tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13146384206442107642024-03-14T02:39:25.234-07:00love this life, Onward Through the FogSometimes it's pretty in the fog, sometimes it's scaryJohn Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-33551042461779212562015-04-22T09:19:00.002-07:002015-04-22T09:19:53.608-07:00<style type="text/css">P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }</style>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">She walked out into the
backyard where he had the night lit up some kind of unnatural blue,
if just inside their own little privacy fenced postage stamp sized haven.
As she picked her way over the shadowed stepping stones
towards him he stood up from his petunias and turned towards her.
The tinnitus ring hit him in the ears, in his head, at some tone way up there in the thousands of hertz, and he turned again, into something somehow
Other. “Oh hi Hun! Remember those nice, special safety glasses I
gave you for when we're outside together? Yeah, you might want to get those
and put them on now.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">She reached inside the sliding door to the
end table and picked them up then, putting them on and turning back towards him, she was briefly startled to
see it was a bright sunny morning out. Yup, morning, all the usual signs - finches splashing in the birdbath,
a lawnmower starting up a house or two down the way, kid hollering something to his mom next door... “Would you
like some more coffee?” she said spying the cup in his hand and thinking that must be what she meant to ask him. “No, I'm fine thanks, but
remember you have that thing at eight this morning.” and suddenly
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My ears ring constantly,
loudly, at about eight thousand hertz in one ear, about four to six thousand in the other. Sometimes, something clicks in my head, and the
taste of the thought or the moment on my brain will change, goes salty, and slightly
woody, and I seem to be wrapped in a bright yellow outer shell. The shell is very
thin, but very bright. It is the color and the frequency of The Ring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Twilight Zone, boys. It's like living' in the freaking Twilight Zone everywhere I go, just walking' around being' me. Sometimes I wonder if
other people, on the Max line, or walking down the
street, or standing at the checkout line, can hear the
ring, or see the yellow shell, or feel the waves of Otherness wafting
off of me. It's always threatening to expose me to discovery by the humans. If that happens I have no doubt they will turn on me like something ferocious on something helpless and I will never get home. </span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Tomorrow I will be
fifty-seven years old. Now how the hell did I get here, and what was
I looking for when I came in?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Johanna</b>: Anyone want to have me stop by their blog during the <i>Spillworthy</i> release week?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>John</b>: Oh Hella-Yeah! Did I mention I really love this book? It's got a good beat and you can dance to it. Wait, that didn't sound right... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Please let me know what I can do to help spread some <i>Spillworthy</i> around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Johanna:</b> An interview would be fun--or really more of a conversation. We could do that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>John:</b> That's certainly something we could do. Except you may have
to prompt me. I just realized that I had never actually interviewed anyone
when I was on the radio. I'm not sure I was ever actually on the air
with anyone for longer than it took to pass off or take up a segment or a
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Johanna:</b> We could do a spillworthy then--just back and
forth like Gem and Ulysses do in the book. When we're done, we'll
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>John:</b> That sounds good. There is an aspect of this book I'd
like to explore at some point, and that's how this book addresses some
very real things that happen in people's heads and then leak out and get
all over who or whatever is around them. The book kind of makes a point
of that, doesn't it? To me, that would seem to be a major theme running
through pretty much everyone who's anyone in the cast of characters.
And those weirdnesses of thought or belief then inform the whole
settings of the scenes, the movement of the plot, the correlation and
causation that happen in the story. And of course there is that pattern
of looking at what doesn't want to be seen throughout a number of your
stories from Belle to Claire. What up wi dat?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Johanna:</b> I'm just going to sit here and grin for a second. I'm so happy you see that in my stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>John:</b> Yes, I think I know, but you have to say it. It's an interview. *winks*</span></div>
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interpret the world through whatever lens we've established for
ourselves and generally we ignore the fact that there are other ways of
seeing things. We look away from things that don't fit into our way of
understanding the world. I don't think people do this because they're
trying to be cruel to others. We hold on to our existing paradigms, and
when we feel them crumbling or slipping away, we hold on even more
tightly--even if doing so takes us into weird thought patterns. We
justify what we do based on tradition or upbringing because it's less
personally catastrophic than rethinking how we've lived our lives up to
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a longing for connection that runs through most of what I
write. And yes, a lot of tension in scenes and plots originates from
characters not understanding each other on some really fundamental
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>John:</b> This reminds me of a time in Salt Lake--at a little
Arts Council building in the park across the street from my
brother's house--when I got to go to a poetry reading with Chip Rawlins,
who wrote the science/climatological book <i>Sky’s Witness</i>, and had
a great elk hide jacket. A young poet was there who </span>related her life as
single woman in terms of the world of Barbie. Yes, the doll Barbie. She
kinda looked like a fashion doll herself, and had this high little barbie voice, and - she was utterly brilliant. I wish I still had her chapbook,
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That stay in Salt Lake, I also got to hear some great Latino, mostly
Chilean, poets who would read their poems in English and then Spanish.
Even though I don't really speak Spanish, I often thought the Spanish
(original) versions sounded better, and conveyed more emotion. Pink
amazon porpoises, choking on the ashes of the burning rainforest
surrounding the river, rushing into the shallows, trying in vain to push
through to deeper, wider water. Of course I can't remember any of their
names either. It was twenty years ago, now. This was at my brother's
Lutheran church and while we were listening to these wonderful poets,
half the time in Spanish, a black gospel choir who borrowed the loft was
practising, just barely audibly, two floors above us. It was a major
diversity blast for me at the time.</div>
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for connection. I think you show that in your work more than I do. I
have characters who really struggle to relate to each other. With your
characters, that inter-connectedness is a fact of life. They can
acknowledge it or not, but it's always there. Everything is connected.</div>
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<b>John:</b> Yes. I think "Everything is Connected to Everything
Else," (which is one of the "Givens" of most Native American
spirituality), will wind up proving to be one of those organically grown
and derived-over-time threads, in the William Stafford - life-long-thread sense, that will
run through the body of my writing. It's kind of a big deal to me.
That, and "Balance is the Key." I was pretty proud of myself when I
thought I had figured that one out all on my own, at about age fifteen
or so, as if anyone ever really figures anything out "all on their own."</div>
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During the last two summers, I've attended Summer Fishtrap in Oregon.
It's a gathering of writers, held in this beautiful place up in the The
Wallowas, not far from where Chief Joseph is buried. This year our
theme, "What The River Says," is a celebration of William Stafford's
themes and ideals. So many writing conferences leave me overwhelmed with
the business of writing--or feeling pressure because I started too late
to ever achieve what others have accomplished. Fishtrap centers me and
puts me in the right headspace to keep writing for another year.
Publishing is its own thing, but writing what matters--that has to come
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<b>John:</b> So I'm reading kind of slow, this time through <i>Spillworthy</i>,
because I want to be able to taste some things differently, or more,
than I would if I read faster. Page 48, "They feel ashamed about being
where they are, and their shame makes them easy targets." Yes, shame does make people easy targets because it makes them more vulnerable.<br />
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Being vulnerable draws predators, both from within and
without the self. From within, in the form of all those negative
feelings, self-destructive voices, fears, anxieties, and deadly
depressions. The kind of depressions that sink below the rest of the
green-grass lawn to become gaping maws of hell, inescapable tiger-traps,
complete with poison tipped impaling spikes at the bottom. <br />
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And being vulnerable draws predators from without in the form of anyone who recognizes and knows how to use that
vulnerability to their own advantage and is inclined to do so. One
example just mentioned in <i>Spillworthy</i>, bad shepherds, charlatan preachers, intent on bending others to their own paranoid visions. Grief, and pain, on the profound end of the scale, will do it too of course, any major trauma that we can't let go of...</div>
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<b>Johanna</b>: Right. When we internalize the negative outside
judgements, we continue being victimized, even when the predator is
gone. It's like a poison that continues spreading through us for the
rest of our lives. I think about that with kids a lot and it worries
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A few readers of <i>Spillworthy</i> have been surprised that I
question authority figures more than most middle grade authors do. I
don't produce an Officer Friendly to guide the kids through their
problems. No teacher comes to the rescue. The characters have to make
their own judgements and sometimes their help comes from unlikely
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I grew up in a time when we implicitly trusted authority figures,
and distrusted people who didn't look and act exactly like us. In my
case, growing up in a lower middle class home, that meant I developed a
great distrust for the wealthy people in our community. Others developed
a distrust along racial or religious boundaries. Today we continue to
see distrust of families or couples who look different than the families
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Again, I'm not convinced people do this to be cruel to others
outside their group. They're looking for a sense of security. Somehow if
they play by the rules and stay where they belong, they believe they
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hatred of others who are not like us (no matter what that "us" is), it
also gives people inside our circles too much power over our children.
