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the crow 2018 the crow random observations from an old crow friday december 28 2018 another one bites the dust happy new year friends things have been a bit rough at my homestead for several months so i am looking forward to a new year a year full of hope and changes for the better over at dear daughter s home though things have picked up wonderfully after being unemployed for what seems like ages kareema has found a career she is ideally suited for which she loves earlier this year she trained to become a certified peer support specialist an assistant mental health caregiver to help people who have gone through are going through the same sort of therapy she went through while trying to get back on her feet i am so proud of her grandson donovan entered a school to become a certified ford auto technician being an aspie works in his favor with his new venture the day he interviewed for the school reps from ford corporation were scouting for potential students to enter their advanced courses they listened in on donovan s interview and marked him as a student to follow if he does as well as they think he might future training and specialization with be paid for by the corporation so far he has aced 95 of his courses and scored very high on the rest he picks up information quickly and retains every bit of it well almost every bit there are those courses he didn t quite ace after all his father used to have a race team and donovan spent time several summers with the team learning to do a good bit of what the first part of his training covered i think he will go far in this business he even bought his own ford car i ve missed blogging and hope to get back to it on a more regular basis first though i have to get a computer mine died a couple of months ago the company doesn t mind that i use theirs for checking my emails and bank statements but blogging not so much may all of you have an even better new year than ever before i ll keep visiting your blogs and will try to remember to say hello when i do posted by the crow at 4 46 pm 9 comments monday october 1 2018 listen to willie willie nelson has a new song with a message we all could use posted by the crow at 10 52 pm 5 comments friday august 17 2018 not the last pencil after all today we celebrate or merely observe for those of you who are more digitally and computer keyboard inclined national number 2 pencil day okay well i do anyway go scribble draw or write something with a 2 posted by the crow at 8 48 am no comments friday june 22 2018 the last pencil old friends i subscribe to whiskey river a thought provoking blog that offers quotes from well known and some not so much writers today s post quotes writer charles wright from a piece about lessons learned from others i was particularly taken with the third lesson write as though you had in hand the last pencil on earth the last pencil on earth can you imagine that first of all do you still write with a pencil i used to write all my poems short stories grocery lists budgets and snarky notes that sit on the mantelpiece with no 2 pencils with or without erasers but always graphite lead now i use the keyboard connected to my pc what would you write if you held that last pencil to whom would you write would you draw something a sketch of what you see before you a portrait of your child or grandchild perhaps of the love of your life or for the moment you share would you savor the aromas of graphite dust and fresh cut cedar shavings would your ears thrill to the sounds of lead against paper as you scratch out words or doodles or music notes or just make marks that only your hand can produce does this pencil bear indentations and chipped paint marks from when you held it clenched between your teeth oh yes you did at least once in your life you did that is your last pencil one of a few others sitting in a cup stubs or half lengths or broken and splintered or is it a brand spanking new one with a pink eraser brass ferrule yellow paint job does it remind you of going with your parents to buy school supplies for the new school year that bittersweet demarcation between the end of summer and passage to the next level classroom i read that line a couple of times this evening thinking about all of these things and more memories from childhood came flooding in first grade and those thick pencils designed to make it easier for untrained fingers to hold onto while learning to print our alphabets later a full box of no 2s bought with money i had earned from my first summer job graphing algebra problems being grateful for the eraser wishing the graph paper were sturdier i made so many mistakes in my house i must have four or five boxes of old pencils bits and pieces of once perfect treasures most have hard erasers if any at all that tear holes and leave streaks of eraser dust on any piece of paper unlucky enough to get caught nearly all of them have teethmarks along the shaft some show signs of being hand sharpened faceted cuts made with my penknife or a kitchen paring knife others bear the uneven cuts from a hand cranked rotary sharpener still more have empty spots where the lead snapped off and was never resharpened one could imagine those empty spaces were the black holes of the pencil universe i sometimes think about what i will miss after i ve died family friends stars birds and other animals sorry joe not spiders and on and on tonight i ve added pencils to that list maybe i can convince my daughter to bury my remains with a box of old fashioned cedar clad number 2 graphite pencils plus a good german made sharpener posted by the crow at 11 07 pm no comments monday january 15 2018 amen silence is not neutrality silence is not a shield silences relinquishes your voice and opinion to others enabling those who seek power through division disunity and deceptions silence is the approval that allows dark deeds to exist in this world silence is complicity to the darkness in things that matter silence is surrender lifted from gary myers blog redtreetimes https redtreetimes com 2018 01 15 mlk silence thank you gary posted by the crow at 9 23 am 4 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 another one bites the dust october 1 listen to willie august 1 not the last pencil after all june 1 the 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how many skies have 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