If you're feeling like some straight-talking-- this guy has a lucid take on the "present situation":

http://www.freedomroad.org/milmatters_27_neocon.html

Cuts through the make-believe complexity and serves it up raw.

No more monkeys. What do they need rooves for anyway? - They've got the trees.

A family of monkeys landed on my roof this morning...there were three: father finger, mother finger and baby finger-

First it was possums, then mice, now monkeys...

See here for a beautiful painting-

http://www.degener.com/1390a.htm

Whatever next?

Possums are still the most scary.

A solar storm the other day- http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6913

Lots of radiation- does this affect us?

A three month break from the blogsphere - finally back online, hooked up, connected.

It's a bit like being on caffeine. The world spins faster, more erratically.

Read some interesting commentary on this information overload and the consequent speeding up/lack of focus that accompanies our constant "connection" to the world.

A destabilization of ourselves- that matches the destablization in the forms of the information we receive- the "neverthereness", the transitory, flitting of the net- see David Levy who says our obsession with immortality means the internet is fundamentally disturbing our psyche...

http://www.utne.com/pub/2005_127/promo/11499-1.html

And also arising from that wonderfully American optimism in Utne...this guy who just wants to be ten years old again- and makes hobbit holes in which to draw pictures....

http://www.moonlight-chronicles.com

Good things are happening- and Kyoto is nice and chilly for days inside.


If there were a now to mark time with
To catch it in a butterfly net
And see it's wings shredded by the nylon-

Would you be pleased?
Or would you keep snatching at butterflies
To quench your thirst?

You greedy thing!