The rich think everybody's rich. That's their si
n, forgetfulness - Tim Winton in the winter dark
The thing with NK jenison is that the younger versions of herself, are credibly different characters and this doesn't feel like a conceit, it feels like a profound truth she's trying to express about middle age, which is that the younger versions of yourself are like strangers in your own conception.
Distant thunder
Pretty
Carolina blue sky on the other side of the gorgeous black and grey clouds
Hail!!
- text mesaage from my mom that felt like a haiku
I'm always happy when I'm in the music.
The smell of jasmine suffuses Brisbane.
Some versions of the night sky feel like day
There is always a part of us that does not want to win, wants to stay down in the low and familiar. -Ta-Nehisi Coates The water dancer
If you could be happy about it, you would be fine, so just take a breath and let it have happened, with your coconut fingers and your honey coloured hair
Samoweiss is a hospital administrator who discovered you should wash your hands I'm reading about in Phantom plague. And he does a bunch of great scientific method in eliminating variables etc, but more so what sets him apart is is willingness to not know. Like there were a bunch of bad air style explanations which just didn't make sense like the air and crowding were worse in the midwives clinic with a quarter of the death rates, but we'd rather know so people kept mouthing these explanations you can prove aren't true. And what set this guy apart is he was willing to understand he didn't know and so try to find out.
Well I try my best to be just like I am but everybody wants you to be just like them, they say sing while you slave and I just get bored
So maybe music is a sublimated sex impulse hard to tell but I like to think of it more like both things produce ecstacy so there's similarities in the responses there.
Reflections on Antigone vs home fire: 1. The mundanity of the conflict between sisters one trying to follow the rules one trying to rebel fighting but clearly with such a long relationship translates so well that you hear the modern dialogue in the ancient, just such a relatable relationship. 2. Antigone who will "stop at nothing" she says herself on like the second page. "A girl who looks like that, and will do anything" this is perhaps the defining characteristic of the character.
Need to get aeschelus seven against thebes
But before you as before a god we lie, miserable. Come grant an unexpected grace. -Oedipus at colonus which also has stranger in a strange land in it.
I do not wish to feel pain twice, first doing the labor and then again speaking of it
-Oedipus at colonus
Fantasy trip to Charleville:
Day 1 after work you take off fast. As soon as you can get the car four or five and go the 2 hours to Toowoomba where you have dinner, then try to make two to three more hours after dinner to wherever you can get to to take a bite out of the trip.
Day 2: you want to hit the road early You've targeted hitting Roma this night but that's pretty optimistic (like 51/2 hours that first night) so you might have only made it to Miles (home of cronuts four hours out) this first day. This means you've got between 3 and 4.5 hours to go to hit Charleville. You've got time for a breakfast somewhere but want to limit side quests cause you want to hit Charleville pretty early. What you want to do there:
1. Botanical gardens this is a 2k walk and a 20-30k driving loop but the driving loop will take a couple hours so this is what the am is for, or youll want to take a session out of the afternoon.
2. The planetarium. 2 key shows the sun show is at 2pm and the star show is at 7 pm. There's also a few regular planetarium shows you can see between times if you have an hour to kill and the interest and there's a little exhibit you can walk through.
3. The flying doctor exhibit, self paced and pretty quick and next door to the planetarium so you want to do these at the same time.
4. Drink at the longest bar in Australia as well as the pub with no beer, you want to stay in the historic pub hotel its got some cute stuff and a lovely atmosphere and pretty nice rooms for a pub. You can have a night cap here after the star show.
Day 3: head back this is 9 hours about so you want to break it up with some side quests but also be conscious of time.
This is the regular weekend version of the plan, as you can see its a bit of a killer of a drive. More ideal is the 3 d weekend version which lets you not do the botanical drive when you've just driven and choose a nice stop eg roma to take a little time at plus more random side quests on your way. If a four day weekend you can even look at the northern loop.
Western loop I actually did which inspired this future plan:
Day 1: Got out of work early and was on the road with the car filled up by like four which got me there like dinner ish tho pretty hungry and wrecked hence the new Toowoomba dinner plan.
Day 2: took off straight away stopped for breakfast at miles which had a high quality tho not veg friendly breakfast -- quality cronuts identified here which were rich enough they lasted us all day. Took a walk around their river park as well. All these western towns seem to be built around some creek and they've got a public park on like an identical design looping around it, with a troll bridge and a path and some nice plantings and probs some geese. We stopped at a few of these and they were pretty good value.
Lunch in roma which J had described as a like one building operation but I found a full town you could live in like it was Brisbane unless you wanted like theater or something. Had a veggie parmy which was great and watched the people go by.
We took a bunch of brochures from roma, its a bit of a hub and went to the big rig, roadside thing there which os a giant oil rig you can see a view from and a museum with a bunch of oil marketing info about how oil saves the whales as well as some fun big machinery and info. Also went to the biggest baobab tree in town, they're not really called baobab but the Aussie equivalent. It was a killer tree like 15 steps around.
And then onward to Charleville which is the pub with no beer. We went through some lovely big sky pastureland this afternoon. Charleville we stayed in this v old pub which had a little museum of the pld stuff of the original family who owned it and maybe still does. I had to drive some in the dark both days which was hare raising because of the animals.
Day 3: Charleville we had breakfast the next morning and went to see the flying doctor museum, and explored the pubs little artifacts and then left town down into tiny roads now.down to cunnamulla. We hit cunnamulla in the afternoon and there was high winds, the cunnamulla fella was there and a storm was brewing so we took off pretty quick and kept rolling. Smallish darkish roads with goats everywhere. There were some old water sources indigenous people used to use when they were on their way to the bunya pines.
I saw a flock of wild emus, two crossed the road and when you glanced where they went it was 10-12 more.
We landed in time for footy and a big feed in a amall town by the river, forget its name
Day 4 then the next day we had a nice Riverwalk and found an adorable coffee truck and hit the road, torching back all the way to Brisbane with some stops. The most impressive of these was this giant mural which goes across like 6 grain silos in Yelarbon where we also stopped at a park for a bit of a walk but mostly the giant ness of the mural! And you see a lot of these little half dead towns that feel like they're dying, but also a lot of little towns with a lot of sense of themselves and passion to keep going and Charleville and Yelarbon both felt like that.
After Yelarbon we started to kick it pretty hard for home, still had some hours but managed to make it back to Brisbane for a well deserved sitar dinner, with only a small issue with the police due to a ill advised u turn right in front of them.
If god existed and gos were benevolent and god were omnipresent then what would God want of me
Weekend dreams
Wax legs
Have bath
Eat something
Make tea
Write diary
Get pedicure
Watch movie
Write letter
Play civ
Ok May is over tomorrow. Jeremy got home yesterday. It's time for life and love to change again.
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