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the crow august 2012 the crow random observations from an old crow friday august 31 2012 love i just read the most beautiful love story two actually you can find them at anne s blog under the title september sunset i feel a good weep coming on so please excuse the brevity goodnight all posted by the crow at 9 35 pm 3 comments friday august 10 2012 say it ain t so fyodor oh say it ain t image jeremy early found this passage at whiskey river all i could think to say is to paraphrase a newspaper headline from years ago about the shoeless joe jackson baseball scandal hence the title of this post martha we re always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood something immense but why must it be what if instead of all this you suddenly find just a little room there something like a village bath house grimy and spiders in every corner and that s all eternity is sometimes you know i can t help feeling that that s what it is fyodor dostoyevsky the brothers karamazov posted by the crow at 1 05 pm 7 comments tuesday august 7 2012 home again jiggity jig the crow how odd to refer to my alter ego self in the third person has returned to the nest internet access was restored this morning i feel like i ve been isolated while molting and now full feathered again i can fly freely once more yet yet i feel something is amiss this feeling is predictable since we humans resist change even change for the better or one for which we have yearned a good while the walk to a computer i use today is far shorter than a few days ago but not nearly so interesting i know the layout of my home better than the back of my hand there is nothing interesting about the basket of clean laundry waiting to be folded or the jumble of art supplies in need of a good sorting or the dishes from breakfast lallygagging in the sink i thought surely they d have washed themselves by now must i do everything in this house oh i guess i must mustn t i i did brew some peruvian coffee this morning a gift from my last visit to the food bank quite good actually but not the high end stuff at the library on the other hand i did bring a cup of it to the office where i set it precariously atop the hard drive tower while i cleared a spot for it next to the keyboard wouldn t have been allowed such a risky indulgence at good old guthrie memorial the early morning light streamed into the back room office through sheer tan curtains not the spectacularly colored bits of glass that make up the aristotle window against light tan walls the light was monotone almost dreary except that it was light in all its glory and i was alive to see it so i can forgive its flatness the only chatter i heard came from two squirrels in the dogwood outside the back door scolding a blue jay about something probably because the bird was bathing in their drinking water little do they know that s not all the birds do in their basin there were no quirky neighbors at the desk no gigglers nose miners nor grunters no social butterfly who used her computer time to take phone calls and text her numerous friends all the while posting to a variety of social media platforms now that s multi tasking folks to the max quiet is the sound i hear broken only by the sound of keys being struck as i type this post too quiet at least it is this morning i see there will be a period of adjustment to get through this being alone with my own computer in my own library of sorts listening to only my thoughts if only i can ignore the bossy squirrels posted by the crow at 9 53 pm 11 comments saturday august 4 2012 composing myself at computer 2 next week i will have internet access at home again so this is likely to be the last dispatch from the library for awhile that being the case i thought i d close out this chapter of my blogging life with a few more of the photos i took in april and may the photo to the right i hope what i m seeing as i type this is what we ll all see when i publish this post is the marquee of one of the first cinema houses in pennsylvania west of philadelphia it has fallen into serious disrepair like a number of buildings here in town when the business community started spreading away from the downtown area one of the first things the developers did was put in a multi screen theater complex i think they are referred to as multi plex cinemas that meant that the old state theater drew fewer and fewer patrons eventually closing its doors as a movie house shortly after we moved to town it then served time as an antiques mall there is sarcasm in those words then something else equally unimpressive a cat lived in the ticket window which is now boarded up in the image here before a group of civic minded investors tried to get a grant to restore the theater to its former glory the grant was denied and the theater has sat forlorn ever since i was struck by the poignant message on the marquee the morning i first walked up to the library it could easily apply to this town as well as the building i love to window shop which is what i do every time i walk up here i named these shoes spring peepers these are in the store with the pencil like art deco facade in an earlier post one of my favorite shops in town is the local bead shop it appeals to the crow in me all those sparklies in one spot below is a wide angle shot of the northwest corner of the town square i love how the early spring sunlight makes the building glow this was taken on my first walk up to the library in april finally this green sided house is where i work sorry for the hodgepodge jumble this post has turned out to be see you farther down the line friends posted by the crow at 11 20 am 7 comments 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 3 july 3 june 2 may 1 march 2 february 2 january 4 2014 8 november 3 october 1 september 1 july 1 march 2 2013 17 december 1 november 1 october 1 august 1 july 2 june 4 april 2 march 1 january 4 2012 30 december 2 october 4 september 1 august 4 love say it ain t so fyodor oh say it ain t home again jiggity jig composing myself at computer 2 july 8 june 3 april 1 march 4 february 2 january 1 2011 61 december 5 november 6 october 1 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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