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There are other things that have happened, dreadful things, and I don’t have anything terribly insightful to add at the moment.  Plenty of other people are trying to sort things out and patch whatever is left back together again.

But framing is important: how does something get presented? what goes before or after it? whichconnections are activated and enhanced, and which other ones are set aside? Do you want to emphasize the looking at or do you want to emphasize looking through?

Is the family drama the “point”? Is changing laws? Is admitting that humans in x concentration tend towards dysfunction going to get us anywhere useful? Training people from an early age that if you are feeling like killing someone, don’t leave yourself for last?

Just so many places not to go right now. Waaaaaay beyond me.

So some thoughts soar into the heavens, praying for balm to get from Gilead to where it is most needed, and other thoughts skitter to smaller topics that might yet be commanded, controlled, made at least somewhat satisfactory.

Do these eyeglasses hide my eyebrows?  Will there be enough glass for my prescription to fit properly? If I choose semi-rimless frames, will the lens quality be sufficiently changed that I’ll notice a difference in optical quality? Does this place take my insurance? Will I look too much like other members of my family wearing these?

Trivia. First world problems.

And I am surrounded by sleeping cats.

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…in that “the chef really believes these ought to be eaten raw, but to humor your naive expectation that coming to a restaurant and paying our prices entitles you to a quaint service called ‘cooking’, we’ll char outside of the meat and bone a little bit” sense….

The pool of blood-red honey-molasses sauce did not help.

What will probably help tomorrow is peaches and shortcake, but that will have to wait until after ceramics class.

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My apologies to anyone who stumbled here thinking there were going to be great photographs of African vistas, or lions, or swift gazelles leaping across the page.  No, what we have is a continued problem with WordPress and Firefox [The connection has been reset…] that does not seem to happen if I access the identical page in the Safari browser.

But since you’re here… Some Australian birds:

from Dover Publications image archive

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The phone rings:GeniusOfLiberty

[Unfamiliar male voice] Hi, can I talk to Thory?

[Me] Um…why?

Do you think jobs in Elsinore should be for the people of Elsinor?

What?

Uh, jobs in, working for Elsinore Township Council — should they be for Elsinor Township residents?

[I think about this a moment]  Is this a poll?

We, we just want to know if you can help out — someone could contact you to help organize for —

Look.  Jobs should go to the people qualified to do them. If there are people in Elsinor who can do the jobs, that’s great. Hire them. If there aren’t enough people to do the jobs, then hire people from wherever to get the work done.

Uh..

But really, we all know Elsinore Township is broke — we’re cutting jobs and laying people off — so I don’t think this question about hiring even matters right now.

Well, ah….

Look, I know this isn’t your fault; you’re just trying to do your job calling people. But I can’t help with your project.

[sigh]

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