Quintessential

This was taken (probably) by my Dad, looking like something like ‘61 or so.
The lad who would become Mr. Science just being a simple kid and the Crap ‘o’ Christmas hasn’t penetrated his consciousness yet.
Am I a little snarky this AM? Yes, it never fails. No sir, I just don’t like it.

Best present this year though? One of those Chinese resin statuary's of Kuan Yin. Very nice, and very nicely made.
Kuan Yin needs to be all over xmas. She’s like Tara. In my view, she and Tara are inseparable, just different cultural views of the same energy being. And Tara’s main gig is to be ready to fly to the aid of suffering beings at all times ready to bring aid and succor. Tara is my very, very, favourite Buddha.

This AM is so very odd. I threw on a robe and went to stand on the porch, where it was freaky dark, foggy and dripping. It was so damn quiet, all of a sudden a whole slab of snow slid off a roof and I jumped. A squirrel came barreling down a tree, saw me, stopped stock still and gave me the old fisheye.
I took pictures as it was so very odd feeling but I don’t know if even a picture can convey how very strange a world it was.

What I listened to while cooking:

Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
Man I love this album, except for Sweet F.A. I just can’t stomach that one.
But I really love The Six-Teens and AC/DC. It sure gets ya going in the kitchen I‘ll tell ya. This is far better than all the xmas sleaze bombadiering around. Just good old glam rock sleaze. Sweet!

Me - I’m putting together my portfolio now that we got a bunch of my old stuff digitized. There’s still one whole bands worth of stuff left to digitize, but as that was not at all one of my more favoured bands, I doubt it would go on my portfolio anyway.

Well I suppose other than seeing how my fog pictures turned out, I’m out of here for the day. This time it’s not my family so it may actually be boring which might be a nice change.