I love living on a small, hillside hobby farm. Acreage and the view is to die for. But sometimes in Winter, that persistent cloud just hangs against the hillside like a weighted blanket; reducing visibility and erasing the view. Just lifted an hour or so ago and I can finally get a glimpse of the valley floor through the lingering mist. On the upside, this weather actually warms it up a bit. Our bright, sunny days tend to be colder. #FarmLife #CountryLife #WeatherReflections #ruminations

Light & Shade, 23 July 2024. #SummerStroll #RossOnWye #England #Lightandshade #Ruminations
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9yIlzpozCr/?igsh=anRud3cycWIyNmtw

Walkabout Thoughts #95
#blog Streams of Consciousness, Rough & Ready, & Lightly Edited from Award-Winning Filmmaker/ Author you never heard of walking off Reality & podcasts.
#politics #Republicans #ruminations #reflections #history #MAGA #Trump #SCOTUS
https://jzmurdock.blogspot.com/2024/07/walkabout-thoughts-95.html

Walkabout Thoughts #94
#blog
#FilmProduction #DEC #ruminations #multiverse #USAF #reflections #screenplays
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #SF #history #DarkMatter #TVshows #books #podcast #ThePlaylist #BlakeCrouch
https://jzmurdock.blogspot.com/2024/07/walkabout-thoughts-94.html

Sitting on the back veranda of my hillside home on 8 acres at dusk. Lights just coming on in the Rogue Valley below and on the Cascade Mountains foothills on the other side of the valley. Red headed woodpecker is chattering as it nests, and a great horned owl is hooting from the Oaks below, no doubt on the prowl for a meal. It’s been dry, so the frogs have stopped singing but crickets are still ever-present in the background. In the distance, an occasional glass pack muffler or high-revving cafe racer shatters the evening quiet then fades away. #ruminations #BackPorch #Evenings

More #wizardly #ruminations and a massive #CRRRRS #podcast of all things #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #horror on Sunday. Until then, am I the only one who thinks the #LambdaColdDarkMatter cosmological model looks and sounds like a Kahlua-based cocktail? https://roymathur.com/podcast.html

I've have, sorta intentionally/sorta not, been ignoring Eurovision this year because of, well, politics and Israel and everything. I just don't think I can sit through constant "noise" that Israel's presence brings.

I honestly haven't even listened to any of the songs, which is kind of shocking. But it's a slippery slope from watching the videos to being immersed in "the conversation"...

I dunno, should I at least watch the youtube playlist? Or just listen to the songs on Spotify?

Will making this post bring "the conversation" to me?

#Ruminations

impasse

Summer nights are all the same.
Their insomniac navy blue,
The cold sidewalks, humid air,
Bring right back all of my shame
For a wrong that wasn't there.

All of this fake body's cells
Have twice over been replaced,
Yet this back still has to bear
Past ambition, past disgrace,
The crushing weight of my past selves.

I went back there once again,
Knocked at the cathedral's door
To revive a past long gone
Like I hadn't tried before,
Like I wouldn't just feel pain.

Saw a face reflected in
Its cold uncaring colored glass
And with tingling in my skull
Ran as any coward runs
When he knows he will not win.

For it always starts like this.
There's nostalgia so perverse
In re-playing torn old tape.
It is tempting to immerse
Yourself in that which is not missed.

Sun and moon keep storming by
And the message never sends.
If it weren't for my lies,
In another better life,
He and I could have been friends.

