Well, it's still poetry month!

I was thinking about tapestry and had this weird urge to look up someone I met a long time ago, and I managed to find her even though I only remembered her LAST name. And so...Hélène by D. Poe (and aloud).

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Prior to that...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jul/01/carole-king-tapestry-album-live-devotion


Tapestry Thinking: Weaving Together the Unexpected | Nalini Nadkarni | TEDxSaltLakeCity

Trees & Quotable....

"When I look into my heart, I see trees — this is actually an image of a real heart — there are trees in our hearts, there are trees in your hearts. When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep, the most important parts of our self. In these partnerships, I have also learned that people tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share nature, when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator."

~ Nalini Nadkarni

~ https://www.ted.com/talks/nalini_nadkani_on_conserving_the_canopy/transcript?language=en

Poetry break

http://poetrywalks.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-log-truck-drivers-rise-ealier-than.html?m=1

Life can be a song

ACCENTUATE

"In the past 20 to 30 years, American society has grown more intolerant of behaviors once seen as not only routine, but even positive."

~ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/sexism-sucks-everybody-science-confirms-180961178/#AOquBpTYzfY2P2aI.99

THE

"'If you get huffy about it then it becomes a problem,' she adds, although is quick to explain that highlighting sexism and inequality is important so that others don't have to suffer."

~ https://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/jul/12/sue-biggs-rhs-director-interview

POSITIVE

"Despite the unrelenting bad news, the Kapor Center for Social Impact had an optimistic final takeaway. They found that tech companies can retain talent by taking proactive steps to improve workplace culture."

~ https://jaxenter.com/techs-diversity-problem-133663.html



Accentuate The Positive - The Puppini Sisters

Instead of the fox and the hound...

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/coyote-and-badger-hunt-together

and/or

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/why-hummingbirds-live-near-hawks

There's two

The Drain Game and The Drain Game.
Maybe more...

True

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/jackfruit-isnt-the-meat-substitute-its-cracked-up-to-be-at-least-not-without-help/2016/09/02/e4618674-6ef4-11e6-9705-23e51a2f424d_story.html

So heavy

"Died of old age nerves." Reported to be written on an ancestor's death certificate, who is also purported to be a little bit Cherokee. Also, "Lost his mind." But that's no reason for a ghost to want any of his descendants to stay up 'til the wee a.m. hours googling medical diagnoses...

Whoever wrote

Uncle Fran - Repressed Memories gets to be a circus freak in his next life. In a rural and religious community. Where they lock the freaks in libraries with only Shirley MacLaine books. Said the ghost. Who also said, the mens of entertainment will write better jokes when...

That's life

Possibly happy X-ray day tomorrow. We shall see...

Early Friday evening activity

I felt better, got to go library-hopping, then found a messianic story.
~~~~~

https://notalwaysright.com/a-message-from-the-messiah/52280

The pain is not fake

I am intensely desirous of healing my own pain instead of dragging back over and maybe getting referred out for an X-ray.

Two for tea

Malala  &  Mary Arm's Length Prankster Spill

Oh,

Old Life Call Commercial
I am hella tired of mystery chest pain.

Animals are important

I did not know I would say this, but I also didn't know my physical symptoms would return so strongly.

Caring about animals and the environment is really important.

I didn't know I would feel the need to say that, but I do.

Earlier, I was like, "Oh, keyboard."

"Be amazingly nice to your body," not "Be a Nazi fly."
"Need to find better ways of being," not "breed."

In a dream, I got trapped in a car with some girls.  Those girls didn't care about what I needed. The car was going too fast and we all ended up at a house with a sick dog, where I was the only one who cared about the dog's health. Then I woke up and I was relieved it was just a dream.

I looked up pleurisy and took anti-inflammatory supplements and made teas.

In real life, there's actually been some very helpful people in certain places and in certain areas. "I was thinking about you and I thought..." and they would talk about stress-related illness and hope I was feeling better. And in real life, there's been fun, too, with certain people and in certain places.

Be amazingly nice to your body

I need to do that.
I am sorry if I wasn't.
I will get better at this.
The chest pain on the left came back a little.
It's really -- it gets one's attention.

Yes. It does that.

Some of us received messages about being tough from society and whatnot and sonetimes that language seemed to work for some people but because of my body I am going to need to find better ways of being.
Behold, body, I will be better at listening to you...help me understand how I can change.

poquito recital

How did a person who is older than I am who likes music never hear 

Lucky Man or In The Beginning before tonight? Not sure.

But what is a something good he heard lately?

Hurray For The Riff Raff: 'Pa'lante'

And also

Laura Marling - Soothing

Charitably buying candy

It was an opportunity to charitably buy candy for a classmate's granddaughter's sports team but not eat it (squandered). It was also an opportunity to explain why baseball was not a favorite sport (seized)!
"I liked basketball and soccer better. I think I didn't like the plates. They're like standing on little stages. They make me nervous."  Also (ooooh, I forgot) what about when the coach for the boys took all the gloves over to their side of the field, so that the girls were left to play without any, until a little pinky finger got broken and dislocated! Painful. And what if this had been the case?

http://www.king5.com/news/local/vashon-island-left-without-a-medical-clinic/307075793

Any kid who got their finger broken in P.E. would have wait for a ferry or get choppered into Harborview? (Probably not the latter.) But, wait...

http://www.neighborcare.org/clinics/neighborcare-health-vashon

Good good good good good good good...

Fair to middling thoughts

"Boy have you gained weight this year."

(Before the electrocardiogram. Also, after the frozen yogurt sundae, even though you bought candy -- which you also ate -- for a woman's granddaughter's soft ball team. Also after berberine, and old picture of self from a wedding. By the way, will that dress still fit this weekend...)

Supplements you can love

A nice single mom gave me some suggestions.

I love vitamin sale.