War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Gray marine layer covers my little space of California’s north coast this Monday afternoon, and beyond the normal fog, supposedly we’re to have some pleasant weather for the next week-to-10 days — sunshine chilled by ocean breezes. Over the past weekend, I saw there’s this new study-paper, “A Moist Crevice for Word Aversion: In Semantics…
Clear skies and sunshine this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast, but the beauty of it well-tempered by a chilly ocean breeze. Also my first post in nearly a week — a rare lengthy space without a new Compatible Creatures. Next month, Creatures will be 9-years-old with 2.491 posts published as of last Tuesday, and…
Sunrise bright and way-clear this New Year’s Eve on California’s north coast — a way-rapid week since last Thursday, and a freaking-quick year now-swiftly coming to conclusion. A cold morning, too. Maybe just getting old, or something, but it appears to me time is traveling a whole-lot faster than it did only a short few…
My youngest daughter Melissa has a dog named Kuru, which of itself, literally means ‘a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein found in contaminated human brain tissue.’ Beyond Melissa’s dark, trying-to-be-cute humor, the dog Kuru is one of the sweetest, smartest canines I’ve ever encountered — and just finished treatment for…
In a sense within my own personal space, cocooned as it were in time, knowingly-conscious right now in the nowadays, a reflective mirror via Miss Emily Dickinson: “Wonder — Is Not Precisely Knowing” Wonder—is not precisely Knowing And not precisely Knowing not— A beautiful but bleak condition He has not lived who has not felt—…
Thick-gray, first-light this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — only the virtue of cool shoreline breezes keeps the lid on the heat. If one was to venture just a few miles inland, the temperatures could quickly go triple-digit. An old brain requires a cool of the coast — and my old brain also feels…
Off-white sunshine this afternoon on California’s north coast, with no rain appearing on the horizon, just a bit of low, misty fog. Windy, too, creating a chill-bite to the air, but par for these recent afternoons, not at all unpleasant. Odd item I saw this morning (in an era of odd items) was a new…
Sometime this morning will mark eight years since this blog — ‘Compatible Creatures‘ — appeared online, and ironically continues hopefully beyond the next typed word or two. We entered the InterWebs early on April 24, 2007, with just two words, ‘Woo Hoo!‘ — apparently, excitedly exclaimed, though, and observed metaphorically, naive to the techno-abyss lurking…
Thick and gray, layered-looking clouds cloak my little view along California’s north coast this early Monday — creates a gray, unimaginative wet perspective. Indeed, the NWS says maybe some light drizzle later today, and rain maybe tonight, but all rests on the word, ‘maybe,’ as weather is not way-totally predictable, especially this close to the…
Bright, wind-blown sunshine this Wednesday afternoon along a small patch of California’s north coast — clear til the weekend, supposedly, then rain on-and-off until the middle of next week. Posting later than normal during the work week — sometimes plotting the narrative along current events can be overwhelming, especially in an age where a shitload…
