Purple dishes!

This is a really tedious entry. I'm not sure what interest there is in it for anyone else at all, and it's all stuff i *know*. I didn't need to write to think this through.

One of the reflections, as i kept thinking, "This is boring," was, "I wonder how Christine felt when i was so passionate about making a joint decision about our china before we got married, and how she felt a year ago as we discussed this again?" I have been trained to passionately care about dishes and decor, yet i've been stripping it away over the years, questioning if what i was taught really is consistent with my values.

I still seem to care about balancing the acquiring housewares that are aesthetic and pleasing with simplicity, steering away from obsessive collecting, and balancing quality with cost.

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We now have a mug, rice bowl, dinner, and salad plate in the dark grape-purple finish.

Atmosphere

Yesterday i was pretty paralyzed. Christine received some very disappointing news on Thursday, heaped on top of a disappointment on Wednesday, heaped on top of a very expensive surprise the previous week. She's coping, and i'm coping with her coping and getting my own balance back.

This morning i hear the reports of shotguns, duck hunting in the Don Edwards wildlife reserve. I've mixed feelings about hunting: knowing all living individuals die, i am more concerned with how those individuals live. I'd feel much better eating game duck than industrial-raised chickens. I believe many if not most hunters are supportive of responsible game management and environmental management. Yet i'm haunted by the memory of a dumped deer carcass by the lake where my folks lived: irresponsible disposal, apparently only the choice parts taken. And i'm haunted by the thought of what the populations of birds must have been a hundred and fifty years ago.

The morning is fog filled, a white out different from the Atlantic seaboard's. The sun is rising behind a pine, a bright glow behind the tree's dark silhouette.

I should have wrapped some things to post to aunts and uncles: i'm to join friends for coffee in half an hour and must dress. Then i must free my action and address some Meeting work!