goodbye moon
G: Gee
whiz. I already forgot what we did this weekend. Friday I worked on
getting the room Lori moved out of (to Margit's, down the street) ready
to paint. I think I went and bought paint too and on Saturday I mostly
painted. Sunday I finished up one of the colors. I haven't gotten back
in there to mask everything off so I can do the other color. Yeah.
Mostly I worked on that room this week. Oh, and Jenny came by with
Pooka for a walk in the woods on Monday. It was 70 degrees out, which
you know if you live around here. Nothing else of note that I can think
of.
Last night Stacy showed up to stay for a while. She's moving away! to
Minneapolis, MN! She's not getting along with her housemate here so
she's hanging out with us a lot until she moves.
Tonight (Wednesday) I looked at the lunar eclipse. I could see it
getting started out the window of the Community Center while teaching a
class. By the time the class was over it was in totality. I walked out
of the CC and Rodney Roberts walked out a moment later while I was
looking up at it. I pointed it out to him and another fellow came along
and mentioned there was a viewing party at Northway fields.
So I went home and enjoyed the food John had brought back from
Chef's Secret (dinner with Stacy there). Then I dressed warmly and
headed out to Northway field. There was a small group of friendly
astronomy buffs with impressive telescopes. I got great views not only
of the eclipsed moon, but Saturn (saw the rings), Orion nebula, the
Pleiades, and Mars. It was lovely.
the circle of death
J: The
five stages of
grief and how they manifest in a society's realization of human
mortality:
- Denial - concepts of afterlife and reincarnation
- Bargaining - prayer, sacrifice
- Anger - concept of hell, preaching
- Depression - belief in nothing, nihilism, anomie
- Acceptance - belief in nirvana, agnosticism, atheism