We keep seeing news stories about children abused by authority
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<b>John:</b> Yes. There is that thing. We still tell
kids that if they see cops, they're there to help. Still, with appalling
stories of shooting, tazing, or other harm coming to people with mental
illness or social/learning disabilities, I worry that telling our kids
this might somehow lead them to harm. I hope that Autism Awareness Days
might help the constabulary become more able to recognize different
types of disabilities and then react in some way less harmful than they
have done in the past. <span style="font-family: inherit;">I
still tell my child that the police are there to help, and I have always
experienced that be true, but I then add - "Don't make any
sudden movements and do whatever they tell you." It goes back to seeing Individuals and individual situations as individual, in the context of the moment.</span></div>
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<b>Johanna</b>: Right, so we have to ask: how does this shape our
teaching and our parenting? We want our kids to be safe, but we're not
going to be able to follow them around their whole lives and shield them
from harm. Plus? We can't keep putting up all these barriers for our
kids. It goes back to that need for connection between people--our need
for balance. We don't want our kids to be victims, but we don't want
them to isolate themselves either. That means we have to talk to our
children as soon as they're able to start processing the world on a more
complex level. We must encourage them to move beyond profiling (for
good or bad), and help them to consider individual actions, thoughts,
words, context. It's a heavy responsibility. My hope is that a book like
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<b>John: </b>I think it is...Oh, other than perhaps to say, "This has been an impromptu, no, let's face it, random Spillworthy with author Johanna Harness" Basically, as you might find between the main characters of her newly released middle grade novel <i>Spillworthy</i>. <br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21569772-spillworthy?from_search=true" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reviews of <i>Spillworthy</i> on Goodreads</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: inherit;">Find Johanna here: </span><a href="http://www.johannaharness.com/" style="color: #5b14ff;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hom</span></a><span style="color: #5b14ff; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.johannaharness.com/" style="color: #5b14ff;" target="_blank">epage</a></span></div>
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"<i>And now for something completely different</i>"... well no, actually, kind of the same - "<i>For your viewing and listening pleasure</i>", <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIFgKwWnyrE" target="_blank">here's</a> the best video I think I've seen for <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIFgKwWnyrE" target="_blank">Pink Floyd, On The Turning Away, Live</a>,</b> with finely timed fades on great song/story imagery on Youtube.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-size: large;">he elephant and the great dog-thing nuzzled each other and quietly gamboled through the dead leaves in the small bowl-shaped side yard. Even though the air was charged with tension, some element of both danger and potential, they seemed calm and content in each other’s company at the moment. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />“They've allowed you forty-five minutes to go for a walk with him, to say your goodbyes” Oswald said. “I’ll only need a few of those, it’s no big deal.” she lied. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They both knew she would take every bit of time allowed, every minute, every second, to be with the dog-thing, to soak up whatever he might impart, whatever might trigger the catalyst in her brain or her heart or her mind that would start the cascade of changes they were so desperate to have and yet to avoid. He anticipated that she might attempt to bolt with the creature, to run off to nowhere in particular, just to avoid parting from it as the council had so wisely decreed. Oswald wondered if he would stop her, let her go, or perhaps even aide her flight. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />He looked away from her, away from her dog-thing and his elephant, to scan the surrounding trees. At least it was lighter under the trees now that the leaves had finished falling, easier to detect anything untoward that might be lurking there. He knew there were numerous factions, new-thinkers, traditionalists, and gods-know what else who would surely see her capture or even death as having potential to either further or hinder their cause. Nothing but a slow moving big cat of some sort, a lynx perhaps, trying to move away from sight as quietly and invisibly as possible before the dog-thing might notice it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />“I want to see the file, the book, whatever you call the records, just for a moment, before we go” she said, stepping back into the master’s house. It was still there on the table, seemingly undisturbed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She had half expected the master to try to keep her from seeing it, even though everyone knew it was her right. Instead he chose to act nonchalant, as though the information there was of no consequence, no particular concern to him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Certainly Giselle, but if you want to have your walk before The Dog-thing is taken away, you’d probably better get to it. It will be getting dark sooner than you think.” She shuddered. He knew she wouldn't want to risk getting caught outside after dusk, not after her brother had been caught by Dew-point all those years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />“I’ll ride Sadie along with them, Sir, just to keep an eye out” the old minder said. “They’ll be safe with us.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Oswald, a step behind her, picked up the file “Let’s just take this along shall we? I’m sure it will fit in one of Sadie’s pack-bags, and we wouldn't want it to tempt anyone, would we” He said it as a statement, not a question and the master looked up sharply at him, but gave no voice to the affront. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He couldn't afford to insult the young woman just yet, not till he knew what she might become, what she might do, whether she would be an asset or a hindrance…</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />As they walked around the side of the master’s house, wide and deep, in the Japanese-revival style, the wind stirred the dry leaves to swirl around the elephants knees and the dog-thing snapped at a few, just out of reach of her hands. The master watched them disappear from a back bedroom window and wondered what information was hidden away in that file. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />“What do you suppose his name is?” she asked. “What makes you think it has one? Not everyone everywhere names their animals as we do, and there’s no telling where it came from” “He has a name, I’m sure of it. I just haven’t gotten what it is from him yet. I guess I probably never will now. Are you quite sure they won’t harm him?” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“They have assured me, Giselle, that they've no intention of harming him in any way, but that he simply must be quarantined until they’re sure he carries no diseases or harmful agents of instability. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> I have no reason to doubt them, beyond the normal reason of their being politicians and scientists” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She blinked and stared at him out from under her bangs – “I certainly do, have you forgotten what they said after dew-point took Bryan – that it was probably best if I didn't find him, as he’d have to be studied if I did? Studied! As though he was lab-rat or something in a petri dish!”. “It’s part of their job to find out what things are threats to society and how they are threats, they didn’t mean to be callused to your feelings.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The dog-thing had run a short ways ahead as they spoke, and now as Sadie started to step over a tiny creek-let something lashed out of the mud and wrapped around her front leg. With a bellow she reared up and bumped Oswald and Giselle both to the ground as another tendril whipped out of the shallow water and just missed the young woman's head. Out of nowhere the other animal was back with them, snarling and roaring as it snapped its huge jaws on the thing wrapped around the terrified elephant’s leg. Oswald had drawn his long sword from his sash even as he rolled back up from the ground and deftly sliced through the second limb as came back at them. A shrill ear-piercing screech seemed to come from everywhere around them and nowhere in particular as both long tendrils of what appeared to be roots or vines sucked back into the shallow water and the squelching mud in the blink of an eye. Giselle had leaped to her feet and drawn her own shorter sword even as Oswald had drawn his long sword. Now, before he could react she threw it and pegged a tendril Oswald had not seen rising to the tree that was just a foot behind him. Again came the shrill screeching and the tendril pulled free, splitting itself around her blade as it too retracted, lightning-fast, back into the ground. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dog-thing snarled and spun around, looking this way and that, as though challenging the creature to attack again. “Up on Sadie’s back – Now!” shouted Oswald, taking her by one arm and placing the other hand in the small of her back fairly throwing her up onto the elephant who now stood trumpeting as though warning or calling for help. Oswald shouted “Sadie! A-Hai! Nagawa!” and immediately the pachyderm spun on her heels and started quickly back through the trees towards the master’s house. Something bumped Oswald on the hip and he almost jumped out of his skin before he saw that it was the Dog-thing, looking up at him expectantly before running over and barking at the tree where his mistress' blade was still lodged. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />“Right, she’d be very upset if we forgot that, it was her brother’s you know” The Dog-thing looked at him and chuffed as though to say “Yes, will you get it so we can get out of here, now?” By the time the man and the Dog-thing caught up to Sadie and Giselle they had gotten almost all the way back to the house and she was yanking on the back edge of Sadie’s head-piece trying to get her to stop or at least slow down. “Sadie, you can stop now, I think we’re fine” Oswald called as he trotted up and laid a hand along the fast walking elephant. Sadie stopped so fast he bumped his head into her massive thigh and just caught himself before he fell backward. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Giselle looked down in mixed concern and relief – “Thank gods – you’re okay! The way Sadie took off I didn't know if you were coming or if that thing got you and What the Hell was that?!” “I have no idea, I’ve never seen or heard tell of anything like that around here or anywhere else.” the minder replied. “Rest assured though, both Master Beemer and the council will be getting an earful as soon as we get back to the house and someone better be sending out a squad to deal with it – assuming that it’s still there. I wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t miraculously disappeared by the time anyone gets back to it, or at least back to where it was.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />“I’m not letting the council have Martin.” she said. “What? Who?” “Martin. That’s his name, and there’s no way I’m letting them take him after he just helped save my life” “Um, begging your pardon, but I just saved your life remember, and you in turn might have saved mine. I’m glad you’ve obviously kept up your weapons practice by the way, nice throw.” “Yes, thank you Oswald, and you’re welcome. But remember Martin is the one who grabbed that thing off of Sadie making it possible for us, me at least, to escape. Therefore he helped save my life, possibly your life too and the council can keep their hands off him!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oswald could tell there would be no point in arguing with her now. Furthermore, he agreed with her. Martin, as she was now calling the big dog-thing was obviously a boon to her safety and had earned the right not to be held by and possibly experimented on by the council. No, he really did not trust the esteemed members of the council not to find some excuse why the creature needed to be “studied” while in their care. It was just the kind of thing they could almost be counted on to do – to go back on their collective word, knowing that no single one of them would be able to be held liable for a reversal by the whole group. If they wanted Martin, they’d have to go through him to do it, even if it meant losing his pension. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />When they got back to the house it was empty. No Master Beemer, no council, and no staff returned from the town a few miles away, no one at all. Oswald was immediately suspicious though he had no idea how the master would have, could have, orchestrated the vine-like creature’s attack. There wouldn't even have been any way of knowing they would be going that way on their afternoon walk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still, it was too late now for them to make the town before nightfall so Oswald took Sadie around to the large barn and got her settled with Giselle's help and while Martin sat in the barn’s doorway obviously keeping guard…<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">- <i>Andrew woke from the dream, stretched and went to get a cup of coffee. He needed to think about that one – did it even fit with the rest of the story?