Month: July 2020

THE CHANGING SEASONS IN A WEIRD AND CHANGING WORLD – JULY 2020

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/31/2020 • ( 18 )

The Changing Seasons: July 2020 It’s not just about pictures anymore. It’s about energy … finding enough of it to actually take pictures which look exactly like the pictures you took last month because you are still at home, so the… Read More ›

EL DUQUE, DOG OF DAWGZ

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/31/2020 • ( 14 )

I finally got some reasonably good pictures of El Duque. We were outside on the deck and I had to cajole him to stop hiding in the plants and show his handsome jowls. So here’s the Duke, in all his… Read More ›

ALL THE REST OF THE SQUARES

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/31/2020 • ( 8 )

ALL THE REST OF MY SQUARE PERSPECTIVES It’s the end of the month, so here are square pictures of all the various things I’ve taken square pictures of through the years and months. I’ll be back for the next square… Read More ›

BIRDS AND BUSHES

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/31/2020 • ( 9 )

Racket had gotten out of his cage. Nothing unusual about that, except that usually when I let him loose, I’d make sure to put away anything I cared about to avoid having Racket destroy it. It was futile but I… Read More ›

PEACE TALKS – HARRY DRESDEN IS FINALLY BACK! – by JIM BUTCHER

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/31/2020 • ( 14 )

I looked it up. I have waited six years for book sixteen in the Harry Dresden world to be published. I have waited patiently, then less patiently. A few months ago, there was a book by Jim Butcher called (tada!)… Read More ›

WHO ARE YOU NOW? DIDN’T YOU USED TO BE SOMEONE?

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/30/2020 • ( 18 )

Fandango’s Provocative Question #80 From Fandango, a deep, philosophical question. We need some of those because everything else is about disease or the news. “I saw this question on a site that offers up a bunch of “deep, philosophical” questions and… Read More ›

DOOMSDAY BOOK BY CONNIE WILLIS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/30/2020 • ( 10 )

I read this for the first time when it was first published in 2008. It wasn’t available as an audible book yet, though it would be soon. So my first reading was words on paper. It’s the story of the… Read More ›

TAKE SOME TIME TO REVIVE IT

By Rich Paschall on 07/30/2020 • ( 10 )

A view of America from Chicago, the band, by Rich Paschall Chicago has been around for a long time. No, I don’t mean the city, I mean the band. In 1967, five guys from DePaul University recruited a sixth from… Read More ›

BITTER ROOTS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/30/2020 • ( 24 )

I am named after an aunt I never met. In my version of Jewish family, you don’t name babies after living people. Only after those who have passed. This is not true in all Jewish families. It depends on where… Read More ›

THE FREEDOM TO BE SELFISH – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 07/30/2020 • ( 20 )

So what is the problem with the anti-maskers? I understand that many of them believe that the entire Coronavirus is a hoax or a greatly exaggerated hype to sully Trump’s sterling reputation and political fortunes. But why are they arguing… Read More ›

HOUSE FINCH, GOLDFINCH, AND A FEW MORE

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/29/2020 • ( 6 )

MOSTLY HOUSE FINCH, GOLDFINCH, AND A FEW MORE If nothing else, this pause in space and time has given me good reasons to go back through my downloads. I have an awful lot of downloads that are just sitting on… Read More ›

A PHOENIX AND AN OAK LEAF: A CIGAR BOX GUITAR FOR ME

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/29/2020 • ( 51 )

Owen wanted to give me a present. it isn’t my birthday. it’s not my anniversary. It isn’t any special day. He just wanted to get me a really great gift, better than any other he had ever give me. So… Read More ›

SLAVERY TO INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ON THE BLACKSTONE RIVER

By Marilyn Armstrong on 07/29/2020 • ( 22 )

You might say the Blackstone Valley was Alexander Hamilton’s dream come true. He wanted the U.S. to grow into an industrial and international powerhouse. This was the subject on which he and Thomas Jefferson fought. Jefferson wanted democracy and a… Read More ›

SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH