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Reflections on Painful Cyberspaces

So. Trying to hit the most mentally draining task first, this morning. This is what it is like: I am searching email under “orders” – to make sure I have downloaded any receipts for orders in 2021 and also notated in my clerical records. Because, need to do my taxes. Other things interdependent on THAT.While doing this, I also come across emails regarding actual orders from customers. I need to make sure that previous customer is on my newsletter contacts...

Sacred Spaces

I made this video yesterday afternoon, toward dark. Just thought I’d share it, along with copying the text I put with it on my YouTube. I have found recently uploading to YouTube is the best way to embed video for use on my blog. Yesterday I was listening to some George Winston, a song I find quite meditative, on loop, while also wanting to move a wheelbarrow full of dirt elsewhere to at least plant one row of snow peas....

I’ll Take Seven Clones (with magic wands), PLEEEZE??!!!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and I plan to make this post mainly images (with some narration interspersed). So if my math is right, this post contains at least sixty-thousand words (plus, actual words, ha ha!) __________ But before I begin, I want to tell one of two jokes I’ve ever found memorable enough to memorize. It is unrelated to this post (the joke I will tell) except that my title brought the joke to mind....

Quail, Quizzical Quizzicism, Obstacles, Obstinence and Optimism

Quail. Quizzical Quizzicism: Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????!!!!!!! Obstacles, Obstinance, Optimisim…Context…Courage. __________ It would seem I’ve been to the Silicon-Valley-of-the-Shadow-of-Death-and-back in the past twelve hours and am still somewhat uncertain if I’m out of these dark, dark sandy, woods! After a wonderful three days of reconnecting with my cousin, Laura, after not seeing her for three years, I returned home last night already resuming my anxiety over the vast amount of needful promotional work and other projects to resume focus on, to find my...

The Hands of Time

(Written January 1, 2019, on Facebook): Visited with my cousin Laura today. Haven’t seen her in two years. She’s an artist, like me. And, she’s a Slifer. So it was a good day of talking and catching up and knowing our shared family traits and history. We Slifer’s seem to be attached to our sentimental things…our homes are filled with knick knacks and other items that tell the story of our lives. Like little markers left along a trail both...

“God-Winks” and The Thirteen Pairs of Cat Socks

Awhile back I was telling some little story to a friend and she said it was a “God-wink.” I liked that thought and it has stuck with me. Winks are small, quick and very personal signs of affection or secret-sharing. I seem to find at least one personal “God-wink” on most days…and some days might be filled with quite a few. But maybe I’m just looking for them, I don’t know… I did think there was a funny one that...