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Saturday, April 20, 2002
Back To Life!  I was sitting at the little league game early this afternoon, on a slightly chilly spring day, looking around, enjoying myself, feeling good to be alive. I thought to myself, "I'm coming back to life, lately. This is kind of nice." So, a few minutes ago, I went down to check on my couple green bottles chilling in the freezer.. I looked out back, and what??! A fern! I'd put a little palm plant in out of it's planter tentatively back there, thinking I'll actually plant it soon. Over the winter, I never raked the leaves back there, and both my big, beautiful ferns I'd planted, turned an ugly deathly grey (the colour of cold ashes from the fireplace), and died, as far as I could tell... Since there was another smaller fern in closer to my place which lived all winter, I just knew I'd killed the other two! Ahhh! I liked those a lot too. So, I peek out there tonight, it's sunny and blue, and what do I see? Ferns!! They're back!! Even where I had the big mound of dirt with a palm in it, after I moved that, the little ferns leaves are trying to come up there too! Wow!! They were only dormant! They've come back to life!! :-) Friday, April 19, 2002
Searching Night and Day "I've been searching a long time, for that oh so true love to comfort this heart of mine. She must be out there somewhere, where could she be? If there's no life within my day, I'd rather stay in isolation, For that special someone a lifetime away. Night and day, for this woman I pray...." (From Bujo Banton's "Wanna Be Loved.") Thursday, April 18, 2002
Never Grow Old Driving back from the Capitol Hill library this morning, I was listening to and loving some old UB40, on my all UB favorites CDR. I was thinking how much I loved them, and how they feel like a lot like an old friend. An old friend who's always there, always full of love, who I always love, and more than ever, and who never grows old. (Which brings to mind the Maytals "Never Grow Old." I'm thinking I need to upgrade my sound card, and make all the vinyl accessable again...) That's how my brother David described reading a favorite book again, after years. Like visiting an old friend. I **love** my old friend, UB40. Something else. Some music makes me think, makes me find parts of myself which I can admire, which I would like to encourage. Oh Lord, "I won't close my eyes, to the sufferer's plight." I remember something I love about reggae. It's giving me shivers. Wednesday, April 17, 2002
Ishii's First Hit Dodger "rookie" pitcher Kazuhisa Ishii got his first major league base hit today (check that child-like grin on his face...), while earning his third victory to go 3-0 on the season. After a rough first series, the Dodgers have gone 8-4. Not too bad. Rushing Sensation Last night as I layed awake after my vivid dream, an image came to me. I imagined myself in a toboggan. A toboggan with no snow, and apparently no wheels, but that size and me in it. I think it just glided along close to the ground. I could feel the rush of going down a very steep hill. That rushing sensation felt really exciting. All the while, I knew that I'd reach the bottom, then go shooting back up the other side, still moving rapidly. My life is like that. Fun, exciting, scary. Sometimes. Winter In Springtime It's 36 degrees here, and it's supposed to hail later too. We have winter in springtime! This at the same time they're getting hot dust storms in Nevada and Texas, and a heat wave back east. I think I'm ready to welcome back some nice mild **spring** weather! I had a strange Phil Spector parody dream last night. After I awoke, it took forever to get back to sleep.. The dream was colourful though. Tuesday, April 16, 2002
!!??!!@@## PC Monitor! As I was driving home in the chilly shades of grey, oooo, I was loving all the colours of spring. I could swear I've never seen some of those colours in my life.. Just beautiful, everywhere I turned.. Blossoms and blooms... Then I walked in, came right up, and started turning this PC on... My Dodger game starts at 6:00PM, I was thinking, and the pre-game is already going... So, I turn every thing on. I go take a shower, as I got my hair cut nice and neat today, but all the little hairs were of course driving me nuts. I get out of the shower, come over here, and the monitor's dark. Hmm, must have forgot to turn it on. Must have had it off last night when I went to bed, just listening. Yeah. So I restart the PC, turn it on... Nothing! I check the cord, change the plug in.. Nothing. I fool with the switch. Off, on. On, off. Off, on. Nothing. I panic! I hit the thing on the top, on the sides, on the bottom! Ugh! You can't operate your PC without the monitor... Oh, I wished I'd taken the dumpy backup monitor someone offered when they were going to throw it out... "Nah, I wouldn't want a 15" monitor even for a little while." Well I did tonight! At least I could get my game started up on the net! Ugh! So, after talking myself out of going out and buying something in a rush tonight, I came back up here... What now? I push the on/off switch in once again. It works! What was that all about? Just to scare me good??? I have got to get a back up monitor to stick in the closet.... 43 Degrees Midday Wow, it's 43 degrees outside, at 11:00AM, on April 16. I love it. The cool misty rain feels bracing and refreshing. I guess I'll go on out and get my hair cut. Monday, April 15, 2002
Another Corny Poem Married or single, Attached or can we mingle? (He hee he... Sung to the tune of the show song I still haven't figured out the name of. I bet you'd know it if I hummed it a little.) Oh Spring, I Feel It  Two baby mushrooms popping up on my right, As I start down the lane, what a cool sight. So lovely, so close, to smell white blossoms so sweet, I sight some warm pink ones, just across the street. I can't help but touch the poinsettia leaves of red, Just a few steps ahead, there's a purple fuchsia bed. Burgerville antenna-top with it's pointy red nose Naked tree stalks, green topped in rows. Stubborn leafless trees, Brittle in the breeze. Stray raindrops come on my head falling, Oh spring, I feel it, my heart is calling. (I wrote this poem after an excellent lunch walk today. I sent an earlier draft out to my friend, then started tinkering, and thought "why not rhyme?" Spring I do feel it, today...) If I Were A Teenaged... If I were a teenaged royal, this girl, Princess Beatrice (in the middle, looking this direction) could command my attention.. Little Green Buds Little green buds, blooming all over. Such a sight out my window. Oh, I have this show tune going through my head over and over.. I don't mind it really. It's an upbeat number. Just that I can't identify it, yet! (Note, I think Just Dreaming has been on sabbatical for a little while. Looks like it's coming back to life.) |
