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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
A little early morning creativity in my journal. It’s mixed media collage on 7 x 10″ sketch paper. The quote is by Hui-Neng, and it’s been a favorite of mine for years.
The Secret Is Within Your Self
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
–Richard Feynman
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
At least, this seems the case with certain people who have the misfortune of being adult and being prominent in my daily life. (Now, who might that be? Poor guy.) *sigh* I really need to find a way to release tension more constructively so that it doesn’t turn rank and poisonous in me and then [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.
–William Gibson
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Knitting is love, looped and warm.
–Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Yarn Harlot: the Secret Life of a Knitter
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Cleaning and scrubbing can wait for tomorrow,
For babies grow up, I’ve learned, to my sorrow.
So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust, go to sleep.
I’m rocking my baby, and babies don’t keep.
–Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
On June 14 will be the third Worldwide Knit In Public Day. From the website:
Knitting is such a solitary act that it’s easy to knit alone somewhere and sink into your work without thinking about all the other knitters out there. Neighbors could spend all their lives never knowing that the other knits. This a [...]
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
–Henri Matisse
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.
–Willie Tyler
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
And I’m a little slow adapting mentally.
Now Claire wakes at 6 a.m. So do I. We’re going 3 to 3.5 hours before her first nap (she won’t sleep unless she’s really tired). That puts my free time to take a shower smack at the same time Husband gets up to shower. She’s not really napping [...]
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