blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah i am really tired of over-working blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and i’m not going to complain about that anymore blah blah blah blah and i’m not going to work so much [...]
I’m in a bit of hot water with a local company. And well I should be. I bought a kettle, filled it with water, jumped into the water, and then asked some suits to go ahead and be in charge of that little knob they use for turning up the heat. It was gentle and [...]
This is Wilson. I found him one night at Fred Meyer’s. I was feeling sad that night, and when I saw Wilson, I could see he really cares. His is the look of empathy. The top picture is of him sitting with the light duck, Dolly. The bottom picture, I hope, shows you why he’s [...]
Today’s Words: manipulate feeble ahead oatmeal involve incidental grace Grace is this fundamental concept that was missing from my consciousness as a child. I’ve had to learn it, slowly, haltingly, with great effort. What is grace? It is that which is the nature of the Cosmos and life itself: a gift. Something freely given, but which you [...]
Today’s Words: homophile Patsy Cline insectivorous pug spiteful nick sprinkle i found this chinese fortune that i got several months ago. it says this week you will receive support from surprising sources. it was a week of unusually long talks with clients. the talks were long becuase it wasn’t the same old talk. one client [...]
I went to DIY Stories tonight, as a bystander. Yes, I resolved, before going, that I wasn’t going to tell a story. There was a beautiful and intriguing woman present. About my age. Much nicer skin. With a man about half her age. About Emma’s age. Much more fur. I was hoping the intriguing woman [...]
Today’s Words: tyke speckled ambassador diamond shadow schmecky real Schmecky isn’t in my little wordweb dictionary, so what do I do, go off and find it? Can’t. Only have a few minutes to write. Diamonds. That necklace I wrote about the other night, the one that Manny gave me, had a little diamond in the [...]
Today’s Words: conversion skin famulus seek opposite schlep weary I live near a big boulevard, Glisan. Glisan cuts a long swath — hundreds of blocks across Portland, East-West, but the swath is only wide–4 lines wide–for about 20 blocks. I live within one of those twenty blocks. For those 20 blocks, Glisan is inhospitable to [...]
Today’s Words: midriff pit cecum cheat gulag amphigory cameo Thank you Emma for putting the daily words off to the right. I’m finally whipping up word furrows directly in wordpress, and from the comfort of the chair in my room, with laptop atop lap. I ended up with a few family heirlooms from my grandma [...]