</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><br />What did Andrew need to happen next in this story? He needed to better define the characters and the setting, including the world, dew-point, Martin the dog, Oswald the minder, Sadie the elephant. <br />What’s the point here? </i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />How does dew point figure into this? </span>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-86301164371882399412013-10-04T00:32:00.000-07:002014-06-26T10:13:11.347-07:00Perceptions On a Summer's Day (may vary)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little Head-Bob the owl sat on the black oak branch some thirty feet up from the ground. He listened with unease, even though he knew the odds of anything down there being a threat to him up here were pretty slim. He was learning gradually to not make rash moves over hasty conclusions about what were often, really, non-threats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More than once he had leapt from the safe comfortable nest into the roaring campfire, so to speak, just to get away from nothing. When he told this observation to his mate she responded that he had gotten awfully wordy, no doubt from spending too much time around humans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">T</span>he old turtle paid attention to everything as he moved through the woods. He felt the brittle crackling of the dry leaves under his feet and the small sticks scraping along the sides of his shell. He heard the wind in the trees. He smelled the prickly pear fruit</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">, just ripe,</span> up there next to the sandstone place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He might enjoy that if he got up there, perhaps even this afternoon if he kept a steady pace. He couldn't see that far with his near sighted turtle-vision, but he could certainly almost taste the cactus fruit. Were prickly pears worth traipsing around out in the open up on the sandstone? He knew sometimes hungry coyotes howled there in the night</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He stopped and thought about that and about the great horned owl sitting in the tree on the edge of the little clearing just ahead. He drew into his shell then, closing the door in front of his eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It had been many seasons since he had, </span><span style="font-size: large;">as a tiny shelled hatch-ling,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> crossed paths with a great horned owl. He had survived that then and he was pretty sure it was no real threat to him now. Still, it made him anxious. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>ob dreamt of walking the path through the woods on the hill, up towards the old sandstone. His perspective seemed curiously skewed. He was seeing the woods from a bit above what he thought of as his normal perspective. Still he was not up as high as say, a bird gliding through the trees searching for poor slow little things to pounce upon. He saw himself wondering why he had thought of it that way. Walking along in his dream he hummed an old tune about a broken arrow and a bottle of rain to make himself feel calmer, but then he couldn't remember why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He bolted upright in his bed wide-eyed at the sound of one word, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">one syllable</span> spoken loudly, somewhere in the room right there next to him. He looked over at his wife. Sound asleep, she had her head buried under the pillow. She had surely not made that sound. The room was silent now. All he could hear was the ringing in his ears. The Ring said nearly nothing. Just *<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He got out of bed and walked into his son's room. Nothing. He walked down the stairway, through the living room, the dining room, the kitchen. Nothing. He blinked once, slowly, there in the kitchen, in the dark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">B</span>obby shook himself awake inside his shell and opened his eyes. It felt as though something had been reset in his mind, in his... feelings. Never mind, he saw himself think. He could feel it was warming up out there now and he opened his shell and started off through the underbrush</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He vaguely recalled being anxious about something that had startled him. Some sound, some sharp intake of information, unsought and unprepared for. He stepped out of the concealing brush.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Owls didn't need to concern him now he thought, though every now and then one might come down to rasp stark warnings about the nature of crows and clack it's sharp beak at him. They tended to vocalize their opinions too much he thought. Most things did. The old turtle</span><span style="font-size: large;"> walked resolutely past the big owl's perch as it watched him now, in stony silence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bobby liked the mourning doves though. Their</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> soft murmurings </span>as they tucked each other in, to keep safe through the night, comforted him greatly sometimes. The sound meant something tender, and hopeful, and brave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">He smelled the sweet prickly pears again as he stepped out of the trees, up onto the warm sandstone, and into the full open sunlight. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">He heard the mourning doves cooing softly, somewhere, just behind him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91wLnPZpspA" target="_blank">"Broken Arrow" Robbie Robertson, Acoustic cover by Mr. Brad Cole</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't want to live at Hogwarts, anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">See, the thing is, I wouldn’t last at
Hogwarts and I know it. Hogwarts - just a bit too orderly, too well thought out
in terms of administration for me to fit in there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">I’m afraid at this ripe old age and at my
current levels and waves of brain and heart stuff, I’d be a little bit too …. well,
just “too” in general. Mr Every-thing-to-excess, ok? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">It’s nothing against Hogwarts, which would
be a totally awesome-est place to be for a while. It’s not them, really, it’s me.The closest thing they seem to have to me is Luna Lovegood, and I have none of her grace under idiot teasing type fire. There would be ... unpleasant-ness, requiring parental notification, pretty much guaranteed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">I know, it’s practically unfathomable to
many of you, especially if you Don’t follow me on twitter, that I might be,
well occasionally, less than, shall we say “well balanced”. I know it’s shocking, but true I swear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">You see, regarding me it has
often been said “Well, it always was - What? Yes, “He”, of course I said He! He –
always was a little different, aye?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">I
think it’s a certain cast of the eyes, or cast of the mind. I’m always still,
in my mind, practicing that casual looking side-arm cast my dad used to do when we were fishing, to get
his bait up in under the brush along the bank to the fish, without ever snagging
it. Wait, that should be “cast” as in a way or look about him, shouldn't it? (him - me, my mind, brain - stuff.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">What, Have you Met me? It’s that thing about Being-Here-Now, only also There-When, at the same time. Well, that <i>could be</i> one reason, Okay?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">What? Of <i>course</i>
that was all about the same thing…Well, everything <i>is</i> connected to everything
else, so in a sense, don’t you see – It’s All the same thing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">I firmly believe the administration at Hogwarts would be
forced, in time, to come to the inevitable conclusion that continuing exposure
to such random and possibly mutated thought waves, forms, and patterns as mine <i>could</i> constitute a
danger to the students' minds and worse, attitudes, and by extension, ultimately the wizard-ing world, and next thing I'd know - “No,
No-Azkaban! No disassemble Johnny-5!!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">But don’t cry for me. Oh no, in This, The
Best of All Possible Worlds, there is a place wherein I might fit. (Hush, that wasn't dirty) Yes, this place for me is also in
fantastical literature, but that counts for us, or you shouldn’t even be here. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">That place is – TA-Dah! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: yes;">THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fig 1: Model of THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY, introduced to us by the inestimable Terry Prachett –</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Yes, I want to live there, Don’t Judge Me!</span><br />
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Fig 2: That's <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sir</b> Terry Pratchett, y'all (OoK!)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Possible closest “This Realm” name equivalent to the Unseen University; The Invisible College - The</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">-Taken from the Wiki on The Royal Society of London </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Well, Okay it's actually almost Nothing Like the Unseen U, except:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%;">“During the 18th century, the gusto that had characterized the early years of the Society faded; with a small number of scientific "greats" compared to other periods, little of note was done. In the second half, it became customary for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Government" title="Her Majesty's Government"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Her Majesty's Government</span></a> to refer highly important scientific questions to the Council of the Society for advice, something that, despite the non-partisan nature of the Society, spilled into politics in 1777 over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_conductor" title="Lightning conductor">lightning conductors</a>. The pointed lightning conductor had been invented by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin" title="Benjamin Franklin">Benjamin Franklin</a> in 1749, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wilson_%28painter%29" title="Benjamin Wilson (painter)">Benjamin Wilson</a> invented blunted ones. During the argument that occurred when deciding which to use, opponents of Franklin's invention accused supporters of being American allies rather than being British, and the debate eventually led to the resignation of the Society's President, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pringle" title="John Pringle">Sir John Pringle</a>. During the same time period, it became customary to appoint society Fellows to serve on government committees where science was concerned, something that still continues.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">I got on to this from a reference elsewhere, which eluded to The Royal Society as having once been called “The Invisible College”, and might therefore have been the inspiration for both the name and character of Pratchett’s “Unseen University”. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">When referred to for comment Sir Pratchett replied “Whut? You almost spilled my drink - Are you sure you're not a copper - That’s utter bollocks, innit? - Here now, Give-us-a-Kiss!” (Well, he could have…)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">That all sounds distinctly Prachett/Unseen University-esque to me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Seriously, bedtime there is wherever you find it, the Head Librarian is an orangutan and also one of the smarter wizards there, and breakies is always on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Oh, and one of My favorites of course; Most people can't even see the place, even when they're standing at the gate looking right at it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">If that doesn’t at least suggest that the
Unseen University is the kind of “Plumbing-by-Bloody-Stupid-Johnson”
place I could if not flourish, at least blend in a bit, then I submit
that you need to go read more Pratchett. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Now, If you will kindly excuse me, I have to go see if I can find The Luggage. </span><br />
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John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-89141020882158370222013-07-30T20:13:00.000-07:002013-10-23T22:58:23.631-07:00Two Shots, Extra Sugar - Portland<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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page, hand written, both sides - "just a memory of mine. Was just so,
I tell you three times".</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I'm sitting inside Powell’s Books, in World
Cup Coffee, and I think it must be summer, and some year not yet long past. A young
woman in a Pokemon t-shirt sits poring through an overstuffed binder of game
cards next to two guys who are discussing Stephen Hawking as to quantum
graphics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The two men speak of "Project
Xanadu", and what a fiasco <i>that</i> was. Another guy is talking to a
kid who has a Canadian flag sticking out of his tartan plaid day-pack. The man
is telling him about selling his BMW and buying the cargo bicycle of his
dreams. It will have laser-filigreed meteorite-alloy disk brakes. The
Xanadu-Hawking guys shake hands and leave, each drawing a phone as he goes. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I'm watching Bob watching out the window, as
a sidewalk river-current of humans, mostly, moves steadily by. Across from me,
out of the blue, Pokemon girl says the cards go in a story she's writing.
“Writing is good,” I say. She doesn’t say anything in response but her eyes
look up towards me without looking at me. I worry that I’ve intruded or perhaps
just said something stupid. I feel the otherness wafting off her, coming in
waves, and I feel my own place in this realm shift again, just a bit. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Outside, a girl with magenta hair and bright
green cat-eye glasses stops on the sidewalk. Her bracelet matches her glasses
as she reaches in a pocket of her orange dress to give a couple of folded bills
to a guy in a wheelchair. He is wearing a POW/MIA ball cap. He smiles at her
and they exchange a couple of sentences before moving on. As she starts off her
stride catches, just a half-beat, as she’s thinking she’s just heard an owl,
right here downtown of all places. Looking around I see eight laptops and six
pads being used along the counter that sits against the big windows. There are way
too many books being read in here to count. It is Powell's Books after
all. No one else in here has seen her, or heard her wondering that.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Today is a good day to wear green"
Pokemon girl says to the young guy with the flag as he’s passing by. She asks
him where the flag is from so he explains it's from Quebec, and worn in support
of school loan debt protesters there. She blinks at him, that slow hardworking
blink that signals shifting gears, jumping tracks, or coming to an abrupt halt
and says “Something is coming.”</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He quick, looks around behind him, thinking
someone wants to pass. There’s no one there. “Excuse me?” he asks her -
“Something is coming, something slow and huuuge” she says drawing it out making
it huge-er, and then goes back to flipping the album's pages. Flag-kid glances
around, catches my eye, gives me a questioning look. I try to give him one back
that says “Hey, I’d listen to her”.</span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He looks back down at her. She's now
inspecting a card with a magnifying glass, and he tells her to have a nice day.
