I don’t know what’s been going on in my head lately. It’s been so hard to decode myself. I have not felt peaceful this past week, but I don’t know why. I remind myself of an abused dog who lashes out insensibly at every startling thing around it.
I had a strange experience [...]
I finally got around to reading A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, by Amy Bloom. I read Come to Me last year, and loved it. I felt shocked when I read those stories, and stunned by their beauty and truth. (It’s strange– what I perceive as beauty [...]
From: uwalert@washington.edu
Subject: UW Alert
Date: July 2, 2009 5:01:58 PM PDT
To: [me]
Dear Jessie Hirsch,
Armed robbery on Brooklyn and 50th. Two armed suspects heading south to
Campus Parkway. Stay alert
I’m still on the mailing list for the University of Washington alert service. This is a recent innovation– I think it was implemented last year, but [...]
You should probably buy this photograph! It is awesome!
I just got the 20×200 update in my inbox and saw this and thought… well, I don’t have the time to put what I actually thought into words, but this photo basically sums up Independence Day for me.
I would also like to know how [...]
First things first: a cat video. (The footage is from this past week, taken while cat sitting for some friends.)
Second things second: tomorrow is the first day of summer quarter, in which I will be taking a business class (”Interpersonal Communication in the Workplace”) and finishing up some incomplete classes from last quarter. [...]
The only things I have to share today, besides the incoherent fruits of deep exhaustion, are these two photos:
Sunflower, 2009 (For sale)
Cow parsely, cottonwood seeds, 2009 (For sale)
I’ll get back to you when the quarter is over in two days and I can speak without stuttering.
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I was looking through the Flickr Commons for something (which I could not find), but ended up finding another thing which is so much better:
I mean, let’s be honest here. The photo above is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. The experimentee even reminds me of Jack Nicholson in One [...]
Welts, 2005
Hey, I kind of love this photo! I was going back into THE ARCHIVES today looking for particular photos, but whenever I do this I always end up getting sidetracked looking at photos of things I have completely forgotten about, sometimes for the better, and having one of those ungrounded trips down memory [...]
I was just thinking about “active listening” and generated a little revelatory hypothesis.
First let me define “active listening” as I know it. This is the listening technique I am supposed to use as a Medical Assistant, when I am taking a patient history. This is listening where you are entirely focused on the [...]
Sometimes I am overcome with excitement about one of my photographs and I need to share. It’s the show-and-tell compulsion.
I just ran across this one, which I took with my point and shoot one day while walking by my house. These are the naked trees that run along the Ravenna Meridian. What [...]