Why is there tragedy sometimes when there were whole afternoons when life was so idyllic.
Alex de Grassi - "Western"
Thursday, August 15, 2024
This was a nice one.
"Blue Night" - William Orbit (Torch Song)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5EATm5uLqMg&si=hWmqIBClnsvBTF-a
It came on as I was driving in a rural-ish area and talking to myself about various things...
Wet floor covered with towels morning.
Most recent dream was probably mostly about processing certain sad emotions, did not include any significant psychic revelations about finding anybody, and it strangely ended with a couple cats getting friendlier and napping on a bed under some covers, but also with a solo cat knocking over an actual mason jar of water IRL.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Interesting interests intersecting
"Birdsong complexity"
~ Matt Howard
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8hqErtpcgX/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Big sagebrush"
~ Matt Howard
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-QOyfavEfJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"USU is not unique among universities"
@howies_everythingclub
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNtfKMw5/
"Remember when..."
@howies_everythingclub
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C89s4Txx2vH/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I'm barely scratching the surface"
~ Matt Howard
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2_GjVNPAGX/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Chickadees"
~ Matt Howard
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx0rGinxKrM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
A newer song made me go. Look for another song again.
"You'll Be Taken Care Of (feat. Tori Amos) (2023 Remaster)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dy56CMWmOF4&si=Ef68oGb2EZ0xI85_
"White Telephone To God"
~ Tori Amos
I had a 1980s or 90s kind of grown-up dinner tonight.
I felt really sad and disturbed this evening by some sad news, and also hungry, so I ate a lot for dinner. It was wine and french bread...wow, just the wine and french bread with nothing on it let me know how much of a simple soul I am...I used to live in one kind of little town, and now I live in another...the wine was cheap but it got a 90 rating and had a pretty label and still tasted good after being opened and put in the fridge for a few days, and that's all I need...I ate a tuna sandwich on ciabatta with lots of toppings and a pickle and some chips and I fixed up my actual salad so that it was different from a regular Greek salad because it had apple white wine dressing, or something like that on it.
Maybe some can come to visit this little town too, sometime...someday.
But seriously...🤣
"15 Things That Shocked My German Fiancé About The USA"
~ NALF
https://youtube.com/watch?v=34Q6012w2cU&si=ND1pzR9NIXgX7T_l
"America...America..."
https://genius.com/Team-america-america-fuck-yeah-lyrics
Sportsmanship. Books.
Not to forget this...
"It was a special day at the Los Angeles Zoo Wednesday as dozens of LAUSD students - all children of migrant farm workers - celebrated the conclusion of a program that taught them about the zoo's conservation work.
Because of the parents' work, the families move across California and face interruptions during the school year.
Through the Migrant Education Program, the students visit the zoo seven times in the summer to meet with animal care experts and learn how animals are taken care of. They also learn about the zoo's work to protect certain species from extinction in the wild.
'By the seventh visit they've become experts on their focus animals and on the last day - the eighth day - we do a gallery of what inspired them during their visits,' L.A. Zoo community program manager Coral Barreiro said.
On Wednesday, the student's very own exhibit designs and art pieces were on display so they could share what they learned with their families.
'Not only are they creating, they're speaking, they're learning public speaking skills at 6 years old,' Barreiro said."
~ Tony Cabrera
"LAUSD students - children of migrant workers - get hands-on learning experience at LA Zoo"
https://abc7.com/post/lausd-students-children-migrant-workers-get-hands-learning/15066272/
Those values needed some updating, man...
It was crazy to find out that so many in the $ entertainment industry $ had more in common with a narcissistic misogynist like Donald Trump than lots of actual Trump voters had in common with him. Well, I suppose he's the way that he is for various reasons, and so are they.
There's a lot of people who know things can get better.
I guess up next is healing a lot. Sorrow has brought up so many feelings of loss, grief, anger, and betrayal. Some people pretend they know nothing about such things, but they know. That's how it seems, at the moment, anyway.
Monday, August 12, 2024
That's something I didn't know before.
"Tying myself with rope and telling u about my bully who's now famous"
~ Blume
I still remember that tutoring job interview where all the smart older people got cut and people in their 20s magically made it to the second and third rounds.
There's people who are where they are in life, not just due to all their hard work and talent, but because others looked at them, and their outer packaging and said "Yeah, that kind of a person seems like a good fit for that kind of a position."
Mmmm. Values.
"One of his rightwing friends is really wealthy. It’s nice to have a friend who takes you out to dinner, but it also means Nick hears all this stuff about how people who aren’t rich are basically parasites. And he doesn’t want to listen to his mom or me, because I’ve been a teacher my whole life and we always scrimped by, so he thinks we’re lazy, stupid hippies. Why would he listen to anything we say, when his friend’s parents have a Mercedes in the driveway and live in a million-dollar house?
Nick has a girlfriend now, who he met online in one of his rightwing forums. My ex says that she’s a perfectly lovely girl and isn’t some sort of Marjorie Taylor Greene type, just a country Catholic kid. She’s also Latina, so his feelings on immigration have softened after he spent time with her family. He’s got something at stake now."
~ Sam Delaune, as told to Alaina Demopoulos
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/aug/12/trump-maga-divide-son-father
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