Archive for Life
somewhere i have never travelled
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too nearyour slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first roseor if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
–e. e. cummings
11/16: Stockton Breakbeat Alliance tomorrow!
Come! it will be fun!
November 16, 2007 8:PM the Stockton Breakbeat Alliance Strikes Again!
Our schooled and learned diplomats have searched far and wide (mostly the Bay Area) to bring you two DJ’s that you should check out and dance your ass off to. The other one’s from Stockton and keeps putting these things on. 1) Samira (Sister SF/Seismic) is a DJ of epic ability and following. You should feel so lucky to catch her set. 2) The Arhitect: precise, bass heavy and just right now! 3) your own 3r@in (Perpetual dB) is from Stockton and is itching to get some bass waves to your brain…from his brain that is! So Come on down to the Blackwater Cafe from 8-12 and dance your rear end off!!!!!
The Blackwater Cafe
912 N. Yosemite Ave.
Stockton, CA
Operation: Declutter, part 1
About 6 weeks ago I decided to tackle a few small projects, which rapidly turned into a mission to simplify my life. I have been purging. I mean, I have really been purging stuff, and it feels great.
Clothes
My closet (my “proverbial closet”, since I don’t have an actual closet) was by far the easiest area of Operation Declutter. And that’s why it was also the first area I really focused on.
Strategy
Before I started I gave myself one simple guideline: What haven’t I worn in a year?
I’m not talking 3 months, or even 6 months—I’m talking one whole year.
I didn’t want to spend too much time trying to figure out whether I might wear a certain item at some point. If I haven’t worn an article of clothing in the past year, chances are pretty high that I will not wear it ever. Despite the fact that said article is in as good as new condition.
Within 20 minutes I managed to downsize my closet by 50%. I filled up 2 large garbage bags: 1 was trash (stained, beyond repair, too worn out), and 1 was to be donated.
Socks
My sock situation was truly out of hand. I know, how bad can a sock situation be? All I know is that my ratio of single socks to pairs of socks was beyond astronomical. I would do a load of laundry, wash all my dirty socks, and somehow only manage to find 5 pairs of socks. Out of some 30 or 40 socks. How is this possible? I know I’m not alone in this; it seems to be a fairly common problem, so I decided enough was enough.
Strategy
My guideline for the sock project was to throw away all socks that did not have a matching pair. It’s time that I would rather spend elsewhere, and a source of irritation—however minor–that I don’t really find useful to perpetuate ;-)
So, I washed “all” (I’ll come back to this later) my laundry, and put all the socks in a different hamper. After I finished folding my clothes, I allowed myself 15 minutes to tackle the sock pile: anything beyond 15 minutes was likely to end up in a forged union.
After I put away my matching socks, I was rather appalled at the volume of lonely singletons. I hesitated for a brief moment, but prevailed: straight to the trash.
To be continued…
