Learned: That there are all these beautiful copyright-free images available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. I can now see how to do the coloring book pages. Very young people have immediate concerns and are dealing with things in the same way adults are. How can we forget that? RJG looking at T2 Feb 2018. Puerto Rico is still a mess, but the hurricane was very destructive. Job sharing partner-matching is becoming a thing in Germany; Tepa is the name of one of the founders of a start-up to address it. KS will want to know about it. Ichthyology is the branch of zoology that deals with fishes. Next full moon Dec. 3rd. Many Haitians in Marin are facing repatriation as are 10s of thousands in the U.S.
3. Freedom from holiday obligations. The fun of serendipity. Being a compassionate anti-racist activist. 3.
Seems: like now I need new internal SSD drive for laptop, the one in there won’t upgrade and will no longer boot. Like I expect people who said they would do something to change their minds, to not come through, to leave me holding the bag.
New habits: (or undo habits): Go look ’em up. Don’t eat sugars. Do eat salads. Stand for the future of people gaining compassion and understanding for their fellow man. Be grateful and thankful. Interrupt ugly patterns.
Accomplished: I masked a fish drawing from the late 1700s. (See above) What’s news about that is that it was strictly for pleasure. Not a job. Sort of upgraded to High Sierra.
Did a video skype with DA. Charming offspring. Started difficult conversation with cousin on FB. Spoke mind in another that suggested Alabama Judge Moore is not the only person in the south with such proclivities and stuff we call ugly and illegal happens right in the very homes of the voters.
Q: With all that you’ve learned and all that’s transformed, what’s that thing that just keeps nagging as “Should be better?”
My Answer: Emotional attachment to childish food choices.
Video: Much detail to notice and ponder in this bleak, dark, short film. https://vimeo.com/241803479 I find these dark futuristic creations interesting as art. Not the future I’m creating!
Reading: Paused Audible for three months to catch up. Not often this officially behind in reading.