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Posted by floatingbridge on April 9, 2011, at 18:30:22
Hey, I feel like I'm on Babble 24/7 these days. After breaking my pdoc, (I really did), I'm a little sensitive about wearing Babble out, too.
It's a gorgeous day on the west coast, mild and sparkling after the recent rains. Currently, I'm in bed, where I have been off and on. I'm flat out exhausted, restless, bored, but too tired to sit up.
Then, there is my *smartphone* that allows me to type lying down.Like now.
I would love to sit up and dress my loom. Maybe after I sign off here I'll make a big push.
Hubby has the kid and dogs, and they are hiking.
The quiet house is music to me of the finest kind. We also have some indoor birds. Lovely, silly finches, and we are trying our hand at breeding two pairs of beautiful wild-type song canaries.
So, please skip my posts if you are tired of them. I'm bored and lonely, and appreciate reading along. I just can't keep my mouth shut :P
How are other weekends going? A penny for your thoughts? News for the shut-in?
If you've read this, thanks :)
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Posted by sigismund on April 9, 2011, at 19:04:33
In reply to bedrest + all over the board, posted by floatingbridge on April 9, 2011, at 18:30:22
You would love to sit up and dress your loom?
I understand this sitting up business.....
It is a lovely lovely day here too. Completely classic. The sun has become gentle at last and sparkles on the sea because it is so far north.
Today is (around) the Thai New Year so we are going to a monastery. All the Thai restaurant people bring food for the monks. It's very nice. Braised duck in ginger and star anise, and pumpkins full of custard. Then you get a bowl of water with some flowers in it and line up and the monks pick up the flowers and splash you with the water and tell you to have a happy life.
Posted by floatingbridge on April 9, 2011, at 19:21:39
In reply to Re: bedrest + all over the board » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on April 9, 2011, at 19:04:33
Dressing a loom means running the warp threads through the reed and heddles. Then the real fun of passing the shuttle (weft) can begin.
I actually like dressing the loom, though some think it drudgery. I can be very very, ummm, *anal* about it. Needs focus, and that's when I fall over :)
Someday I will go to Australia. The birds are exquisite as I hear the beaches are and the flora.
I so admire your travels. I would love to go to Vietnam too. I'm not sure why. Thich Nat Hahn? Because I was a child during the Vietnam War? Not really sure, because there are plenty of places in the
world.Sweden, too. Fabulous textiles.
Read a book by an Australian writer, gosh, what's her name? There. Linda Olsson. Takes place in Sweden and Australia. *Astrid & Veronika*. Good, but sad. Imagine that.
I will be mortified if you remind me you are from New Zealand. A friend from New Zealand quietly endures everyone assuming he's from Australia. So much so I love to tease him.
Like all here in the states, every so often we'll wonder, why are the Canadians so cranky with *Americans*? (Joke.)
Thanks sigi. How are you feeling?
Have a lovely supper.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on April 9, 2011, at 21:01:39
In reply to Re: bedrest + all over the board » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on April 9, 2011, at 19:21:39
It was nice on the east coast too, high 50's and sunny.
It took quite a lot of effort for me to get moving though.
I went shopping for clothes. I had a friend visit, so it is her fault ;-).
Then I cleaned my car. It was good to be outside.
Tomorrow will be lots of yard work if the weather allows.
-sleepy (formerly known as sid) :-)
Posted by floatingbridge on April 10, 2011, at 0:17:42
In reply to Re: bedrest + all over the board » floatingbridge, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 9, 2011, at 21:01:39
The sid whom I wrote ditto to yesterday?
The sleepygirl formally known as sid.
Sounds like an o.k. day :), yes? make any major or pleasing purchases?
I did get up and work at my loom during daylight hours. One wall has sliding doors (from the 70's I'm sure) with a southern exposure; able to open them, get some sun and still be inside.
Gardening tomorrow?
Posted by sigismund on April 10, 2011, at 1:50:45
In reply to Re: bedrest + all over the board » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on April 9, 2011, at 19:21:39
Well, you should be able to guess who wrote that.
