Posts Tagged ‘random writing’
Random Snippets
Oh my gosh, we must have a large wolf traipsing across our property! Wait. No, that’s Asher’s pawprint. Never mind.
The ground is thawing during the day, and what little snow is left is getting pretty soft. It refreezes overnight and leaves some perfect prints in the morning.
The fields are almost clear of snow now.
The warm weather has triggered some fresh raccoon activity, and Asher has figured out a family is living in a tree just beyond the edge of the yard that he can see out the bedroom door to the deck. Shortly after the sun drops below the horizon, he starts barking in protest of their existence. It goes on for a good half-hour while they busy themselves in full view on the branches up high doing whatever it is they do before setting out for their regular overnight routine. Fixing their masks, maybe.
I haven’t figured out where I put my new pruning saw yet. It wasn’t in the next place I thought to look.
In the category of things I can’t seem to finish after starting, I got out the trail cam recently and then brought it in because there were no new tracks, and the temperature dropped to insanely cold levels for days. Since then, there have been a lot of new tracks, and the weather has warmed dramatically, but for some reason, I can’t bring myself to set the camera back up.
Maybe that’s because I figure I’ll just get a bunch of pictures of the raccoons, and I’d rather not see how many there really are. Ignorance is bliss.
That bitter cold delivered the first significant crack in our once pristine new asphalt driveway that isn’t so new anymore.
It’s like getting the first scratch in a new car. You wish it would never happen, but you know it will eventually. Unfortunately, as soon as we got the first one, a second appeared closer to the house within a day or two. This is why we can’t have nice things.
Snippets, all of them. Random, too. Take that, Universe. It might even make sense if one keeps the bigger picture in mind. I don’t actually know. I just write ‘em.
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No Accumulation
The following are random snippets of no particular relation beyond being composed in the last hour…
When it snows in April, two of the best words to hear are “No accumulation.” Thank goodness we are not being subjected to a return of the white blanket covering everything outside today. In fact, the precipitation of the last two days has turned our fields much more decidedly green. After so many days in a row last week where it was downright HOT outside, switching back to snow would be a tough pill to swallow. It’s hard not to feel like I’m just getting too old for this.
The horses didn’t seem very happy with the weather this morning, pacing back and forth around the overhang grumpily while I tried to take care of the housekeeping before setting out feed pans.
My spring primping of our landscape is happening in fits and starts. The last trimming I did of bushes and trees is all laying on the ground pretty much where it fell Friday, waiting to be hauled off to some bush pile out of sight. I guess, the truth is there is a significant accumulation of trimmed branches piling up outside.
we are not allowed
to know exactly why
the simple wink of an eye
from someone who is incredibly shy
fails to overtly imply
the end of a sentence
that never got properly finished
In the last few days, there has been news of swift justice demonstrated for a person who leaked top secret documents. Arrest him! Lock him up! Press charges! Why does it take so much longer for some crimes than others?
As much as I enjoy local spectator sports, I have had a difficult time catching our MLS team, the MNUFC Loons, in one of their glory moments. I saw last night’s broadcast of their home game against Orlando City where the Loons scored the first goal. YAY!! Then they allow a tying goal and in the last few minutes of game time, a go-ahead goal to lose. That’s not a spectacle I enjoy so much.
It feels a bit like a cold and drizzly Sunday after a warm and sunny week. However, on the bright side, NO ACCUMULATION of snow!
Thus far.
Afternoon Update:
The snow has gained enough momentum it has turned the surface of our deck furniture white but we are fighting snow with fire to cope.
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Consciousness Streamed
Never mind that there is no reason not to keep on going despite the obvious restrictions and hesitations that never cease to exist in every manifestation of whatever reality this is at the moment that is surging past unless it’s not and instead is totally stationary and we are the ones doing the moving at such high rates of speed that it becomes difficult to discern what has already happened and what hasn’t actually happened yet in the way we currently perceive things that happen based on the senses that we have relied on to get us here thus far in our lives as measured against the backdrop of the climate as we knew it from the past fifty-some years which someday might be compared with the next fifty as a way of detecting the possibility of there being a difference as in change which would be undeniable one would hope at that point in the proceedings especially since this stream of basically unconscious rambling seems to appear about once every year maybe as a way to scour the surface of residual order in hopes of restoring some reset of rote writing routine repeated in a cycle of day after day wording that tries to make sense regardless the random missing word or unintelligible thought splayed out in broad daylight for all the world to see in the rare situation they just happen to do and willingly hang on till the end with some morsel of curiosity or macabre fascination that there will be some pot of gold at the end of this rainbow of brilliance that reaches in an arc across the screen from one point to another with shapes to decode the message therein however frightening and disturbing the exercise may be but unless some magic or miracle arrives all we’re left with is what we had on when we walked in here plus the thoughts that we carry inside of our heads that we believe must be precious because they haven’t been forgotten and lost for forever like the ones that are gone which we’ll never remember and we live with that fact because we’ve no other choice and speaking of choice that’s something we do have when it comes to this thing called love which when all else has failed is one thing that remains and in this stream unconscious where very little makes any sense love might be an answer worth considering to solve what it is that is bothering your distressed countenance.