She just looks up, smiles and nods, as people sometimes do when they’re
immersed in something on headphones. She is not wearing headphones. All
this time, Bob, he hasn't said a thing, made a motion, maybe breathed. He
gets up now from his book, stretches a leg down and out behind him, then the other, like some big old bird of prey, then
pats me on the shoulder, heading off to Mysteries. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I wonder if all that just happened. Then I
realize nothing unusual has just occurred, because this is Powell's, this is
Portland. I take that impression out and roll it around to look at it. I wonder
if part of that feeling comes from my Native American genes, or if it just
means I truly belong here now. Either way “Something Big is coming”, said as one might speak of major
geologic events or whole cultures disappearing, and yet said absolutely
casually? It's really not much more of a surprise to us than “Tomorrow is
another day”.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">I pick up my coffee, pressed Sumatran, two
shots, extra sugar, and go. Something large flies by overhead, on silent wings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little Head-Bob ducked his head against the
blowing rain, dug his talons into the bark of the elm bough, and leaned against
the broad tree trunk. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">He could see into the house by a lamp left on
in a bedroom. Something about the young man sleeping there seemed familiar or
important, like an itch he couldn't reach to scratch. He sat and stared,
mesmerized by the rising and falling as the boy breathed. Gradually the young
owl began to doze, puffed up against the wind and rain.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Bob slept deeply, gone a long ways back in time, walking down his hometown
street. It was probably about 1966, before they had moved out to the country,
the old trees, and the owls. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Walking home from school, he gazed at the Elm
trees that lined the street, fingertip-twigs just touching as the branches
arched completely across. He looked down the street and he knew right then that
all this was going away. The sunlit leaf patterns on the street, the smell of
tiger-lilies in a yard, the humming bird that kept stopping to stare in his
face - the way it all was, would be gone in just a while.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
He walked on down his street to the house he had lived in all through grade
school, in the little town he had lived in all of his life. As he walked he
said to himself, to the humming bird, and to the trees: "I promise, I will
remember you".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
Something startled the owl awake there in the quiet woods, nearly dawn, by the
little house where the young man lived. The owl looked in at the bed. The boy
wasn’t there. Little Head-Bob looked around him. He knew, and watched himself
knowing; that the boy was gone and not coming back. All his people might not be
coming back. This place would remain a while and then, it wouldn’t, at least
not as he saw it now. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">And Little Head-Bob the owl began to see
time.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
As the morning sun warmed the woods Little Head-Bob dreamt he was a young man
long ago, one of The People, standing in a place not far from where a young owl
dozed. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">He looked down the hill. He saw a herd of deer grazing. Once or twice
one of the bucks would stop and lift its head to look his way before turning
again to the new grass. Farther over, down close to the river he saw the woods,
recognized each tree there, and knew them by names only the breeze could say.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
And then he knew that something was coming, something big like the wind. All
this that had been for as long as The People had known, would soon be gone.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
The young owl barely heard the man whisper: “I promise, I will remember you”.</span>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-38936694951885867082013-03-29T14:56:00.000-07:002013-08-12T13:45:52.906-07:00Things Found While Cleaning Out the Garage <br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bob hadn't
intended this to be the day he cleaned the garage, but looking at the heavy
rain falling outside the open overhead door, he supposed it was as good as any.
Uncommonly heavy rain for here, for this season, it reminded him of the fall
downpours back home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Gradually he
passed through the stacks of boxes and upon shifting the layers of flat materials
leaning up against the wall he was surprised to find the deer skull hanging
there. It seemed undamaged by all that stuff he had just moved, but he felt
guilty, for not having been more careful.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He reached
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Little
Head-Bob watched in awe as the rain came down in nearly solid sheets, the trees
lit up by the lightning that flashed over and over. He had never seen a storm
like this in his young life and he instinctively backed up to the far wall of
the nest hole, against the warm living part of the old tree. It had shielded
his family from the weather all his life, perhaps it would still do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Over the
rain and the roaring of the creek, now a surging smashing thing he did not
recognize, his keen owl ears picked up the sound of something running down the
hill. It crashed through the brush toward him as though in flight or
panic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He could hear it coming, leaping
and darting, changing direction every time the lightning flashed or the thunder
struck.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Terrified,
the doe came so fast it never had a chance to stop before it got to the raging
creek. Now twenty feet wide and over twelve feet deep, the once tiny creek was
carrying everything in its path downstream with it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Watching from his nest,
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carried it high up, out over the creek and almost to the bank on his side. Then
plunging into the roaring water the deer tumbled out of sight and was just - gone.</span></div>
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darkness, as the lightning faded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Another
flash of lightning and Bob looked up from the skull in his hands and there out
through the rain across the street, where the water ran swift through the
ditch, he thought he saw a shadow. Something with four legs, something there…
and then gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Little
Head-Bob blinked in the sun, drying his feathers as he dozed, dreaming of a man
who walked along the creek bank. The man stopped, looked at the pile of dead
brush stuck under the tree fallen across the creek, and caught the glint of
light off something there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bob waded
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trying to watch where he was going while still keeping an eye on that spot in
the brush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hedge thorns raked the back
of his hand as he tunneled it into the pile, back almost to his full arm's-length,
before finally catching hold of the thing. Carefully bringing it out he was
surprised to be holding a perfectly intact deer skull, too small for a buck,
staring back at him.</span></div>
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the storm-killed doe in his hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Standing in
his garage Bob jumped, startled out of his reverie, when his wife poked her
head in to call him to dinner. He looked down absently at the skull in his
hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Are
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"Uh-huh.
Be there in just a minute, Hon" he replied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">She cocked
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</aside>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-36625449060187082642012-12-15T02:44:00.000-08:002012-12-15T02:44:58.270-08:00"My World", Bob said, "Not Thurber's, and Welcome To It"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bob was somewhere in a dream,
moving, no — driving, in a car, somehow having just come down from some
great height with a jolt yet surprisingly still intact, sort of, and
into a landscape — no a road, no not a road — sand and dunes, others all
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little Head-Bob awoke. Something felt, no —
something WAS wrong. He couldn’t focus his eyes. There was something,
sand perhaps, in the wind—in a wind that was blowing into his eyes and —
there was no wind. Maybe not even his eyes, but still, something was
not right. Something was wrong. The young owl could not get his eyes to
focus, his. . . smell wasn’t working, the leaves of the tree, his tree,
an ancient black oak, a black jack, they wouldn’t come right. They just
weren’t right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something seemed to strike him in the head —
on the inside of his head. He tilted his head, and tilted it some more
and one of his feet, he couldn’t tell which one, let go of the branch.
It <span style="font-size: large;">l</span>ifted of its own accord. He couldn’t make it come back down,
couldn’t make his strong talons grip again the branch. He listed farther
to one side, the leg kept lifting. In a panic he shook and fell, down
and down and, so fast the ground came up, he knew he was dying and</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Bob woke, something felt, no — something WAS — wrong. He couldn’t get
his mind to focus. Someone was talking, he could hear words, coming
across the room — he was in a room, and he could hear her speaking. He
knew he should be able to understand the sounds she was making. . .
words. She was speaking words. He could tell. And she was upset. He knew
this, but still he could not make the words come into focus.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Reality was. . . not right. Time was moving wrong. It wasn’t moving
backwards, but wasn’t flowing right, either. It was like sitting in a
meadow, when the warm spring breeze that was drifting from behind was
suddenly a stiff wind in your face, full of sand. And screwing your eyes
shut tight, you suddenly couldn’t tell where you were and</span><br />
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It wasn’t that time, that reality, was moving backwards, it was more like reality was a cat. Reality was a cat being petted, but the wrong way, against the lay of its fur, and the
woman, she was upset. She was speaking, weeping, and he could not
understand her words and. . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He was walking, outside. He had just passed one of Claire’s
vineyards, was coming up on Maeve’s orchard, he could smell the peaches,
ripe and almost overripe. The thing was there again, just over his
shoulder, his. . . left shoulder, he could feel it there, keeping pace
with him, not pouncing, but just, almost, ready to. He was alone. No, I
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">Bob blinked. Something had just happened. He wasn’t sure what. He
couldn’t get a bead on where he was, when he was. Time, it wasn’t moving
backward, exactly. It was more that time, that reality, was a stream
flowing around him, and he was spinning out of control, moving, no the
stream, the river of time, it was moving, at break-neck speed, and Bob
was staying in one place, but spinning. </span><br />
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vineyards. There, sitting on a branch in one of the peach trees, no – in
a black jack tree, a young owl blinked, was looking at him and… just
fell off its branch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Bob drank his coffee with only the stove light on he wondered why
he was even sitting there in the kitchen at four in the morning, but
something had made him get up. Perhaps he was just excited to be on
spring break, his last before graduating high school, and not a moment
too soon for him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Through the <span style="font-size: large;">screen door</span> the usual chirping of crickets was loud in
the dark so he noticed when they just stopped, all at once. It was like
something had flipped a switch. A little shiver ran down his spine and
he started to wonder what that was about, but there were chickens to
tend, eggs to collect, and before that the dogs to feed and turn out for
the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Out the back door, across the walk, to the old canning shed.
