wishing upon a star (even if it's the moon)

star light, star bright, first star i see tonight
i wish for new life and new love and lasting joy.

ok, it's the city, and star sightings are fewer & farther between. but while riding home from Diesel, Saturday late, i found my old mistress moon out presiding over the night; it was so *good* to see her again and i made my wish.

and i've also been reborn and transformed -- hairwise, that is. perhaps the hair will help with the wishing. :-D

nice niche (& Nena noodling)

to catch up on old events: Earthlink totally dissed us, and we went with RCN's high speed internet for a much better deal (and actual service, instead of empty promises). (and NOT with Charter, who would only sell it to us with cable tv service -- and we don't even have a tv!) am also enjoying the writing again as i haven't in *years* -- thank you, Diesel Cafe.

"Maybe it was the city, being in the city, that made him feel how queer everything was and that it was something else."
[E.B. White, 'The Door']

spent a few hours sync-ing & combining the 1984 Nena song (in German) '99 Luftballons' with her English version '99 Red Balloons', so that the right channel is German and the left channel is English. contact me if you'd like a copy of my remix. ;-)

fish -- definitely fish

the bait is cut, and it's time to fish.

when i close my eyes i can envision a world as i want it, get comfortable in that world, and then open my eyes and see that the actual world out there isn't so bad after all. nor are the people.

just relax, let out the breath you're holding in as you cast out your line, watch where it lands, and reel it back in as you inhale again. who cares if it's the best cast ever; just give it a shot.

the city

ah, the city again. dancing at Dance Path; a Lila Downs concert at the MFA; and Diesel Cafe, of course. and high speed internet again -- BBC radio, i can't turn it off!

i'm writing again, too. yay!

and people -- i'm with people once more! a vacation from the monastery in Southborough, whether temporary or permanent, is *most* welcome. just can't get enough.

thanks for listening; cheerio for now.

cut bait or fish?

the view in the other direction at Newcomb Hollow, where my spirit lives.

should i go on vacation this summer? (and be with people and do things and have fun?) of course i should.

but the harder question - should i go back to school? (and take a grad degree in English?) maybe; maybe not. (or perhaps computational cognitive linguistics?) again, maybe or maybe not. or should i just remain the academic bum i've been for ten years, and just read & write & study what i please?

Earthlink update

ok, i complained about them before, but now they seem to be making good on their original offer, crediting my bill to make good on the originally promised (and still currently advertised when i called to complain) price. just goes to show that putting in the time on the phone with customer service sometimes pays off.

erosion of a dream

i was at my favorite place in the whole world again two weeks ago. the usual winter erosion combined with a week of heavy storms have claimed another ten or twenty feet of beach from this spot on the outer Cape.

the high tide line has moved almost to the edge of the parking lot and is eroding the high dunes on either side. thankfully the beaches on the inner Cape are getting *more* sand, some of it migrating from the outer. Cape Cod -- always in motion.