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Random Thoughts
Can it be called stalking if you are married?
Funny or fantastic things are funnier or more fantastic when you have someone to share them with.
Why won’t she answer?
Jigsaw puzzles become incredibly more difficult to assemble after eyesight no longer focuses short distances.
Back in the 1800s, when February temperatures climbed 20° above freezing in this area, did people worry about global warming?
I wonder if Bradying will become the craze that Tebowing was.
How many text messages is too many when not receiving a reply?
How much can you tell about a person from what they wonder about?
Do drivers who don’t use turn signals to indicate their plan to turn ever get bugged by drivers in front of them who don’t use turn signals?
Is it possible to discern what the last thought is before falling asleep?
How do I know when its just a thought, and not the first dream of my night’s sleep?
Some men would love to have 4-days of the silent treatment from their wives.
Is there an age limit for having imaginary friends?
Was it possible to misspell things when taking dictation using “shorthand?”
What makes a person suddenly think of “shorthand” when they haven’t had a thought about it in decades?
If you don’t think about something, are you less inclined to miss it?
Random doesn’t mean there won’t be a theme.
If you don’t have anything nice to think, don’t think anything at all.
Two can play at this game.
If two are playing this game, how would you know they are both playing?
Why won’t she answer my calls?
Unexplainable Flow
It is quite possible that you weren’t expecting it at this point in the continuation of all things, but, yes folks, it is already that time again for the unabashed rampage of sentence-be-damned ruminations to flow unadulterated with pure impunity in the ongoing quest for greater enlightenment and insight from the flowing stream that is commonly referred to as consciousness regardless the entirely unconscious way the fingers become exercised in the art of hunting and pecking as a result of the involuntary habit that forms in which the pinky bounces the delete key repeatedly to back up and take a second stab at hitting the letters in the proper order which forms a recognizable word sometimes in the neighborhood of one that is meant to be and not one of those made-up attempts to force a high scoring play in a turn on Words With Friends that sounds good at the time but never seems to appease the all too strict censor programmed into the App, which when downloaded as the free version, comes with its own little psychology experiment of force-fed advertisements that stare at otherwise innocent victims in a constant barrage of push this button – no not yet – okay, now, as if the repetition will produce a higher likelihood of surrender and eventual acquiescence in the form of prying open the tightly held purse-strings and shelling out the few pennies it would take to stop the attacks in a departure from laboring to maintain the principle of proving there is enough will power in the world to outlast those who concoct such manipulatory manifestations in the guise of logical protection from dwindling assets at the expense of missing the forest for the trees at a time when the woods are no longer buried under mounds and mounds of the white stuff that used to fall a lot in the winter in the parts of the world where that’s what used to happen when it got cold because the angle of the earth meant that the hours of daylight diminish to the point that people become sad and workers with day-jobs can find themselves leaving home in the dark in the morning and returning home in the dark in the evening as if daytime never happened and the hours of drudgery to earn the compensation that might allow a person to eat a meal or keep a roof to sleep under somehow all happen in no time at all and the concept of time is just a figment of some planner’s brilliant imagination to bring order to otherwise limitless freedom from worrying about being late or on time or even the simple fact of ever getting to a point that would reward the incredible tenacity of someone who would actually hang in there long enough to inhale all the words streaming out of one man’s crazy mind in the late hours, or is that early, I don’t know, but the least I could do is write something profound like the quip I posted on Google+ yesterday which was
because I liked the font that I stumbled upon in making the prior day’s Words on Images post which was a simple poke at it being Monday and my tendency to feel an aversion to the first day of the work-week since I’m one of those going to a day-job that doesn’t involve being outside in the fresh air taking care of horses, which, of course, is the plan that I aspire to achieve in the not too distant future and imagine what that might do to the stream of conscious writing that rolls out of my keystrokes!
