releaf

so: kindle.
paper books are, finally,
going to be like vinyl
is to
digital music files

tasty old things
held in the hand
loved in the library

perhaps more precious now,
organic,
archival,
must-gathering creatures
closer to stone and baked clay
in surviving sun, soak, and seasons

needing only eyes and mind,
taught mind
to quicken them

still
kept and cared for
never ever quite forgotten

and always
waiting

for us.

grew up in the eighties, and so did my brain, evidently

Odd that Belinda Carlisle on an endlessly repeating loop of one song (guess which!) seems to be what best helps me churn through the work I have to do.

subjunctive

somewhere between it being so,	(indicative)
and saying something to make it so,	(imperative)
is entertaining the notion that it could be so.	(subjunctive)

Reflects the tripartite experience of the world as it is, the actions we use to change it, and the thoughts that dream the possible worlds.


Or: the outside world, interfaced through our actions, to our minds.


In a world of received perception and directed action, the subjunctive, being as murky as the mind, is the easiest to miss.

coin chess

Just popped into my head this morning: how to use basic U.S. coins as chess pieces.

First: white/black distinguished by heads/tails. Or vice versa.

Then: pawns are pennies.

Then: quarter = rook, nickel = knight, dime = bishop. Bigger on the margins, smaller as you go in.

Then: dime on quarter = queen (because she moves like rook + bishop), nickel on quarter = king (because a king's motion is constrained somewhat like a knight's).

No doubt someone's already come up with this sort of thing before, but, hey: independent lines of convergent evolution just make it all that much cooler.

splomp

Latest entry in the diary of accidental food: oily millet mush-blob. The less said the better. Tasty, though.

soul

be in your body

be in your mind

be in your people

be in your world.

slips through the fingers

Every time I write a paper, it's amazing how solid an idea can seem until I go and try to defend it.