Weblog 329
June 3, 2012~ 12:00 am
Another week under the belt, and guess what? After my week's honeymoon vacation in May, I'm all caught up at work! I went at that stack like a beaver with a couple of teeth missing... LOL!! but I did it... and boy, does it feel good!
Wayne and I are no closer to cohabiting the same house
but that's coming.
(The only thing I get really tired of is people asking about it. It'll happen, I promise you.) Soon, very soon- he'll have all the time in the world to dismantle, move stuff, and reconstitute a life in my home.... because his department at work is being eliminated. (Yep. Politics on a local level has redirected traffic in the 'Human Services' sector. Result? A bunch of pink slips.) We knew it was coming, and now there's a definite date.
The funny thing is... we're looking forward to it. How often do people really like what they do? And how many of us wear masks?
I'm tickled he'll have undivided time for this transition and have a chance to feel fulfilled on his own terms. He has savings and investments, and I have a secure position... (he likes to cook and putter about, while I do not.) In today's world, we have options that challenge the status quo that was commonplace in the 50's, and plenty of men have become stay-at-home husbands. I can feel his happiness, and that's more important to me than anything. In each of us there's a bird inside, longing to sing.....
and I think for Wayne, his time is now.
When we married we turned a blind eye to the world around us
determined to live our lives quite differently, but 'head to head together' - and finally - in a very real way. (I'm making quite a bit of use of Rene Magritte's art tonight. I love his work for its charm and imagination, color and quirkiness.)
So that's all I'll say about our circumstances right now. They're 'evolving' and concern only we two. And we're happy that way.
I must say the temperate weather this Saturday was lovely! Temperatures in the SIXTIES, and nighttimes cool and comfortable. We did get to see Holly and family on Friday...(yes, they'd gone away last week.) Gary and Holly took a camping trip to the Shenandoah Valley while Gary's mum and dad watched Bill and Kay and the two poodles. We enjoyed seeing all their fabulous photos ... what a GLORIOUS place! It has a beauty that's simply astonishing.
(Of course... my son-in-law Gary had 'fun with photos' once again. LOL!!! There was the requisite shot of him- standing bare-assed, with arms raised and facing a misty valley in front of him, like someone who'd just conquered a new world.) Every vacation, Gary makes me HOWL by returning with one of those photos. 'Gary standing nude at ocean'.... Gary crouching up a tree and naked as a jaybird. Somewhere, somehow there will be 'Gary buttocks' in one of the pictures. LOL!!! It's a highlight, I'll tell you!
Bill was very happy that Wayne is now indeed his 'grandfather'. That made Wayne feel over the moon with joy. In fact, he told me that he'd never felt so much a part of things as on our visit this week. See? A simple piece of paper and a pledge DOES make a difference.
Saturday we rented
Tom Cruise's lastest 'Mission Impossible' installment. Though it lacked logic, it was JAM-PACKED with action and gadgetry, and lots of exciting, LITERALLY 'CLIFF-HANGING' scenes....
(such as this one, with Cruise climbing the tallest buiiding in the world, Dubai's 'Kuri Khalifa', using some sort of high-tech, sticky 'frog pad' gloves- which mal-function, of course, to make the viewer's sweat.) The movie was great fun, and as long as you suspend disbelief and just go with the action, it's an enjoyable ride. After all.... when you have a hired assassin this pretty and innocent looking
who kills someone up close and personal in the first minutes of the movie.... it tends to get your attention. If you're a fan of action features, break out the popcorn and grab the remote. (No 'Mission Impossible' will ever equal the fabulous duo of Barbara Bain and Martin Landau in the original TV series I watched faithfully every Sunday night) but seeing Tom Cruise climb skyscrapers and race through sandstorms using high-tech thing-a-ma-jigs, all the while against backdrops like Mumbai and the Kremlin.... it's worth a 'sit-down' and a viewing. It's visual junkfood that may not provide vitamins, but it packs a caffeine kick. LOL!!!
June 5, 2012~ 6:45 pm
I wish someone would tell me how I could have reached the age of 60 and not read ANYTHING by author
How did that happen?? Today in my browsing, I happened upon a link that discussed his work, and I realized that anyone who could write lines like these....
"What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?"
"I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become...."
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
has the power to OPEN THE MIND as few are able. I am now bound and determined to seek out this reclusive writer's work and DELVE right in! (Just as soon as I finish my excellent TOME on the Clinton/Starr debacle, called "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs Starr". I will never cease to be amazed at how handily and relentlessly the Republican Party completely USURPED a presidency with their unending muckraking.)
In fact that last quote by Pynchon pretty much describes how ALL politics operate. Good to remember in an election year.
I'll do a head-first swan-dive into "The Crying Of Lot 49", then the BIG KAHUNA- "Gravity's Rainbow" (for which this brilliant recluse received a National Book Award and was accepted, in lieu of the camera-hating author, by none OTHER than.....Professor Irwin Corey. LOL!!!) There's a YouTube of that I'll have to watch tomorrow at work.
Just as a thumbnail sketch of this fascinating hermit/writer, pay a visit to his WIKIPEDIA page and prepare to be amazed.
