blog (January, 2007)
in chunks
- Made it to work today by bus(es) in just 25 minutes. The Euclid Corridor is quickening.
- A cop pulled me and my bicycle over on Saturday. That's twice this year.
- Felt a new and disconcerting snap in my knee while stretching (improperly) Sunday.
- Wrote WestSoy about the un-recyclability of their aseptic packaging a few weeks ago. They responded with a vacuous letter and coupons, (for more of same product & packaging,) to purchase my silent compliance
- My living room found a couch on a neighbor's curb. There were no back-cushions, but we're making do with replacements.
- Great email today from my supervisor at CleveMed: "I have a goal next year to reduce my needs for commercial software..."
I call them nature band-aids because there's a general idea in American that the remedy for mutilated urbanism is nature. And in fact the remedy for wounded and mutilated urbanism is good urbanism, good buildings. Not just flower beds, not just cartoons of the Sierra Nevada mountains...
-- James Howard Kunstler, The tragedy of suburbia (TED | Talks 2004)
wild and wonderful
Katie and Joel's wedding this past weekend in Helvetia/Belington was tremendous:
- The groom was far from the only one in jeans.
- No preacher, just stories.
- Half hour late for the un-ceremony did not matter a bit.
- We square danced to old-time music in tiny, gorgeous Helvetia -- til I could spin no more...
- I tried slacklining for the first time, and managed a couple steps.
- Sleeping out under the stars, farm food, wanders.
- Time alone when desired. Rest, regroup, recoup.
- Red, orange, yellow, green, brown!
The only letdown was finding that West Virginia changed it's slogan from "Wild and Wonderful" to "Open for Business." The public is not pleased.