Yeah, I can just believe that the buyout will be the last we see of the troublesome financial problems in the US. Good riddance eh? The movie business is doing great, or so I’ve heard.
I just cooked my second family meal and first family dinner at Geek House. Lemon pepper halibut lightly anointed with butter, steamed broccoli and homemade medium cheddar sauce (with arrowroot, a new one on me), romaine salad with celery, carrot, mushrooms and tomatoes. Home made chocolate muffins for dessert if anyone wants them.
Yeah, I think I’ll be eating better from now on. Next up – lentil soup. I’m going to mess with something daal like, and then to cross culture it up I’ll serve it with cilantro and full milk yogurt rolled in corn tortillas. Or perhaps some serving method that doesn’t make so much mess. I will think on it, but first, I suppose before I do anything like that I should consult with the Master of Geek House. I am the not quite Dowager Duchess of Geek House. Hm. That would make Keith the Cadet of Geek House? I’ll just cut that line of enquiry short.
I am not packing everything from the old place. I want to, but I’m glad of the opportunity to shift some hardened energy out of my life. That’s what most of that stuff is, solidified energy. I had such thoughts and then I watched Natalie Portman’s first professional movie and then the Luddite dropped by for a brief and bracing visit, so of course I’m more cheerful.
It was so good seeing Keith. I feel quietly happy right now, listening to the rain.
“Hardened energy” is a great concept. We have been purging this and that – probably stimulated by the house-moving going on in the tribe – and have come to understand that it isn’t the STUFF itself that we have trouble getting rid of. It’s the energy that went into creating the stuff that is painful to discard, and while this is nonsense pragmatically, it is utter truth emotionally. Our particular effort this morning has been the computer room. Trip down memory lane – but some memory lanes, it appears, are less than a decade old – and – entirely obsolete. Material I thought was important to save pre-Wikipedia, pre-IMdb is now waste paper.
It’s the energy tied up in the stuff that we regret discarding.