Tag: coot-proofing
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One nice thing
Speaking of the direct connection to the universe with alidades…. One nice thing about getting older is the change from nearsighted to farsighted. When young I needed glasses to see beyond arms length. In the last few years I’ve stopped wearing them around the house, and then during neighborhood walks. I kept them on for…
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Absorbed despite
Despite my nasty response to this crap about niceness, the basic point must have soaked in. After spitting out the nastiness I laid down for the second segment of sleep, and received a dream about conversation over coffee at Denny’s. At the end of the conversation I said “Thanks, that was fun!” and shook the…
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Grandma’s salience rule
One of my base rules for writing comes from Grandma. Around age 60 she was acutely conscious that most old folks repeated the same dull story over and over. She declared: If I can’t say something new, I’m not going to say anything at all. Salience or silence. I always try to follow Grandma’s rule…
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Text snappers
I’ll often get a strange contradictory semi-dream after a few minutes of drift. The semi-dream snaps me into wakedom, which is a good thing in an intended brief ‘reset’ nap. It’s not a good thing at the start of an intended full sleep. Example from 2017: I was hiding inside the upholstered front seat of…
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Another reprint from the sane time
Yeah, another reprint from the years before the holocaust when I still had all my curiosity and sharpness. Now, partly from age and partly from total depletion of gumption, I don’t have meaningful dreams and can’t make meaningful connections. From 2018. = = = = = START REPRINT: ZeroHedge is doomporning as usual, pointing to…
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Neighborhood note
The house kittycorner from me is a rental with an excellent landlord. For 20 years he’s always managed to keep nice decent families in the house. They change once a year or so, but they’re always fine people, usually married, often with kids and dogs. The current tenant fits the model. Right now the whole…
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Maybe too fair
Via Eurekalert. = = = = = START QUOTE: Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued. The research, led by a team at the University of Cambridge and Kings’ College London, found…
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Ease and comfort
Previous item about retirement emphasized ‘ease and comfort’, a time when you don’t have to be anywhere or satisfy anyone except yourself. Strikes an immediate resonance. During the “virus” holocaust I was fighting all the time, churning out courseware and graphics, walking every day and making the hellish storetrip twice a week by bus. Now…
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Simmering 2
The simmering metaphor in previous item reminded me of a picture I’ve been wanting to make. Back in 1970 when I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the larger world. I…
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No heroes
Random meandering… The entertainment writers are analyzing Disney’s overuse of the same superheroes, which worked for a while but finally went flat. Supposedly every boy read comics about superheroes. I didn’t. Never interested in role models or heroes. I did read Disney and Lantz comics, Mickey and Donald and Woody, until about age 9. Then…
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Hypothesis
Denyse discusses an evocative and important question which is triggering new research: = = = = = START QUOTE: How can a person living with advanced dementia abruptly communicate in a clear manner? Many wonder what mechanism underlies this phenomenon and if it might be a key to mitigating—or even reversing—neurodegeneration. It’s also a mystery…
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9 of 10 leading readers agree
In general I was a smarter and better writer before I switched from Blogspot to WordPress in late 2021. Maybe I’m used up from fighting the “virus” monsters, maybe I’m just getting older and losing sharpness. The readers seen by Statcounter seem to share the same judgment. A wide variety of readers are STILL looking…
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Better argument
I haven’t bothered to notice the moon-landing theories until now. I saw no convincing reasons to doubt the conventional story. Now the former head of Russia’s space agency asks several questions based on his own experience and knowledge. 1. He was thoroughly familiar with the condition of cosmonauts. When they returned from a long trip…
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Honestly senile
There’s one genuine advantage of an honestly senile president. Repooflicans are mocking Biden for working short hours. Allegedly he works only 10 to 4, and isn’t available for all the usual publicity crap. 1. Well, you don’t like what he does when he’s working. You should be happy he doesn’t work much. (Incidentally, Dems made…
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Be your own magnet
Lately I’ve been trying to expand the analog side of my life, after retracting into a digital shell during the hottest part of the NAZI TORTURE. I was functioning in OBEYING ALL ORDERS VERBATIM SIR! NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER SIR! mode. Now I’m trying to recapture the analog/digital proportion that I had before the…
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