Well I guess I'll try to upload some of the drawings I've done on the computer. I invested in one of those neat mouse pens and that makes it loads easier to at least try to draw. Only thing is now I have to figgure out these things called layers and stuff.
Lets see what happens:
Nothing I tried so far works. Maybe a photo...Nope, same problems. sigh. I thought these things were supposed to let you upload pictures... photo's anyway.
Anyone got suggestions on how to do this? I'd like to share some of my pictures I haven't put up in that online t-shirt store of mine.
Oh, and it ain't easy getting a post back to edit once you leave the site unexpectedly as I did just a moment ago. I clicked on the wrong thing and presto chango everything was gone with me having to get back on Yahoo just to have a place to jump off from to get back here. Sheesh. Stupid machines doing what I tell'um instead of what I want'um to do.
Grummble, mutter.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Down on the farm...The worm farm that is.
It occurred to me that some might wonder just what a lazy but dedicated Permaculturest (aka permie) might do to get their selves in line with the stated philosophy.
Some of my methods are simple things dictated by the fact that I can't afford to go out and buy all kinds of neat new toys. Toy's like solar panels, wind turbines, batteries to store the energy those two produce or even solar powered electric fencing to keep the goats in. Or any kind of fencing for that mater.
Permie method #1. My thermostat is set at 80 degrees. Unless the weather folks say it's going to be lower than that and not rain. Then I turn off the ac, open the window's and lock the screen doors I added onto my house. I added those doors just so I could open the main doors and keep the cats in and the bugs out. #2. I try not to buy stuff that is over packaged. I get my top up card for my cell phone at the DG because they put the info on my receipt and I don't have a chunk of plastic to worry about. Shoot, I can't afford to buy to much of anything anyway!. #3. I rinse out the cans I get soup or beans or whatever in and place them in the container with the plastic, glass and metal. #4. I store up the junk mail I get as well as any other scrap paper I generate and the odd newspaper. #5. I either use the paper to make paper mache boxes or some such or I take it, cardboard I've collected, and the sack or box of stuff from #3 to the recycling place there in Greenville. I'm trying to do this once a month. The result is I only add about one trash can of stuff a month to the local land fill. #6. My small left over food scraps, and tea bags feed my worms. The larger, non-meat, scraps...if any, go to the goats. To bad I don't have chickens to feed meat scraps to. To bad I don't have any meat scraps. #7. I have horses on this place too and I refuse to let the folks who clean the stalls try to 'dump' or 'put out for collection' the leavings in the stalls. (yeah, they get odd idea's like that) Instead, I insist on it being piled up where it can compost and eventually be used to either feed the gardens I plan to have or the worms I hope to eventually have working away for me. #8. I don't turn on lights unless I actually need them. #9. As there is no one here but me, I only do one load of washing about once a week. That saves energy and water. #10. I'm watching the way things grow, even weeds and such, on my place. Where they grow and where I and others leave trails or insist on mowing. This will let me know where I can plan to plant gardens and possibly even what kind of stuff I can grow in them. I'm also watching to see where would be a good place to set up a worm farm larger than the one presently setting on the counter beside my sink.
Umm. I'm betting that some out there are saying: "Worms? WORMS!!? Eeeeeyuuuuu! By the sink!!! In your KITCHEN!!!"
Yeah, I know you're also likely thinking: nasty, icky, smelly and gross.
Me. I like worms. I also respect them for the yeoman work they do keeping the biosphere going.
You do know that almost all life on this planet...including our whole civilization is completely dependent on about the 3 to 6 inches or so of arable soil that covers the some of the land masses of this planet. And don't give me that foolishness about hydroponics. Talk about energy and work intensive agriculture!! Besides, they aren't smelly and are only icky and gross if you are a sissy. (So says the gal whose always been a 'tomboy')
Worms keep the soil alive, healthy and able to support crops. They aerate and mix the soil as well as digest and make available all kinds of nutrients needed by the plants we need to live.
Yeah, even us meat loving carnivores need plants. Remember, those critters we like to eat? They need plants to live and the plants also make oxygen for us all to breath.
So if your ever looking for something or someone to thank for your continued existence, thank the worms and, also, the bees! If you are wondering; no bees, no pollination, no fruit, vegetables or such.
