Jupiter in Retrograde 6/15 - 10/13

...As the planet of the future, retrograde Jupiter will prompt you to examine your goals and how you'll get there. Heeding your intuition can keep your goals on track - or help you find a new path altogether. Be open to receiving messages from unexpected (unseen?) sources that can guide your direction - signs from the universe, if you will. A sign may come from meeting a long-lost friend who works in a field you've been considering, which propels you toward a new job. Or perhaps you'll suddenly hear a song on the radio that offers a clue about what you need to do.

During this time, be introspective and let the Universe guide you. Then you'll have a clearer perspective about your life, both spiritually and materially, after Jupiter turns direct.

- - Cortney Litwin, California Astrologers

Today's earrings: ants, planets

Bedtime reading: Twelve Fair Kingdoms, Suzette Haden Elgin

Forward Planning

Pi Day is on a Saturday this year. We should gather and consume pie.

There's an Author Guy Appearance in Petaluma at 7pm on Friday, March 27. We could do that. Or we could stick with the original plan of Capitola on a Wednesday. We should discuss this while consuming pie.


Today's earrings: ants, blue & green beads

Bedtime reading: Fool, Christopher Moore

Comfortable Eclipse Viewing

Stopped at the Top of the Mark, had a drink, checked out the shadow of the earth upon the moon. Highly cool. The Moon passed behind a building. I ordered the cheese plate. The moon - what was left of it - came out from behind the building. I ordered another drink. The moon disappeared completely. Kind of neat in a system-mechanics-in-action sort of way, but I was promised color effects that didn't materialize. I blame the high clouds. I finished my drink, and when the moon still hadn't returned, I called for the check and went home.

The Top of the Mark afforded excellent conditions for eclipse viewing. Comfortable, good service, a fine (if unexceptional) cheese plate, fantastic view. I strongly recommend it for all your astronomical observation needs.


Today's earrings: suns, earths

Bedtime reading: East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Kay Nielsen, il.

Today, I employed an unusual strategy

I chose my earrings to match my outfit, and for no other reason. Looked good, too.


Today's earrings: turquoise, aqua swirls

Bedtime reading: The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell

We are here

Today's earrings: tree frogs, blue & green swirly beads

Bedtime reading: The Atlantic, November 2007

Perspective

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the Earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. Photographs show the dry, pounded surface of the moon in the foreground, dead as an old bone. Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. If you could look long enough, you would see the swirling of the great drifts of white cloud, covering and uncovering the half-hidden masses of land. And if you had been looking for a very long, geologic time, you would have seen the continents themselves in motion, drifting apart on their crustal plates, held afloat by the fire beneath. It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun.

- - Lewis Thomas

Today's earrings: flora, swirly blue-green beads

Bedtime reading: Sky Island, L. Frank Baum

Good tunes

Kashmir & Old Time Rock and Roll
Misirlou & Pipeline
Good Morning & Super Heroes...

And crawling on the planets face

Some insects called the human race

Lost in time

And lost in space

And meaning (me-ea-ning)

A pointed out all D's songs end in *beep*beep*beep* - which is by Louis Prima.

Still like that old time rock and roll

Today's earrings: flies, blue-and-green globes

Bedtime reading: Making Money, Terry Pratchett

The Pied Pepper

This evening I filled Pepper Bunny with mixed peppercorns: black, white, pink, and green. He's the Pied Pepper Bunny. Gerard Manley Hopkins would swoon...


Today's earrings: turquoise, groovy swirly blue & green glass rounds

Bedtime reading: The Cunning Man, Robertson Davies

Untoward motion

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=24

Crusin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
- - Chuck Berry


Today's purchase:
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (Avon)
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins)
Staring at the Sea, The Cure (Elektra/Asylum)


Today's earrings: turquoise, blue glass swirly beads

Bedtime reading: The Gospel of Food, Barry Glassner

Aquarium

http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_kelp/kelp_underwatercam.asp
Kelpcam. Baycam. Ottercam.

Life is good.



Today's earrings: fish, aqua glass beads

Bedtime reading: The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell