Saturday, August 19, 2006 D
"Dream of the Firestarter"
6:28am
It is partially inspired by the things we learned on our trip, The 'Seven Habits', and partially by a movie we saw, the X-Men, the last one in the series.
A young girl has a bad problem with starting fires everywhere she goes. She can't seem to help it. When ever she's around, if she's the slightest bit upset, a fire will erupt within her midst. She goes away to a special school, where she learns how to control her power.
Recess comes and she gets to go home. Her parents are very scared to have her back. Afterall, it has been so peaceful while she's been away. They haven't had to repair the house once. But they try to be loving and supportive.
They are nervous, but the girl is so confident. She's learned a technique, which she then tells them about. "I've learned to be PRO-ACTIVE, and not RE-ACTIVE! Always, I used to let everyone and everything around me make me angry! But now I've learned I don't have to do that. I'm in charge of my emotions. So now because I don't let myself get out of control angry, I'm not starting fires everywhere."
In the last frame, I am playing the part of the girl, who is so joyful with her new learning.
That is the dream. Maybe life isn't quite so like that. I was surely RE-ACTIVE when our plane got cancelled, and I broke down bawling at the airport. I'd been up since 1:30am our time, and it had been such a long day! But, hey, at least I didn't start any fires around me! Not that I could, you know...
But barring lack of sleep and stressful events, and maybe even with practice even then, we can avoid much of the inner turmoil. And sometimes you just have to cry.
And sometimes you have to sleep, which I'm going to go do now...
Saturday, August 19, 2006 E
"Photo Log Up"
1:49pm
http://www.aztriad.com/orlando.html
Now...
...I've done all my journal entries, sent them up to the web and even
made reservations for my next trip.
Do you think it's time to unpack from the previous trip???
Nah, I'll nap first! Grin!
Saturday, August 19, 2006 F
"Kids Would Be Home Soon"
11:23pm
Okay it wasn't their 'backside', but lots of 'front side'...
Monday, August 21, 2006
"Odin with Was Scepter"
Metaphors be with you!
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 A
"Miscellanea Including a Weird Dream"
7:03pm
Mixed Mythologies, just a bit!
(That was phrase at one of the Mensa lectures by Richard Lederer, who calls himself a 'verbivore'.
I caught the tail end of his lecture...)
6:33am
The following isn't a 'mixed mythology', just a translation of an Egyptian word into Greek. The original, of course, is the scarab hieroglyph for 'Xeper', or 'process of becoming'. We English speakers spell it 'Xeper', and some spell it 'kheper', but before it was spelled like that, the ancient Greeks spelled it this way:
chi, epsilon, phi, epsilon, rho
I had a strange dream this morning:
| I am in NYC, in the business section, leaving a big building. It is like end of work day, and everyone else is leaving too. The press of people rushing by me overwhelms me. I am lost and don't know where I'm going. I see a paper a woman has, about an art showing somewhere. I think it might be significant, but she pulls the paper away from me. I am lost. A short blonde woman with the appearance of Hilary clinton offers to help. But I don't know where I'm going. Somehow I have in my mind that Los Angeles is the neighboring city to NYC and think I'm supposed to go there. She has me crossing a very busy wide street on foot, and runs it with me. It is a dangerous dash that must be done in a certain way. After we cross, we're in a different region, no buildings at all and looks maybe even brush like and desert like. I wake up. |
What could it mean? I don't know...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006 B
"Crafty Isis"
9:16pm
I stumbled out of bed to hear "Rossini-Bizet Offenbach Yodeling overtures" on Swedish web radio: Sveriges Radio - Klassiskt. Click on the words Lissna Direkt. (Though I can't predict what you will hear, except that it may have a subtle [or not so!] Swedish flavor.) This was something Julia found. They also have an all Mozart program, in addition to many others we haven't sampled.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 B
"Standing in Both Realms"
7:55pm
Friday, August 25, 2006
"News"
9:36pm
(My weird drawing almost looks like the Ammut!)
But enough of that. I've gotten back to reading Hathor Rising, am up to page 146. The chapter about Hatshepsut nicely paralleled what I'd read about her in the latest Smithsonian and in Archaelogy magazine recently. That show at the Met now ended no doubt was the impetus for those articles. Last year, I saw some of those beauties in person.
And if that doesn't cheer me up, there's always shopping. A 'AUTUMN PAISLEY VEST' and 'YOKE PANEL COMFORT DENIM SKIRT' will be coming my way, 'comfort', because presumeably it will stretch around the belly pooch! Ever hopeful, I try again. Every skirt I've bought in the past year has needed altering. Fortunately I 'know a good seamstress' who can do it, if I get around to it. One new skirt is still awaiting fixing, and there's Julia's dress still in pieces...
And if shopping doesn't cheer me up, there's always eating. Julia and I enjoyed a lovely meal at Ciao Bella last night. We split an appetizer of pizza, and a main dish of 'baked cod ala dulcina', which was about the most delicious thing I've ever eaten, so moist, with a delicately sweet sauce. We each went for our own desserts, though. Julia had the tiramisu and I had a peach and almond torta, which was so tasty.
That was a memorable meal. But homecooked is also yummy. I happily devoured night's meal of penne rigata fixed with a tomato sauce and tomatoes, mushrooms and olives. Julia is a gourmet cook. All that abundant good food, no wonder I need 'comfort denim'!
But there's even better news outside Yuma, too. Our dear friend Serena got great news with her cancer surgery, they got it all out, and there's a very high chance it won't ever return.
So there's lots of happy news, just as long as I keep away from TV news.
Saturday, August 26, 2006 A
"A Little Music"
9:33am
Play music from Sweden on one computer, while the other is trying to download 42 large pictures all at once. The music gets all choppy.
Better one photo at a time. But I've spent an enjoyable morning looking at beautiful photos of scenes in New York City, Italy and the Caribbean. Alida Thorpe, the photographer, really gets around. I discovered her through Photo Friday. Her capture for the theme of "Circle" really impressed me, the details of the beautiful pink, green and white marble of the Duomo, so I went meandering through them.
I confess, I saved several to disk, and one of a flutist in New York City was the inspiration for the following drawing:
He doesn't have a moustache, it is just the shadows...
So, no, I did not see the flutist directly, but at least I listened to flute music while I drew him. Okay, it was Mozart flute music, and by the looks of the original flute, it was probably music from the Andes, but close enough...
