravel pits."

Dog by a seemingly benign hill of gravel ~ washingtonlandscape

Better dream: I am in a lounge, watching some guy deliver a sarcastic, misogynist diatribe (the content of which is too pointless to even remember) alongside some women who are unmotivated to challenge him. I say "Well, he could have delivered a funny, sarcastic story, that would have been alright, but he didn't have to be misogynistic about it." A young girl (age 12? 14?) tells me she doesn't even want to give him any leeway. None of this "he could tell a sarcastic story and be funny" stuff for her. She says "Women deserve better!" and because I see the letters forming on a board next to her, like D - E - S - H - E - R - V - E, I reply "They do DESHERVE better and thank you for challenging my viewpoint!" (DESHERVE...DESHERVE...almost thinking of dervish...)

By alicemason1 ~ http://mermaidartist.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/dervish-moon/

interesting at 10 o'clock

Cats and Boxes

Books...

Becoming One With A Comic Book

Walking

SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSpontaneoussssssssongssssssFunnyLittleFrog

Konstig liten sång

Made the title Swedish. Should this be next?
http://mythicalmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/08/aging-of-greta-garbo.html
On the internet this evening, I found a pleasing parody of Blurred Lines.



The funny, the sad...
http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-tale-of-two-sissies.html
http://piecesofmargo.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-monkey-could-pass-that-test.html

How I love a break from the internet, but I did not grow up with it, and it is not nothing to me, to be able to find little things that people post that can give you experiences which you still think about later. From before vacation: http://ohrohin.com/post/56821802177/trapsarebeautiful-omg
Earlier this year, I remember looking at this chunk of months on the moon stop blog...I did not know why I wanted to keep looking at this one place as I scrolled down through fashions and many other pictures (including a strange pregnancy one), Caught A Light Sneeze played (I loved how this kicked in when I did that), and then it ended with "Dickinsonian" white dresses. I thought that writer was in Northern Cali, but perhaps I was mistaken. I was all ready to wonder where in California this place might be...but maybe it's actually in the South? Missing being on my Northern California trip...oh, vacation is missed!...and on top of it, have been thinking of House, having purchased a cane for a toe (broken after a suitcase was left out the night after returning...) On vacation drives, CDs that had not been played in years were unearthed. I remember a girl in a Chicagoland Borders (oh! I never wrote how sad I was when they went under) giving me a coupon and telling me that I had to buy a Belle and Sebastian CD. I listened to it again on the freeways, enjoying my A/C (was told it was 102 degrees today?), and I looked up this one, Dress Up In You... The comments say "Isobel...not everything is written about Isobel" Maybe not? But decided to also look up their Isobel.
Isobel
Bjork's Isobel
~~~~~~~~~~

What type of exceptionally friendly bird was this...

 

 

 

Blue Moon

All You Need To Know About Tonight's Blue Moon

Word cloud game

http://www.sporcle.com/games/ubergerber/word-cloud-titles

music along the way last week

Older music going to San Francisco...

The Caravelles - You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry


The Gambler's Guitar

~~~~~~

Bell-like music in the city


  Charlemagne Palestine + Z'ev - Duo C / Z #1

vacationing (?)

from goodbyecrutches.com

At a used bookstore, the only thing that looked even remotely interesting was a book about Benjamin Franklin and all his lady friends in Paris, and I thought about buying it, but then went...no...I don't really think I can...(a few other really weird highlights: elderly relative in convalescent home asking why she was selected to be on an adoption committee for a baby, religious conservative Christian relatives (and some not so conservative ones) talking about either how well-behaved the children at a Muslim school were, or how some of their best students were Muslim kids, waitress in tiny Michigan town who was just in LA on the set of "How I Met Your Mother," teensy newborn kid in the airplane looking at me over mother's shoulder through the crack in the seats)...I got Grace (Eventually) from another relative and read that on the plane instead.

from Grace (Eventually)

Alsoalsoalso: lots of icecream with interesting names!
(Blue Moon, Blue Moo, Superman, Tractor Tracks)

Also: time to see mountains soon.

Dancing dogs

City as swimming pool

from http://hommemaker.com/2012/03/08/whut-glamour-griffith-observatory/

~~~~~

"Hang on a minute! Isn’t the sun supposed to be a masculine deity?! Apparently not. It’s only with the rise of monotheism and patriarchy that the sun, being regarded as the ‘most-powerful’, became a he-God. Language and mythology reveal a different story... The very word ‘sun’ comes from the name of the Scandinavian Sun Goddess Sunna or Sunnu. In Old English (when English had grammatical gender), ‘sun’ was feminine and ‘moon’ masculine, as it still is today in German (it's referred to affectionately as ‘Frau Sonne’ – ‘Mrs. Sun’)."

~The Sun Is Feminine

iridescence

From curioushistory.com

Oh media mysterious

from The Daily Mail

Having never been to Britain (unfortunately) I do not know much about their newspapers, and this one is apparently hated for it's tiresome gossip, yet it also published a story about how a hormonal imbalance of something called leptin could affect eating disorders, and also this one about why Gaby Hoffman didn't shave for her Crystal Fairy movie...Seriously, what a mysterious source of information.