Some of my methods are simple things dictated by the fact that I can't afford to go out and buy all kinds of neat new toys. Toy's like solar panels, wind turbines, batteries to store the energy those two produce or even solar powered electric fencing to keep the goats in. Or any kind of fencing for that mater.
Permie method #1. My thermostat is set at 80 degrees. Unless the weather folks say it's going to be lower than that and not rain. Then I turn off the ac, open the window's and lock the screen doors I added onto my house. I added those doors just so I could open the main doors and keep the cats in and the bugs out. #2. I try not to buy stuff that is over packaged. I get my top up card for my cell phone at the DG because they put the info on my receipt and I don't have a chunk of plastic to worry about. Shoot, I can't afford to buy to much of anything anyway!. #3. I rinse out the cans I get soup or beans or whatever in and place them in the container with the plastic, glass and metal. #4. I store up the junk mail I get as well as any other scrap paper I generate and the odd newspaper. #5. I either use the paper to make paper mache boxes or some such or I take it, cardboard I've collected, and the sack or box of stuff from #3 to the recycling place there in Greenville. I'm trying to do this once a month. The result is I only add about one trash can of stuff a month to the local land fill. #6. My small left over food scraps, and tea bags feed my worms. The larger, non-meat, scraps...if any, go to the goats. To bad I don't have chickens to feed meat scraps to. To bad I don't have any meat scraps. #7. I have horses on this place too and I refuse to let the folks who clean the stalls try to 'dump' or 'put out for collection' the leavings in the stalls. (yeah, they get odd idea's like that) Instead, I insist on it being piled up where it can compost and eventually be used to either feed the gardens I plan to have or the worms I hope to eventually have working away for me. #8. I don't turn on lights unless I actually need them. #9. As there is no one here but me, I only do one load of washing about once a week. That saves energy and water. #10. I'm watching the way things grow, even weeds and such, on my place. Where they grow and where I and others leave trails or insist on mowing. This will let me know where I can plan to plant gardens and possibly even what kind of stuff I can grow in them. I'm also watching to see where would be a good place to set up a worm farm larger than the one presently setting on the counter beside my sink.
Umm. I'm betting that some out there are saying: "Worms? WORMS!!? Eeeeeyuuuuu! By the sink!!! In your KITCHEN!!!"
Yeah, I know you're also likely thinking: nasty, icky, smelly and gross.
Me. I like worms. I also respect them for the yeoman work they do keeping the biosphere going.
You do know that almost all life on this planet...including our whole civilization is completely dependent on about the 3 to 6 inches or so of arable soil that covers the some of the land masses of this planet. And don't give me that foolishness about hydroponics. Talk about energy and work intensive agriculture!! Besides, they aren't smelly and are only icky and gross if you are a sissy. (So says the gal whose always been a 'tomboy')
Worms keep the soil alive, healthy and able to support crops. They aerate and mix the soil as well as digest and make available all kinds of nutrients needed by the plants we need to live.
Yeah, even us meat loving carnivores need plants. Remember, those critters we like to eat? They need plants to live and the plants also make oxygen for us all to breath.
So if your ever looking for something or someone to thank for your continued existence, thank the worms and, also, the bees! If you are wondering; no bees, no pollination, no fruit, vegetables or such.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
What to write on a Sunday?
Yeah, this is supposed to be either your day to goof off, or the day you go to church or maybe both, if you are so inclined.
No clue as to what I'm going to put on here today. But, hey, it's my blog, right? I can do anything here except slander someone, and why would I want to do that. After all,for most folks (especially the famous or the politically inclined) the plain truth about them is slander enough. :)
I know. I'll go on (and on and on most likely) about one of my other passions.
Yes, I have more than one.
There is writing, of course, as it is something I just can't help doing. I have to get those stories out of my head somehow and pouring them out through a pen or a keyboard helps.
One of those other passions has become something called Permaculture. Now, if you don't know already Permaculture is a, well; I guess you'd call it a philosophy of design. It originated in Australia from the mind's of two men. One of whom is Bill Mollison. I can't for the life of me remember who the other guy is at the moment. However if you go to http://forums.permaculture.org.au/ you can probably find out. As well as talk to some very interesting folks from Australia. Another site that can let you know some stuff about Permaculture is http://www.permacultureactivist.com/.
