13: I Yield for Dreams
1. Yeah, that’s about right, the thinking bubble over my head is psychedelic.
2. “Our capacity for what psychoanalyst Adam Phillips has termed “fertile solitude” is absolutely essential not only for our creativity but for the basic fabric of our happiness – without time and space unburdened from external input and social strain, we’d be unable to fully inhabit our interior life, which is the raw material of all art.” -Mara Popova
3. Forensic probe confirms Chilean poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned to death after the Pinochet coup.
4. Field of dreams or yield for dreams?
5. Walk a mile in my unicorn shoes.
6. The outdoor tables at Zadie’s were repurposed from metal bed frames and doors salvaged from the Old Jail. You can see the bridge made famous by Amazon Prime’s sci-fi dram series, The Peripheral, which was shot partly in Marshall and includes scenes of the star riding across it on a motorbike. You can also see the railroad tracks, the old radiator fence and the French Broad River. – More from Don’t Let it Get Cold.
7. Never odd or even spelled backwards is never odd or even
8. We recently watched the first episode of The Last of Us, which is based on a video game and is about a human zombie fungus, not so different than the real-life zombie ant fungus: Sometimes an ant, marching about its business outdoors, will step on a fungal spore. It sticks to the ant’s body and slips a fungal cell inside. The fungus, called Ophiocordyceps, feeds on the ant from within and multiplies into new cells. The spores attach to the ant and germinate, spreading through the host’s body via long tendrils called mycelia. Cordyceps essentially turns its host into a zombie slave, compelling the ant to climb to the top of the nearest plant and clamp its tiny jaws in a death grip around a leaf or twig.
9. I have a second-cousin named Robert Plant.
10. Lonely or only?
11. Order or hoarder?
12. “The universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the characters dream too.” Arthur Schopenhauer
13. And the dream goes on.
_________Thirteen Thursday
February 23rd, 2023 7:26 am
Is your second cousin the singer of Stairway to Heaven?!? Interesting fact about the ant. I have not watched The Last of Us. I hope you let us know if it’s any good.
February 23rd, 2023 10:24 am
We were watching it with my son when we were in Asheville. He had started the series and we wanted to check it out, but I don’t plan on following it, which I guess is a review of sorts. My second cousin, who I’ve never met, actually has an E at the end of Plant, so I guess not that one!
February 24th, 2023 12:02 am
Great unicorn shoes.
Was that the bridge where the shootout occurs? I did enjoy The Peripheral. Trippy, but I like that sort of thing.