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Thursday, March 19th, 2020 07:00 am
Edward got out of the fence Wednesday late afternoon. Attracted to the fence by Christine and i sitting in the mossy glade (i was trying to just breathe and release the overwhelm), he found a hole and slipped through and then -- you know, it didn't look like we were going anywhare, maybe check out the bird feeder?

I spent time weaving wire and repairing the hole, but i didn't have heavy gauge wire like the fence.

Yesterday at lunch he disappeared, we stalked around, called, rang, then posted to NextDoor, texted my sister (just for solidarity). He came back around 1:30 -- a two hour outing. All the cats had to spend the rest of the day inside after that.

This morning i needed to let them out, particularly for fear of some inappropriate relief. We had bought a glowing pink collar for Marlowe, so i found the excess clear plastic and cut an Edward appropriate length. Out he went with the glowing tell-tale. I bustled about some things checking on him every few minutes, but he just seemed to do the usual patrol. I was back in the bedroom and could see him sitting on the steps.... and then he went back down to the stretch of the repaired fence. I think he just shoved his head under and slipped out that way. The glowing pink light was easy to follow and eventually recapture.

So, there's that.

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Looks like we got a little rain last night. I really ought to get lettuce seedlings out in the garden because only the very dear hydroponic bib lettuce was available in the store. I'll eat violet leaves, thank you. (But Christine will have the bib.) I look at the national weather and see snow is called for some of y'all and ... we have 80°F high today.


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Meeting is going to use Zoom for the duration, so i get to be Zoom coach.

I am tired. I wonder if it's right to go see Mom & Dad.

I don't know how anyone has time to look at free content. I was days behind in just finding my email and last night realized i had messages from days ago i hadn't seen. Not sure how that came about.


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In good news, my caps key SEEMS TO BE WORKING! Huzzah, one thing i don't need to sort.

I can't figure out why my nice conferencing video camera won't connect to my personal laptop, so there's that.

And i can't figure out why so many people seem to have so much more time. No commute, Christine says.

The grocery trip last night was impressive -- no paper products at all, wow.
elainegrey: Inspired by Grypping/gripping beast styles from Nordic cultures (Default)
Thursday, June 5th, 2014 07:21 am
Had energy enough to get to 4 pm on Tuesday, then, despite coffee, felt all the wind leave my sails. Wednesday i put in a day and a half.

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In meeting on Sunday i meditated on a number of things, one of which is a certain type of certainty i am feeling right now. It's a certainty that i don't always have, and missed for years. I have no idea where focussing on botany and photography will take me. It's possible it will simply soothe my heart and mind through the end of my career in software development management.

But i have it.

The other was about diversity: people, practices, plants, critters. There is a diversity of reasons for valuing diversity, but i also was thinking about the reaction i had to a biologists talking about the high amount of order in life. Diversity doesn't immediately come to my mind as order -- and i realize that there's probably a Western/scientific bias to that view. We have a flawed premise, i think, about efficiency and a type of order that's like the lattice in a crystal. Diversity is efficient in the holistic view, but the holistic view is something that is so hard (it seems to me) for our culture.

We tend to optimize on one dimension, think of a field of corn planted in Idaho or a group of Quakers all with the same theological understanding and practice (just shy of a creed). There may be efficiency in one output (bushels of grain, coming to decisions and communication), but both are expensive to maintain and fraught with long term instabilities.

In a holistic view, i think we are (re)learning that a diversity of corn genetics and a diversity of land uses may have lower yield, but is sustainable and resistant to a variety of challenges. Similarly, groups of people who have only practiced all being in accord are likely to schism when a truly challenging decision must be made.

Will global warming teach us to think more holistically, include more factors, more time, more change in our decision making?

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I need to be more active in the evenings. I had picked up for a while.

Much pondering this morning, little writing.
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Monday, June 8th, 2009 06:31 am
I just tried to craft a 140 character post describe this weekend for the world: family, other members of meeting, work colleagues. What i really want to do is whine about why do folks seem to think you're supposed to come back rested from these things? FEH. I'd do it again, but it was awfully intense for me. I think back to the somatic experiencing lessons i learned and i feel that the rhythm of some of the sessions had me staying in the deep, intense, feeling space too long.
trying to work through some of the weekend )