Grant me surrender to embrace what You have woven,
The strength to stir the waters where my hands may flow,
And the vision to see through the veils of what is mine to sow.
Asides
Remarks that are not directly related to the blog’s myriad topics
Playful
Bird Brained
Thank you, Elon, for all the chaos in your Twitter acquisition; I deactivated my (X?) account a few weeks ago after not being on there since December-ish. I don’t care about anything else you’ve done but you finally got me off that site.
I’d also like to thank myself for not having that much interest in replacing it with another thing like it.
Less input from complete strangers gives me more space and less noise in my head to just be.
07/11/2022, 11:24
Mi tío falleció inesperadamente anoche. Era duro, con un rasgo estoico/vaquero, difícil. También, amaba a su gente mucho; un buscador de conocimiento, en su manera, que lo llevó desde los campos de Oklahoma hasta el Río Jordán y de vuelta.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.
02/11/2022, 09:49
After four days of walking the Camino de Santiago, four days of enjoying being an awestruck pilgrim/tourist in Santiago de Compostela, and two days of traversing Galicia in train and van to get Alqo back from the residencia canina, I’m finally back home in cold foggy Monforte and jumping back into the swing of things at work.
The prado I take Alqo to is now a little greener and more fungal than when I left:
