{"id":165,"date":"2008-09-25T23:54:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T23:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-09-25T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T23:58:04","slug":"the-big-and-the-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"the big and the little"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I’ve been quiet here lately.\u00a0 Frankly, I’m overwhelmed.\u00a0 First off, the financial crisis and the proposed bail out staggers my mind. Literally.\u00a0 Thank you Amos<\/a> for doing such a nice job of commenting on it. And second, I can’t believe the election is right around the corner. Tanque<\/a> has been has been keeping the blog flame lit the last couple weeks with lots of election related posts, which has rocked.\u00a0 Including his endorsement of the Obama\/Biden ticket. I think there was mention of my name in some comment about being inspired or hopeful about Obama. And I wanna clear things up and say I don’t feel either of those. The fact is I don’t look to a presidential candidate for hope or inspiration.\u00a0 But I am inspired by the those folks who feel inspired by Obama. I think it’s a good ticket. They’ve got my vote. I think there’s a chance with Obama\/Biden we can get things done that need doing. I want the conversation to change on a national level and Dems can do that. But c’mon these are politicians, man. And you don’t stay clean in such a fucking dirty business. Saints don’t run for president.<\/p>\n

I feel like lots is going on in my life, but when you look at the shape of my days, you wouldn’t know it. I still find great joy in a sharp chef’s nice and fully inflated bike tires, the company of friends and the long stretches of quiet and time alone in between. I’m still purging and spent last weekend helping RU clean out our old basement. Whew! I did like that it was all very butch in a very classical butch kinda way, like driving a big pick up truck full of crap, most of which I’d hauled and lifted into the bed myself. RU has a fucked up back. The purge was a not the first choice for how I wanted to spend my weekend, but it bubbled up to the top after a failed attempt at camping in Indian Heaven on Mt Adams. It was just too dang foggy up there. And out here fog will kill your ass. I’m serious.<\/p>\n

Mostly I’ve been trying to pay attention to the everyday details in my life and how I spend my time. The intention is to better align the external with the internal. It’s tricky, cause it doesn’t always add up. But it’s a good practice and hopefully it will become habit. To that end I’ve been having some kind of intense exchanges with my girl in western Mass and there are no conclusions to draw there except abstract ones, like a deeper understanding of the equation of capacity. If that sounds poetic, well it kinda is. Not that it doesn’t have very real implications. These things aren’t mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n

I wanna a put plug in here to try and get as many of you all as I can to try green cleaning<\/a>. Better for you, the environment and if you make your own solutions better for your wallet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I’ve been quiet here lately.\u00a0 Frankly, I’m overwhelmed.\u00a0 First off, the financial crisis and the proposed bail out staggers my mind. Literally.\u00a0 Thank you Amos for doing such a nice job of commenting on it. And second, I can’t believe the election is right around the corner. Tanque has been has been keeping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,29,13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-girl","category-butch","category-insights","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}