Virtual Brush Box

One For You, One For Me, Blogger Gift Exchange, What Went Out

I’m Not Late, It Is Still The Christmas Season Well, the gift was late, the post is not Awareness of the outside world. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night … nor Christmas season nor massive online-shopping volume nor increased sick leave nor political machinations … stays these couriers from theContinue reading “One For You, One For Me, Blogger Gift Exchange, What Went Out”

An Omenous Moment

Images Awareness of the outside world. “Let’s make this year great no matter what happens!” @sub.urbancreative, Alabama Photographer on Instagram. ~~~ Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn December 21, 2020 Imagine it is nighttime. Imagine you are in a permanent power outage. [Zeta Report] Imagine there is nothing on television for thousands of years. ImagineContinue reading “An Omenous Moment”

Odd & Ends, Other People’s Thoughts

Words Awareness of the outside world. The Scamperbeasts, @scamperbeasts. ~~~ Blogger explaining to non-horsey coworker about progress with trainer. My horse is away at boarding school and he started doing advanced calculus without me today and I only know math up to addition and subtraction so I’m kind of amazed. Cob Jockey: Pony’s FirstContinue reading “Odd & Ends, Other People’s Thoughts”

Intake Interview for a New Year

Come in! Come in! Make yourself at home. Well, you are at home, aren’t you? It’s your year. Literally. That’s what we’d like to talk with you about. The sort of year you are planning to be. As you know, we had a difficult relationship with 2020. The exit interview was acrimonious. A lot ofContinue reading “Intake Interview for a New Year”

Recap Week 2020 Fitness, Medal Medley

Fit To Ride, For The Record Because I’m going to want to remember where I went. Awareness of the outside world. Daily news briefs by Deborah Cox Richardson. If you’re strong enough. ~~~ “Does bling matter? You might as well ask if horse show ribbons matter. and that’s just plain heresy.” [Green Bay] I’llContinue reading “Recap Week 2020 Fitness, Medal Medley”

Alternatively, The WABAC Machine Shows How To Win A Cocktail Party

I went two for two on beta readers telling me that the post drafted for today was confrontational. I didn’t see it that way, but that’s why one has beta readers. Since I couldn’t see the effect, I couldn’t change it nor accurately weigh the merits of letting it stand. This is unusual for me.Continue reading “Alternatively, The WABAC Machine Shows How To Win A Cocktail Party”

Recap Week 2020 Horses, Lemonade Made

Riding Journal, Horsekeeping Lucky enough to have a horse. Awareness of the outside world. Sad that the roll-out is going slowly. Logistics are hard. Even I know this. Why weren’t folks running every-possible-contingency scenarios for the last nine months? Any progress is good. Faster would be better. CNN: US officials promised 20 million vaccinatedContinue reading “Recap Week 2020 Horses, Lemonade Made”