Older daughter's fear of vaccum cleaners...

It seems obvious--it makes a loud noise. But not so obvious--being afraid of the loud noise might make sense. But why be afraid of the thing that makes the loud noise?

Two attitudes to the world.

Approach by eye. Goal: Seeing as much as possible; experiencing as much as possible. But this is passive in a sense, because the world acts on the eye, even if the eye moves in the world.

Approach by hand. Goal: Doing as much as possible. This is active, because you go into the world to do things to it.

The look

Green and purple fluorescent on black.

My Credo

I value pears over apples, owls over eagles, and tigers over lions.

What's needed

What's needed is a birthday cake for my daughter, not a magical pastry baked by elves.

I've been

looking through the dumpsters of the mind. I'm not sure what's in them, but I can tell you that they are arranged neatly in rows a columns, and that there isn't much around to see. And when I look out the window and see these trees, they're what's really here. Just a reminder.

Need

is a verb.

I plan

to discover some of the uses of Fish Sauce. I've now run across two recipes for salad dressings calling for:

fish sauce
lemon/lime juice
vinegar
soy sauce/salt
garlic

In

a book by Henry Miller (Plexus?) was written, "Cultivate your own nonsense."

I'm trying.