Not exactly a silver lining, but close
I took a trip this weekend. Really a failed trip. I took my wife to my cousin’s in Stowe, VT to look at leaves but it turns out they’ve barely started changing so we saw a whole lot of green.
Going to my cousin’s has the advantage of allowing us to bring the dog. That means a lot of walking, which in Stowe this time of year is pleasant. Also a lot of nighttime walking, which I do anyway. We were coming back from a walk in a dark enough area that I needed to use a flashlight to see (wooded bicycle path, trees blocking sky) when I looked up and saw this. This being taken on an IPhone maybe a couple of years old, the sky looked black to me but blue in the photograph. Those phones lighten night photos. But the glowing rim of the cloud was the same.
This won’t be a post I care about saving. I have the shot. I hope the rest of you are saving whatever you want to keep.
09/28/2021 @ 6:06 pm
Kosh, it doesn’t look like I am going to shut this down just yet. I have some ideas running around my brain, and I’m not even on cocaine.
09/29/2021 @ 1:22 pm
Good for you/us Alan!
09/28/2021 @ 6:57 pm
Seriously? What’s going on?
09/29/2021 @ 1:28 pm
I think it means that Alan is going to try to kee hope alive.
09/30/2021 @ 12:37 pm
{…} mojo rising for sure {…} it’s either this or tambourine lessons {…}
09/30/2021 @ 2:59 pm
I can’t help you with tambourine. I can sort of play one and people would think I knew how but I’m just good at faking it. Ask me about something else and maybe I can help.
09/29/2021 @ 3:35 pm
That’s what he said. I’m asking for details
10/01/2021 @ 4:43 am
Koshersalaami ~~ I homage(d) Hunter S. Thompson’s dedication of his ‘Fear and Loathing…’ seminal book as I recollect it was dedicated to Bob Dylan for composition of Mr. Tambourine Man.
Also, ‘mojo’ is an attempted salutation to the great Jim Morrison and his ‘L.A. Woman’. People writing songs: LO;} All this as a frustrated reaction to recent news clips of schoolboard reps gettin’ pushed around by acrimonious thugs. Somewhat over-caffeinated on another ‘dark night of the soul….’ Yeah and here’s another thread ‘filler’ re: a genre I’ve pretty much over looked:
—Science Fiction— during that ‘great big hill’ of university literature perusals amidst the Vietnam War era….
Spent a beautiful afternoon searching for print version of ‘The Mote in God’s Eye’– Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle —1974.
Here’s an excerpt:
(sic)
‘New Caledonia is the capital of the Trans-Coalsack sector, on the opposite side of the Coalsack Nebula from Earth. Also in the sector is a red supergiant star known as Murcheson’s Eye. Associated with it is a yellow Sun-like star, which from New Caledonia appears in front of the Eye. Since some see the Eye and the Coalsack as the face of God, the yellow star is known as the Mote in God’s Eye.’ — Wikipedia
Regret the abrupt ‘topic change’; however it is uncanny how happenstance/eclecticism from time to time perhaps sheds as much light on reality as the surreality of our current state of affairs.
Anxious to learn what Editor Alan Milner devises.
Hey that’s all I’ve got, guys.
That and a long strange trip on roids!
10/01/2021 @ 10:42 am
Alan slipped in a Dave Van Ronk reference. Esoteric.