Color me...

1. out of the blue
2. tie a yellow ribbon
3. green with envy
4. orange julius
5. yellow fever
6. black-eyed susan
7. purple haze
8. white heat
9. brown study
10. seeing red
11. pink eye
12. The Man in Grey
13. Rainbow Connection

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And the light at the end of the tunnel...

isn't necessarily a  way out, but is often a flame thrower.  As Terry Pratchett was fond of reminding us.

I used to think that growing old and reasonably healthy was a prize to be aimed for, and valued.

In the past week, after reading the shenanigans in DC and our apparent future as a new soviet satellite, I begin to wonder what prize that might be.   I do now understand what that smile on
Putin's face means, the one you see it all his publicity-with-the-president photos, and I think it's exultation.   He has found his perfect puppet, one who is too damaged to see the strings, and the puppeteer.

I also wonder at those people who cheer. 

I think all anyone of us can do, at this point, is vote our hearts and our heads,  and hope.


I am also busy re-learning a weaving loom (film at 11, but not yet) and it is both enlightening and disturbing, how much I have utterly forgotten, and how much  memory muscle is involved.  It really does become a meditation, on many things, including the act and art of weaving, and the satisfaction you get from it.

 This house has part of an old ( REALLY old) 12 harness loom, up in the attic, in pieces. i have the 12 harnesses, and some of the remnants of the loom, but the rest is gone. Possibly for firewood, or shoring up a shed long after the original weaver died.  One of the longer pieces, the cloth beam, perhaps, is too long to get out of the attic, and i finally realized this machine was taken down every winter and stored in this attic, and in the spring it was moved into the shed attic, through a very small connecting door at the north end.  It gave her room to card, to spin, to weave, and possibly store her projects over winter.   Judging from the pieces I have here, it was a huge, huge loom.

Oh, yes. Eat first. Have your coffee...

Heather Cox Richardson from Letters from an American

T13 Letter play

1.lounging
2. lunging
3. plunging
4. plugging
5. slugging
6. slogging
7. flogging
8. logging
9. lugging
10. hugging
11. bugging
12. bagging
13. bragging



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Must read ( Heather Cox Richardson)

Long, but necessary, I think--started reading this, and suddenly realized I had read the whole thing...


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