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| Friday, January 9th, 2009 | |
| 1:00 pm | Yo, Adrienne  Miles, 1.05, cals, 193.4, steps, 2710. Bitter cold and windy. The carefully clustered group of bloody tissues by the soccer field is gone. I'd say somebody lost at least a pint of blood. Let's see how long it takes the crack pipe and the flat rat by the soccer field to disappear. If I were a betting man, I'd wager June. New knee brace and opal earrings, blooded. My aim is to add crunches again today, then flies and stretchies, including the pinafore stretch or whatever it is. Tried it yesterday and the Old Cantalope Formerly Known as My Left Knee, also the locus of the sciatica, rests a good foot and a half above the surface of the table. This means my hip is extraordinarily tight, which may account for sciatic pressure. We shall see. In all my life, I've never had a liminal place where I could sit down and put lotion on my feet, and paint my toenails and stuff. My new house will have such a liminal place in the bathroom. A comfy chair and a stool and a vanity in the bathroom, if I have to give up a bedroom to get one. I also want a good liminal foyer space, not least to put a chair in to support my Emily Dickinson/Yinka Shonibare pillow. Embroidered on African print: To fail -- with Land in Sight -- Than gain -- My Blue Peninsula -- To perish -- of Delight When I get the camera fixed, I propose a new Secrets of the Dog People -- a tour of the formerly Bohemian residences of the former Bohemians I used to know. We already touched upon that -- the residences of the former Onward and downward. |
| 11:19 am | Piercing the Veil  1. Robert Louis Stevenson, according to the quite literary spelunking I did for the memoir of Aunt Cherie, is undergoing a bump in reputation and is now considered, not just the foremost British author of boys' books (an interesting 19th-early 20th c. phenom itself, very much a part of Aunt Cherie's "rough tomboy" upbringing, and my father's too), but an author of the first rank. I encountered a great quote* of his recently in The Varieties of Religious Experience about the turbulence of still waters, and am going to treat myself to a 46 cent copy of his letters -- one with the great Sargent, is it? Portrait on the cover, much resembling the famous Sargent? portrait of Mallarme. [Edit:Nope, Manet. And very good indeed.]  2. The Clun Forest ghan is a very evocative piece. I started plans to embellish it without considering its character. I made thirty shisha mirror patches to safety pin on it, which would really suit the kind of hippie-dippie shamanistic thing I was going for. But it's wrong. It's way more a pagan queen cloth, and I'm looking at Tilda Swinton's white witch costumes for inspiration. The ideas I had, to trim one edge as the farewell Persephone edge, and the other as the hello Persephone edge may be too much, as may be the application of Tilda witch lace on the underside. The great thing is the maker's mark pennant looks fabulous woven into the slots between the scales, or chain mails. One of the things about Demeter and Persephone is the solstice: equal time of dark and light is the liminal period when souls may migrate from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth, from earth to the underworld, and back. Pierce the veil is what it's all about, and I think the permeability of this cloth is its message. The shisha mirrors may be too much. The sequins are fabulous, as in the subtle white-on-white embroidery on "silk" ribbon woven through the ....you get it. ____________________ *"As I go on in this life, day by day, I become more of a bewildered child; I cannot get used to this world, to procreation, to heredity, to sight, to hearing, the commonest things are a burthen. The prim, obliterated, polite surface of life, and the broad, bawdy and orgiastic -- or maelig;nadic -- foundations, form a spectacle to which no habit reconciles me. R. L. STEVENSON: Letters, ii. 355. |
| 10:35 am | Fidelis A woman came into the vet's yesterday with two young men, one of them carrying a medium sized sheep-dog mix. They laid him down on the linoleum and she said, vivaciously, to me, what a cute dog, what is it? I said, we don't know, what a cute dog, what is yours? We don't know, she said. A couple of minutes later the vet's aid came out and nodded, one of the boys picked the dog up and the woman began to cry. They disappeared into the examining rooms. |
| Thursday, January 8th, 2009 | |
| 10:08 pm | Retail and Fuds Therapy I'm really happy with my new white opal earrings from http://www.alexaxoxo.etsy.com, which go with my new pink opal shawl, my new knee brace, my new wrist weights, Acey's new pills, the glow-in-the-dark embroidery I have almost completed for the Clun Forest ghan maker's mark pennant, my new Jocasta Innes cookbook, and the amazing meal I had for supper, home-made chicken liver pate. Crackers. And no effin' vegetables. Neener neener neener. Opal helps to amplify ones traits and characteristics, encouraging one to overcome their lesser qualities. It can be used to instill loyalty in regards to love, personal relationships, and business associates. It furthers spontaneous action by enhancing awareness of intuition and releasing inhibitions. Opal is known as a stone of happy dreams and changes; allowing us to get in touch with our personal higher potential and our true nature of already existing in perfection. White opal, specifically, has the additional ability to stimulate the crown chakra and induce deep states of mental clarity. Neener neener neener. |
| 11:47 am | Yo, Adrienne 2603 steps, 1.009 miles, 189.8 cals, $243.00. Yes, the Aceynator is an expensive date. Feeling pretty beat up physically and mentally, therefore as I hit over a mile on the walkies I won't do more walking today. I did some crunches this a.m., my wrist weights seems to have arrived so I'll do some flies, and then my big super stretchies which goes as follows: Palms to the floor, 100 count Without rising, extend right leg [then left] into runner's stretch, 20 count. Point toe for thigh stretch, 20 count. Pull around for yoga spinal twist, 20 count. Sit on heels with balls of feet to the ground, 20 count. That yoga delt stretch thing, forget the name, 20 count. [Extended puppy pose, yeah!] Downward dog, 20 count. Walk hands back to palms to the floor position, 100 count. Stand perfectly aligned, arms down, 100 count. Raise arms in salutation and victory. This also sounds life changing. Repeat for left. |
| 11:47 am | Yo, Adrienne 2603 steps, 1.009 miles, 189.8 cals, $243.00. Yes, the Aceynator is an expensive date. |
| 9:21 am | Today's March So I feel like shit this morning, both knees and feet, etc etc etc. The plan is to walk to the camera shop, the bakery, and the veterinarian, ie., spend the entire morning tramping the black icy streets of the bunker city, which for the inauguration will have all the bridges leading from the Qaeda-infested banlieues of Dixie closed to traffic. Thank God. It's really nice when there's nobody around. The idea of a traffic-free downtown, public transport or feet only? Paradise. |
| Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 | |
| 10:06 pm | Hmmmmm Just establishing a toe hold here in case the eljay goes kerflooey. |
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