Hurray. A daily chance to practice your best deft attention skills and come to the rescue of your beloved & beleaguered planet at the same time. What a deal.Hypermiling is smart eco-driving. As with most skills, it will take a day or a week and a lifetime to Get Good. Send Inner Perf to Fiji for mas grog The basic of Hypermiling is that you evolve form a leadfoot to a sugarfoot . With accomplished hypermiling, you'll be hypersmiling all the way to the Make the Planet Happier And Be Less of a Mindless Wasteful Boor Bank.   more »

As we study [other] dreams more assiduously, we can, will, & must speculate with intricate admiration, desire, rage even about how in all that absurd ebullience of starry profusion we take one step upon a planet, how there is one dragonfly, one piece of French toast? Or more achingly, how in the face of a million steps and a million dragonflys, we could have any moment of distress or depression or kill each other for striped cloths?   more »

“This is a subject so difficult to talk about that my throat constricts as the words rise into the air. I who have lived with this knowledge for 23 years can hardly breathe to speak. Yes, I have come to tell you that what is evil ain’t always bad.”

                 craig charles

Belle Z. Babe spoke at the Tribunal as the lidless eyes of the Judges bore their fear, distaste, and fury like crossbows into her heart.    more »

Next time you hear the phrase 'collateral damage,' I want you to leap up out of your chair and start screaming Too boat-rocking for you? Too impolite? People will question your sanity? Your urbanity? .. You get to scream. The dead are very quiet. Perfectly polite. Perfectly polite are the collaterally damaged. You get to scream the scream they can not. .. Doing what’s right ain’t comfortable, ain’t polite. Solidarity of the living. The civil right to remain unmaimed..

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Well, if every damn one of us leapt up and started screaming any time we heard some obscene mealy-mouthed insane euphemism like collateral damage, may be we could make a dent in their denial systems that lead to mutilated children – not collateral damage – children mutilated.   more »

Sherlock Detail, Sherlock Holmes’ cousin thrice-removed, was sitting at the Caffè Museo on Third Street in San Francisco. Museums are always a jolt, a lightning bolt. Ms. Detail is a soul mate of Mr. Holmes as well as the great grandchild of Mr. Holmes’ cousin, Daphne Detail.

                         andy goldsworthy horse chestnut leaves

Pursuant to my request my pal Sherlock Detail sent me her notes, her mental graffiti, from how a great detective practices keen observation, deft attention even at lunch. Wake up, smell the roses, & notice/sketch the rest of your surroundings too, as ‘twere. Notice that as you might in Dream Notes, Sherlock Detail separates her lists with semicolons. 03.29. 08 Girl, strawberry italian soda backlit;    more »