Now, I'm sure you are wondering why you should even bother. Well, one of the basic philosophy's of Permaculture design is that instead of fighting or trying to dominate nature, as we have been doing for ages, is that we should learn from and even, (gasp!) cooperate with nature.
Why should our proud and powerful species do anything so humbling as that, some of you may wonder. Simple.
We may think we are hot stuff. We might even, though there is some argument on the idea, actually be causing a serious (or not so serious, some argue that point as well) climatological change but we are still only one of billions of species on this planet. Sure we have single handledly lowered the number of those species some but still, we are only one life form and Nature, or Gaea (not the Greek Goddess, the interactive system of air, sea, and life that is the biosphere of this planet) is a bit bigger than we are. Not to mention more powerful and, as yet, quite unpredictable save in rather small ways.
So, given that Gaea could, with just a little shrug, wipe out our species or at least set it back so far that we would have to relearn how to invent the wheel, why not cooperate. Especially as cooperation could well lower the impact of our own foolishness, greed and general stupidity on not just the biosphere but on us.
Heck, it might even be a cheaper way to live and mess with the terrorists as well.
I became enamored of Permaculture when I first met up with the concept because it seems to say, and even have real world, usable ideas on how to do things that I have been trying to say, think of, find out for myself for a long time. It is about how to design not just your architecture, but your farmstead, your house, your life, your city, your country, everything.
No. It's not a religion. No gods except the ones you bring with you.
But it does have three ethics: 1) care of the Earth, 2) care of People, and lastly 3)Fair Share.
Then there are the 12 design principles: 1) observe and interact, 2) catch and store energy, 3) obtain a yield, 4) apply self regulation and accept feedback, 5) use and value renewable resources and services, 6) produce no waste, 7) design from patterns to details, 8) integrate rather than segregate, 9) use small and slow solutions, 10) use and value diversity, 11) use edges and value the marginal, and lastly, 12) creatively use and respond to change.
If you want to know more about these ideas there's a web site, http://permacultureprinciples.com/ethics.php ,that goes into greater detail.
I'm presently trying to get my little farmstead set up to mirror these idea's. I just need more ideas on how to do it with less funds and few folks willing to go along with my odd ideas. Though I'm sure a bit more energy and actions on my own part wouldn't hurt.
Seems people are willing to help me do various things but they want to use the old school ways that try to harness and dominate the land or use up resources. I want to nurture, heal, and bring back the diversity of the land I pay taxes to keep ... while I get my food, some of my energy, some of my water and maybe a marginal income off of it. I want to do this as frankly, I really don't trust the government to take care of me as I get older. I only trust them, the 'powers that think they are' to do what ever will keep them in power. I have always looked at this land as my real 'retirement package' not the measly little 401k I had at work or the benefits granted to me (and likely to be whisked away by) the government.
Let me know what you think of this Permaculture thing. Leave a comment or e-mail me if this silly blog won't let you comment. I like talking about Permaculture. And my worms, and goats, and plans for fixing up the place and....and.... well, you get the picture.
No clue as to what I'm going to put on here today. But, hey, it's my blog, right? I can do anything here except slander someone, and why would I want to do that. After all,for most folks (especially the famous or the politically inclined) the plain truth about them is slander enough. :)
I know. I'll go on (and on and on most likely) about one of my other passions.
Yes, I have more than one.
There is writing, of course, as it is something I just can't help doing. I have to get those stories out of my head somehow and pouring them out through a pen or a keyboard helps.
One of those other passions has become something called Permaculture. Now, if you don't know already Permaculture is a, well; I guess you'd call it a philosophy of design. It originated in Australia from the mind's of two men. One of whom is Bill Mollison. I can't for the life of me remember who the other guy is at the moment. However if you go to http://forums.permaculture.org.au/ you can probably find out. As well as talk to some very interesting folks from Australia. Another site that can let you know some stuff about Permaculture is http://www.permacultureactivist.com/.
Now, I'm sure you are wondering why you should even bother. Well, one of the basic philosophy's of Permaculture design is that instead of fighting or trying to dominate nature, as we have been doing for ages, is that we should learn from and even, (gasp!) cooperate with nature.
Why should our proud and powerful species do anything so humbling as that, some of you may wonder. Simple.