Summer nights keep haunting me.
A confusion unresolved.
A cold glass of orange juice,
Music, lights, a crowded hall,
An old name, a eulogy.

https://paper.wf/the-plastic-palm-tree-hell/impasse

#mastoart #creativetoots #art #myart #poem #poetry #memories #ruminations

If you could be any #character in #LOTR, who would you be? I'd pick #TomBombadil. He's only a bit player, but he's so #happy. More #random #ruminations on #CRRRRS: THE #UK #Geek #Podcast: https://roymathur.com/podcast.html #Fantasy #HighFantasy #Tolkien

🌱 Artist: #DavidZinn in City: #AnnArbor USA 🇺🇸 2024 - Title:
🔴 "Sometimes Morton sits and thinks
about all the invisible balls he tried
to fetch." ⚫🐩
🟡 "Manchmal sitzt Morton da und
denkt über all die unsichtbaren
Bälle nach, die er versucht hat zu
holen."
#StreetArt #Art #Chalkart #3Dartist #Graffemera #SidewalkChalk #Artist
#Brickwall #Poodle #Ruminations

By twitter@davidzinn_art

<<On rainy days, Morton sits and thinks about all the invisible balls he tried to fetch.>>

#DavidZinn #DavidZinnArt
#StreetArt #SidewalkChalk #graffemera #brickwall #poodle #ruminations
#WednesdayWall

What vexes me most on my days off when I'm ruminating? See below, in no particular order:

- The possibility of the war coming to Estonia
- Being in my forties but still needing to pass another exam to secure my future
- How conservatively to dress for a meeting with an old friend tomorrow
- The fact that I promised to grade a series of tasks by tomorrow night
- The lingering thought that good times are always more fleeting than the lifetime of a butterfly, and something almost always brings upheaval.
- Maybe the answer to above is not to have good times, so as to not miss them when they're gone?
- Why did I tell my parents when I was a teenager that one of their favourite bands was terrible? It was unkind and not true.

#ruminations #anxiety

When the evidence becomes more important than the outcome, there's a problem.

When creating the evidence becomes the job, then what's the point of the work?

#ruminations

So in your mystical fantasies, do you have a list of folks that… if reincarnation is real, you’d want to connect with in the next life? I know I do, and it’s a pretty short list tbh. I’ve had two friends give me that kind of unsolicited recognition in the last week, one way or the other, and it has been extremely gratifying to know I’ve had that kind of impact on someone’s life. #Musings #ruminations

Is there anything in particular you'd like to see me write up a meditation about? Something gnawing at you, something you'd like a framework to help you start digging deeper?

I have so many in my mind right now but they're all over the line of what I'm willing to post online. In the meantime, I'd love to fill the gap with something useful to someone, if possible 🖤

#Meditations #Ruminations #Mindfulness

There ain’t no resurrection, there ain’t no second chance.
You only get one time through, so make it worth a dance.
God’s not here (he left with Elvis) - y’all are on your own.
The family you get or choose, and friends who stick it out,
That’s the crew you’ll take to the last show.
So pick them well and make sure YOU are worth their while.

#ruminations

Dark Rider Through A Sea Of Troubles, 22 July 2023. #Mindgeist #InspiteAll #WePrevail #Evocation #Dreams #Ruminations
https://www.instagram.com/p/CvBHuZiIa4W/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

#introduction I'm an #autistic man that has never been formally #diagnosed as autistic. I discovered that I was probably on the spectrum a few months ago. I believe that it is my #cancer that altered my #brain in such a way that I am less able to #mask now. I am now reflecting upon my life and reevaluating everything. The signs were there but I was just very good at masking, and I think even without the masking I'm the type of autistic person who does not need a lot of mental health support to have a decent life.

I've created a #substack to publish my #ruminations about my life, what it means to self-diagnose late in life, and other topics related to autism. (See my profile.) My cancer left me #disabled. My articles are free for now, but some of them will eventually be behind a #paywall.

I've written on #Mastodon under a different account, but I want to segregate my ruminations about autism from the rest.

☮️

#ActuallyAutistic #SelfDiagnosis

@KydiaMusic You also have a beautiful perspective between #ruminations and frustration. As a wife to, mom and grandmother of #neurodivergent humans that light up my world; I appreciate your brilliance (and) your difference. Thank you for sharing ♾️💜💋