– Yesterday. Profoundly uneventful. Read a book in Thompkins Square Park. Went home. Drank too much coffee to sleep.
– ALMANAC SAYS –
For good luck, always remove the left shoe before the right.
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned.
This morning I re-rediscovered the Cenci preshow CD that Travis burned me back in 1/2000. Almost every track plays. In fact, I almost jumped right out of my seat the moment that the trumpet blast from the end of the murder scene came on.
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I have no memories from August, 1985 that I trust. I know a bit about what was going on then, though. I was no longer attending Valley School, but my parents were home schooling. I turned seven years old. Field trips at this time consisted of going to the Saginaw and Lansing Zoos and the Impressions 5 museum.
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– Great weekend!
Friday I went to the Met for the first time. It truly is the hugest museum I’ve ever been, and I’m pretty sure the FIA could fit in maybe two-third of the Egyptian collection. I’ve planned on returning, so it was never my intention to take in the whole place.
One of my perennial complaints against the Democratic Party at large is that they play a defensive game. Not in terms of their foreign policy, but in terms of their political strategy. They are too caught up in number crunching and trying to out-tough the Republicans to actually hold their ground against the Republicans in issues in which progressives have the advantage.
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I had my camera, but since I mostly just take street shots anyway, and there are plenty online (for example, through the Bridge and Tunnel Club, I’ve tried just to walk and take in the scenery. I started out at Yankee Stadium, since the main reason I’d come up here was to exchange last years rained-out Tigers tickets for this years hopefully-sunny Tigers tickets.
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– Yesterday was a pretty great day. The only down moment was that I’ve been having bad dreams pretty much every night this week. However, work went well, and afterwards I took the train up to the Bronx to procure tickets for Tigers v.
… Read the restMeandering thoughts this Thursday morning.
One of the major reasons I ultimately left the Unitarian Church was because its defined search for truth was so unfocused that it didn’t offer me much by way of spiritual nourishment.
That said, looking back at the changes in religion and religious organization over the last millennium, and then considering the present and future, I wonder what changes are ahead.
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