Musings

We began the morning in a fog. Real fog. We took care of the coffee-fog with the usual medicinal application!

At our first stop, we went back in time to the Mississippian world, which must have been rich in symbolic imagery, stories of other-worlds, and so on—enough to make you shiver. Archaeologists and art historians call this critter the horned serpent, and also use uktena, which is/is from a Cherokee word.

Next stop was in Selma, the Edmund Pettus Bridge. We didn’t walk across, only part way; however, we drove across three times We also looped by the Brown Chapel AME Church, which is where the SCLC met, and where the three marches in 1965 that headed from Selma to Montgomery began.

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These awards are given out around the nation. The country is divided into 100 geographic areas (with similar populations?). The Mid-South region included parts of three states. The art was in many forms…drawing, photography, fashion, sculpture, and so on. The six judges spent four days with something like three thousand pieces in three age-graded groups. These five from the “Junior” group are receiving the highest level awards, and their pieces go into the national competition. One is our friend, and a talented, smart, lovely gal. She got one medal for that painting?drawing? piece. She got two other medals for two other submissions. So, out of the Junior group, she took home three of those red-ribboned medals…. Major kudos!

And when I loaned her my phone and fish-eye lens, this is what she created….

As part of our celebrations, we headed downtown for pizza. Turned out that the streets and restaurants were clogged with film-weekend folks. We ended up doing take-out and it was yummy. I listened for Faulkner’s footsteps and looked for his ghost. Nada.

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Of course you travel to find out more about what you expect to see and learn about. I also travel for the surprises. Like this: a fancy curtain treatment in a…ready? rest area display area!!

In Mississippi.

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A ride-through car wash is a rather unsettling experience. However, I don’t yearn for the economy of Oaxaca when we lived there years ago, and (incredibly cheap—to me—and off-street) downtown parking included a car wash as enticement for your business—totally done by hand by men/boys with buckets of scarce water and rags.

I know garbanzos are beans and beans have pods, but garbanzos in pods still catch my eye as a curiosity.

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A day late…Happy Val’s Day….

Take no meaning from the “mini.”

And an early fleur, too.

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More cops today, still staying at the edge of things; two more were across the street. Bigger crowd than last week (yay!). We sent up well upwards of 300 valentines asking for a town hall. Word from the Senator’s office is that he believes we are paid to show up. Hah! As one sign indicated…I’m not paid to be here, and who pays you, Senator?…and you DO NOT show up….

Two camera-guys from news sources, too…11 on the left and 34 on the right. That’s the local NBC and Univision stations. This is good, too.

And…flower power. [You had to know this was coming!] Week four….

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We had alternate coffee this morning, not the regular drip but instead moka-pot-style espresso. The process results in a coffee-puck after the water passes through the grounds. And the top of the puck has little dots or holes from the passage of the steam-hot water.

Extra caffeine, I think….

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I took my shower today with three ladybugs. [Get yer thoughts outta the gutter.]

The early bulbs are…flowering? fluorescing?

Why is it never Woodchuck Day?*

This has been on my mind for…12 days….

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I love that the camellias come out in February, and usually before.

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A GooFiber truck made enough noise in the street that we and neighbors checked out the…situation….

Don’t things often loop back to connectivity? To networks…. (Eh, I’m probably off on a tangent.)

Me, I got stuck in the life of Henry II of England and his sons. He had five…with Eleanor of Aquitaine. And, geeze, over time, those people squabbled and aligned and re-aligned, and…for today’s narrow purposes (that is, my narrow viewpoint), well, I only cared about that bunch within the context of Isabel de Clare and William Marshal—they were never overshadowed, in their time, as a power couple. Comparable is not possible today….

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