Author: Ellen S______

This week I learned about something new; and not only is it new to me, it’s new to everyone. I learned about it from the urologist. The urologist is full of interesting information. I ask him to distract me with captivating stories if he is shoving a needle into my bladder (worth it) and this…

So this is the previous… This is the progress … And this is the goal. So close. Birds 1 and 2 have too much contrast and the shadow under 1 is too long. I don’t know how that happened. But if I fix that then it’ll be done. If it were a watercolor I could…

It’s at 33:44 – Go to the link below, scroll down to “Listen Again” for Feb 20ths Magic Flute recording, then move the playhead to 33 minutes and 44 seconds in. That’s right before the German translation on the subtitle screen displays “May God shut the mouth of the liar.” https://slso.org/plan-your-visit/explore-the-music/watch-listen

I fell asleep watching the Willful War Show over the weekend, then woke up after midnight and saw this on-screen. MS NOW (nee MSNBC) is so ashamed of the Iran bombing that they have swapped out the patriotic red / white / blue color palette and replaced it with yellow, universal color of cowardice. That’s…

They pulled me in with “DTF” and lost me at “cyclone”. An early scene has a news team broadcasting outdoors from a severe weather event. The news crawl says it’s a tornado. News teams don’t broadcast from a tornado. News teams hide under their desks in a tornado. The National Weather Service abandons their posts…

I think we all know that gas energy will sometimes leak, and sometimes make a random house explode. So we are cautioned to smell for gas, and because gas has no scent, they add a chemical that “smells like rotting eggs.” Twice in the past month I have smelled a strange odor in my neighborhood.…

In my heart the daffodils always come up the last day of February.