i guess it's been a couple of days since i last wrote in this blog. i was kind of stressing over taxes, which are due tomorrow. actually, i still AM stressing over it, since i don't have my wife's w2 form. there was a period during this year when some of our mail get sent back because we weren't diligent about picking it up, and i think that her form got returned or something... anyway, hopefully, she can access a copy of it online or something...
yesterday, i went over to a friend's house to pick up some duckweed. i had read that tilapias are omnivores, and aside from getting protein from their fish food, they actually appreciate eating duckweed. duckweed is, to me, really pretty. when you look at the surface of a duckweed pond, all you see is a surface of light green, made up of all these "pixels": the little duckweed leaves. they basically smother out the entire surface of the pond. i suppose that, aside from sunlight and water, they probably get some nutrients through fish (kind of like aquaponics)... there are some guppies (i discovered) swimming beneath the surface.
my friend lives in kalihi, near the top of liliha street. he actually lives on a street called "stream", because it runs right next to some stream. in fact, in his backyard, there is a canal where the stream runs. it looks a bit overgrown. there are these reed-like plants growing in there. but it's clearer than some "streams" that i've seen. my friend's backyard is similarly overgrown. there are a couple of trees shading everything. i believe one is a mango, and the other is some sort of citrus plant. in fact, in one picture i took of the stream, you can see a single tangerine hanging out above everything, like a tiny crayon sun. my friend is growing corn in the shade of the trees (not advisable). they actually look indistinguishable from california grass, the weedy grass that grows everywhere out here (not, by the way, "weed" or marijuana... that's a different kind of "california grass").
after visiting my friend, i went over to ala moana. i wanted to search out some of the books and authors that david sedaris had recommended. i didn't find all of them, but i did manage to select four books. i'm planning on being a bit more aggressive in my reading, because, as many writers have attested, writing is as much a dialogue with other writers as anything else, and if you want to be a good writer, you have to read a lot...
so... i have started to read a book by ... forgive me, i left the book downstairs... mossberg??? something like that. i read the first story, which was called "bettering myself." i like her style of writing. she writes short sentences which are often matter of fact, but which, on occasion, really pack a punch of sentiment... imperfect. open. brutally honest... the honesty is something that... i don't know how to do honesty...
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i caught a wolf snail and 2 african tree snails. i put them together in the same bottle, and watched the wolf snail attempt to devour the african tree snails. it was kind of sadistic of me. still, i was fascinated by the way that wolf snail (smaller) would maneuver around the shell of the african tree snail in order to find an ideal access point, and then stretched mostly out of its shell, spitting out its white "esophogeal tube" to consume the other snail... meanwhile, on the jar of the glass, i could see waves of peristalsis on the "foot", looking like parallel ripples on a shoreline... eventually, lynn had me "return" the snails to the wild. she felt sorry for them.
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i also worked on this older woman's neck. it's been a while, and i must admit that i'm kind of out of practice. but i think i benefited the woman. i can still feel hard, knotted tissue, and i'm able to sink in to work it...
...well, nothing much else to report now.
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