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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Time is an illusion that helps things make sense

My MIL had dementia; she was all gone, but the body remained.

Now she has passed.

Before she disappeared, but was clearly going, we had a couple of talks in front of a photo collage my SIL made. Family photos, photos of my MIL with her mom, photos of her with her family, as a child, as a young woman in a bathing suit on a beach.

And we'd go over them, identifying who each person was. And in all the older, gray haired photos, my MIL would identify the person in the photo that was her, as her mother, never herself. "No, that's not me, that's my mother." In the younger ones, it was her story, but as a different person. She'd just make up stories. It was my job to correct her, to place her in those photos in those times in this role and that, to keep her in this time, right now.

"Time is an illusion that helps things make sense

Because we are always living in the present tense

It seems unforgiving when a good thing ends

But you and I will always be back then"

And eventually, we'd just talk about time. For her, all these things were happening all around her at the same time, simultaneously a girl, a beach babe, a mother, a grandmother. The river of time and the order we give it are eddying and swirling around her, as she drifts downstream; "Picture yourself in a boat on a river."

"If there was some amazing force outside of time to take us back to where we were
And hang each moment up like pictures on the wall
Inside a billion tiny frames so that we can see it all, all, all

Will happen, happening, happened.

But you and I will always be back then."

Song/lyrics Rebecca Sugar, all rights to her, hooray!

If you would like to read a really great graphic novel that covers this topic (or just read the original one)

https://www.qwantz.com/slaughterhouse/

(or just read the original one)

Both are very fine

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I am going into another quarter of hard coursework in accounting, and will post sewing but it will be a bit thin on the ground until this is done in April.

Also the pandemic seems to be roaring back, and I don't know what that means for my work schedule.

Take care of each other, take care of yourselves.

Be kind.

Friday, August 20, 2021

Slightly Partly Mostly

Noncommittal weather forecast

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Metro Safety Survey

This is a real survey from my real bus service. And yes, I would love to be the Czar of Bus Routes

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And another dire warning from Feedburner. I dunno..

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Stuff That Happens Here in December After Xmas

I'm really not so much into Christmas as I am into putting more lights out and up and all over.

My collection of 1970s Blowmold Snowmen

http://www.blow-molded.com/Empire___Snowmen.html

They like to get all rainbow on the mantle.

It's actually the only holiday display of the year. The Child Who Likes The Tree does not live here anymore, so it was just this

And the chair on the porch.

But the Snowfolx electrical situation is disturbing and needs specific repairs.

There's three light cords, one with two bulbs that looks sketchy but is solidly wired. We don't leave these guys plugged in to that outlet unattended. And yes, they have their own smoke alarm.

For one, they need cooler bulbs. LEDs would be swell.

And one string with widely spaced bulbs and a online switch.

None of this is hard, but none of it is off the rack.

Thus, an afternoon on the interweb, finally landing at

Christmas Light Source.

And no, this is not an ad. I haven't bought anything from them. But I probably will.

They use a lot of their own photography, and many YouTube demo videos.

I mean, check that wrench out.