as i read the news i get the image of white, toxic, patriarchal masculinity thumping its chest in desperation… this is their last hurrah as they “rage, rage, against the dying of the light”… they do not go quietly… whether they take the rest of us with them is an open question…
yesterday i was grateful for lunch with the yoga men…
today i am looking forward to virtual photo salon…
i continue to reread Octavia Butler’s Dawn… i still don’t agree with the 2/3 of my scifi reading group that thought the Oankali and Ooloi are evil…
Yet I cannot see this as satisfactory when we are faced with the dynamism of sheer wanton cruelty, the lust to destroy and cause suffering, that delights in power for its own sake. It can’t be denied that it exists. And power is the key: power is a form of energy.
(Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
yes!… evil… evil is the handmaiden of power…
a week ago 2-4 million people came out to protest against would be kings and the president presided over a, by comparison, dud of a military parade… didn’t take him long to grab the news cycle back…
yesterday i was grateful for a day of cleaning and organizing, especially the results…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Anne…
yesterday i was grateful for a very large and peaceful NO KINGS protest in Beacon and across the country…
today in am looking forward to a quiet day at home with doggie, kitty and wife… what Herman Melville described as “attainable felicity”…
yesterday i was grateful for Becky who gave me a morning off from turkey care, and gathering with friends to celebrate a birthday…
today i am looking forward to participating in No Kings Day…
yesterday i was grateful for Wonderbar, a wagu beef hamburger and the numbing effects of two martinis…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga and putting my new studio shelves together…
yesterday i was grateful for photography salon and my friend Steve…
today i am looking forward to putting my feet up at the end of the day…
yesterday i was grateful for a phone call with my mom…
today i am looking forward to resolving an issue at the cemetery and rain…
yesterday i was grateful for Costco and a new clothing rack installed in my studio…
today i am looking forward to the usual house chores, organizing my studio and clothing and dinner with friends…
yesterday i was grateful for my brother on his birthday…
today i am looking forward to a trip to Costco and organizing my studio and clothing…
What the modern forms of reason and disciplined order had put asunder could thus be seen as threefold: the reasoning mind was divided from his own desiring nature, from the community, which thus threatened to disintegrate, and from the great current of life in nature. (Charles Taylor, A Secular Age)
power differential is temptation to sin…
yesterday i was grateful for the end of an exhausting day…
today i am looking forward to a meeting of the Metropolitan Cemetery Association…
yesterday i was grateful for the lentil, vegetable, turkey soup i had for dinner…
today i am looking forward to my colleagues at the cemetery…
yesterday i was grateful for a safe trip home and to be home…
today i am looking forward to yoga with Maryanne and resuming my Beacon routines…
yesterday i was grateful for a great mac and cheese soup recipe…
today i am looking forward to going home to Beacon…
yesterday i was grateful for the last two episodes of Friends and Neighbors, watched with Holly…
today i am looking forward to getting ready to go home and making a mac and cheese for dinner tonight, which Holly thinks her mother will enjoy…
yesterday i was grateful for my mother in law Marilyn feeling better…
today i am looking forward to hunkering down with Holly during the storm…
yesterday i was grateful for Dick’s Fish and mussels with linguine for Marilyn…
today i am looking forward to dinner at Ely’s with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for an early morning walk from Southeast Lighthouse into town and back, a walk on Mansion Beach with Holly and the dogs and leftover chicken soup that Steve and Diane made before they left…
today i am looking forward to going with Marilyn to her discussion group…
yesterday i was grateful for cocktail hour at the Hartnet’s…
today i am looking forward to a low people day…
yesterday i was grateful for a long walk on the beach at sunrise…
today i am sad to see our friends Steve and Dianne go…
this evening i am looking forward to virtual photography salon…