Hardwood, Dave and Hazel, and a Raving Poets Remix party!!
April 10, 2007
Y a, I know. It’s Tuesday after Easter long weekend and it’s snowing, hard. Welcome to Canada. Like you don’t already know that it can snow here in June….hell, pick a month, any month. It’s supposed to be 11 C (about 50 F for our American friends—and when are you going to convert to Celsius like the rest of the civilized world, you luddites!!!???)
I can barely see the far river bank from here. It looks like a mid-January winter scene out there. Though, I just came in from lunch and it’s not cold. It's a Vancouver snow without all the puling and whining: "How can I drive in this?!? It's cold? What do you mean I have to slow down?!?!? Oh, it's so slippery!!!" that Vancouverites do when it snows a centimetre. I'm not saying Vancouverites are wimps . We all know this already. HA!
I’m talking to Shirley Serviss’s Psychology of Creativity class tonight, about what it’s like to be a writer. Sitting alone in front of a computer for hours on end, living in your head and heart, the journey of discovery, playing with words and playing with the concept of “what if?” …I’m looking forward to this.
The floor is in, thanks to Dave and Hazel, who, along with Cindy-Lou and I, put in 500 square feet of hardwood over a couple days. We grunted and sweated and worked on our contractor bum-cracks....Pilsner beer was consumed. And no fingers were lost. Dave and Hazel are awesome!!!
And, The Raving Poets – REMIXED, quite possibly the finest recording ever made of the Raving Poets experience is being released this Wednesday, April 11, 2007. The CD features 13 Edmonton poets, including a track by Trofimuk, in performance with the Raving Poets Band. The launch is here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. See Raving Poets for more details.
9 Comments
1. anita had this to say: Apr 11, 2007 ~ 05:11 ~ #
You make me smile, Thomas :-) Hope this morning the sun is shining for you, and that all that lovely snow surrendurs its fine fettle, and trickles back into the earth where it belongs.
2. Thomas had this to say: Apr 12, 2007 ~ 09:54 ~ #
Anita, the river is open, the snow is all gone!!! And the forecast is for PLUS 14 C tomorrow!!!! I’m celebrating birthday number (mumble, mumble).... this weekend and have plans to work on the house (which I love — because at the end of the day, I get to turn around and look at what I’ve done — it’s like writing that way — great feeling of having accomplished something!!!) and a bottle of particularly fine champagne, and a Padron maduro cigar. And of course, hanging out with my girls.
It’s all great!!!
Thomas
3. Rosemary had this to say: Apr 12, 2007 ~ 13:37 ~ #
My Dad’s birthday is Friday the 13th of April. You Aries types…strong and silent.
My birthday is in a couple of weeks.
4. Thomas had this to say: Apr 12, 2007 ~ 14:03 ~ #
...and pig-headed, stubborn, willful…..
(Are you an Aries too?)
5. anita had this to say: Apr 12, 2007 ~ 20:50 ~ #
My daughter is on the cusp of Aries and Taurus. Not so silent…definitely pig-headed, stubborn, willful (and loving, giving, insightful).
I’m on the cusp of Cancer and Leo…but maybe you guessed that.
Happy Birthday Thomas!
6. Rosemary had this to say: Apr 13, 2007 ~ 08:49 ~ #
I’m a taurus so very bull headed indeed and stubborn.
7. Mike had this to say: Apr 13, 2007 ~ 10:21 ~ #
Does anyone actually believe anything to do with astrology? I mean, as a “theory” of human behavior (could it be called such?), it falls laughably short. It has zero credibility. So why do people take it seriously? Or is it “just for fun”?
8. Thomas had this to say: Apr 13, 2007 ~ 11:22 ~ #
This particular discussion is more fun than anything… I’ve never taken astrology seriously. I think we tend to read ourselves into a given set of traits — pick the ones that apply to our perceived self, or the self we’d like to be…however, the I Ching, is amazing. I use it as a tool for going inward, would not base any important decision on it, but as a tool for turning toward our inner selves, very cool!!!! Jung was a big fan of the I Ching. There’s something there. And it’s based on throwing coins!!! (or traditionally, sticks). Further, the Buddhist mala I wear – 108 beads, derived by multiplying the known planets (at the time) by the number of astrological signs. (9 X 12). Why?
9. Rosemary had this to say: Apr 13, 2007 ~ 12:49 ~ #
I read my horoscope daily but laugh how it is just so incredibly generic and worded just slightly differently than the day before so it seems like a different outcome. I don’t take the horoscope or Chinese Horoscope seriously at all it’s all in good fun.
There are those out there who read way too deeply into it. But they’re a bit flakey. I do admit though I do carry a lot of the traits of my sign but so do a lot of other people not born under my sign so that’s how valid it all is.