It has started sinking in what it will mean — or could mean — to have a landlord again. I have had more pleasant thoughts in recent days (as the title heading for this post entry indicates, hopefully; i.e. I know the [compound] word is spelled landlords.)
We keep running up against these red signs.
Every time I use this one particular [old] laptop instead of the other particular [also old] laptop, I have trouble with uploading images to display correctly in the posts. I never remember this until I try to include the images.
Note: edited/updated later, possibly fixed. Possibly. Try clicking?
Also, I [...]
Two kinds of packing going on today: bags for the journey to C-ville later today and boxes and more boxes of the everlasting house contents. There may actually be more time for blogging and catching up while I’m away in between looking at the houses we’ve got lined up as possibilities (for living in). We’ll [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Getting ready to move isn’t any more mental & emotional than it is physical — that is, it’s preparing in all ways, including checking out the Charlottesville blogs. I’ve been tuning in, infrequently, since we started visiting C-ville with the idea of potentially moving there, not really too intrigued by what I found. But then [...]
Reading Reginald Gibbons in July/August (’06) The American Poetry Review. Fortunately, the Marks on the Page Are Alien. He draws upon and explores ideas of Cixous. The column is rich and dense, of course wise, evocative. What he’s up to is this:
My goal remains to say something about how writing, and reading too, can take [...]
“therefore oh mojo — oh monkey paw” … from Andrea Blevins’ poem on QuickMuse (QuickMuse that I love and that I confessed to loving before and before that), seems about right. (Andrea Blevins is a fellow Wally, mentioned here a couple months ago. At QuickMuse, you can watch how she wrote the poem, or playback [...]
Does Emily Post cover topics like these, I wonder, or is (the prevalence of) skin cancer too new? The day before I left for PA, I had to have these two spots biopsied. While I was in PA, I had a bunch of things to go to, like a wedding shower for my sister’s firstborn [...]
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Home now, physically, in Charleston — head and heart partially still back in PA. One of the days there, I drove over the rolling hills, through green green farmland, to Fallingwater.
Fallingwater (1935), Bear Run, Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
In Fallingwater, which was built as a weekend retreat for Edgar J. Kaufmann, we see [Frank Lloyd] Wright’s greatest expression [...]