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This morning i'm scattered but keep returning to my commitment to be involved in a more consistent way with the many issues i care about. I'd hoped one cause would "float to the top" and i could say that's where i'd focus for the next few months. Instead, i remain unfocused. However, outside forces seem to have helped me focus for month-long sprints.
In May, i'm going to focus on the CA Budget. There's an election where CA citizens get to play legislators and try to fix budget issues by voting on a six issues (http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/). There's also this movement, which addresses the actual core of the budget problems: http://www.ecovote.org/budget/
I'm also going to write a response to the bizarre flyer circulated in the complex about the chemicals the gardeners use. (It's not that the flyer didn't have agreeable sentiments, but it was written with such a inflammatory and misleading slant. It brings to mind dihydrogen monoxide concerns.
In June, there's a torture awareness month effort. Members of our Meeting have discussed about how the relationship of the US and torture affects not just enemy combatants but how spirit breaking, degrading treatment occurs in California's prison system.
That leaves July.
Give thanks, share beauty, note joy:
* Precipitation! Not really rain, exactly, but drizzle and sprinkles.
* Light box, which i wish i had been using these past days, during which the celebrated precipitation has occurred.
Noteworthy events (dining out, errands, correspondence):
I've been far more social these days that usual, partly due a confluence of possibilities. It has occurred to me that perhaps i should violate the instruction that an Artist's Date is done alone and make my Artist's date more social. Artist's dates just are odd for me anyhow, as i am happy to give way to my creative curiosity for little bits. I don't need to go out to find inspiration. I've boxes of stuff that invite play. If i were to speculate what would be more creativity stimulating it would be a weekly time set aside strictly for playing with some medium stashed in the house.
Thursday was the copyright conference which, thanks to Twitter, i attended with @inforama. Friday we joined![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
stef_tm's happy hour and spoke with folks who actually knew how to do small talk. It was good to meet Stef in person. Afterwards, we escaped the noise of Tied House to look at used books (extinguishing all the credit), beads, and had dinner at Kapps, both of us reading a Lord Peter Wimsey novel.
Yesterday we had a very long morning coffee at Cafe Sophia with a subset of BWWW*ES, the colleagues and retired colleagues, but not the moved-on colleagues.
I ended up completing both Wimsey novels, to be released at the office. I'll probably gather a stack of books to trade at the used book store and then replenish the office stacks as i find fitting targets.
Regrets: I've moved this up because i do feel regretful these days.
* I wish i'd gotten my act together to get the laptop to WeFixMacs for a drive installation: they take over a day, they claim. I have a connection with Some Guy that i need to follow up upon to deal with this.
* I wish i wasn't spending so many evenings as a couch potato. I must do something with the early morning working thing as it looks like the project i am now involved in will require an irregular 6 am Wed call.
* I wish i'd arranged to be at MayDay dancing this morn, despite the wee bit of damp. Instead, i watched a goofy movie till late last night and very much slept in.
( the usual )
In May, i'm going to focus on the CA Budget. There's an election where CA citizens get to play legislators and try to fix budget issues by voting on a six issues (http://www.voterguide.sos.ca.gov/). There's also this movement, which addresses the actual core of the budget problems: http://www.ecovote.org/budget/
I'm also going to write a response to the bizarre flyer circulated in the complex about the chemicals the gardeners use. (It's not that the flyer didn't have agreeable sentiments, but it was written with such a inflammatory and misleading slant. It brings to mind dihydrogen monoxide concerns.
In June, there's a torture awareness month effort. Members of our Meeting have discussed about how the relationship of the US and torture affects not just enemy combatants but how spirit breaking, degrading treatment occurs in California's prison system.
That leaves July.
Give thanks, share beauty, note joy:
* Precipitation! Not really rain, exactly, but drizzle and sprinkles.
* Light box, which i wish i had been using these past days, during which the celebrated precipitation has occurred.
Noteworthy events (dining out, errands, correspondence):
I've been far more social these days that usual, partly due a confluence of possibilities. It has occurred to me that perhaps i should violate the instruction that an Artist's Date is done alone and make my Artist's date more social. Artist's dates just are odd for me anyhow, as i am happy to give way to my creative curiosity for little bits. I don't need to go out to find inspiration. I've boxes of stuff that invite play. If i were to speculate what would be more creativity stimulating it would be a weekly time set aside strictly for playing with some medium stashed in the house.
Thursday was the copyright conference which, thanks to Twitter, i attended with @inforama. Friday we joined
stef_tm's happy hour and spoke with folks who actually knew how to do small talk. It was good to meet Stef in person. Afterwards, we escaped the noise of Tied House to look at used books (extinguishing all the credit), beads, and had dinner at Kapps, both of us reading a Lord Peter Wimsey novel.Yesterday we had a very long morning coffee at Cafe Sophia with a subset of BWWW*ES, the colleagues and retired colleagues, but not the moved-on colleagues.
I ended up completing both Wimsey novels, to be released at the office. I'll probably gather a stack of books to trade at the used book store and then replenish the office stacks as i find fitting targets.
Regrets: I've moved this up because i do feel regretful these days.
* I wish i'd gotten my act together to get the laptop to WeFixMacs for a drive installation: they take over a day, they claim. I have a connection with Some Guy that i need to follow up upon to deal with this.
* I wish i wasn't spending so many evenings as a couch potato. I must do something with the early morning working thing as it looks like the project i am now involved in will require an irregular 6 am Wed call.
* I wish i'd arranged to be at MayDay dancing this morn, despite the wee bit of damp. Instead, i watched a goofy movie till late last night and very much slept in.
( the usual )
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