|
Sunday, May 9, 2004
Previous topic
|
Next topic
|
|
 Sunday, May 9, 2004
started 5/9/2004; 9:05:53 AM - last post 5/9/2004; 9:05:53 AM
|
|
Doc Searls - Sunday, May 9, 2004 
5/9/2004; 1:05:53 PM (reads: 5135, responses: 0)
|
|
More about Mom 
| | I'm IMing with Euan, and just wrote this about missing Mom. : |
| | It's easier than it comes off in my post. In many ways I miss her, but in some I don't. Her leaving was a mercy too. The world is a stage, Shakespeare said. We all need to make our exit at some point. Mom had curtain calls in her last day. There were flowers tossed on stage. It wasn't bad. And so many deaths are. I'm told it takes a year to adjust... to a new house, a new town, a new relationship. My relatiionship with Mom now is with the wisdom she left behind. It's another kind of presence, not unlike Shakespeare's. |
Still feels strange
| | My first mother's day without Mom. Also without Mom to remind me fifty times that Mother's Day is coming up. I even miss the nagging. |
| | Not speaking of which, Mom's grandson has a great collection of questions posed on Wondir. My fave: How do you make slime? I only know the verbal methods. |
Pledgeware
| | Henri Poole has just launced PeoplesPledge, whereby hours on behalf of Kerry can be promised by citizens who support various issues from a list that might be planks in a Kerry platform. (The message is, adopt my planks and I'll work for you.) Interesting that I favor only seven out of the eighteen listed planks — and I'm not counting on Kerry to carry through on most of them. (Aboloshing the death penalty, for example, isn't likely to win many votes, and it might cost quite a few.) Still, it's an intresting idea, especially since it says, literally (and not just metaphorically) that time = money. |
Have a fuzzball
| | SpaceWeather.com calls Comet NEAT "a fuzzball with a stubby tail." Which is about what we saw last night. It'll still be around for the next few days. Tonight it will be easy to spot next to Procyon, the bright star that's well above the horizon in the Southwest sky. |
Chumming for content
Whole little shakin' going on
| | Magnitude: 4.6; Date: 2004/05/09; Tme, 01:57:17; Lat, 34.403N; Lon, 120.027W; Depth, 3.8 km; Location, 16 km (10 mi) W of Isla Vista, CA. |
| | There was a 2.5 in almost exactly the same place 44 minutes earlier. That one didn't wake us up, but the 4.6 did. |
| | I had been dreaming that I was still in England. So, when the quake hit, I raised my head, looked out the windows and down at the town (we live on a hill overlooking Santa Barbara) and thought They don't have many quakes here in England, do they? I was watching the lights below move slowly around as the ground under the house became more like sea than land. Then my wife said "Earthquake," and I snapped out of it. |
discuss
|
|
|
Copyright 2009 The Doc Searls Weblog
|