We may think we are hot stuff. We might even, though there is some argument on the idea, actually be causing a serious (or not so serious, some argue that point as well) climatological change but we are still only one of billions of species on this planet. Sure we have single handledly lowered the number of those species some but still, we are only one life form and Nature, or Gaea (not the Greek Goddess, the interactive system of air, sea, and life that is the biosphere of this planet) is a bit bigger than we are. Not to mention more powerful and, as yet, quite unpredictable save in rather small ways.
So, given that Gaea could, with just a little shrug, wipe out our species or at least set it back so far that we would have to relearn how to invent the wheel, why not cooperate. Especially as cooperation could well lower the impact of our own foolishness, greed and general stupidity on not just the biosphere but on us.
Heck, it might even be a cheaper way to live and mess with the terrorists as well.
I became enamored of Permaculture when I first met up with the concept because it seems to say, and even have real world, usable ideas on how to do things that I have been trying to say, think of, find out for myself for a long time. It is about how to design not just your architecture, but your farmstead, your house, your life, your city, your country, everything.
No. It's not a religion. No gods except the ones you bring with you.
But it does have three ethics: 1) care of the Earth, 2) care of People, and lastly 3)Fair Share.
Then there are the 12 design principles: 1) observe and interact, 2) catch and store energy, 3) obtain a yield, 4) apply self regulation and accept feedback, 5) use and value renewable resources and services, 6) produce no waste, 7) design from patterns to details, 8) integrate rather than segregate, 9) use small and slow solutions, 10) use and value diversity, 11) use edges and value the marginal, and lastly, 12) creatively use and respond to change.
If you want to know more about these ideas there's a web site, http://permacultureprinciples.com/ethics.php ,that goes into greater detail.
I'm presently trying to get my little farmstead set up to mirror these idea's. I just need more ideas on how to do it with less funds and few folks willing to go along with my odd ideas. Though I'm sure a bit more energy and actions on my own part wouldn't hurt.
Seems people are willing to help me do various things but they want to use the old school ways that try to harness and dominate the land or use up resources. I want to nurture, heal, and bring back the diversity of the land I pay taxes to keep ... while I get my food, some of my energy, some of my water and maybe a marginal income off of it. I want to do this as frankly, I really don't trust the government to take care of me as I get older. I only trust them, the 'powers that think they are' to do what ever will keep them in power. I have always looked at this land as my real 'retirement package' not the measly little 401k I had at work or the benefits granted to me (and likely to be whisked away by) the government.
Let me know what you think of this Permaculture thing. Leave a comment or e-mail me if this silly blog won't let you comment. I like talking about Permaculture. And my worms, and goats, and plans for fixing up the place and....and.... well, you get the picture.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
An alternative opinion, I think.
As I warned you I might, I am going to attempt to put one of my Articles for the Lone Oak News Letter up here. Just for fun this one is the one that will appear in this coming Friday's paper. It's a bit longer that usual but you can still say you read it here first. :D
Alternate Opinion
Man, do I hate these so called ‘reality shows’. I know why the networks love them, they don’t really have to pay any writers to work on them so they save money. Plus they can depend on all those idiots out there who haven’t got a life of their own…or at least what they consider an ‘exciting’ life, to tune in to get their voyeuristic rocks off.
Yeah. I know. I just offended darn near everyone out there, cause who hasn’t tuned in to one or more of these stupid shows. Oh, and just to make sure that I’ve offended everyone, I count these newer ‘contest’ shows as part of this voyeur T.V. The dancing shows, the singing shows, all of those. Admit it. When you tune in to these you hope you see someone crash and burn. You may pick a super fine one or the really ugly one but you pick one to be ‘you’ and that’s the one you back with your votes. Votes that help pay the producers that put on the show.
I’m on this rant because I couldn’t find a darn thing on T.V. last night that was any good. Which left me with the boob tube on to this house guest show thingy while I waited for the show I wanted to watch to come on. Honestly, I was never so glad to be toned out by the Fire Department pager. Can’t say more than that or the HIPPA people will fine me into a hole I can’t climb out of.
Now, my biggest gripe against these so called reality shows is that they are being called ‘reality’. Especially the first one that came on. The one called Survivor… whatever place they do it in. Now as I understand that one the basic idea is this group of folks is stranded…as on a deserted island… and only the ‘strongest survives’. Bull droppings.
