short note to the skeptic society

had cause today to follow up with a group i haven’t thought about or dealt with in years… heh. the skeptic’s society. their ‘mission statement’ so to speak, lives here: http://www.skeptic.com/about_us/discover_skepticism.html and it was to this item that i was motivated to reply as follows…

wild poets!

well. after all the work toward alternarrative, it may not be a thing i must push. this place is established, busy, eclectic, beautiful, AND it is creative commons! http://wildpoets.com my corner is at http://wildpoets.com/Fenix – though i’m not sure if i’m going to submit the old stuff, only the new, or some splintering between. hrm.

beauty is

this, a conversation with the master sergeant, in which the same choices arise and in which it is demonstrated that perhaps this silly dandelion of a woman really can learn. posted with permission, as is noted toward the end of the conversation. thank you, master sergeant. for everything. (hug)

teachers and learning

this, a reply given to another who spoke to me as many have of late on how i am somehow teaching them. laughter. not at them, but at myself. and these words to both thank them with mindful humility and remind myself of what i know to be true: in truth, i am teacher to no one but myself. if the words i have urge to post help another, i can only say that i am thankful they do not harm. most of all, i look forward to the wisdom and learning i find in you, and in others, because […]

vonnegut and allergies

bleh. i’m at home, waiting for a friend to pick me up and take me to the eye doctor. it is only in the last oh… fifteen minutes or so that i have been able to open my eyes. woke up this morning, 6am-ish, with both swollen shut and refusing to open. talk about a panic.