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Post by millring on May 12, 2024 7:38:19 GMT -5
wordled in 3. Palestine Lake backwaters yesterday. Palestine Lake is the wildest large lake in the county. It has islands, inlets, and peninsulas, swans, pelicans, geese, and gulls, lily pads and impassable (by motorboat) weeds. The Munsons planted poppies years ago when they also had a house on this side of the road. Now they're in the ditch. I wonder how old these iris are. They're like the ones at my house and those are more than 70 years old (or, the originals were first planted then. The still blossoming bulbs are out in my front yard still). Three wild flowers along the road (and taking over entire fields).
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Post by millring on May 11, 2024 17:26:58 GMT -5
Two exceptionally beautiful weather days in a row to be driving the countryside. And the light has been fantastic. Moving clouds change the landscape like a kaleidoscope. The fields that haven't been tilled under are yellow with wildflowers. The woods between have heavily scattered purple flowers covering their floors. The sun hot, the shade cold.
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Post by millring on May 11, 2024 17:20:43 GMT -5
Too late. There's no turning back and no fixing it.
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Post by millring on May 11, 2024 5:36:09 GMT -5
Saw him about 10 years ago at City Winery. Nice show. His son was in the band. I like his voice a lot. Warm and comfy. His tween song banter was fun and poignant and funny. I thought I remembered someone here had gone to see him live. I thought he also toured with some Nesmith/novelist/other-famous-for-another reason guy. I'm prolly conflating Peter Tork touring with ____ _____ another guy whose name I don't recall.
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Post by millring on May 11, 2024 5:34:06 GMT -5
I was sleeping. But I dreamed about them. Not really.
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Post by millring on May 11, 2024 5:33:04 GMT -5
Keeping in touch with artists, musicians, writers, and family I've known for years and who started using a convenient and all-inclusive, international platform more than a decade ago to share information and even advance our personal and professional interests via facebook is just plain silly. The Soundhole, on the other hand...
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 13:46:34 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 13:11:30 GMT -5
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 11:53:00 GMT -5
Just heard a great book title:
Ten Steps to Humility (And How I Got There In Eight)
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 11:36:11 GMT -5
Facebook has me pegged as someone who wants to know what John Lennon said in 1971 that irritated Paul Simon. I get incessant posts about rock musicians from the 60s and 70s. I don't know how to tell them that I don't look back on that era with nostalgia. I've had the same trouble. Also, somehow facebook got the message that I wanted to watch every basketball video ever created...and every Calvin and Hobbes comic ever drawn. And the perverse thing (that it took me too long to catch on to) is that clicking the button that says "I don't want to see this" (or any other version of trying to delete it) only brings on more. Apparently even saying "no" is an invitation for more. Somehow, I got on a list of people interested in landscape painting. Those I enjoy, even though I never asked for them. If I had complete control, I wouldn't mind the occasional thing that might interest me. But the way it's headed, it's soon going to be more unsolicited than solicited communication.
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 11:30:25 GMT -5
Interesting that you folks even use messenger. It messed up everything when I even tried to use it (once) and sent messages to every one of my 500 friends asking them if they want to connect to me. I haven't touched it since. I can only use the message part of facebook on my PC. On my phone I cannot privately message anyone on facebook. I'm okay with that.
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 10:56:47 GMT -5
Being compassionate does not preclude which side of this divide one is standing on. I know that's how most people feel (most people, because most people assign compassion to the American left, and heartless calculation to the American right). In part I think that's also because we judge ourselves and our friends by our intentions and our foes by results -- oftentimes not even actual results, rather, projected results on actions never taken (because our mischaracterization of them in public debate works, and our foe's idea(s) never come(s) to fruition).
Love is way more complicated than picking a side and giving it what it wants.
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 10:45:54 GMT -5
Answered my own question. There's a version (not the one above) floating around the internet with, as I described, a human playing actual chords to the rhythm of the dog's feet. It's dubbed in so well that you'd have to be skeptical to catch it.
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 10:35:50 GMT -5
I'm sorta skeptical. I mean, I can see with my own eyes that the husky is walking on the keys. What I have doubts about is that the "music" seems a little too musical to me. What do you think? Has someone dubbed in a human playing the piano?
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 10:20:22 GMT -5
I don't see political ads at all. What I do see increasingly is unbidden videos, cartoons, and other sponsored ads for things I'm not interested in. But none political.
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 7:38:42 GMT -5
I'm off today. So far it's been too rainy to do much of anything. I hoped to cut the yard but that's probably not going to happen. I think we might get a break in the weather in about an hour. We'll probably walk the dog during that time. Then maybe do some organizing for the kitchen and bath remodels.
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 7:36:29 GMT -5
That is one beautiful guitar.
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 7:29:45 GMT -5
Keep it. Let people play it when they visit you. It really isn't just a "thing". It's not going to waste. It's home. Nah, can't agree. It needs to be used, often, preferably in public. Then maybe talk to Glenn about it? Maybe something done through or with the Creek House?
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Post by millring on May 9, 2024 6:51:22 GMT -5
In the comments:
"So, what do you have against Alaska and Hawaii?!"
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Post by millring on May 8, 2024 21:22:57 GMT -5
Keep it. Let people play it when they visit you. It really isn't just a "thing". It's not going to waste. It's home.
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