http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/636307The decision has been made... discussed as to reasons, options and desired outcomes. It is by no means a complete picture. As I sit in the comfort I am used to, resolve dissipates... as it has before. I know that dynamic: it has dominated this scene forever. This is the first element that needs to be addressed: how to maintain the resolve, to manifest the thought-form. Baby steps are better than none, and so that is what I am looking for: what small things can I do, to bolster decisions and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/636103Charlie will be home for lunch... and will stay a week through his dad's birthday and Thanksgiving. Yay!http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/635921Got this email from my son in response to the query of what he plans to herd with the pair of 10-foot bullwhips he wants for Christmas. I guessed dinosaurs, and was on the money: It only works on certain dinosaurs of course. Maiosaurs, Edmontosaurs, Corythosauruses, and such. You would think Iguanadons, but they have these pretty nasty thumbspikes they are not afraid of using if they get pissed off or feel threatened. And you always have to watch out and make sure you don't create a stampede....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/635147DO NOT VISIT MY UNIVERSE BLOG TODAY No kidding--some sort of malware is triggering a warning and shutting down my internet connection when I go to write or read the latest post on that blog. I have emailed admins here and also copied 10 pages of prior posts, in case the matter calls for shutting down this oldest of my blogs. But not that last one. The post is of a poem I copy/pasted from my own files on my own home computer, and I have no idea how it may have gotten infected with anything. It...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Ciel/635053Of course we hear the sounds they make underwater--even without hydrophones, I understand, we can hear when we are in that environment ourselves. With hydrophones, we can hear clearly the intonations of many kind of whales, voices carrying hundreds even thousands of miles through the water. But it is not how they speak to us. Yes, they do communicate with human beings, and they have from time to time made quite pointed remarks with a precise use of body language. One afternoon, we sat on our...