I honestly don’t believe that is how it would work out for real. Not unless the people involved were sociopaths. Because in a real reality, that torch snuffing at the end of each show would be someone actually dieing. Dead.
So just imagine you are actually on a deserted island with a bunch of people with various talents. Would you really want to start killing each other off like that? Would you even divide up into tribes? I don’t think so. I don’t think folks would divide up into ‘tribes’ unless there was a hard line disagreement on where camp should be set up. I also believe, deep in my heart of hearts, that the stronger would help the weaker and listen to the smarter or more experienced.
I really don’t believe the goal of a bunch of stranded folks would be to try to be the only one who survived the experience. I even came up with an idea for an alternative survivor type show. Well, hey, I am an alternative type person after all.
In this show the goal is for as many of the ‘cast aways’ to make it off the ‘island’ as possible. The protagonist, in this case would be the producers, for if all the contestants survive and work it right, then the producers would be out more than a million bucks.
The cast away group can start out as two tribes, each with a ‘magic’ pot of one million. That would be split evenly among them. They lose a member from the tribe that money goes with them. Literally. They can earn more magic, mojo, (money) for the tribe to share or for themselves in various ways. The winner of the games set up by the producers gets to send one member of the other tribe into solitary. Lets call it a trial instead. The chief of the tribe can elect to take the selected members place if he/she thinks they won’t ’survive’, or he/she can choose to go along as a ’spirit guide’ or send a ’shaman’ as one. The ’spirit guide’ can’t do anything but make suggestions to the member on trial. The trial can be finding a ’totem’ or other prize that will be an advantage to the tribe. Maybe the same goodies the other tribe won.
Now the kicker will be that the tribes will eventually come together and share the money remaining in both pots. Maybe, sometimes the prize they work for in the contests will be more mojo (money) for the pot. Now, they could complicate it by saying that the ’chief’ and ’shamans’ would get a bigger cut of the pot as long as they are the chief or shaman. Maybe, say that if the chief or shaman, or anyone ’saved’ someone they got a portion of that persons split. These two could always be voted out of office and only keep what they earned ‘saving’ someone else. But anyone who ‘survived’ a trial would come back not only with goodies for the tribe but a personal bonus big enough to ’pay’ for the help of the ‘spirit guide’. These trials would be the networks chance to whittle down their own losses by getting rid of contestants. But we would be watching the show so they couldn’t get too unfair about it.
Yeah, I know. That would mean that the ‘opposing’ tribe would have to help the ‘enemy’ by NOT selecting the weakest one to go on trial but the one most likely to succeed! Because after all if that member fails the trial, he/she is ‘dead’ and gone with whatever ‘wealth’ they had earned as well as their share of the tribes pot. On the other hand, if they survive they will bring back more for their tribe and thus eventually the later, joined tribe. Also those within the tribes would have to do their best to keep the other tribal members there, or see part of their tribes mojo walk away.
I’m not clear on all the details. I just want to see a reality show where everyone can walk away a bit richer than they started. A show where watching it can teach us about really surviving in the real world, about making and maintaining relationships in tough circumstances. Where we can watch a group of diverse individuals come together as a tribe to beat an over reaching power (the network putting on the show) out of something they don’t want to lose (their money).
Yeah, I know. The above would not be that much closer to a true ‘reality’. But, I refuse to believe in the reality portrayed by these reality shows we are already seeing. I don’t like that reality. It’s mean. It’s cruel. And it would mean that everyone is out to stab everyone else in the back just because they don’t like them or because they are in the way. Even those who help them get to where they can ‘win’. That isn’t the way the world should work. That isn’t the way we should let it work. I want to believe we humans are better than that.
Oppsy! I saw a couple of things I had to correct. Now I have to contact Peggy so she can fix the copy in the newsletter!
Alternate Opinion
Man, do I hate these so called ‘reality shows’. I know why the networks love them, they don’t really have to pay any writers to work on them so they save money. Plus they can depend on all those idiots out there who haven’t got a life of their own…or at least what they consider an ‘exciting’ life, to tune in to get their voyeuristic rocks off.
