Mornings

 

With Biggie

Bonus: Action! 😉

Geometry Revisited

 

Look at the words for this week's site! Geometry for the vocabulary lovers. Now, that's geometry I can connect to!

The Stories They Tell

Take note (and get inside my mind).

There will be a quiz at the end.

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Matching. 

Directions: Use only once.

a) Doorways to time.            b) Small.             c) Present, meet Past.

d) Geo politics.             e) Vent art            f) The scene of the crime.              g) Smaller.

h) Our history; our shame.           i) But for thee, they.        j) Three months sitting. 

k) Harry's here!           l) Grandeur, once debased; not again!            m) Perspective changes.

n) Which one isn't true?

Bonus: There should be one answer left that describes where we went but has no photo. Where did we go?  

 

From One to Another: Capitol Times

      

Our Quest

Whiskers! All found by me but three black ones from another cat and then, yesterday, a gift from one who has been in search of them. The funny thing is that both people were teasing me when I started. Fun findings on the floor makes for a successful day. Catch a whisker, catch the bug.... for finding another!

Nature's Bounty

Starlight

Loved this title, Starlight from Intuition Pierced the Twelve. Read it in, of course, New Yorker, in an article I had little interest in initially, and yet, like so often, good writing brings out connections. Reading on, I also embraced the poem's summary. 

While not religious anymore, I understand seeing goodness and falling far short in comparison. But, I can, too, take solace in knowing that tomorrow comes where we can try to do better. Success or failure, tomorrow comes to us yet again. 

Our saving grace: tomorrows.

Pierces

The Vision of God

 

From Can the World Be Simulated?

In an Edible

What We Remember

This week's edition of New Yorker is the Innovation and Tech issue, not one I am excited to get, usually. But, like so much of the magazine, I read it all because the writing is so good that I never know what's going to pique my interest, and so much of it does.

I loved the irony of the cartoon: all that so we don't have to shell peas. Especially so, since, because of the many wonderful memories I have of my mom and I, sitting and shelling peas is one of them, that and husking corn. Raw peas and barely blanched corn for freezing were two favorites of mine. I'd do the work to get the treats. Thankfully Mom understood that veggies are veggies. 

Walking the backfield for raspberry picking or driving to the blueberry patch; playing scrabble and cards; going to Elmira or Rochester for shopping (and always in a round-about way, almost corralling the mall rather than going straight to it); taking us to rollerskating with the fellowship group or to Cornell for the fireworks, I remember all that mom did, and none of it was high tech. Just hands-on time spent.

And yes, I can remember her crankiness or tiredness or anger at our fighting or lack of doing, but really, what matters most aren't those things. It's all of the above with so much more: the sitting at the pond or lake reading the paper after work while we enjoyed the water, the weekly trips to the public library or all the games and concerts she went to, always there supporting us. 

Funny how a cartoon can remind us of so much.

Love

A Second Bit

Normally, I read through the first parts of New Yorker enjoying them but looking forward to the articles more. Yesterday morning, though, two caught my interest. 

Magic and Yacht Clubs

Yeah, But For Me

 

Burgers at the Snack Bar

Math

Kitchen bench, sun shining, lacing sneakers

The shadows whispering to me

of that dreaded subject: 

geometry.

53 years ago, last year

All the same: 

not for me.

In the Morning Sun

And, still, had to look it up, "the rhombus is a slanted square and the parallelogram is a slanted rectangle. They both are quadrilateral."  Loved algebra, hated geometry. The end of my idea of teaching math, 10th grade; sine, cosine and memorizing formulas: blah, blah, blah.

For the Love of

Another Day

Time Moves On

Flowers white; sky gray

Weather cold and dreary. 

Mid-April Blues

To Fox

and all the others,

It's my duty to see that they get the truth; but that's not enough, I've got to put it before them briefly so that they will read it, clearly so that they will understand it, forcibly so that they will appreciate it, picturesquely so that they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so that they may be wisely guided by its light. 

-Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper publisher (10 Apr 1847-1911)

what a sham and a shame.

I Could Cry

Ahhhh... Finally: Gaslighting

Definition, history, explanation, and discussion.

Not sure this is where I'd end, but for this article, and maybe even for these times, I guess it could be the right conclusion.

Like Gas: Full Strength and Distilled

Said One Person to Another: How Long Have You Been Married?

The Five Stages of A Relationship*

The Beginning: finding and focusing on the other. With lots of time together, sharing of self, and wonderment at being together, it is a magical time. The relationship matters more than anything else in the world. Family, friends, work and other activities, what are they when you could be spending time with your newfound soulmate? New love is amazing! The memories made in this initial phase will help to sustain the relationship through all time.

The Making: from the beginning comes the making. Having found and joined two ones into a one of two, the pair begin to share and shape a life. While friends, family, work and outside activities were there all along, they are now incorporated - and yes, sometimes intruding - into the relationship still seen to be unique. Certainly, while the intensity of being together is apparent with your heart and head in the clouds, a bit more reality of life outside your relationship is added, and your feet land on the ground. Done best, this time and the next will be the foundation of the relationship.

The Building: a relationship at its core is the couple, but at some point, that relationship builds into a life. Buying a home or deciding where to put down roots, having pets (maybe), marrying, having children (maybe), and developing the best career options - not just for one but for the two you have become, all take time, effort and energy. Here more than the first two, there could be conflict and stress, but it should turn into understanding and compromise. Finding how to navigate this building of a life, if done right, makes the next stage so much easier. 

The Long Haul: with a home, children (maybe), extended families, and careers, responsibilities tend to move to the forefront. Maintenance, care and demands can take their toll. The joy of having a relationship can, at times, be lost. The relationship can splinter. Here, though, is where the foundation of the past three stages comes to the fore. Memories of love shared and the knowledge and practices put in place prior, can take a relationship through whatever trials and tribulations confront it.

Retirement “and Beyond” (to quote Buzz Lightyear): With 30 or so years of practice, one would think it should be the golden age, as it has been called, but really the next 30 years will be a culmination of the past. If there has been humor, care, compassion and concern for the other, and active listening and compromise, there will be a wealth of goodness to pull from for these years. Your life together, then, will, truly, be the golden years!

* Not to be confused as science; just made up by me and written for an assignment for an upcoming wedding.

A Lifetime

The Ingenuity!

 

Wish I Had It