Serendipity
Serendipity is God working anonymously. That was the gist of a poster in great collection of proverbs Linda sent me…one of the e-mail pass alongs.
I was writing about how my leisure, my hours and time spent in my own company was just about as good as it gets in my journal today. Then I ran into the mother of essays on “slack.” Now I don’t need to try to explain, as Gagdad has done it for me. He commences
As I’ve mentioned before, I am a simple man with simple needs. Way back in high school — after graduating high school, to be precise — when it came time to chart the course of the pathless Gagdad path, I reduced it all to two non-negotiable demands.
First, I needed to somehow support myself without ever working on a full time basis, since I knew even back then that my real interplanetary cosmonautical mission would never be remunerative. I don’t know why I was so confident about it, but even when I had no skills, no prospects, and no future, I was quite certain that I was having more fun than the people who did have those things.
In other words, I noticed that the people who tried to purchase slack with money ended up having less slack, because it took so much time and energy to acquire the money. In truth, these people weren’t really in it for the slack, but for other things such as power, prestige, vital excitement, attention, etc. More often than not, they’re just running away from their own mind…
and follows with a thoughtful exposition on why free time, leisure is so important to finding your spiritual self. To use an expression I miss seeing, “do yourself a favor” and read the whole thing.
Today has been exceptionally pleasant, slackful in the extreme. The scheduled activites were walking with C. Her husband had cataract surgery on the first eye yesterday. He has an eye that is nearly blind and has been so since youth. The doctor decided to operate on the bad eye first and see how much vision they could recover there before attacking the good eye next week. We headed over to the Boy Scout boardwalk over the swamp and enjoyed a few egret and a gray blustery day.
I had already started the last bread loaf for the church’s fellowship dinner this evening. I’m thinking I did manage to be a worthy church lady. It’s not my best thing, but I’m trying.
Quentin got off the bus here. He’s hatched a great money maker for this summer. He’s going to make comic books and sell them. Whoa baby! Knock yourself out. The first step required for this afternoon was watching some You Tube videos and playing some computer games. All in the name of research. Nine year olds need slack too! He’s a sweetheart. Does his homework quick as a flash, and runs for my computer connection.
I awoke thinking I’d get working on a really old dormant quilting project. I’ve got a design going and am making progress. My first plan isn’t playing out, fabric choices and quantities became an issue, so the new design is today’s photo.
Miscellany
Editor B hits our Superbowl rivals with some serious smacking down. He hails from Indiana and has gone traitor. I enjoyed the fun. Worth a click through if you enjoy trash talk.
Shrinkwrapped is doing a series on AI and is on the third installment on coding empathy. I found it at least intriguing.
Dissenting Justice pointed me to the Onion story on DADT. The gays are just too precious a resource to send into battle!
The next clip is for Bartley, though I highly doubt he reads my blog. Sons in law have other things to do! Looks like a great bicycle event though.
February 4th, 2010 at 10:35 am
OK, this quilt top rendition is fine but I like what you included in an e-mail yesterday better. Why? Well, this one is too much the same. Lots of squares in the center and very regimented squares in the border. Yesterday’s image was a surprising and pleasant change from all the center squares. Doodle some more before you make a decision. And fabric quantities? Let it go scrapy as well as long as you have high contrast between the darks and lights and keep them in the same orientation. You tend to think outside the box and this is not outside the box but yesterday’s idea was and was great.
February 7th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
I LIKED this one. Called immediately back to some stain glass windows I’ve seen. (I must be an inside the box thinker, per Deb, but I really was taken with this one.)
Go Saints! Not sure when the big game starts, but I’ll bet it’s within an hour or two. Husband is on the road to Austin tX to watch the Jayhawks play there Monday evening, and drove down with his nephew, Kevin. They are staying with Kevin’s Dad (Tom’s brother) who moved to Austin about 2 years ago. I might have to set up a jig saw puzzle and entertain myself while the SuperBowls plays in the background. Sounds like a heck of a way to spend a solitary sunday (that I never get!!!)