Something, just there, dashing into the english ivy, small thrashings
through, making a B-line towards the creek below. What would move like
that? Not a rabbit—too loud, too big. Not a cat—wouldn’t be staying
under the tight vines that way. Whatever it was, now silent, had gone to
ground and waited to see if Bob was coming after it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It wasn’t the first time Bob couldn’t figure out what an animal was
by its stirrings. Still, this felt. . . different. “Never get between a
bear and its cub,” he said to himself. He wondered why—certainly no
bears in South East Kansas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carrying the two big old coffee cans of dry food balanced in his left
hand, he curled the five gallon water bucket up with his right to where
he could lock his elbow. Halfway through the sprawling back yard, he
stopped, set the bucket down (same place as always), carefully switched
the dog food to his right hand (without spilling it), and picked up the
bucket with his left. When his elbow started to hurt, he grunted
slightly and gritted his teeth. It was still easier to walk carrying it
this way than it would have been to hold it down at arm’s length,
swinging and sloshing all the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was then he realized the dogs weren’t doing their normal good
morning yelping and prancing. They were standing inside the fence,
shoulders hunched and heads held forward as though at point. The hair on
the back of his neck stood up. Something was wrong here, something that
drew the dogs attention—something that held them, barely in check,
staring at—no through—Bob, to a point somewhere behind him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He kept walking, not wanting to stop and upset his arm loads like a
goofy kid, and more, not wanting to look behind. “Whatever you do,” he
thought, “don’t look.” Twenty feet to the door of the dogs’ shed, he
knew he had to get in. Fifteen feet, now ten, five, he didn’t care that
the water bucket splashed all over him. He almost threw it down,
reaching for the door, swinging it open. The dogs, now growling, burst
out and past him at full speed. As soon as they cleared the doorway, he
dove through it, into the shed, and slammed himself in. He threw the
bolt fast and crouched down, his back against the door, his eyes
scrunched tight, grimacing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He could feel through his insides, the charging of the two big labs,
practically roaring as they went, the sound pushing out of them hard
with each stride they made. Little bits of dirt and sod ripped up by
their claws pelted the door of the shed as they tore back the way he had
just come</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bob realized his ribs hurt where he still clutched the big cans, too
hard against his side, forgotten just as he had forgotten to breathe.
Exhale. Inhale. Exhale, inhale. He set the cans down. Still crouched
there, shaking, he could hear the dogs fighting now, fighting with
something big. A bark, a yelp, another, more angry than hurt, and then
charging off again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He finally rose and looked out the wire mesh window. He could barely
see them, going faster than he’d ever seen them go. Whatever they were
after was faster still, out of sight, in the dark, over the bank and
splashing now, loud as a horse, down the creek and under the
bridge—sounds echoing off the cement and then gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He started to open the door to go after them and then right away
thought “To Hell with THAT.” Whatever it was, the block-head twins were
way more capable of handling it than he. Fifteen minutes passed, twenty
minutes, however much longer it was, before he got up the nerve to
venture out. He left the door to the shed open as he went, something he
never did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three hours later the retrievers came back, panting heavily and
bounding to him as though they hadn’t seen him in years. They knocked
him down in their haste. He didn’t mind the being licked all over the
face until he noticed the blood on their muzzles. Not theirs he saw with
relief, but then he was hit by the smell. What the Hell <i>was</i>
that smell?! Like a skunk, but not. Like an old snapping turtle he
recalled, fresh drug from the bottom of the neighbor’s pond, reeking of
things half rotted, found and eaten there. . . but not. It was like
nothing he could name, and nothing he realized, that he wanted to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Later in the day the “boys” each got a bath. Big haunches barely
fitting in the old galvanized tub, and rinsed down with the hose in the
yard. They were always happy for any excuse to get wet. Yet they would
stop, cast furtive glances over coal black shoulders towards the creek,
nearly inaudible growls deep in their throats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That night, behind locks checked and checked again, Bob slept, but
not well. He left on the big mercury light next to the twins’ pen. It
was shining through his bedroom window, but it didn’t give much peace of
mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Little Head-Bob woke with a start. There was something moving,
snuffling around the bottom of the young owl’s tree. It was something
big, much bigger even than the coyotes or the calves they sat and
watched so keenly in the twilight. Something there insatiably hungry and
more, possessed of a terrible, vicious need to kill. It carried a smell
of death unlike anything he had known. His brothers and sisters in the
nest hole shook and ruffled their feathers as though cold, even though
the spring night was warm. They all waited. They all listened. Neither
he nor any of those owls hunted that night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This morning Aaron and I built some things with Legos. He is good at Lego's. I know, a pretty much international symbol, right up there with the jigsaw puzzle piece, of the High-functioning ASD aspects of him. But he <i>is</i> good at Lego's. And puzzles, and seeing how physical things work, and recognizing subtle patterns in occurrences or systems, and ...you get the idea.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started building a square based white structure, a library I thought. He came over and started telling me about how we should make it a block, like the ones in <a href="http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki" target="_blank">Minecraft</a>. I didn't know he had ever seen Minecraft, which I hadn't. X-Box at a friend's house. Of course. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was struck then by that glimmer of the amount of stuff he has picked up this summer spending time with neighborhood friends. He is starting to have more things in common with the other kids near his age. Starting to be more accepted among a few school/neighborhood kids. I hope that lasts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a big deal, considering his often general clueless-ness regarding a few key aspects of social interactions. Some of his friends seem to have learned over the last few years of on again, off again friendships with him that at certain times he's going to be some way that doesn't get it with them. Someway they don't understand. Boundaries and a frequently weak ability to empathize or care about what others want or don't want are blind-spots for him. That and the meltdowns that happen now and then. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are building the Minecraft block. It is going to be all kinds of colors now that we ran out of white. We're doing it in even levels of different colors as much as we can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We were taking a break from it when he started keening a fairly high pitched sliding note over and over. Repetition of words, phrases, or tones is another one of his things. It's like auditory <a href="http://autism.wikia.com/wiki/Stimming" target="_blank">stimming</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I asked where that sound came from and he said it was a song about somebody who died. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Um, OK. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When your eight year old boy starts making up an Indian sounding Death Song out of the blue - you kinda perk up your ears at full attention, dontcha?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Oh, what does that come from?" I asked. "WelllllllL", he said, "There was this writer named Dr. Seuss, and he was my most-most favorite best writer, and he was really great, and he died - so this is my song about him dieing". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was one of THOSE moments. One where both his mom and I Flashed Big, little Ping!s going off in our brains. This was to be noted, thought about, filed away in it's own little brain crease, and probably recalled many years from now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess this post is to make sure of that. Slick, how that works, innit? #amwriting, Ya gotta love it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just the way he said it, matter of factly with no particular negative emotions displayed, as though singing a very primal sounding Death Song to his favorite author was just obviously a thing to do, that was a *thing*.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And Presto! He has tapped into a tradition of humans to sing the Death Song in tribute to their honored dead for what, thousands upon thousands of years? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Living with this sometimes subtly, sometimes spectacularly different young fellow is like that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.zoekeating.com/" target="_blank">Zoe Keating</a>, one of my favorite Avant Cellists, plays <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYrcXX4nWOA" target="_blank">ESCAPE ARTIST </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You feel
like there's a very tiny spider, very gently, exploratorily, thrumming
just five hairs on the back edge of your hand there on the mouse. You
check. No spider. But for just an instant, before your eye is completely
on the suspected area of space, you see it there, in all it's miniature
shining predatory splendor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In
some interpretations of string theory physics there comes the hypothesis that
yes, there are infinitely possible dimensions or universes out there,
including one in which the spider is now really there. Seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And
now that it's out there, and surely others have had that feeling, if
one of us wrote "like that tiniest of spiders you think you feel
touching five hairs on the edge of your hand there on the mouse..." some readers would get it.
Immediately. Others might have to imagine it for the first time and would then
have a similar feeling as the memory and connection kicks in. Some
never will. Can't speak to everybody. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't know that one? Okay, I got more. I can do this all day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Probably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>The humming bird feeder.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, probably <em>that</em><em> hummingbird feeder,</em> the one hanging in your back yard<em>. @</em>karlaArcher
posted some photos of a multi-camera setup they made to shoot their
hummingbird feeder. Besides the fact that I heavily and shamelessly
covet those cameras and that mounting system, right there in the middle
of the photo, in front of "God and Everybody," was my bird-feeder<em>. </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em></em>I've
known Karla and @RandyArcher online for a couple of years now. We
already had a pretty solid connection when I saw that posting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still,
seeing that bird feeder brought a certain little "ping" moment of
recognition of a real thing, common to me and them three thousand miles
and whatever differences apart. It made it noticeably more familiar
feeling, and I was eager for whatever came next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Yes,
in the end it will be the big connections that will make or break the
story, but the little connections will help make ready the mind to
tumble to the big connections, the big points perhaps, of what the story
means.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a couple of things about this to note.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Quality of the connecting thing, observation, or insight---it matters. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong></strong>Connection: "He had that disconcerting feeling you might get when you're picking your nose and realize you have a sharp nail."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Observation: "My God, you're a Mess! Not only are you picking your nose but you've obviously got a bad manicure as well."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Insight:
If you make a connection with that kind of observation, it's probably
not going to get the reaction you were going for. Whatever that was. I
mean, really...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Brevity. </strong>Keep
it short as so very many have said before. If it gets too involved, as
many of mine tend to, left un-wrangled, then you will lose many people
before you get the connection. That would be counter-productive, kinda
like over-promoting your work to the spammy over-saturation level. The
awkward moment when you realize that the other people in the room are
listening to you talk about your new object of desire and looking at you
like you're a stalker - which you're not, but people look at you that
way with seemingly little or no provocation, just because you look,
well, kinda Crazy sometimes. You know, that feeling? Oh. Yeah, me
neither.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Don't push it.</strong>
It's probably better if we don't announce to everyone what we're doing
by shouting "Hey! You know that feeling? I wanna remind you of it so
you'll feel just a little more connected to the character or situation,
ok?" Just better showmanship not to, innit? That also means I have to
be careful about how often I throw those little connectors into the
story. Sometimes, some of the best ones just seem to be integral to the
scene, like they appeared fully formed within it. Those are the ones to keep.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Extra points</strong>
- If you can make a unique and original observation or insight that is
absolutely recognizable to many. Oh, and it's one that many have never
consciously put to words, never defined in their own minds before and...
