My dad recently had a heart attack. In a couple days he gets open heart surgery. Before that, last fall into the winter, my wife and mom were both diagnosed with breast cancer. They recovered nicely and gracefully. Before that, for a couple years over lapping into the cancer diagnoses, I had varying degrees of injuries to a leg and shoulder/arm from hiking and weight lifting. Aside from volunteering at the radio station with my radio show, I have been playing and feeling pretty low. Some of the time it was self pity but for the most part, we all have just been trying to rally the past few years. As a result I had to say no to a lot of people and things. A lot of people never asked why or just stopped asking. It made me mad at first and then I remembered, we all have our stuff and we are trying to rally. Just as we were rallying, we are now into extra innings with my dad.
That’s a bunny that got attacked by a cat. I pet the bunny as it passed and then had to go check in my dad at the hospital. I buried it when I got back home. I said this to the bunny as I carried him in a shovel to it’s final resting place:
Hey bunny, sorry that cat got you. I hope your time and experience as a bunny was at least a decent one. If we are all souls connected, maybe you will come back as a tree or a person who eventually always has a pet bunnies. Thanks for letting me pet you. You are soft. We probably could have been friends. If I ever see that cat, want me get revenge? Just kidding. Hope your next experience has a more pleasant outcome.
These events definitely made me think more about mortality and spirituality. My wife and I usually have at least two or three conversations a week about that coupled with space exploration, UFOs and other normals call woo-woo stuff like telepathy, lucid dreaming, and meditation.
Spent some time in the north country this weekend to help out around my parents’ house. My wife and I planted some flowers and got some work done in and outside the house. It was too cold and windy to have a bonfire last night so we just watched the moon rise above the bay from inside. Earlier in the day, we ventured into General Brown Days, specifically the garage sales and in this year, Dexter, NY, instead of Brownville. My wife found a North Face jacket for $5. No photos of the jacket or the moon but I did find the above in Dexter and it made me proud to know that some people like me still live in that area.
Currently reading: The Butcher of Nazareth by David Scott Hay. A review of the book. For his previous book, [NSFW], I reviewed it:
If Georges Bataille wrote Story of the Eye while working for META.
I read [NSFW] after reading this at Largehearted Boy.
Blogs, right? Just like a lot of people have gone back to owning music on vinyl, cd and cassette, I hope blogs make a comeback.
I DJ’d for WAYO at the record fair at Radio Social. A full two hour set of space music. That was pretty fun. Got some great compliments and caught some people mindfully joining me into the grove I was feeling in my selections. Played a selection of psych, motorik, city pop, French pop, space disco, and cosmic jazz. I snuck a few non spacey songs in there as well. And I didn’t buy any records. Playing in the photo above is the first song in the set, Spiritualized’s “I Think I’m In Love,” off my all time favorite record. The baseline on that song always gets me.
Movies I’ve seen recently:
A cool movie about an octopus. Sally Field is in it too. I watched a movie about a stowaway. Anna Kendrick is in it too.
On “TV”: Widow’s Bay on Apple TV is very entertaining. Getting really tired with For All Mankind. While well intentioned, I’m finding it pretty corny and predictable. Hoping the Star City show will be equally entertaining as most seasons were for For All Mankind. It would be pretty cool if they eventually made a cut of both series happening at the same time … if that is what they are actually doing with the new show. Started the Burroughs. It’s supposedly like Stranger Things but in a retirement community in the middle of Arizona. First episode was pretty good.
I need to get better about writing in my other blogs. I have a cool story about the picture above that I need to feel is ready for the world to read. And I have reviews of albums in my notes app that I need to put together. I should probably do that now ……
But first, it’s the internet. Back in the day, a lot of the blogs I read included a random assortment of cat photos from time to time.
