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the crow november 2011 the crow random observations from an old crow thursday november 24 2011 not exactly turkey but i give thanks grilled cheese apple and masala chai yum we didn t have a thanksgiving dinner today we ve postponed it until sunday nature flooded basement a rough day at work preparing for an audit on wednesday and a few other things got in the way grandson had another emergency trip to the hospital yesterday afternoon that took up most of the evening he s okay another black out this time while riding his bicycle all the things daughter and i had planned to do yesterday in preparation for dinner today would have kept us up all night most of it at least and we all were physically and emotionally drained by the time i dropped them off at their apartment so we agreed we would enjoy the day more if we put the festivities such as they are off until the weekend as it turns out their next door neighbors invited them over for dinner which was nice still this being a day of giving thanks of recognizing the blessings we have i offer thanks for the following family and friends my child and her child my sisters and brothers friends here and in blogland my home including the spiders and crickets not the silverfish though my job the fact that i have one when so many people are struggling to find work which saddens me for them and their families i need to find another part time job and i m looking i am hopeful one will come along soon local food banks which help me put food on the table so that i don t have to choose between eating and having the medicines i need to stay alive there are many more things for which i am grateful but this is long enough my dinner today shown above was a grilled cheese sandwich which tasted better than all the others i ve ever had and i ve had some very good ones in the past being mindful makes all the difference almost forgot i m still here the greatest blessing of all wonder of wonders posted by the crow at 8 56 pm 10 comments wednesday november 23 2011 rain rain go away at 2 30 am the rumbling thrum of the sump pump woke me from a not so deep sleep it was cycling on as frequently as when the hurricanes passed through a couple of months ago in my half asleep state i stumbled downstairs to make sure there was nothing on the basement floor that would be damaged by rising rainwater then trudged back up to peek outside to see how things looked besides wet i mean you know how earthworms crawl out of the soil during heavy downpours seeking drier ground i counted a dozen of them on the concrete pad at the bottom of the steps that s a lot of worms in one spot but the one that alarmed me was the one trying to climb the trunk of the dogwood outside the back door this is not a good sign the only thing to do is make a nice cuppa then go back to bed it s supposed to rain steadily like this for another twelve or so hours i hope the worms find higher ground and make it through the night i d offer them some tea but that s probably the last thing they d want right now night y all posted by the crow at 3 41 am 7 comments saturday november 12 2011 collector or hoarder i mentioned to daughter last week that i planned to attack the house before it attacks me i want to sort and box up my collections i began but didn t get far mom you aren t a collector you re a hoarder uh well no i m not i can still walk from one room to the next without falling over stacks of stuff and the things i collect are useful and used plus there are no dead bodies under piles of clothes unless you count spiders maybe and i don t collect cats or dogs or any other animal unless you count spiders and crickets which come in uninvited i do not collect or hoard them i have almost 300 books on various subjects and lots of fiction but they are neatly put away on bookshelves or in boxes in the attic where there are many too many silverfish but i don t collect them either many of my belongings that are not in boxes collect dust but that s on them i don t collect dust for one thing i don t sit still in one place long enough to collect dust i do have a plastic bin for junk mail although i wouldn t call that a collection either when the junk reaches the top i put it out in the trash the bin might be a little overdue for dumping okay maybe a lot overdue but i ll take care of that this evening when i cleaned the downstairs powder room where do we get the names for these things i discovered i own five hairbrushes so one could argue they are a collection maybe that many brushes when i haven t much hair to brush right now constitutes a hoard but i threw three of them out besides i didn t know i had that many brushes so that didn t count one thing i do collect not hoard mind you just collect is rocks and odd shells and other natural objects i have a few jars and boxes of them enough to fill an overnight bag perhaps not a pullman case though when i tried to tell daughter that my various collections do not mean i m a hoarder she asked me if i thought i would have all my beads buttons and other jewelry making supplies off the dining room table in time for thanksgiving or were we going to have to use tv trays we can t use the tv trays i said why not all my paints brushes and canvases are on them right now pic above is a small representation of my natural objects collections found under all the other stuff when i cleared off