(One of the joys of being self-educated are stumbling upon things other people have taken as a matter of course in their prescribed studies, but for me............. it's ALL A TREASURE HUNT!) :)
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Another week under the belt, and guess what? After my week's honeymoon vacation in May, I'm all caught up at work! I went at that stack like a beaver with a couple of teeth missing... LOL!! but I did it... and boy, does it feel good!
Wayne and I are no closer to cohabiting the same house
but that's coming.
(The only thing I get really tired of is people asking about it. It'll happen, I promise you.) Soon, very soon- he'll have all the time in the world to dismantle, move stuff, and reconstitute a life in my home.... because his department at work is being eliminated. (Yep. Politics on a local level has redirected traffic in the 'Human Services' sector. Result? A bunch of pink slips.) We knew it was coming, and now there's a definite date.
The funny thing is... we're looking forward to it. How often do people really like what they do? And how many of us wear masks?
I'm tickled he'll have undivided time for this transition and have a chance to feel fulfilled on his own terms. He has savings and investments, and I have a secure position... (he likes to cook and putter about, while I do not.) In today's world, we have options that challenge the status quo that was commonplace in the 50's, and plenty of men have become stay-at-home husbands. I can feel his happiness, and that's more important to me than anything. In each of us there's a bird inside, longing to sing.....
and I think for Wayne, his time is now.
When we married we turned a blind eye to the world around us
determined to live our lives quite differently, but 'head to head together' - and finally - in a very real way. (I'm making quite a bit of use of Rene Magritte's art tonight. I love his work for its charm and imagination, color and quirkiness.)
So that's all I'll say about our circumstances right now. They're 'evolving' and concern only we two. And we're happy that way.
I must say the temperate weather this Saturday was lovely! Temperatures in the SIXTIES, and nighttimes cool and comfortable. We did get to see Holly and family on Friday...(yes, they'd gone away last week.) Gary and Holly took a camping trip to the Shenandoah Valley while Gary's mum and dad watched Bill and Kay and the two poodles. We enjoyed seeing all their fabulous photos ... what a GLORIOUS place! It has a beauty that's simply astonishing.
(Of course... my son-in-law Gary had 'fun with photos' once again. LOL!!! There was the requisite shot of him- standing bare-assed, with arms raised and facing a misty valley in front of him, like someone who'd just conquered a new world.) Every vacation, Gary makes me HOWL by returning with one of those photos. 'Gary standing nude at ocean'.... Gary crouching up a tree and naked as a jaybird. Somewhere, somehow there will be 'Gary buttocks' in one of the pictures. LOL!!! It's a highlight, I'll tell you!
Bill was very happy that Wayne is now indeed his 'grandfather'. That made Wayne feel over the moon with joy. In fact, he told me that he'd never felt so much a part of things as on our visit this week. See? A simple piece of paper and a pledge DOES make a difference.
Saturday we rented
Tom Cruise's lastest 'Mission Impossible' installment. Though it lacked logic, it was JAM-PACKED with action and gadgetry, and lots of exciting, LITERALLY 'CLIFF-HANGING' scenes....
(such as this one, with Cruise climbing the tallest buiiding in the world, Dubai's 'Kuri Khalifa', using some sort of high-tech, sticky 'frog pad' gloves- which mal-function, of course, to make the viewer's sweat.) The movie was great fun, and as long as you suspend disbelief and just go with the action, it's an enjoyable ride. After all.... when you have a hired assassin this pretty and innocent looking
who kills someone up close and personal in the first minutes of the movie.... it tends to get your attention. If you're a fan of action features, break out the popcorn and grab the remote. (No 'Mission Impossible' will ever equal the fabulous duo of Barbara Bain and Martin Landau in the original TV series I watched faithfully every Sunday night) but seeing Tom Cruise climb skyscrapers and race through sandstorms using high-tech thing-a-ma-jigs, all the while against backdrops like Mumbai and the Kremlin.... it's worth a 'sit-down' and a viewing. It's visual junkfood that may not provide vitamins, but it packs a caffeine kick. LOL!!!
June 5, 2012~ 6:45 pm
I wish someone would tell me how I could have reached the age of 60 and not read ANYTHING by author
How did that happen?? Today in my browsing, I happened upon a link that discussed his work, and I realized that anyone who could write lines like these....
"What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?"
"I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become...."
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
has the power to OPEN THE MIND as few are able. I am now bound and determined to seek out this reclusive writer's work and DELVE right in! (Just as soon as I finish my excellent TOME on the Clinton/Starr debacle, called "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs Starr". I will never cease to be amazed at how handily and relentlessly the Republican Party completely USURPED a presidency with their unending muckraking.)
In fact that last quote by Pynchon pretty much describes how ALL politics operate. Good to remember in an election year.
I'll do a head-first swan-dive into "The Crying Of Lot 49", then the BIG KAHUNA- "Gravity's Rainbow" (for which this brilliant recluse received a National Book Award and was accepted, in lieu of the camera-hating author, by none OTHER than.....Professor Irwin Corey. LOL!!!) There's a YouTube of that I'll have to watch tomorrow at work.
Just as a thumbnail sketch of this fascinating hermit/writer, pay a visit to his WIKIPEDIA page and prepare to be amazed.
(One of the joys of being self-educated are stumbling upon things other people have taken as a matter of course in their prescribed studies, but for me............. it's ALL A TREASURE HUNT!) :)
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