ooh-ooh! And it's a ready-made analog to one of your themes or plot
questions! Not as easy as it sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just
some of what I've been thinking about small connecters in writing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any
favorite authors who you might've caught doing that? Any tricks you use
to remember those kinds of moments or observations for later?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this song Joni makes it so you recognize the little observation vignettes she describes even if you've never had that </span>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-57982435600237221032012-07-16T12:24:00.000-07:002013-10-23T23:46:34.667-07:00Some Things Endure - #FridayFlash story...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">He had made it onto the Max train to go home again, carefully bringing his prize as he got on. He even got to have a seat, given up to him by a nice young woman on her way home from the Montessori school down by the river. They had talked on the train once before and she smiled now as she beckoned him to sit, even though she herself bore a large, heavy framed picture in her arms. He smiled back and thanked her in french, noting a few stares from the other passengers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some were irritated at the extra space a large stained glass lamp and shade would take on the packed train. Others were amused that his combined load seemed half as large as he himself. Few grown adults existed now with a stature of only four-foot three since mandatory prenatal screening for "unfortunate abnormalities" started those many years ago. And then there was his age. Even with all the med-tech advances he would be considered very old, and not having had the common cosmetic treatments, he looked every bit of his age.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He couldn't blame them of course, people watching was an habitual pastime of his too, not being otherwise engaged by some sort of net gear as were most of them. He knew he was very fortunate, able to still be doing his work making and selling calligraphy and paintings down in his booth at Saturday Market. He was fortunate also to be allowed to maintain his own apartment while so many old people were warehoused, kept sedated and plugged into the net, out of sight and out of everyone else's minds. "Revered Artisan" status got him the apartment, basic necessities, and occasionally a free americano at Irah's Coffee Lounge, where the folk singers still played on Friday nights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mid winter in Portland might often seem bleak, damp, and relentlessly gray, but at least it was not so deadly freezing cold as it had been back in his home land. He wasn't even sure what they called that place now, so many changes of borders and titles had come and gone in the last handful of decades. This evening there was as usual a steady drizzle and the temperature was about thirty-four degrees. He could live with that. He could live, he had learned, with most things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He watched as the train stops came and went. First was the old Goose Hollow platform, just down from the Suicide Bridge. He had almost been hit by a falling politician there once many years ago during the Corporate Rule turmoils. He cringed and sighed inwardly, recalling the unfortunate mess and the bad dreams he had for years, as though it had somehow been his fault, old as he was even then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A couple of miles west was the Washington Park - Oregon Zoo station. He liked the educational pictographs of animals, some strange and mythical, some still to be found at the zoo. There was rarely anyone getting on or off there this time of evening.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Rolling out of there as the drizzle turned to snowflakes the size of quarters it was all he could do not to smirk, thinking of his prize and sitting there comfortably instead of being forced to stand and sway, hoping for a spot at a grab rail. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He wanted to dance with glee but there was definitely no room to be doing a Gene Kelley on the Blue Line. He thought that might have been a fitting reaction to the coup he counted in the deal he had made at the lamp store. Two thousand new dollars for a vintage Tiffany Dragonfly Limited was very nearly criminal he knew. But still, one didn't make those kind of dancing, cavorting displays on a mid winter's evening commuter train, not even in Portland. Especially one didn't if one had managed to attain the ripe old age of one hundred and twenty-nine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another nice young woman pushed the open doors button a couple of extra times for him as he unloaded himself and his cargo, though there were grumblings from within the train. He retrieved his hemp net from a pocket of his oiled Gabriel Hounds parka and carefully placed the heavy lamp within it, hung it over his back and began his walk across the parking lot to the apartment he had shared with Ava for ninety-five years. Of course the last thirty she had been a ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He knew she would love the lamp, so like the one she had used to light her famous scrapbooks all those years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Ava greeted him as always just inside his door, tilting her head that way she did, smiling silently. He took the lamp in and gently set it up on the stand between their two chairs, fitted the dragonfly shade, plugged it in, and turned it on. He looked at Ava, did a quick little hop-step, bowed, and gestured at the lamp like a game show spokes-model. She giggled and clapped her hands soundlessly like a little girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As he sat down he pulled the old leather portfolio from beside his chair and opened it up, not to his own work, but to a half-dozen signed Disney animation cells, collected over a lifetime, and drew them out. Mickey, Donald, Minnie, Pluto. Goofy was, well, just too goofy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Remember when we got this one, Honey? It was while we were at the symposium in '99. That was a fine trip". In her chair on the other side of the lamp she smiled at him, transparent in the light, and nodded, her scrapbook turned to that very page in her lap. It was good to be home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suzanne Vega's Birthday is today I hear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have been a fan of her music for a long time. She has a great New York-Paris-folk music-with-a-jazz-twist kind of sound I find irresistible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And of course since it's her birthday I find it only fitting, if a bit cliche', that I link this video of hers: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLqXNPR6Ko" target="_blank">Birthday</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And since I think we should get a present on her birthday lets add this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWPWIjftryg" target="_blank">Caramel</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, just one more...with a twist - this is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCbguNobCtk" target="_blank">Blood Makes Noise</a> , set to images by Red Riding, of Deviant Art: <a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" data-redirect-href-updated="true" dir="ltr" href="http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fred-riding.deviantart.com%2F&session_token=B51UPgM1LaNv6JpQwdtuEznRAaB8MTM0MjEwNjQyNkAxMzQyMDIwMDI2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://red-riding.deviantart.com/">http://red-riding.deviantart.com/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Birthday, Miss Vega! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">we wait, the train passes by</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember the Kit Cat clock?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those searching eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The hypnotic tail that never stops</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spawned by the Allied Clock Company,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">in Portland, Oregon, Nineteen Thirty Two </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't remember where or when I first saw these, but I do remember there being one in a barbershop where I got my hair cut as a small boy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If we're playing "Kitch, Krap, or Klassic" I'd come down as Klassic Kitch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the timepieces. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still Manufactured in America on the western end of Route 66, by the California Clock Company, they remain as much a reminder of a cheery outlook as always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can still order one in a number of fetching colors, as well as parts, shirts, greeting cards, beach towels, etc. or read more about the history and culture of Kit Cat Clocks at the official company web site <a href="http://www.kit-cat.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<br />John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-10010422101218782942012-06-26T16:48:00.001-07:002012-06-26T16:48:31.206-07:00Divinest Sense<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, I was reading some Emily Dickinson today</span> <span style="font-size: large;">-</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Hey, stop laughing, I can read Emily if I wanna...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyhow, I came across the following, which I like immensely. For one thing it resonates for me just as it stands, and for another I find it somewhat comforting to know that Emily entertained such thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book I was reading from has it listed as "XL" in the series on life. I have no idea what, if any, other titles it has:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Much madness is divinest sense</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">To a discerning eye;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Much sense the starkest madness.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">'T is the majority</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">in this, as all, prevails.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Assent, and you are sane;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Demur, - and you're straightway dangerous,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And handled with a chain. - Emily Dickinson</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-42732127378052135892012-06-11T17:32:00.000-07:002014-06-17T07:06:36.424-07:00Down at Irah's, Down at Goose Hollow<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"She loved me for the
dangers I had pass'd, and I loved her that she did pity them.” He read
back what he had typed - “Wait, Billy already wrote that, didn't he
..." *</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And then "Over the
mountains of the Moon, down the valley of the shadow - ride, boldly ride, the
shade replied, if you seek for Eldorado. “ Back-spaces rapid-fire through
the entire first line - “No, no - Eddy wrote that one” he thought. **</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since they had made conversant
past time visitation possible he had talked to so many of the old writers,
poets, thinkers, and fools of his kind that the line between his thoughts, his
writings, rantings, and revelations, sometimes blurred with those of the past others.
Still, he did enjoy the visits greatly more often than not.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Einstein was a hoot, especially
after a few shots of schnapps, always a sideways twist to make you look at
something again with that one.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Machiavelli, not surprisingly, Ben
thought was an ass.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">They said it was possibly a
side effect of the Sb-5 he had been dosed with at the indian clinic that made
him susceptible to the visions. His participation in the trials of the new formula
paid for his therapy and a few others. It was part of a government Earned
Funding deal the clinic was forced into back in '25.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From his regular overstuffed
chair at Irah's coffee house just across from the Goose Hollow rail he watched
the college kids in their current fashion gear, ear buds in, eyes trained on
mobile screens. Bright shiny young things, some of them destined to change the
world yet again “in myriad ways, both subtle and gross.” Ben thought. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Since he had fallen below the
income requirement to own a car he spent more time at places like Irah's
waiting for trains, or nursing endless cups of the house blend and cruising
social media on the house wi-fi with his beat up old Maruishi locked into one
of the hanging racks outside. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He would sit and watch all the
people, all the things, just watch, and listen. The layers and threads of connections,
the nodes in the data between the thousand-thousand things, would start coming
to him latter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes they came in
his dreams, flying through the tangled dream-time oak branches on silent owl
wings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes he saw them in the abstract
patterns that he had first learned from the Sb-5 years before.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Drinking his first Double-Dark
Chocolate Ethiopian Drip, almond milk, no foam, triple raw sugar of the day he
gazed out the window and across Jefferson Avenue at the roundabout. In
its center was an old, old, Mound Stellar built up of rough boulders to about
two meters high. On the top of the mound, flat tops of the odd boulders
angled up to the southwest sky, individual stones stood in a rough circle,
perhaps five or six yards across. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No one ever seemed pay much
attention to it or go up on top of it though there was nothing preventing it.
Nothing of course except the odd "You're not supposed to be here" feeling
that most people who might have done got when they reached a certain proximity.
Most of those people forgot both the feeling and the mound as soon as they
walked away from it.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ben did not forget, because
along with that feeling he also got something else. It was like a silent
disclaimer, an "unless" clause to the warning vibration. There was
something that appealed to his non-conformist nature there, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>something that appealed to the old ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sipping his coffee there he
watched as the light on the mound slanted towards that "photographers
best" side light. He could have sworn he saw a shimmering there. There was
something different, something else there on top besides the expected few small
trees and shrubs, besides the sparse tufts of grass growing from between the
rocks, besides anything that he recalled a name for.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It could have just been that he
was tired. Beyond tired.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This fatigue existed in him in
spite of all the advances in technology, or the progress towards a “more
orderly and sustainable society". His Dr claimed it was largely
neurological, a genetic fault of his, a misfiring of synapses aggravating
wildly unbalanced dispersal and uptake of serotonin and dopamine in his brain. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He had hoped to speak with someone more
astute, one of the philosophers or mental health people of not too distant
history maybe, but then the technology had abruptly broken down,
catastrophically, according to all the government and industry spokespersons.
