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Canada geese making bluejay calls
Tuesday, November 22 2016
It was another cold morning for me to take the dogs on their daily walk. When they became interested in a mining project down at the south edge of the field of the farm at the end of the Farm Road, I turned around and left them to it. If they're not going to follow me, there's no point in taking them for a walk.
This afternoon, after doing another school presentation, Gretchen left for the evening to attend a storytelling event produced by The Moth featuring prisoners from Riker's Island, including one of Gretchen's former students in the Bard Prison Initiative.
Meanwhile I plowed through my usual remote workplace tasks, powered in part by kratom tea. At some point I painted a painting of a water buffalo on a credit card that I'd first painted all-black. I like painting mostly black animals by starting black and then dabbing in little details with light strokes of a paint brush. It's a little harder on a credit card, where there's so little room and there are embossed numbers frustrating you in places, but, as the cliché goes, limitations are the foundation of all creativity.
Late this evening, after learning that Dan Trachtenberg, the director of Black Mirror's "Game Test," had directed it I watched the film 10 Cloverfield Lane. It's a difficult film to categorize, since most of it is a psychological suspense-thriller. But the final 14 minutes is in a totally different genre (I would say more space cowboy than science fiction), and I don't think it worked. But, as with all things that surprising, maybe it's a work of genius and I'm just old and in the way. Still, there's no excuse for Canada geese making bluejay calls.
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