Twirling Umbrella
Dusk dripping rain and midges
El Buen Pastor Drums
--September South-of-Lorain
9/18/10
A Haiku
8/19/10
It's ok to be single
"I've given up hope."
He said, "Don't give up hope".
I look at the pile of loss and failure and shake my head.
I can't have this in my life anymore. My accumulation of single earrings--unmatched and missing their partners--weighs on me.
After an initial earring loss, I actively look for the lost mate in the bottom of my purse and in couch cushions. For half a year, I reach for the earring to wear it, but then remember I only have one. For a year, I nurture belief that I might encounter its twin behind the toilet or in the foam of my bike helmet. But after a year the lone earring taunts me with waste, irresponsibility and uselessness.
I've found new life for my solitary jewels (none of them are actual jewels!) I am sending all of my single earrings to my friend Nicole whose art business is Plenty Underfoot. She will transform them from annoying to wearable once again. Her philosophy: The waste stream of consumer culture is full of creative potential.
He said, "Don't give up hope".
I look at the pile of loss and failure and shake my head.
I can't have this in my life anymore. My accumulation of single earrings--unmatched and missing their partners--weighs on me.
After an initial earring loss, I actively look for the lost mate in the bottom of my purse and in couch cushions. For half a year, I reach for the earring to wear it, but then remember I only have one. For a year, I nurture belief that I might encounter its twin behind the toilet or in the foam of my bike helmet. But after a year the lone earring taunts me with waste, irresponsibility and uselessness.
I've found new life for my solitary jewels (none of them are actual jewels!) I am sending all of my single earrings to my friend Nicole whose art business is Plenty Underfoot. She will transform them from annoying to wearable once again. Her philosophy: The waste stream of consumer culture is full of creative potential.
7/31/10
Civics
I've been doing something new. Every morning that I take RTA to work, I stop in front of the Abraham Lincoln statue on Mall A and read the Gettysburg Address. Now that is good oratory. I had to memorize it in 8th grade, but I don't think I really read it until a couple of weeks ago.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
7/25/10
Canning is a Snap
One of the perks of volunteering for City Fresh is that I can order bulk produce sometimes. All City Fresh farmers are within 40 miles of Cleveland and the produce is usually picked the same day it is distributed.
I ordered a bushel of green snap beans and spent the day processing about half of them. I'll do the rest tomorrow after work.
Last year, I only canned tomatoes. This summer, I'll put by green beans, corn, tomatoes and maybe some soups. Thirty-six quarts of tomatoes lasted from September-May. So, this year I'll try to can about 45 to get us to July.
Canning is pretty easy. You just have to follow directions, have patience and be willing to devote a day to preserving summer produce so that you can enjoy it in the fall, winter and early spring.
I ordered a bushel of green snap beans and spent the day processing about half of them. I'll do the rest tomorrow after work.
Last year, I only canned tomatoes. This summer, I'll put by green beans, corn, tomatoes and maybe some soups. Thirty-six quarts of tomatoes lasted from September-May. So, this year I'll try to can about 45 to get us to July.
Canning is pretty easy. You just have to follow directions, have patience and be willing to devote a day to preserving summer produce so that you can enjoy it in the fall, winter and early spring.
7/11/10
Take me home . . .
Who needs fireworks when you've got this kind of excitement on July 4th?
My mom, her boyfriend, Jose and her condominium neighbors invited me and my siblings to their potluck and sing-along.
Take me Home . . . from Jenita McGowan on Vimeo.
My mom, her boyfriend, Jose and her condominium neighbors invited me and my siblings to their potluck and sing-along.
6/13/10
Storing Produce w/out Plastic
Slughs
At night, by the light of a headlamp, you can see them in great crowds pulsating all over the compost bin. We've got slugs and they are eating and rotting out my radishes. I'm all for a healthy backyard ecosystem, but I think we're overrun.
Some Magic Hat #9 in a couple cat food tins did in about 8 of them. Perhaps it had too many hops for those slugs that prefer a domestic, macro-brewed pilsner. We'll try something a little more conventional and economical in the future.
Some Magic Hat #9 in a couple cat food tins did in about 8 of them. Perhaps it had too many hops for those slugs that prefer a domestic, macro-brewed pilsner. We'll try something a little more conventional and economical in the future.
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