Karmic-Dragonfly

Well...the class is not as fun as the first 2 classes. Reason? The first 2 classes used a graduated reader, designed to progress from easier to harder with 1 continuous story using a standardized spelling. And I'm totally impressed with the guy that wrote the book -- I mean truly, total respect to the author!

In the third class, we are now reading actual texts, but the spelling is NOT standard, and we are reading less interesting things, starting with:

1. Selections from the Gospel of Matthew
2. Selections from the Gospel of Mark
3. Selections from the Gospel of Luke

First off, reading parables is not a lot of fun. Mostly they are nonsensical. Well, they only make sense if you interpret them in the religious context. If you're not in that context, they are totally nonsensical, and they are not interesting stories. I'd rather be reading Æsop.

But I soldier on. Next stop, Genesis. I think that this might be more interesting since I'm hoping for some real story lines. I haven't looked ahead because I like to be surprised. Figure we'll get the creation story with Adam and Eue in Neorxnawang (paradise). Also hoping for Cain and Abel.

Then onto the Anglo Saxon Chronicles! Blood, guts, glory!

After that will come poetry -- harder, but preparing for Beowulf. This is something I think I'll enjoy also.

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Nice song, been listening to lately --


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Went back to the County to visit Mom and sisters and brother-in-law on Mother's Day. Mom looked good.

She is resting; waiting. I noticed she put some blush onto her cheeks before I got there. Glad she had the energy to think about that 😊

Started with visit with Mom and the sister and bro-in-law who are her caregivers. Then sister closer in age came to join briefly. Then I left to pick cherries with the sister who is closer to me in age.

It's been a few years since I visited this Fall light show. I liked the changes they have made!


There is another light show tomorrow night that I can walk to -- more pics coming!

No idea why this came up tonight on YT...but I remember this song!

Hits right tonight on the porch — surreal lyrics —

Enjoyable book club tonight. I was host, which means I chose the book, provided dinner, and also provided some info about the book and/or author.

The book I chose ("On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong) was a bit hard to get into, written in a poetic manner and non-chronological. But in the end, I was glad I read it.

The Book Club is a group of older gay men. And we have been instinctively choosing more gay themed books lately...perhaps a reaction to the zeitgeist of late.



The Clematis have started blooming!

For practice, I use my devices in Portuguese -- phone, computers, etc. But doing so makes things difficult because, for example, I like music sung in English. So it's difficult to ask Siri to play music with a title in English.

And it makes me unreasonably happy when I tell Siri to play music and he gets it correct...in this case to "play the most recent album by Polo and Pan".

The weather was beautiful today -- I went to a local park because I needed to get out of the house and because it was so pleasant outside...found a bench under a pine to sit. The whole park smelt sweet, and on the bench the aroma of pine.


Halloween decorations out front —

I made some sourdough bread today -- I had been feeding starter for a couple weeks until I was ready to bake.

The house smells fricken' amazing right now! I think that sourdough smells better cooking than whole wheat bread!



I like bouncy music when I cook, lol --

A couple of friends and I were talking last night about how perception of time had changed. Because of the virus and the stay at home orders, and the flux of news, perception of time is passing more quickly than usual. We were dicussing that when we think back to when 'xyz' occurred in the last few weeks, then it always seems like it has been A LOT longer than the actual length of time.

It's sort of the opposite of what I expected -- I thought being at home more would cause time to seem to flow more slowly. But instead it's zipping by!



I haven't been out with the camera much -- this is yesterday at a local park --