Oh what a strange journey life continues to become, never ending, ever changing! Full of zigs and zags and unexpected turnings. Just when I have the near future nicely mapped, it jogs to reveal some new vista, unplanned, a sur-prize.

I had a sweet plan in place to travel down to Seattle this week, pick my sweetie up on the plane, spend some time visiting with a friend… but disaster befell the friend’s son (at whose home we were meant to stay). So, the plan has been ditched and it’s back to business as usual, me at home, he on the bus to find his own winding way, calloo, callay.

Business as usual is a jog in the path, when you are expecting the unexpected. Still, I’m partly relieved to be relieved of the task of all that packing and driving long miles in predicted heavy weather.

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My new classes are proving to be just as much fun as I had hoped; the bright eyes and willing hearts of my students inspire me and re-ignite my passion for this work. All right!

Astrology is so much more than a belief system; in point of fact, belief is not required. One stunned soul said to me after I did an in-depth reading for him as a gift, “I want you to know, I don’t believe in astrology, and that hasn’t changed. But [long pause] I have to admit it was right on.”
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As promised, I made a vlog for Blog Action Day. And as usual, I’m uncomfortable with how it came out. I want to rebut myself, add points I missed, edit, change, do a sequel. Put on a costume, makeup. Tell funny stories.

Bah. This is just me, plain and simple.

It occurred to me, not for the first time, that now that I have a webcam I could start video blogging, aka vlogging. So, here I am, doing it.

Today (when I made this post; had problems so it was delayed) is Canadian Thanksgiving, and I’m looking back with gratitude at the so-called bombing of the Moon, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize and Guy Laliberte’s Poetic Social Mission (http://broadcast.onedrop.org/). What a day that was! It changed me, and I think it changed the world.

This is my first video blog, but it won’t be my last. It’s so much easier than typing everything out one letter at a time. On the down side, I’m stuck with the words as they came out of my mouth, painful for nitpicky me. Still, the spontaneity of the thing is part of the charm. I hope.

It’s in two parts, since Youtube won’t accept videos longer than ten minutes, though in total it was under twelve. Picky, picky.

Mom, I guess you’re going to have to get high speed internet or watch at the library. Sorry.

part 1:

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part 2:

Okay, so they’re not actually bombing the Moon tomorrow morning, in just a few hours. What’s happening is (I heard this on CBC so it must be true), they’re going to crash land a rocket there and analyze the ejecta for water vapour. It seems wasteful and kind of silly, but not as dreadful as exploding a bomb there.

But let’s look at this. They’re doing this with the stated goal of discovering whether or not there is water on the Moon so that, someday when they’re ready to colonize the Moon, they’ll hopefully have a local supply of water.

Huh? We’re in the middle of this massive economic meltdown apparently, and they’re farting around throwing expensive rockets at the Moon for some future science fiction possibility? They don’t even have a space program to speak of anymore. Before they start planning the next lunar colony, wouldn’t it be prudent to take some baby steps toward that goal?
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