- 22:22 Another Dragon Reader Journal sold! That sells best, but there are more: bit.ly/6C7H6i
Yuletide Dragon and Snow Fleas are also up. 
Hope to get them up at my Zazzle shop and deviantArt prints in addition to the CafePress one... if anyone has preferences as to which outlet they like the most, I'd love some feedback.
- 22:45 is grateful for my "Strange Pillows" mermaid watercolor being featured in a #deviantArt news post: fav.me/n95342
- 15:58 UEA climate change hacked e-mails: tried to upload to RealClimate.org: www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2
009/11/the-cru-hack/
- 23:24 Need art (fantastical)? Want to write, trade DVDs, have bellydance gear? Barter with Ellen: ellenmillion.livejournal.com/989984.html
- 23:10 Thanks to D for buying a Dragon Reader Blank Book from my @cafepress shop! www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams.180455
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- 23:17 Bat, dying off. It matters.
www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2009/11/15/whats_killing_the_bats?mode=PF
- 13:36 Maple leaf candies in 3 sizes from the Field Farm! Photos of small sizes to come soon: http://www.thefieldfarm.com/maplesu
gar.htm#candies
- 17:18 Tying narrative/learning to search/info on WWW:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/you-can-get-there-from-here-websites-for-l earners/
- 13:14 www.echovermont.org/events/cafescitopics/t
opic10.html
Soon: we detect food pathogens & more ourselves. Consequences? Discuss @ECHO - 17:30 Yesterday, we went to the student matinee of Momix ( http://www.flynncenter.org/show_pages/S
MN10M.shtml ). Fabulous, fantastic, phenomenal!
- 11:57 is "officially" on maternity leave with new baby girl, Abigail, 10 lbs 1oz. Yay!
ReVisions' most current newsletter. Comments on content? Send 'em to Merryn Rutledge of ReVisions. Comments on layout? Send 'em to me. The funny URL is because we use MailChimp for our e-newsletter service (quite happily too). Subscribe if you like; she usually writes about leadership and other management concerns, and sends 3-4 issues a year.
- 10:44 Ideas for Leaders 12(4): Meta Leadership Across Organizations - eepurl.com/esbh
- 13:24 was not online for 3 days! Withdrawal? (Preschool had inservice so no work :( , baby appts (all well); at home with family). Getting to some work today!
- 14:22 Especially for Kaile (via EllenMillion on LJ):
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/nov/13/pop.art.copyright
- 11:04 I'm a "Member of the Day" at www.elfwood.com/ !! Woot!
- 10:38 Client newsletter: full version on site; mailable ver. ready to go after one last client check... Phew! Time to stretch...
- 10:52 blog.echovermont.org/
- 12:18 For the 3rd time this past week, a hairy woodpecker is tapping on our house. Not sure whether to worry about the house or the woodpecker.
- 18:56 Great afternoon with kids b/c of sisterK! Yay! She's so awesome.
- 23:10 Thanks to GM for ordering http://www.cafepress.com/whimsicaldreams.2
7285886 !! Much appreciated!
- 10:46 Involved in conversation about God, world as it is...I find I can discuss this without having same belief in God as my friend has. Cool.
- 12:04 Did I mention it's SUNNY??!! Glorious!!
(Must rest now; was stacking some wood in lovely sun + breeze. Slowly, I promise! Very slowly!) - 17:05 Uncut version of client newsletter finalized, as are newest contacts. Phew. Now to make website version, cut version, & get it mailed.
Re that God bit: One thing I found interesting was how in the course of responding to some posts recently is that many of us responding felt it needful to clarify our own lack of similar belief. Some of us, not so much. So I was wondering: is it necessary to say you don't share the same ideas (full disclosure sort of thing)? If someone asks for "your thoughts and prayers be with us" or something like that, do you find it needful to explain that you can't quite do as they ask because your beliefs are different? What if the requester is a believer in Faeries, or Norse Gods, or Christian God, or Judaic God? Does how you respond change? What if the believer is sort of similar to you in belief, but not quite? What if you are vastly different? What if the requester is atheist or agnostic, and asking only for well-wishes, and you want to also pray for them?
I'm perfectly happy to talk about my beliefs, but I'm not always sure that mine are particularly relevant to a conversation. This leads me to wonder: can one discuss, debate, analyze, and tease out theological ideas without getting into one's own beliefs, and still do this honestly? I hope so, since that's what I've been doing...I feel like I can ask relevant questions, suspend (as it were) my own disbelief (if any) long enough to say "if so, then what about...?"
Anyway, this natter is mostly an outgrowth of thinking about stuff
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jaipur has been posting, but not just there (of course); my family has a fairly diverse range of beliefs from member to member, and I'm often interested in exploring the consequences and ramifications of a set of beliefs without wanting to get into who's got the truth of it and whether or not we should agree. I suppose this ties into my sense of a sort of independence of validity (someone's feelings about a circumstance can be valid and appropriate regardless of whether I would have the same feelings about or in those circumstance).Clearly, I am beginning to ramble. Ooops. Better head off to bed. Or to watch some very silly TV streaming on Hulu. (
jere7my, thanks for the recommendation for FlashForward. I like the characters less than in Fringe but think (so far) the story has more interesting layers. Fun combo.)- how:working
- 14:48 For readers of my LJ "blog": I've added details & thoughts to the short status update entries (Oct 5-yesterday). (More for me than you? :) )
- 16:15 Ewww. Cool. (via Supergee) http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2
009/10/091008-giant-sea-mucus-blobs.html
- 10:59 just updated some SF/Fantasy Convention Listings at emg-zine.com/calendar.php for Oct- Feb.
Always looking for additions/changes!
- 16:18 Lovely time at our first corn maze with MamaJenn, Preston, Grayson! Thanks!
After meandering slowly (me) and racing up and back (kids and Jenn), we found the treat tokens and the 5 clues, but no painted ears. We did learn that the paths made (from above) the shapes of a barn, a silo, and a tractor. How is this done? Can a corn-planting machine be made to lay seed in patterns like a sewing machine can be programmed?
We lounged on the grass near rows of for-sale pumpkins for a picnic, and then bought some brownies from a local school fundraiser, a few tiny gourds, and petted a young Bernese Mountain Dog. I got (unsurpisingly) that much more sore* but it was pretty well worth it.
Mo and I came home, chilled out, my on the couch resting my pelvis joints and working on our Hallowe'en ears and him playing some PBS kids games online** until he talked me into getting up to feed him and make some paper airplane thing...
* The front bone in your pelvis is actually a joint, bound strongly with ligaments. When (if) your body is preparing to deliver a baby, this starts (ideally) to stretch, in part because the baby's head is pressing the hell down on it most of the goddamn time --ahem--at least near the end of the pregnancy. It can hurt. Mine hurts like hell for about half of my waking hours (the other half it's either rested from the night or I'm doing something else and not paying attention to it).
** I try to limit him: One hour of banal repetitive DVD I hide from v. one hour of online somewhat educational games that I can observe while working. Only sometimes it's both. I feel vaguely guilty the whole damn time (why are we not helping each other with chores, doing crafts, building castles, playing music, ...?) even though I know my own grandmother, who I respected deeply, allowed me a similar hour. Ah well! Parenting. Silly thing.
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