The Crow: duct tape

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Desktop

Site of recent spidercide.

Not much to say this morning; working on payroll taxes for the little Quaker school at my Meeting, for which I volunteer to take care of the bookkeeping stuff.

I wrote, a few posts back, about duct tape being a girl's (old broad's) best friend. Just thought I'd show Duct Tape Use #976 - tea mug holder. Probably wouldn't need it if I kept my desktop clean, but since the tape was already there, and since there wasn't room enough anywhere else to place my mug, I plopped it into the space conveniently provided by the tape manufacturer.

I think this might qualify for one of those things that "works well," which blog-friend Barrett Bonden writes about in his blog. Maybe not. But it works well for me this morning.
(c) 2009 Martha McLemore

Meaningful Quotes

"We are displaced by time."

-Marian Marshall Suplee Griest, late (first) mother-in-law, spoken to me in January 1994, in a dream after her death.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - D. H. Lawrence (via Whiskey River, 8-22-2014)

"There is something scary about letting ourselves
go. It means that we will screw up, that we will relinquish the possibility of perfection. It means that we will say things we didn't mean to say and express feelings we can't explain. It means that we will be onstage and not have complete control, that we won't know what we're going to play until we begin,
until the bow is drawn across the strings.

While this spontaneous method might be frightening, it's also an extremely valuable source of creativity. The lesson about letting go is that we contain our own creativity. We are so worried about playing the wrong note or saying the wrong thing that we end up with nothing at all." - Jonah Lehrer (via Whiskey River, 10/22/2014)