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***You Are Midnight***


You are more than a little eccentric, and you're apt to keep very unusual habits.
Whether you're a nightowl, living in a commune, or taking a vow of silence - you like to experiment with your lifestyle.
Expressing your individuality is important to you, and you often lie awake in bed thinking about the world and your place in it.
You enjoy staying home, but that doesn't mean you're a hermit. You also appreciate quality time with family and close friends.


What Time Of Day Are You?
http://blogthings.com/whattimeofdayareyouquiz/

watching the days go by
(water flowing under)

it's next year .... and i've haven't written anything here ...............
ich bin ein schopskopf

and my son's budgie has decided that landing on my head (or dawn's and even, sometimes, zander's) head while i'm in the living room (which is where the computer is) is 'the thing' .........

if only he could be potty trained.........

but, as henry gibson said, " i'm glad cows can't fly."

Your Inner European is Russian!

Mysterious and exotic. You've got a great balance of danger and allure.

Who's Your Inner European?

From the recent U2 spread in Rolling Stone:
RS: “What is your religious belief today? What is your concept of God?”
Bono: “If I could put it simply, I would say that I believe there’s a force of love and logic in the world, a force of love and logic behind the universe. And I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in ‘straw poverty’; i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me.”
RS: “How does it make sense?”
Bono: “As an artist, I see the poetry of it. It’s so brilliant. That this scale of creation, and the unfathomable universe, should describe itself in such vulnerability, as a child. That is mind-blowing to me. I guess that would make me a Christian. Although I don’t use the label, because it is so very hard to live up to. I feel like I’m the worst example of it, so I just kind of keep my mouth shut.”

Bono captures a central struggle i have, when it comes to using the term 'christian' to describe myself. There is too much within the story of Jesus that makes sense, that connects -- not only logically, but in a existential and soul satiating way -- for me not to believe .... but too much in everyday life -- especially my own -- for me to run around with a banner, or to volunteer to be a posterchild for christianity.

perhaps that's the point ...

i still love rock 'n roll,

and POD rocks with the best of them

it's just coming up on 6 am ..................
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it used to be that i would only be up at this time if i'd been up all night, if i had to work (occasionally) and when i was going hunting ....

i haven't hunted in years ... for awhile i was vegetarian, now i'm not
and i think killing my own meat would somehow be more honest -- more direct and clear

meat is messy stuff, and by buying it packaged we avoid most of the mess

if we still had to do our own butchering, i think less meat would be consumed ....


but it's still too early to be awake ............

where do the words go?

it's snowing .... heavily

as if snow can fall heavily .... it becomes heavy but each flake is so delicate

delicate .... what a wonderful word .... so many things are delicate, fragile .... and some of the most delicate looking things are not at all fragile .... deceptively delicate ... designatedly delicate ....

we make other things delicate ... break them down ... destroy them slowly ....

i've watched avalanches ... been on the edge of a couple of small ones ..... i've been in a tent that was slowly being crushed by accumulating snow ..... sometimes the delicate things can destroy us ....

the picture is from a play i was in ... 'frost at midnight' ... a fave - possibily cos of the name: two of my favorite things .... but i got to play a blacksmith who has a heart as big as the world, and a temper just as big .... very freeing

i'm the ox .... jessica benini is johnny green, the ass