river of blessings

No doubt you all participated in BUY NOTHING DAY yesterday of your own free wills, attesting to your worthiness to read this un blorg.


A really good book about Australia and chickens and domestic violence and drinking that we found at the library last week: After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, by Evie Wyld. It isn’t really about those, but it contains them as elements. We are impressed by authors being the other gender for their main characters and doing it plausibly. Does it mean something about us that we can't imagine pulling it off, even though we are not especially girly (other than shoes)?


Somebody in the book gives the main character a couple of chickens, which he doesn’t especially want, and after that in the book he throws them table scraps sometimes and watches them, the chickens. They are not important to the plot. They are small details that show he is healing.

A really good movie with funny looking people dancing in a way that will make you wish you were them: Rumba (French, but with hardly any speaking, and English subtitles). You could go follow the link and watch the teeny tiny trailer....

2 good music CDs: Mambo Sinuendo (Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban), and (The Ananda Shankar Experience and State of Bengal:) Walking On. Mostly instrumental, a small amount of singing in other than English. Good. Sometimes a person doesn’t want words.