I just read Murray Rothbard on the subject of whether parents should be legally obliged to feed their children in a libertarian paradise, and since I find his views so repellent I shan’t repeat them here.
Yesterday I was supposed to go to church, and didn’t, because Sue never got my texts and didn’t respond to any that I sent her. I couldn’t contact anyone at church and Jeff, sensing that my neurotic desire to find out if my friend was dead in her apartment was not just a passing phase, assisted with that. Finally Robbie called me back and all was well and Sue was at church and we agreed to phone instead of text in future, but I was quite prostrate with concern and then embarrassment in consequence.
Also mOm I figured out what I was seeing (Jeff helped.) The hummingbird was chasing the jay because it had just eaten its egg. Happy Mother’s Day indeed! I thought it was funny, and it was tragic. How often our opinions are shaped by our location when we form them.
Katie knows me so well she figured I’d bail on our mother’s day walk after this contretemps, and actually I wanted to go after a while but she’d already changed plans to hang out with Suzanne. Oh well.
So yesterday was a day of thinking about the dark mother, and of course Kima trying to be pregnant and not dead. I wrote about 500 words yesterday. Pudding’s philosophy may not make it into the book, but the 250 words on Kima’s new section will. Yes, one of the babies is named Pudding. Her naming story will be included in the book.
I need to write some more query letters and there are a couple more beta readers.
No cpap – after a couple of days no problems with allergies, the nice weather has kept the pollen count moderate, so my schnozz is rejecting having anything stuck on it.
Miss Margot is continuing to learn how to fight the rodent menace under Buster’s tutelage. I heard a ratling squeak as it ran into her googly face the other day, scaring it back toward Buster who admittedly is better at catching everything except flies.
Buster’s covered in scratches again. There’s a big black and white cat from across the street that he always scraps with.
I have a google news alarm set up for Dorothy Dunnett. Everytime something comes up on the internet about her I scan it to see if other Dunnett heads have any interest and then post it to the twitter Dunnett fan account. I also have one set up for filk and then post to the Filker account on facebook. Somewhere in the English speaking world the perfect actor to play Lymond has been born….. sigh. Show up soon!
