Beauty of style And harmony And grace And good rhythm Depend on Simplicity. –Plato
RedCub Quote
Today’s quote from redcub: Love is universal; hate takes more effort. Be lazy and love someone today.
Demographics Are Not Community
I wrote a long post about community to a homeschooling list in response to a discussion about “feral” children some of us have encountered, and nobody responded. That always upsets me. So I’m going to inflict the damned thing on…
Who Was Wonder Woman 1?
From the new community PolyPeople: Who Was Wonder Woman 1?
Ouch
You know the muscle spasms are bad when the cat gets mad and refuses to sit in your lap anymore because they’re bugging her.
Growl!
I try, I really do, to watch for signs of prejudice in myself. I don’t think I’m a particularly prejudiced person. I absolutely cannot stand incompetence, though. And avoidable communication problems are a real hot button for me. Why does…
Poem: The Journey
Thanks to hopeevey for the pointer to this poem. The Journey by Mary Oliver One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole…
Poetry: My Mother Gives Me Her Recipe
My mother gives me her recipe by Marge Piercy Take some flour. Oh, I don’t know, like two-three cups, and you cut in the butter. Now some women they make it with shortening, but I say butter, even though that…
Still to Do This Weekend
Still to come (this weekend, I hope): Hang up a speaker shelf in the living room. Get a phone connected in the living room. I wish we had another of the phone/intercom handsets we found at Sam’s Club a few…
PCs and Parts
We need to rebuild three computers for clients this weekend. Then we will see if we can make one or two working PCs from the parts that are still around. Sam wants a Linux “sandbox” to play on, and I’d…