my desk this afternoon i found the container under the kitchen sink rather it found my foot when i opened the cabinet door and it fell out followed by a landslide of cleaning supplies which i also do not collect or use all that frequently either it would seem posted by the crow at 7 06 pm 8 comments more coins iceland s eyrir 1939 reichs mark obverse morocco 50 centimes obverse morocco face 1901 us indian head liberty penny in advertising case from ohio posted by the crow at 4 45 pm no comments labels coins and the stories they tell coin of the realms i ve been on a cleaning jag a serious one over the last several months while the octopus was visiting i let everything go to hell in half a dozen hand baskets that s what happens when depression takes a choke hold on my psyche i quit caring about looking after things myself included fortunately octopus has retreated far enough into its lair that i am caring again found a small leather pouch left behind in ex b s dresser it contained a bunch of old coins some us but most are from other countries the oldest coin is an 1865 us indian head liberty penny the most recent from 1970s germany coins tell a great deal of history about their countries of origin for instance one of the german coins a 500 mark dated 1923 is made of aluminum and reminds me of pre 1970s new orleans mardi gras coins we used to catch when i was a kid these were minted during the recession years following the end of wwi i recall ex b said he was told that was a time when people carried their money in wheel barrows to go shopping can you imagine sure hope the current world s economies don t reach that point by 1936 1939 the german economy had improved to the point that the von hindenburg 5 reichs mark shown below a hefty german silver piece silver nickel i believe indicated a much wealthier nation a 1969 2 deutsche mark struck in celebration of the bundes republik deutschland s 20th anniversary is headed back toward lighter weight and has a yellowish cast to the metal it s about half the weight of the reichs mark the danish 5 kroner is the largest coin 3 5 cm though not the heaviest 5 mark has that distinction and iceland s 1 eyrir 1 6 cm is the smallest and still heavier than the 1923 mark the 1924 50 centimes coin is from french morocco made of copper and brass it looks like lots of stuff on the coin very busy i was thinking i might sell the coins but none has any value to speak of plus i like them too much to sell them don t get me wrong i would part with them if the value was high enough to outweigh sentimentality some are more worn than others with some older ones in better condition than more recent coins these all are works of art including the nazi era coins too bad i still associate the atrocities of hitler s regime with anything bearing the swastika on second thought that s actually a good thing there are more coins than i could load with this post among my favorites are the edward and the george coins from the empire one can see the resemblence of the three kings to each other handsome men all posted by the crow at 3 29 pm 3 comments labels coins and the stories they tell for lucy bangs circa 1954 my second grade school picture haircut by my mom most recent cut i had asked for what we used to call back in the 1950s a pixie cut my hairdresser a student at the local beauty school and all of 19 years old asked me to describe it i told her wispy bangs and short on sides and back i believe she did as best she could given my poor descriptions besides the cut was inexpensive which i needed it to be and it s only hair it will grow back out someday maybe i hope posted by the crow at 12 17 pm 9 comments labels bangs versus fringe newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom about the crow photo behind the blog title brian stormont took this picture of the crow in february of 2006 with his new camera i m following his blog eye dull moments stargazer about me the crow home is in a small town in south central pennsylvania 45 miles as the crow flies north of baltimore i am a displaced southerner aging less gracefully than i d like a helluva lot faster than i d like but i m trying to slow things down a bit to make this ride last as long as possible view my complete profile blog plaid the crow s wings followers blog archive 2022 1 november 1 2021 3 august 1 july 1 june 1 2020 6 december 1 june 1 may 2 april 2 2019 5 august 3 july 1 may 1 2018 5 december 1 october 1 august 1 june 1 january 1 2017 1 january 1 2016 11 december 1 november 3 september 2 march 3 january 2 2015 19 december 2 november 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fallen d h lawrence via whiskey river 8 22 2014 there is something scary about letting ourselves go it means that we will screw up that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection it means that we will say things we didn t mean to say and express feelings we can t explain it means that we will be onstage and not have complete control that we won t know what we re going to play until we begin until the bow is drawn across the strings while this spontaneous method might be frightening it s also an extremely valuable source of creativity the lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity we are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all jonah lehrer via whiskey river 10 22 2014 shrinking simple theme theme images by sololos powered by blogger