Unabashed Cascade
It has been far too long since the unabashed cascade of stream of consciousness has been allowed to flow unfettered such that you’d think there to be a prodigious backup of nonsensical mania waiting to be unleashed except that nothing could be farther from fact since there seems to have been a remarkable lack of whatever the heck it is that feeds the need to act as if someone put a nickel in the kid who honestly has nothing of immediate import to share beyond the obtuse observations randomly appearing without logic though fully fueled with enough silly insanity to muster a meager attempt at revealing the inner randomonious sanctum of unusually inspired lyrical illustrations that fly through the mind’s eye with awkward gyrating thrusts of impetus to make progress against the morbid dormancy of droning and clattering born of blind lust to gain a fortune of bliss in return for the least possible effort toward bettering the less fortunate souls wandering lost in the violent storms of daily annoyances unleashed upon the innocent masses who in reality appear guilty by association and proximity to the lessor evils that idly ply an unyielding tenacity to peel away the fresh innocence of eager souls on a journey from the easily distracted urgency of how we got here to the truly effortless act of simply shedding the outer egomaniac and letting love bloom as free as it was always meant to be.
Thinking Words
Words. Just a bunch of words together on the screen. Put them together in a particular order and you just might say what you mean. What you say and what people read might not always jibe. It’s a toss in the wind and letting go of expectation that keeps the effort from cultivating chagrin. There is an ebb and flow that moves at an independent tide from the inspirations and exhilaration that spawn the words to be read. All things being relative, timing appears to wield the greatest influence on outcomes, especially as measured from the miniscule time reference of one moment, in one life. Like, now.
Say What?
You never know, in the grand scheme of things, just how far we can go when all is said and done. There is no time like the present to reap what we sow, as opposed to rip what we sew. Far be it from me to look a gift horse in the mouth or fail to see the forest for the trees. We could all do with a bit more looking people straight in the eye and speaking from the heart. Since half a truth is often a great lie, and a bird in hand is worth two in the bush, all things being equal, we end up with the same difference, if you will. As far as I can tell, it’s just a stone’s throw from things coming up roses. I am not a lawyer, but in my humble opinion, um, yeah, it would be an uphill battle to go against the grain in an unbridled effort to champion a cause where far lesser men have failed, unless the jury is still out, in which case, the lesser of two evils may be the best case scenario. If push comes to shove, we could always bait and switch our objective in hopes of attracting more bees with honey than vinegar when we cash in all our chips and go for the gold. We are as young as we feel and older than we think if life has taught us anything about the true nature of nurturing emotional maturity from the apple a day to day diet of the stars. Underneath it all there lies a cast iron gut wrenching slam dunk possibility for a consolation prize worth ten times as much as the last time around the block knocked silly by a cast of thousands of teeming sports fanatics who made good on a promise to keep one step ahead of the grand scheme of things when all is said and done. The point that deserves the lion’s share of attention all too often lies steeped in its own juices of constipated thinking beyond all shadow of a doubt, without all the debt-laden burdens of proof looming large on the vast horizon of passion to hear ourselves think. We own our own words so the most logical thing to do is pour enough of them out on the table to assure ourselves we hold fair market value in a shrinking gift economy of hyper-inflated dances with fame and fortune. The least we could do is fail to cast aspersions toward the future of our meager ration of reality-based ideology hiding just around the corner from our last chance saloon of brilliant time-saving devices too oft wielded for ill gains while the gnat lies sleeping in the rain.
Random Thoughts
It will never be the same as it was before. My mind can travel back to the day I fished with my dad on Lake Mille Lacs, the day when I caught a lot of fish, but I cannot go there. I can pretend to be in this very moment, but that moment will be different for each reader who happens upon this post. I would like to be standing in the high elevations of the Himalayan mountains. I would like to be walking with Ian in the Forest Garden Estate. I would like to hear the first time Neil Young performed songs from his album, “After The Goldrush”. Instead, on this Saturday morning, I will visit my workplace and try to catch up on work that I failed to accomplish during the previous week. Luckily, it does not come at the expense of being with Cyndie. She is going to be gone, as well. She has an opportunity to visit a friend’s horses and do some equine communing. I never expected horse ownership to be a reality in my life, but things that I never expected to happen continue to play out, such that I would no longer be surprised for such possibility to occur. Meanwhile, my fretboard fingers are developing adequate calluses just in time for a little music party at the home of my Himalayan trek partner, Gary. I have exercised my memory, conjuring up a few songs from the archives of my regular repertoire. It kind of feels like a Saturday to me. Fair enough, that.