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Ben felt himself no longer
capable of discerning truth from fiction, propaganda (a banned word) from
information. He did know that when conversant past time visitation had come
into being there was a general lack of consensus regarding exactly how
that actually worked.***</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">It was almost time for him to
board the Blue Line to Hillsboro. He had the barista top off his go cup,
picked up his Gabriel Hounds daypack and headed out the door. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>He went the longer way towards the stone
mound. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even though he had felt the "Go Away" buzz before, it still
came as something of a minor shock <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>to his system and he
stumbled just a bit, one of those odd little two-step glitches, but retained
his vertical attitude. The closer he got to the edge of the mound the more the
buzz manifested itself as a multiple electro-magnetic waveform, capable of simultaneously
overpowering in both the utra and sub-sonic ranges. His skin tingled, the hairs
on the back of his neck stood at full "Danger, Will Robinson!" attention.
At the same time he felt a massive presence, a tangible weight upon his shoulders,
as well as a rumbling deep in his bones that told him something big was right
in front of him, something huge, something that appeared to be moving towards
in slow motion, even as it moved at speeds beyond any attempt to describe or
define. It was coming. It was here. Just like that.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He paused and in his peripheral
vision he could just see the Methodist church across the street, shimmering
wildly, as though seen through heat waves on a Mojave Desert summer day.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He stepped forward again. He heard
the customary tinnitus ring in his head take on a new, more energetic vibrato,
and again he paused. He almost expected to be struck dead or at least
deaf and blind as he stepped forward again, that one last step, to place his
shaking hand on the stone. Everything stopped. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thing.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">No sound, no movement of
traffic or pedestrians, or anything at all, stirred up close to the roundabout.
There was not even the ringing in his ears, utter silence and total stillness
was all around him.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">He remembered to breath. He
climbed up on top of the mound. He looked around. Loosely spaced
around the top of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="E"></a>Tsik'to'li <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="G"></a>Unelanvhi, the eye of
God, were rough upright stones, a meter or two tall each. Ben
stepped forward again. He laid his hand on the petite monolith.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">If anyone else had gotten close
enough to see through the glamour of the mound over the next few years, they might
have noticed there on top a weathered daypack, much faded by sun, wind, and
rain. It had been there for all time, a remnant left by an Old One - by
Agigalie liga Kway nee, by I-Am-Grateful Ben.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">*</span>Othello,
Act 1, Scene 3 - <a href="http://shakespeare-navigators.com/othello/T13.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">http://shakespeare-navigators.com/othello/T13.html</span></a></div>
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** Eldorado, Edgar Allen Poe - http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eldorado/</div>
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*** It had occurred, it seemed, as an accidental
result of a collaboration of indie geeks and volunteers from the Applied
Physics Department of the Unseen University trying to find a practical use for
the Holographic Theory.</div>
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* Othello, Act 1, Scene 3 - <a href="http://shakespeare-navigators.com/othello/T13.html">http://shakespeare-navigators.com/othello/T13.html</a><br />
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** Eldorado, Edgar Allen Poe - <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eldorado/">http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eldorado/</a><br />
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John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-83220506261277989142012-03-29T13:26:00.002-07:002012-03-29T13:34:31.531-07:00Well, Hell...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">No fun stories today. No foggy insights bristling with fuzzy logic, inane intuitions, or rampant chemical imbalances(I hope).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I just read my last two posts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I am disappointed to find them rife with poor usage and typos, awkward<i>, full of thingys,</i> and otherwise an embarrassment of goofy errors. Yes, I know better than to let them go out that way. Ok, I <i>mostly</i> know better, some issues of sentence structure still elude me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Don'tcha just hate it when that happens? Oh, that has <i>never</i> happened to you? Um, yeah, me either. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Mia Culpa. Next time I'll read it through another time, instead of just three or four.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, ok, out loud.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and that other part that seems really odd, that's just how my mind works - I make no apologies for that.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I will be as Silly Putty, stretch some more, break, moosh together again, and bounce back somewhere near I hope to the often obscured and invisible writing path I persist in following.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I stole that <a href="http://gemstatewriters.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/writers-can-you-pass-the-silly-putty-test/">Silly Putty bit</a> from @johannaharness, fair & square, I think.</span><br />
<br />John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-4778453115975107562012-03-20T08:09:00.000-07:002012-03-20T08:09:00.717-07:00He-Who-Must-Not-be-Trifled-With has tea with Huizong, Emperor of the Song Dynasty<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An excerpt from WIP The Shift, my 2011 NaNo</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">H</span>e Who Must Not Be Trifled With was back on the road. It was
not really a road though, as it was actually a cow path through a pasture just east of
Liberal, Kansas. He had taken some time off the trip to commune with the other more
interesting denizens of the forest. This had given things out west time to
simmer for a while. He had been careful to not let any more of the local people
wherever he passed through see him. He knew that in this time, even more than
in the past, the sight of a small hybrid dragon would cause the kind of stir he
was just not interested in right now.<br />
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thought of himself as wyvern, probably because that was what his dear mother
had been, he was actually not exactly that. He had too many legs, four of them
instead of the usual two. He had fur instead of scales. He was much more intelligent
than any wyvern who ever lived before. He could affect things from great
distances if he so chose.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Andy, way out west, just outside of Colby, Oregon, a bit east of </span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Portland, that </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">bastion of high hopes, Murder Buy the Book, and awesome views was now learning to live with his
new bestest friend, Bernard. Not a St Bernard, but still a very large, friendly, slobbery and
extremely(thanks to He-Who) intelligent dog. A dog of great imagination who still kind of remembered
having been a bear, and before that, something… else. He would get around to Andy and Bernard later though.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Right
now He Who Must Not be Trifled With’s feet were tired and bitchy. He
had still not yet gained enough strength back to fly. He had forgotten
how much
he considered walking to be appropriate only as a leisure activity, a novelty,
for
more closely scrutinizing ground life. It was Not, decidedly not, in his informed estimation, an acceptible means of
traveling long distances. At least he was getting his memory back, and with
it, some
of his former intelligence. He now knew why he had woken up after so many centuries of sleep. It was about
to
happen again and there was, or was not, about to be a shift in the world of men.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One could say that it was a Good verses Evil thing, but he preferred to think of it as a moving forward or not thing. The one he was going to go see, to teach, to
protect and enlighten, would make a difference. If that one went one way things
would move forward, as they could, to a new level of human thought and
understanding, which in turn would affect the rest of the natural world. If
that one were not protected, not shielded
from chaos and shown a new way, then things could go decidedly
different.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> And of course there
would be opposition. Like the plot of any good book or script, there seemed to
always have to be that opposition. It was a question it seemed of maintaining
the balance of all things. Besides, it was more fun that way. To him personally, it would be no particular
catastrophe if it didn’t go his, or perhaps their, way. He was used to things
in this world not always working out to the most optimal, or the most benign way.
He had seen evil empires come and go. He had seen mass extinctions, continental drift,
Pandemics – human and otherwise, all come and go again. He recalled his conversations
with a certain Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty on the subject:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> At
one point a a
couple of millennium back Emperor Huizong in China, though they didn’t
call it
that there then, had sent out an edict. OK, more like a question really.
He
gathered all his advisers and far-seers from the land to ask what one
thing
would be true in all earthly mortal situations. They had gathered in
their
robes and their finery, deliberated, debated cussed and dis-cussed until
many, many water buffalo had returned to the rice paddy, and of course,
in the nature of all efforts to seek truth by consensus, had failed
miserably to come up with anything remotely resembling a right answer.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Huizong,
a painter and philosopher of no small talent, needed
to get back to a particularly nice lily, whose vibrant essence and
delicate personage he had been attempting to capturein watercolors for a
considerable time. The Wyvern had known that without this
one, silly little saying, the Dynasty could not reach the next level in
understanding the nature of being. Finally He Who Must NOt be Trifled
With made an appearance in his austere and greatly enlightened self,
before
the Emperor. It was the utmost in privacy of course, as it would not do
to be seen by the masses.<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span> He
had kept the Emperor on edge for a considerable and appropriate length of time.
He found that the full toothy-venomous fanged smile was not needed here in this
place of relative civilization(for that time). Rather, an understated medium faint grin
was more than sufficient to keep the gentle(for that time) man’s attention
without making any crass threats.<br />
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally He-Who spoke: “Do you want to know now? Do you really
want to know?” “Yes. Yes old friend, I
feel it is important beyond my reckoning or surely you would not have
come all
this way through so much time and space, just to partake of my meager
tea time
offerings”. “Then I will tell you. It is…Wait, why Zhao Ji, is that a
new kind
of lily I see on the end table?” “Please!" said Emperor of all he
beheld, except of course He-Who. "Don’t tease an old fool so
unmercifully, you wicked teaser in the possession of all knowledge
you!”(The emperor did tend to lose all
cleverness when rattled in the most charming child like way) "I beg of
you! I prostrate myself before you!” "Surely without your tutelage I and
all my empire, tawdry and base as it must seem to you, shall all expire
in the misery of vital knowledge Unattained, lost to all generations!"<br />
<br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“Heh,
heh Zhao Ji, How could I refuse one so eloquent beyond both his years
and his species?" smoothed the half Wyvern, many centuries Young
Zhao Ji's senior and loving the rare attention (They had stopped calling
</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Huizong</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> that when he got to be Emperor, But
He Who Must Not be Trifled With called everyone by whatever name He chose) “Very well, young Zhao Ji, it is not anything very complicated
it’s just(pointing towards the lily) – This too, shall pass way.” “Of course it
will, tea time will be over whenever we, I mean you of course, say that it is!”