Yeah. I know. I just offended darn near everyone out there, cause who hasn’t tuned in to one or more of these stupid shows. Oh, and just to make sure that I’ve offended everyone, I count these newer ‘contest’ shows as part of this voyeur T.V. The dancing shows, the singing shows, all of those. Admit it. When you tune in to these you hope you see someone crash and burn. You may pick a super fine one or the really ugly one but you pick one to be ‘you’ and that’s the one you back with your votes. Votes that help pay the producers that put on the show.
I’m on this rant because I couldn’t find a darn thing on T.V. last night that was any good. Which left me with the boob tube on to this house guest show thingy while I waited for the show I wanted to watch to come on. Honestly, I was never so glad to be toned out by the Fire Department pager. Can’t say more than that or the HIPPA people will fine me into a hole I can’t climb out of.
Now, my biggest gripe against these so called reality shows is that they are being called ‘reality’. Especially the first one that came on. The one called Survivor… whatever place they do it in. Now as I understand that one the basic idea is this group of folks is stranded…as on a deserted island… and only the ‘strongest survives’. Bull droppings.
I honestly don’t believe that is how it would work out for real. Not unless the people involved were sociopaths. Because in a real reality, that torch snuffing at the end of each show would be someone actually dieing. Dead.
So just imagine you are actually on a deserted island with a bunch of people with various talents. Would you really want to start killing each other off like that? Would you even divide up into tribes? I don’t think so. I don’t think folks would divide up into ‘tribes’ unless there was a hard line disagreement on where camp should be set up. I also believe, deep in my heart of hearts, that the stronger would help the weaker and listen to the smarter or more experienced.
I really don’t believe the goal of a bunch of stranded folks would be to try to be the only one who survived the experience. I even came up with an idea for an alternative survivor type show. Well, hey, I am an alternative type person after all.
In this show the goal is for as many of the ‘cast aways’ to make it off the ‘island’ as possible. The protagonist, in this case would be the producers, for if all the contestants survive and work it right, then the producers would be out more than a million bucks.
The cast away group can start out as two tribes, each with a ‘magic’ pot of one million. That would be split evenly among them. They lose a member from the tribe that money goes with them. Literally. They can earn more magic, mojo, (money) for the tribe to share or for themselves in various ways. The winner of the games set up by the producers gets to send one member of the other tribe into solitary. Lets call it a trial instead. The chief of the tribe can elect to take the selected members place if he/she thinks they won’t ’survive’, or he/she can choose to go along as a ’spirit guide’ or send a ’shaman’ as one. The ’spirit guide’ can’t do anything but make suggestions to the member on trial. The trial can be finding a ’totem’ or other prize that will be an advantage to the tribe. Maybe the same goodies the other tribe won.
Now the kicker will be that the tribes will eventually come together and share the money remaining in both pots. Maybe, sometimes the prize they work for in the contests will be more mojo (money) for the pot. Now, they could complicate it by saying that the ’chief’ and ’shamans’ would get a bigger cut of the pot as long as they are the chief or shaman. Maybe, say that if the chief or shaman, or anyone ’saved’ someone they got a portion of that persons split. These two could always be voted out of office and only keep what they earned ‘saving’ someone else. But anyone who ‘survived’ a trial would come back not only with goodies for the tribe but a personal bonus big enough to ’pay’ for the help of the ‘spirit guide’. These trials would be the networks chance to whittle down their own losses by getting rid of contestants. But we would be watching the show so they couldn’t get too unfair about it.
Yeah, I know. That would mean that the ‘opposing’ tribe would have to help the ‘enemy’ by NOT selecting the weakest one to go on trial but the one most likely to succeed! Because after all if that member fails the trial, he/she is ‘dead’ and gone with whatever ‘wealth’ they had earned as well as their share of the tribes pot. On the other hand, if they survive they will bring back more for their tribe and thus eventually the later, joined tribe. Also those within the tribes would have to do their best to keep the other tribal members there, or see part of their tribes mojo walk away.
I’m not clear on all the details. I just want to see a reality show where everyone can walk away a bit richer than they started. A show where watching it can teach us about really surviving in the real world, about making and maintaining relationships in tough circumstances. Where we can watch a group of diverse individuals come together as a tribe to beat an over reaching power (the network putting on the show) out of something they don’t want to lose (their money).
