Life on Holidae

Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures.
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz.
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no Equal -
For thou art with me;
Thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me.
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks.
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over.
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life,
And I will dwell in the House of Mocha forever.

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So summer time!

Finally its summertime in the city…and the living is easy…city pools opened this weekend and I will be going once a week with friends.  i will be starting an awesome job at the end of july.  friends, family and boy are great. however i do miss the potsdam.  i keep having dreams of potsdam and the smell.

i’m glad to be home for good now but i miss the north country. i miss the openness of the people.  especially of some particular people like JENN.  its not even people who are from the north country that act like that, its something up there that just changes you a little bit.

you smiler is broader, your eyes wider and there is a clarity to your cheeks and mouth that is acquired with the disparity of weather (hot sunny afternoons with stormy nights or cloudy rainy days with clear ceiling high night skies).  i think its the crazy weather and the air.

hmm…higher altitude and disparate weather equals more clarity?

who knows.

z

Z.REDS

jennyjennjen:

I just updated myself on your numerous entries since I’ve escaped internet jailtime (being that I don’t get on anymore). I miss you and your thoughts and want to continue reading them and hearing them!

Anyways, congrats on a beautifully written blog

JENN! as luck would have it I just checked my tumblr after weeks of not updating it.  i just needed an internet hiatus to get my brain in check. BTW your awesome.

google key words: monkeys potatoes

Is there some magic key that provides a short cut to cultural transformation?

Elaine Myers has had articles in issues #2, #5, and #7. She lives in rural southwest Washington state.

THE STORY OF “The Hundredth Monkey” has recently become popular in our culture as a strategy for social change. Lyall Watson first told it in Lifetide (pp147- 148), but its most widely known version is the opening to the book The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes. (See below.) The story is based on research with monkeys on a northern Japanese Island, and its central idea is that when enough individuals in a population adopt a new idea or behavior, there occurs an ideological breakthrough that allows this new awareness to be communicated directly from mind to mind without the connection of external experience and then all individuals in the population spontaneously adopt it. “It may be that when enough of us hold something to be true, it becomes true for everyone.” (Watson, p148)

The Hundreth Monkey

graduating soon

people said graduation will be bitter sweet.

its just sad. i realized today i sat in my last literature class at potsdam.  i day dreamed out of the windows into a tree for the last time.

it was a very beautiful gray day. wet. a very faint green everywhere.

i’m nervous.

i love this place. but its time to move on.

what i want

techcrunch made a really nifty idea for a web tablet.  lets you surf exclusively…cool stuff.

now this is all good and such, i think the way this product was actually developed is even more awesome (some guy had the idea wrote a blog about it and tons of people were interested and inserted comments and suggestions.  they built a prototype left it up to users and continued to develop better and better ones). but i want something else.  something desperately needed by persons that love to read, are WAY too broke to get the kindle and want something infinitely more awesome.

i want publishing companies to allow their books to be electronically distributed (for a fee of course) on an EASY TO READ, CHEAP TO MAKE, 4.5 in by 8.5 in screen that allows me to highlight, book mark and read without hurting my eyes.

that’s my biggest thing i need a screen that won’t burn my eyeballs (i have very, very bad vision that has been made worse because of articles and text i read online for classes).  there needs to be more research for making screens easier on the eyes.  it would be even more awesome if you can get the news by paying a quarter at a kiosk, to get your news FOR the day not OF the day.  so that means you pay for 24 access to unlimited live news coverage not just the stagnant paper produced daily that can’t have things added on to it.

cause there are things i would pay for in a newspaper: the sunday magazine, the awesome articles you can only get from quality coverage, the op-eds, the long investigative pieces.  online only aggregate news sources don’t give me ANY OF THAT.  and news paper companies each have a certain swagger that i like.  so i can’t imagine if all papers just cease to be even offline.  where will the news (the style of the news, the aura of the news) GO?

i think news papers will be “saved” by utilizing and considerably updating the current forms of resources: you have news stands, the portability and disposability of the paper, and you have a loyal audience.

i have a strong objection to amateur (or citizen journalism) only news.  because it assumes a certain part time air to it. it sounds like you’re doing it for kicks.  i want news to be the product of someone’s intellect, work and passion.