“But, Please, tell me!” “I just did.” said He Who-. <br />
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">“What?!”cried the Emperor, totally not getting it. “I told you young Emperor. This. Too. Shall
Pass”. “Well, yes, but – but , really I would think …wait! You are right!” And
the wyvern was, at least up to the level
any human was able to comprehend at that time. Whatever you thought, whatever
was happening, in it’s time, would also pass out of being, and be no more.<br />
<br />
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Oh sure, now days, at least as recently as that nice young
man Al Einstein had said(such a nice
boy, and he too had passed) - As Al had said “In the end all is energy. It can
be no other way.” Something some of
the more thoughtful of the human race were still wrapping their heads around,
as the youngsters would say.<br />
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">He who Must Not be Trifled With stayed a bit more, in fact
spent the next fifteen years gently and patiently(well mostly
patiently)pounding it through Emperor Huizong’s’s head that “This too Shall Pass”,
while seeming almost insultingly simple, ultimately had far reaching
philosophical and indeed scientific implications.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Then, just before He Who left the now truly old Emperor, he gifted
him with the disturbing proclamation of “Unless of course you want to delve
into physics, quantum and beyond, where everything will be up for grabs again
in the One True Thing scheme of things. The Emperor was both laughing and crying
at the same time as the ageless Wyvern winged his way off towards the west, where he
said there was need of “some serious attitude adjustment”. </span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Little Head-Bob woke up. He could hear the
wind through the oaks and the cedar trees. He could feel a draft coming
in the hole to the nest. Spring here, his first, was still a little
chill in the mornings. He was warm though, huddled up with all his
brothers and sisters so close. His mother’s silent appearance with a
still warm squirrel was met with enthusiastic hoots and rasps from four
different adolescent beaks.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Just out the hole in the oak, where where
they all sat digesting, was the remains of another oak, worn by weather
and eaten by termites. There was little left but a ring of bare trunk
about as tall as an owl, and one almost flat side rising to about the
height of a buck’s shoulder. The outer surface of this side, bark long
gone, showed something else that fascinated Head-Bob, something he had
never seen anywhere else. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> It was the face of a man, prominent nose,
eyes set deep under heavy brow and staring up, directly at the entrance
to the nest. Little Head-Bob had never seen a man. All he knew was that
this face, so different to him, was of something strong and fierce.
Perhaps it was a spirit, some guardian of the woods , perhaps one of
those he heard sighing and whispering in the night.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">On the far side of the small woods, other
beaks were raising more raucous voices, grating and challenging. They
changed the feeling of the woods and indeed the air itself. The Murder
of Crows was awake and casting about for whom, as they say, it might
devour.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Though it was normally his family’s habit
to stay in the nest most of the day, they did sometimes go out into the
limbs of their tree to watch and to listen to their woods. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With his
keen ears he could hear the distant sound of the crows. He had never
seen a crow either, but he had heard them calling through the woods. He
somehow knew their strident voices, heard first from this way and then
that, meant nothing good. Still, he wondered just what all that noise
was really about.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps today was a good day to go for a
little flight. As he hopped to the edge of the limb and pushed off into the air he heard his brother and sisters rasping and calling in dismay at
his abrupt departure. he stopped in a nearby persimmon tree to watch
the remarkable progress of a tortoise crashing loudly through the
remnants of last year’s dead leaves. He wondered how something so like a
rock moving at such a slow pace could make so much noise.</span><br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">He continued on across the wood, thinking
about the tortoise, he had forgotten about the crows. As he flew on,
suddenly there was a crow, another entirely new thing to him, flapping
from limb to limb, all the time cawing more and more loudly and
alarmingly. Another crow, then another, and another until Little
Head-Bob was surrounded by many crows, diving at him, hopping along the
nearest branches as though in mock attack. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He hissed. He flapped and
spread his wings in warning display. The crows were not impressed or
frightened. He dove out of the tree, right at two crows nearest, but
they were too fast, to agile for him to touch. And still as he tried to
get away from them, away from their noise, the crows pursued.</span><br />
<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Little did he know, but would soon
discover, he had just met his second greatest enemy and possible
nemesis. It was not uncommon for an owl to be continually and
relentlessly harassed and pursued, both day and night, until unable to
sleep or to hunt the owl would weaken, succumb and die. The crows had a
system. They had numbers. They could, by working is shifts, keep up
their siege well beyond the strength of any one bird to match. As the
day wore on Head-Bob learned, bit by bit, of the nature of crows.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">As he perched, his back up against the
trunk of the tree, hissing and snapping at the crows, he began to pick
up another sound. Some other unknown creature, was making its way into
the woods. Though most of his attention was on the jeering crows, he
could still track the sounds of the new thing enough to realize it was
coming directly towards him. Was this, he wondered some new foe, taking
advantage of his vulnerability to end his short life?</span><br />
<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">But when the creature emerged from a copse
of cedars The young Great Horned Owl saw something he never would have
expected, even more remarkable the murder of crows. It was a large
thing, walking on two legs, covered in something not fur, not feather,
nor even scales. It carried in its upper limbs something even more
remarkable, a long shiny thing that smelled of fire, some mineral, and
somehow, some new definition of death.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">As Little Head-Bob perched, his back
against the trunk of the tree, transfixed by the shear strangeness of
the thing below, it did a new thing. It turned its head and, staring
him straight in the eye, showed him its face, showed him the face in
the woods. It was the face he had seen all his life, carved in the stump
by his nest.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The thing looked at Head-Bob. It looked at
the crows. It looked at Head-Bob, and again at the crows, and then at
the thing it carried. Its face, as it watched the crows, took on a
harder even more intimidating cast. It raised the thing and pointed it
at the crow nearest to Head-Bob. He saw it hopping towards him on the
limb above his. The world exploded. It ended with the sound and the fury
of a thousand thunder claps. </span><br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The young owl sat up in the grass below,
the crow lay dead a small way in front of him. The rest of the crows had
taken off, but hadn’t gone far. They were mumbling now in the next
tree, to themselves, or the owl, perhaps to the man. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The man spoke,
another new thing. He spoke to the crows. He spoke to the owl.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">“You no-good sons a bitches are gonna learn
to leave my owls alone! And you, young feller, better get back to
Mommy and Daddy while I instruct these miscreants and your gettin’ is
good.”</span><br />
<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Little Head-Bob stayed crouched where he was, unable to move.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">The man, the Spirit of the Woods, waited
one – two – three breaths. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> “I mean leave! Now! And do try to pay
attention to who’s around next time, would you?”</span><br />
<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Little Head-Bob jumped into the air and
flew faster than he had ever flown. Behind him the sound of a thousand
thunders came again, and again, and once more. He went straight back to
his own tree, back to his nest. He buried his face under his wing,
overcome by too much fear and too much amazement, over the crows, over
the man, the face in the woods.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Bob woke up. He looked around him at the
cold dead remnants of last night’s camp fire. He looked at the sandstone
before him there on top of the hill at the edge of the woods.
Everything seemed different, more serious, and more miraculous than he
had ever seemed to feel before. He had no idea why. There was something,
some feeling … he just couldn’t remember.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> He got up, rolled his
sleeping bag and started off towards the house. He wanted coffee, that
first, best cup of the day. He thought he might get his tools, go back
up into woods today, work on that carving of his father’s face. The one
he hadn’t seen in too long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I seem to have ground to a halt on rewriting my '11 NaNo project. I'm not sure where to go from here. It's been in the back of my mind, and seems to be intent on staying there for a while. Instead of beating my head against the proverbial wall, I think it's time to do some things different. Some different things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm thinking on some short story ideas, & some Impressions(poetry)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, and thanks for "tuning in" - Here's Bruce Cockburn, live on KINK.FM, at the Bing Lounge in Portland - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKjgJ3oLJqE&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL444D0D6C7A9C0A20">Lovers in a Dangerous Time</a> , from the album Stealing Fire - to make it worth the trip. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you think in terms of a "trip" in the old LSD "trippin" sense, then the phrase "worth the trip" takes on a little different meaning, huh?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, one more for old time's trippin's sake - Jimi Hendrix, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70tF-9Uf-Mk">Are You Experienced</a>, title track from his 1967 debut. I first heard Jimi in my big brother G's dorm room at St John's Lutheran College in Winfield, Kansas. I think it must have been 1968, because G. also had a new copy of the follow up Axis Bold as Love (1967 in UK, but not released in USA till '68) I think this may have been where the ancient and venerable term "Acid Rock" came into parlance, and for good reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">More later</span>,<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love, john ross</span>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-49513596483130198552012-01-20T18:01:00.000-08:002012-01-20T18:01:19.650-08:00Catching Up - More Small Stones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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#15 Recalling red tail hawks in KS, how they prefer to nest high in sycamore trees, next to creeks. How an adolescent will circle for hours on end, crying for it's parents to come feed it, when it could be hunting. How they watch from fence posts, and tilt their heads in thought.<br />
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#16 So - if sound waves are capable of molecular changes to matter, might
constant 8k MHz tinnitus ring change brain, or is wave even there?<br />
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Standing in the Portland rain, in the evening, watching the cherry tree, its branches bare in winter. Feeling the wind, feeling it's curves<b>.</b></div>
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#20 <b> </b>Half past January. In the last two hours the precipitation has gone from rain to snow and back again, three times. Snowing out the window now, flakes the size of quarters. Fire place going. The Ring is up loud. Now it's Winter in Portland.</div>
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</div>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1314638420644210764.post-9160489859491107972012-01-11T07:11:00.000-08:002012-01-11T07:28:41.874-08:00Stone #11The Ring is strong in this one.<br />Combination today - 8k, 6K, and 4.7k mhz<br />It's a regular symphonium dream<br /><br />Breath in. Breath out.<br />Stretching face muscles<br />to relax them back down<br /><br />Chill morning. Last night, I recall<br />A ring around the Moon<br />like a rainbow halo<br /><br />A pill for this, a pill for that<br />to gain some semblance of normalcy<br />some measure of functionality<br /><br />In my head, I hear....<br />We No Speak American0<br />visuals, hand dance by<br />Up and Over it<br /><br />Wait a minute, wait a minute,<br />Here I'll give it to you<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iANRO3I30nM">this Link to them on youtube</a>John Ross Barneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05816733538316861849noreply@blogger.com4