Jane Hirshfield I want to give myself utterly as the maple that burned and burned for three days without stinting and then in two more dropped off every leaf; as this lake that, no matter what comes to its green-blue depths, both takes and returns it. In the still heart, that refuses nothing, the world […]
As our thoughts are with Diane right now I am compelled to think of her thoughts. Â I enjoy the blog comments as much as the entries. Â Diane, being the keen observer she is, preferred commenting to posting. Here is a smattering, in no particular order, of her wit and wisdom. Â I wish I was clever […]
Thank god someone out there is updating their blog.
Kathy just returned from China, Kenzie’s going to Africa, Sarah to Fiji, and  Pesky godson’s in Syria while Goose is still enjoying his life out west. Â
by Adam S. Kibbe Normally you couldn’t pay me to enter an area of this level of boundary-oblivious human density, but grandchildren must be free to enjoy these spectacles, and free of the curse of curmudgeonry. Last time Ivan hid under a blanket — this time he enjoyed it almost as much as his mayhemphilic […]
Mike, For those of us interested in pretty pictures, in particular Hubble’s magnificent pictures, here is an interesting explanation of how they go from the ugly raw data (full of cosmic ray tracks, awkward edge artifacts, and black-white) to the full-color eye-candy that we all know and love. The author gives away some tricks that […]
Mike, For those of us interested in pretty pictures, in particular Hubble’s magnificent pictures, here is an interesting explanation of how they go from the ugly raw data (full of cosmic ray tracks, awkward edge artifacts, and black-white) to the full-color eye-candy that we all know and love. The author gives away some tricks that […]
“Honey, smell my nightgown.†“It smells like vomit.†“It’s the clean one you just washed. And my other two smell like this one.†“You think I left them in the basement too long?†“Did you vomit on them in the basement?†“No, and I don’t know why they smell like that. It reminds me of […]