I too grew up during Vietnam.
I was in Kathmandu with my nephew and this Canadian spoke disparagingly about an American acupuncturist there, and just then he walks into the restaurant and I had had my fair share of drink and he starts off, after introductions, by asking my nephew of the prayer beads around his neck were made from the bones of aborigines. So when the conversation moved to health care and we were free to speak frankly and seek revenge. I had tried with the Canadian to say something balanced but he responded with 'You don't have to live next to them'. Anyway the Canadian and I ganged up on the acupuncturist.
I've enjoyed Vietnam because the people are so upfront and friendly. I could go to a cafe in Da Lat and read Cormac McCarthy for two hours and cry into my rum and then find a Vietnamese man to talk about the politics of unification with for 90 minutes on the way home. I was interested in how people felt a defeated enemy should be treated, as many people in Da Lat would have been. I never saw anything (as opposed to people) in Vietnam outside of Hanoi and Da Lat I wanted to see, but I felt strongly about the history. When we were last there it was the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Hanoi and all around Hoan Kiem lake there were displays and lights and floating balloons over the water and I reflected on their history and our role in it and felt happiness for them and shame at the same time. I thought of how it would have been almost any time in the preceding 50 years, especially around 1968 and after.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on April 10, 2011, at 9:46:39
In reply to Re: bedrest + all over the board » sleepygirl2, posted by floatingbridge on April 10, 2011, at 0:17:42
Yup, but at the moment, staying in bed is good too :-)
So nice that you have a loom. :-)
What will you make?I want to do something called woodburning. You know it?
I've got the supplies.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on April 10, 2011, at 9:53:45
In reply to Vacant shuttles weave the wind » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on April 10, 2011, at 1:50:45
Did they make such things? From bones of aborigines? No way of course. To imagine such a thing he must have been full of hatred.
My goodness sig, you do get around. :-)
Posted by Phillipa on April 10, 2011, at 11:19:51
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 10, 2011, at 9:53:45
Yesterday weather started off nice then temps dropped and rain and wind and hail at evening. Today was supposed to be 80's and sunny and it's cold and gloomy very upset about that. I feel so much better with sun. Oh dear what to do? Phillipa
Posted by floatingbridge on April 10, 2011, at 11:46:02
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind, posted by Phillipa on April 10, 2011, at 11:19:51
Phillipa, sounds like a storm front? I used to love that about the east coast, these great blocks of air colliding from the north and the south. Sorry no sun and chilly, too. Not good bike weather :(
Thunder? Lightning? Sometimes, maybe once a year we get a good thunder storm. This year we had a significant hail storm and my son was wild with excitement :)
We have some in the freezer.
So far, so good here. Cool, but that's the way mornings usually start due to low humidity. It's cloudless now. We should be up into the 70's again.
Warm tea? Heating pad? Ugg boots?
Posted by floatingbridge on April 10, 2011, at 11:54:08
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 10, 2011, at 9:53:45
sigi, my question, too. Who makes these beads, and why wear them? I'm sorry to be ignorant. I remember something about bone prayer beads from...where was it? Near Tibet. There was a class of people in LA who were into importing such things, and I found them, generally, to be a little shadowy in nature. Oh yes, and the crazy crystal skull people, too. Something unwholesome about avarice over these items that made me uneasy. Anyways, whose bones?
I did have a string of skull beads made from cow bone. Used to. Actually still have bone beads, animal bone.
> Did they make such things? From bones of aborigines? No way of course. To imagine such a thing he must have been full of hatred.
> My goodness sig, you do get around. :-)
>
Posted by floatingbridge on April 10, 2011, at 12:13:18
In reply to Vacant shuttles weave the wind » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on April 10, 2011, at 1:50:45
I asked my hubby about the quote (I haven't many available brain cells left, sigi) and he said Google it, which I think would be cheating. So my guess is Mr. Cohen. He could have phrased that. I give.
