2024-2025 Long Time Comin’ — a communique
Not the Happiest of Times . . .
and yet
Happiness runs in a circular motion,
Life is a little boat on that sea.
Everything's part of everything anyway.
You can be happy if you let yourself be.
Still, it's a nightmare that we can't see the end to,
and we're in it together.
Stressed much?
No kidding.
So what's left to share?
We Undertook Some Major Projects
Our way-elderly garage door gives up the ghost, and our lives improve.
Our rickety-but-exactly-perfect-for-us dock replaced by a still perfect for us (and safer) dock.
Not pictured, since not photogenic, but by far the most expensive: HVAC replacement. We have moved from gas to a heat pump, so there's that.
Feeling Old, but Muddling Through . . .
May 1, we lost our wonderful Wilson, after a difficult struggle.
Wally and Lizzie continue to care for us, and we for them.
Still in the Amateur Website Business
And a small workshop project --
folding cocoons for butterflies,
embracing the beauty of transformation
in support of Transgender Awareness.
Readers Group 2024
Demon Copperhead
Booklegger
Sometimes A Great Notion
I Need A Better Catastrophe
Prequel - Rachel Maddow
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail
The Parable of the Sower
The Glass Bead Game
Readers Group 2025
Infinite Jest
Siren's Call
Hemingway Short Stories
Lathe of Heaven
Electric State
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Love's Body (until some of us gave up)
Man in the High Castle
Mother Night
Shadow Ticket
Other Titles Worth Considering:
Termination Shock Neil Stephenson
Bleeding Edge -- Pynchon
Dalai Lama's Cat
The Art of Purring (DLC 2)
There There -- Tommy Orange
Carpe Jugulum -- Terry Pratchet
Lessons in Chemistry
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
Zodiak - Neil Stephenson
Prayer for Owen Meany
The Broom of the System
The Power of Meow
Starter Villan
No Democracy Lasts Forever
Intergalactic Exterminators Inc.
All They Will Call You
What's important:
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Keeping our beautiful planet healthy
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Resisting facism wherever it raises its ugly head
(YES, we are Antifa)
Enough about us. This is really intended as outreach to YOU.
If you were among the wonderful visitors who spent time with us, your visits were the best moments of these past 2 years. We're so grateful for your company. Please come again, or come if you haven't visited yet. You are welcome if you're ever anywhere near BGH.
If this message finds you; we love you, care about you, think of you and are constantly wishing you well. We could never do enough to repay your just existing, because that's made, and makes, us happy. You are part of who we are. Thank you.
For these holidays, and for every day, please accept a smile, hug and best wishes for your happiness.
Zero art of my own to share, but there's this
by the incomparable Natalia Bonilla Vigo: