Hey - that's me!

Look! I made the Sheri Griffith trip catalog! Yep, that's me last summer, hanging out on the edge of the Colorado with my feet in the snowmelt, because damn is it hot down around Moab. Even in early June. Perhaps I have a modeling career despite being 5'2" . . . no? No. Fine.

Breathe

Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,
breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists
and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.

Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.

Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.

Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,
imagine grief
as the outbreath of beauty
or the gesture of fish.

Swim for the other side.

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:

Have a cup of tea and rejoice.

Act as if armistice has already arrived.
Celebrate today.

wage peace - judyth hill - september 12, 2001

DotD - Equal Measure

DotD = Desire of the Day. No planned posting schedule for these, just going to put them up when I find something that is trying especially hard to get me to trade grad school loan money for it.

This guy tickles my fancy because it's quirky and also makes big numbers understandable, one of my favorite math tricks. See it here at the Modern Poverty website.

Excerpts from GChat - Mixolydian

10:39 AM Jennifer: oh. my. gosh. I have to tell you about the toy we saw at Babies 'R Us

it was one of those glockenspiel type toys

10:40 AM and I've been wanting to get one of those for James

and it was a cool one because you could hit it with the mallet, but it was also attached to a keyboard so you could play it that way

10:41 AM I totally thought we were going to buy it...and then I hit the "ti" key

me: ooh, nice

and?

Jennifer: the leading tone was a full half step flat!!

me: what

that is beyond stupid

Jennifer: it was like...do, re, mi, fa, so, la, TAY, do!

me: how was it supposed to be a ti, then?

10:42 AM it couldn't lead anywhere!

Jennifer: I was like, you've got to be kidding me

and it wasn't just a bad egg...all of them were the same!

I couldn't believe it

10:43 AM shocked and appalled

me: they just straight up tuned them all wrong?

10:44 AM Jennifer: I guess!

it showed up in my nightmare that night

me: hahahaha

Jennifer: in my dream I was going to complain about it online but then I read somewhere that it was intentional

10:45 AM that they were encouraging children to learn both major and minor tonalities, and they were doing that by having a major tetrachord followed by a minor one

so I couldn't even complain about it!

me: hahahahaha

Jennifer: even though that's still ridiculous...even if it were true

me: dorkiest dream EVER

Jennifer: yeah well ;)

10:46 AM me: definitely going on my blog

oh snap

Jennifer: stealing my material, huh? ;)

jk

me: hey, you'll get full credit

Jennifer: oh joy

ha ha

10:47 AM which mode is that? I can't remember

it's the one before aeolian

me: a major followed by a minor?

Jennifer: a scale with a lowered 7th

10:48 AM me: the funny one

that sounds middle eastern?

hmmmm

Jennifer: brb...

I'm gonna google it when I get back

10:50 AM me: k

10:51 AM Jennifer: mixolydian

the dang toy was in mixolydian mode

me: yes!

yes

10:52 AM now that's just wrong

Jennifer: there's just no reason for that

me: we're in America!

Jennifer: no possible justification

me: nope