Yeah, I know. The above would not be that much closer to a true ‘reality’. But, I refuse to believe in the reality portrayed by these reality shows we are already seeing. I don’t like that reality. It’s mean. It’s cruel. And it would mean that everyone is out to stab everyone else in the back just because they don’t like them or because they are in the way. Even those who help them get to where they can ‘win’. That isn’t the way the world should work. That isn’t the way we should let it work. I want to believe we humans are better than that.
Oppsy! I saw a couple of things I had to correct. Now I have to contact Peggy so she can fix the copy in the newsletter!
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Just in case anyone might be interested, I have an online store. It's at www.cafepress.com/aliceszenstuff It's got some of my more, uh, odd(?) art. Most of which came about from reading about Zen Stuff. Feel free to go look. You can even buy stuff if you want. It's mostly t-shirts and such. My only problem with it is the stuffs kinda expensive unless I mark down my prices so far I get nuthin'. Sigh. Oh, well, such is the wild world of 'bidness'. Now let's see if I can up load something.
The Captains Dream
The Vulcan looked up as I entered the bridge. No emotion, no reaction could be read on that unchanging countenance. An eyebrow raised only the slightest micrometer, and I stopped dead still.
He had reacted!
But to what? Why?
Had one of those numerous, vitally important dials or gages before him at his station; or the computer, through some method beyond mere human understanding, reported to him the near and ultimate destruction of the entire universe?
"Captain," he intoned solemnly in his precise English, "I believe you've forgotten something."
I stood peering at him and thinking furiously. No, I had given all the necessary orders, checked and double checked all the thousand and one things that absolutely had to be checked....but....
I had grabbed a couple of minutes sack time before coming back to the bridge.
"What..", I began, blinking in alarm.
"Your boots, Captain." he said without even a flicker of an eyelash and pointed a long slender index finger at my left big toe as it protruded defiantly from its sock.
With that I gratefully awoke and very carefully put on my boots; after tucking my toe discreetly back within its sock
YeeeeYowww! Look-it That! It worked! It actually worked. (doing a little victory dance!)
Let me know what you think, y'all.
The Captains Dream
The Vulcan looked up as I entered the bridge. No emotion, no reaction could be read on that unchanging countenance. An eyebrow raised only the slightest micrometer, and I stopped dead still.
He had reacted!
But to what? Why?
Had one of those numerous, vitally important dials or gages before him at his station; or the computer, through some method beyond mere human understanding, reported to him the near and ultimate destruction of the entire universe?
"Captain," he intoned solemnly in his precise English, "I believe you've forgotten something."
I stood peering at him and thinking furiously. No, I had given all the necessary orders, checked and double checked all the thousand and one things that absolutely had to be checked....but....
I had grabbed a couple of minutes sack time before coming back to the bridge.
"What..", I began, blinking in alarm.
"Your boots, Captain." he said without even a flicker of an eyelash and pointed a long slender index finger at my left big toe as it protruded defiantly from its sock.
With that I gratefully awoke and very carefully put on my boots; after tucking my toe discreetly back within its sock
YeeeeYowww! Look-it That! It worked! It actually worked. (doing a little victory dance!)
Let me know what you think, y'all.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Greatings and Felicitations
Greetings and felicitations my fellow word hungry reading addicts. I have finely gotten the nerve to try this 'blogging' thing. Exactly what I will stick in here is yet to be seen.
Be warned, however, that I have been known to experiment with drawing on the computer as you may have noted from the 'picture' I have posted here. This is a self portrait, by the way and it is obvious that I have far less control of the electronic pallet than I do of graphite pencils or even acrylic paint. So you may be confronted with some really bad art uploads or what I consider to be really neat weather photo's. Even cute pictures of my animals.
Worse, you may have to endure any wild and weird stories I may come up with.
Though you may take comfort in this: I will do my best to make it clear when I upload a fiction story and when I upload what might be called an opinion piece.
Be warned, however, that I have been known to experiment with drawing on the computer as you may have noted from the 'picture' I have posted here. This is a self portrait, by the way and it is obvious that I have far less control of the electronic pallet than I do of graphite pencils or even acrylic paint. So you may be confronted with some really bad art uploads or what I consider to be really neat weather photo's. Even cute pictures of my animals.
Worse, you may have to endure any wild and weird stories I may come up with.
Though you may take comfort in this: I will do my best to make it clear when I upload a fiction story and when I upload what might be called an opinion piece.
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