I didn't realize what a pain in the *ss the US was to Canada for years until I read Margaret Atwood, and once saw her speak on the tele. Not that I adore her writing, but what a wit. Yes. I saw her go head to head with Tom Wolf(e), and
found her dazzling. She really could see something he could not, at least during the interview. Oh yes. This was when Mr. Wolf had made some assenine claim about how journalism is to be done.Then I did go to Quebec and folks were very lovely and it was beautiful and then I opened my mouth and out came English. Oops. Not so friendly :( Oh well.
My crazy grandmother, rest her soul, was English and raised in Montreal. I still say
icebox and tinfoil because of her.How was supper. It promised to be joyous and dreamy. And fun, too.
If the accupuncturist was like Mr Wolf, did he endured the barbs with an
ignorant and self-satisfied air? Or was he an alright guy after all? (How very *American* of me to ask such an evaluative question.)The world is a wicked and silly place.
Posted by sigismund on April 10, 2011, at 15:15:36
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on April 10, 2011, at 12:13:18
Vacant shuttles weave the wind comes from a major American poet from St Louis. Is that in Missouri? Maybe he was born in St Louis.
My nephew is doing a 3 year course in Buddhism at a university in Kathmandu just a short walk from here
http://www.keithdowman.net/books/kbgallery/kb2.htm
The prayer beads, oh, I don't know, you must do something with them, probably like a rosary.I enjoyed the American acupuncturist. After he had said that and said Obama's health care proposals were impossible, I was set completely free.
The Canadian was interesting. He confessed to a secret liking for Edgar Cayce which is probably best not mentioned in seminars on Buddhism.During Vietnam there were never many Americans here, but recently there have been lots. Although Owsley Stanley moved here around 1980 thinking there was going to be a global ice age. He lived in north Queensland on a diet of meat and dairy products. He believed vegetables to be toxic. He was killed in a motor accident only a couple of months ago. Naturally I feel Australia was privileged to have him :)
Posted by sigismund on April 10, 2011, at 15:21:35
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 10, 2011, at 9:53:45
>To imagine such a thing he must have been full of hatred.
Nah, he was just a loud person making an ambit claim, which was 'OK you lot, I know what you are going to say about the US, suck on this'.
He didn't believe it. He was just sick of having to apologise, I guess. We just thought he should concede that it was appropriate to apologise once.
Posted by Phillipa on April 10, 2011, at 20:09:41
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on April 10, 2011, at 15:15:36
Sigi Edgar Caycee. The sleeping prophet from Virginia Beach Virginia. Has an institute there still used to visit it frequently. Huge library also and book store. Own quite a few of Edgar's books. Met a man when there one summer who grew up with Edgar's son and one day one of the boy's got bitten by a watermoccasin and then it was all woods there and along came Edgar in his horse and Buggy and said "which one of you boys got bitten by the snake?" He knew. The man was very old at the time I met him but he made Edgar very real to me. They also have a message therapy school there which I was going to attend. I used to get massages in NC from one of the therapists trained and licensed there what a small world!!!! PJxx
Posted by sigismund on April 11, 2011, at 16:42:10
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind » sigismund, posted by Phillipa on April 10, 2011, at 20:09:41
PJ, that was very interesting about Edgar Cayce.
A watermoccasin is a kind of snake?Talking about weaving, I read a review a long time ag of "The Worst Journey in the World" about the Antarctic and it quoted this passage that referred to the time they must have been near enough to see Mt Erebus and there was some writing that was very flashy. The idea that this was the loom of the world, and reality (I guess) was being woven there, and ever since I have wanted to read it.
Posted by Phillipa on April 11, 2011, at 20:59:57
In reply to Re: Vacant shuttles weave the wind, posted by sigismund on April 11, 2011, at 16:42:10
Sigi a poisonous watersnake all over at least the North East. Live in Fresh water. In our neighborhood many are seen crossing the road. They can be huge. Don't know the book. But I'm reading Robert Parker mysteries now. Are you in Japan, Viet Nam, Or Australia now? PJx
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