June 18, 2005

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  still no "real" blog

  
  

  (meaning, nothing I have written specifically for xanga)

  
  

   

  
  

  ...but I thought I would share something I posted yesterday on the message board of a music-related yahoo group I belong to:

  
  

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Time, as many of you know, has no relevance in my world...I never can
  predict if I will be just waking up at 8:30 am, or just going to sleep.
  

  
  

  However, as a drummer (adifrentdrumr, granted, but still a person
  called to the drum) time is very relevant. As a matter of fact, it is
  paramount, it is the fundamental basis for everything in life. But
  time, in this sense, is a natural occurrence. All things in existence
  are governed by their relationship to spaces in time -- pulse, rhythm,
  cycles, vibrations, they are all kin...from the distinctive rhythmic
  vibrations of the sub-atomic particles of the various elements which
  combine in infinite variety to make up literally everything in our
  world, to the cyclic vibrations of electrical currents, the waveforms
  of sound, to the cyclic rhythms of the changing seasons, moon phases,
  and tides, to the essential beating of the human heart -- all things
  move together in an endles, rhythmic, dance.

  
  

  
  Day follows night, we breathe in and out, tides ebb and flow,
  and the ceaseless tide of our blood flows from pole to pole
  within our temporal selves...birth-growth-decline-death-decay...
  the pulse, the beat, the rhythm that is time...
  and the real magic that happens in between, in the yearning,
  the anticipation, the constant moving toward the next beat.
  Tick tick tick tick tick...

  
  

  
  But time as mankind has measured it? That artificial construct of
  minutes and hours, months and years? That is completely alien to me. I
  must conform to some extent, because I do live in the world
  of "civilization", but my body and my spirit pull me constantly to the
  beat of nature, the purest language of time, which is best translated to
  our limited human consciousness through the language of the drum...

  
  

  
  -Joannie
  (waxing philosophical on a friday afternoon)
  

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

  Anyway, I miss all my friends here. I have been crazy-busy for the past couple of months, with many things going on at once. It has been a relatively good and very productive time, but when I have found the "down time" for the computer, I mostly have been relaxing by playing mindless computer games, with not enough mental acuity left for posting anything coherent on Xanga.

  
  

  I will be around to check in with everyone soon, and hopefully back with a photo blog. Things are starting to look really nice around the house, after some major work in the gardens this spring. Most of last year's plantings survived the winter, but I had lots of weeding and stuff to do this spring, plus many more plants to fill in some of the beds. I am on year 3 of the major landscaping project, and probably about half-way to realizing my original vision for what goes where...then I just have to hope it all grows and keep it all maintained. Just not enough woman-hours to get everything done in less than 5-6 years total, doing this mostly by myself, and also not enough solvent cash in the budget (Bernie's share of the project) Ah well, good things come to those with the patience to wait.  It should be done, and filling in beautifully, just in time for Bernie's retirement -- when we plan to sell the house. Oh well, it is not like I didn't know this was the plan. And beside, it may add quite a bit to the resale value. And I am enjoying the process as much as I will enjoy the result. This is probably the last (only?) time in my life where I will attempt such a large landscaping project on my home, since after he retires we will be downsizing.  So at least I will be able to say I did it once.

  
  

  Take care, everyone, and I will be around to see you soon!

  
  

  

  
  

   

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